I don' t know how many of you checked out the awesome interview with
Kristian on the Take Me to the Bridge website, but the song he
recorded during the interview is now posted online (along with a bunch
of version of the same song (really cool) check it out at:
http://takemetothebridge.net/listen/episode/How-Many-Ways-Can-the-Sam...
Here are the details from the site:
How Many Ways Can the Same Song Be Sung?
September 15, 2007Take Me to the Bridge host Ben Wakeman uses this
thirteenth episode as an important foothold in his never-ending climb
to further understand the nature of songs and why they matter. In the
course of interviewing many of the songwriters who have appeared on
the show, Ben was conducting an "experiment" to see just how many ways
the same lyric might be interpreted. To raise the bar even higher, the
songwriters who participated were not allowed to see the lyric until
it was put in front of them and they were asked to "make it into a
song" on the spot.
The resulting songs are surprisingly good and wonderfully unique from
artist to artist. Each songwriter produced a solid, viable song from
the lyrics below, but further, was able to inject that intangible,
emotive element that makes each of the artists so distinctive and
sought after.
Take me to the bridge
So I can see the other side
Watch the water rush below
Know that I still have a choice
Even when I choose to hide
Take me to the bridge
So I can walk the stretch between
The place I want to be
Free of all the years of looking back
At everything I've seen
- Ben Wakeman
Hearing these masterful songwriters in such an intimate, unrehearsed
setting where there is nothing to hide, no time to edit or censor, is
truly refreshing and inspiring. From Kristian Bush's straight up
country take to John Gorka's haunting interpretation to Richard
Shindell's whispery confessional, each songwriter made the lyric his
own. Matthew Kahler, Craig Cardiff, Pat Walsh and Pierce Pettis all
turn in masterful performances as well.
Ben Wakeman closes the episode with his own interpretation of the
lyric that he scribbled over the steering wheel on his way to meet
Kristian Bush for the first interview that kicked off Take Me to the
Bridge.
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