Missing Links: Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott

Posted almost 4 years ago

There Ain't No Easy Way written by Darrell Scott / Tim O'Brien

Won't you listen to my story I gotta a tale to tell it'sAbout a man who gets caught somewhere between heaven and hellYea the man's in anguish I guess you could sayThere ain't no easy way

Well when I was young boy I learned to play the guitarIt was me and old Jim Beam down at the local barYea I lost my childhood but I earned me a tradeNow there ain't no easy way

I found me a woman I gave her heart and soulI nearly lost my mind thru it all yeah she took controlShe gave me a baby child then she took it awayThere ain't no easy way

I prayed to the father to the moon and the sunI prayed to anyone or anything that could get the job doneI hear different voices but the words are the sameThere ain't no easy way

I went to this doctor to see what my trouble might beAnd I was looking at the bottom of his shoe while he was looking at meWe sat there in silence but what I wanted to sayI wanted to say

SOLO

When it's all over and my grave you standTry to think of something good to sayAbout this no good manPlease do me a favor won't you write on my graveThere ain't no easy way

From Tim O'Brien & Darrell Scott 'Real Time'Howdy Skies Records 2000EMI Muisc/House Of Bram Music(ASCAP)

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Spike says He sings the first verse without doing justice to the melody and chord sequence, but after that, he reveals the song's beauty. A winner. I say "he," but there are two of them. Do the liner notes describe their division of labor?

Permalink posted 03/08/2008
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runobodyii says Liner Notes: Believing that all things -- past and present, east and west, happy and sad, country and western -- exist simultaneously, we offer this pie plate, atom, DNA strand, CD, that contains Tim and Darrell's world. Partial list of contents: two halves of heart-shaped sandwiches (chicken curry with grapes), some sand from a beach trip, love lost and found, Kenny Malone, a slide whistle, a kazoo, two families, five rooms. Sorry, there ain't no easy way. We sat across from each other and played these songs in real time in Darrell's living room, living there for a week in November, 1999. The sun shone, leaves fell, one day there was rain. Tim got there before ten, left before dinner time. From the ASCAP Audio Portrait it sounds like Darrell Scott wrote this song. Producer Tim O'Brien; Darrell Scott Engineer Miles Wilkinson Personnel Tim O'Brien - vocals, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, whistle, harmonica, trombone Darrell Scott - vocals, guitar, banjo, fiddle Miles Wilkinson - whistle, bells Thanks for asking and making me work.

Permalink posted 03/08/2008

Missing Links: Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott

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