Carrie Ferguson's lyrics & chords

The instrument Carrie Ferguson grew up playing was an enormous upright, chocolate-brown (to put it politely) piano inherited from the family of one of her father’s third-grade students. This piano, built from the parts of several old pianos by students in a local instrument building workshop, had a darkly booming, slightly furry quality to it, not unlike the weather outside in her home town of Arcata on the North Coast of California. In order to write good music you had to play the way the instrument itself demanded, which to her ear meant st...read more