thank you for your very kind comments.
Am glad you liked the tune.
My inner jury is itself still out on the
gain factor. Have tried to reproduce the
part recently but my steel voicings evolve over time
and I’ve not actually kept track of them,
so no idea what the tuning was early last year.
You never cease to amaze me. Your lyrics here are truly wonderful - poignant, beautiful - (only gripe is the spelling of conjure - but that’s just the picky teacher in me - of course if conjour is what you wanted then I apologise).
Great song though, and the solo was set up really well and fulfilled all expectations.
The fade-ins are lap steel chords reversed and tremmied
to suit. They are what my son once labelled “rhinoes”,
and since then that’s I call them. The trick is to make
them long enough so they crescendo sufficiently and can
be dramatic enough at point-of-termination. I often
do them in layers of harmony chords for max depth.