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Never Knew The Guy
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Entry from Never Knew The Guy in Nur Ein XIII.

Judges settled the Cavedwellers and Rob tie via the percentage of each score to each other by each judge.

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Never Knew the Guy (Shadow Entry)
by Cavedwellers

Challenge: a biography of Django Reinhardt

https://soundcloud.com/glenartrock/cave ... ktg-django

Belgian born Romani took his mother's last name
Grew up in encampments just outside of Paris
He married Florine Bella when he was just 17
Knocked over a candle and suffered injuries

One leg was paralyzed but he was happy to be alive
Despite the permanent loss of use for fingers four and five

I Never knew the guy
He was way before my time
I’ll always be impressed
To make the most of what’s left

Teamed up with Stephane Grappelli on jazz violin
With his brother and 2 others, they formed the Hot Club
The ensemble was remarkable, they were all stringed instruments
Popular all over Europe until the war made it too tough

Stephane was up in the UK, and Django was down in France
His life was spared because a German soldier loved his jazz.

I Never knew the guy
He was way before my time
I’ll always be impressed
To make the most of what’s left

Reviews

5 posted notes

noma

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Grumpy Mike
Mandibles
Matchy Matchy
Owl Chemist

noma

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Belew: I like the odd time signature - is that 7/4? - and how you still made it sound so catchy, as well as the tribute to Adrian Belew. This feels most like a biographical song to me out of all these tracks. One of my favorites in this round.
Django: This sounds fun. Love the thematic backing track. Would have made for a good first entry, though I prefer the Belew one, so good decision on that. Hats off to you for writing and recording two great songs within a week's time!

vowlvom

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(shadow) - this is very charming and a well-executed tribute, maybe more to my taste than your Adrian Belew song but I think you chose the right song to submit!

vowlvom

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this falls into “superb execution of a genre I’m not terribly fond of” category for me. The proggy vibe makes perfect sense for the biography you’re telling but I can’t help wishing this was a bit more Tom Tom Club and a bit less King Crimson, hehe. Kudos for a really catchy chorus though.

RobStevens

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A real biography well done, and informative as well (I learned a lot new stuff). I also like how you made the chorus personal. + interesting metrum. I could have done such songs of my favorite artists, why didn’t I think of this.

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