The New Pete Holly CD "Sun Valley"-notes from Pete Holly

Pete Holly-"Sun Valley"

My new CD is an very interesting collection of songs,the majority of which
were recorded when i first got sober.What's interesting is that even though as
a person i was quite differant sober than when i was drinking, as a songwriter i still sounded
very close to the same.You can hear this in the song "You Walked Away".The
1st original recording which appeared on my 4th Cd "The Morrison Center Session"
was one of the only really good recordings i was able to complete in those last
years of my drinking.And yet the Version i recorded after i got sober on this Cd
is almost completely identical-only the way it was arranged is differant.But the
Vocal and the acoustic guitar sound very much the same-nearly identical in fact.
That suprised me-and it still does.There's one other song on this new Cd that has
come out before-"Hard to Love a Man{Who Loves His Guitar".The Version i
released before on the "Riverside Drive" CD was recorded in Austin,TX,at a
session where i recorded 13 songs in one hour in one of the first digital studio's
anywhere.This is the original version here on this CD-one of the many song's
i was to write up in Sun Valley-Where lived for quite a spell.Now what's inter-
resting is that this 1st version is noticably differant from the one i recorded over
a year later in Austin.It's rythm' is much more "Fluid".Later on as i played the
song more-i made it more choppy-more like broken-up power chords on an
acoustic guitar-and can't tell you why i did that-because it just happened-on it's
own.But there's something good about both way's of playing it-they're differant-
But both are very good solid versions of the song.
So there's a couple of alternate versions but there are six very interesting
totally new Pete Holly song's to be heard here for the first time ever."The
Shadow of Your Smile" isn't the old song,but a totally new Pete Holly song
That's probably one of my best songs-ever-it's just been hiding out for a while.
"Jane Day" is one of my favorites-because it's about this very cool Girl who
used to come and do therapy of a very unique sort.It was like voice therapy
where she would use her voice,while relaxing music was playing,and she would
guide us all on a little trip to a very beautiful, serene place.It was really quite
amazing.So i became quite found of Jane and i wrote this really differant kind of
song to express that.It's just got a differant style to it-it doesn't sound so much
like the rest of my songs-it's pretty differant-kind of english-brit-style-and again
i don't know why it came out in this song that way-it just did ! But it's very cool and
i've allways liked the song alot-because it's differant and because of "Jane".
"Ya Stone Me" is a straight forward R&B Song."Everybody Call Now" is a
gospel song and "Buyin' this Bar" has it's origins in my drinking day's but to
be honest i'm not sure when i wrote it-i just knew i liked it-and i wanted to
take a crack at recording it and i liked the way it came out here.
Now the Mini-Rock Opera.What on earth could have gottin' into me that
got me to write the 10 min. "Computer Commuter" with a whole sequece of
of song's that added up to one 10 min whole.I can't tell you exactly-but i can tell
you it all came to me at once.I mean the whole thing-and it's the only thing of
this nature i ever wrote.Remembering one song is hard enough-but 4 or 5
that just flow together-it's really a rarity for me.I do remember that i worked
all day and half the night making sure i got it all down while it was in my head.
And then i think i overdubed the electric guitar part the next day.I remember
thinking at the time how unusual this was-but it was such a big force of energy
that came through me-i just felt relief after i had nailed it.Here it seemed like
good place to release it-as the closing track of this album.And that's it.That's
A little bit of info about all the song's on "Sun Valley".

Best Regards,

Pete Holly