Dave Clemo & Karen Angela - Unless

This is a track from a recording session that Karen & I worked on back in 2016/7. After the positive reviews we had for our first CD we decided to record an album of original songs rather than the cover versions we sang on the first album.
The lyric dates from 1997. I still have lyrics from thirty years ago that haven’t yet been turned into songs, and we looked through them to see if there were any that we could use. We selected these lyrics and we tried singing them in a number of styles, eventually settling on this tune.
I was having real problems with my voice, constantly coughing and unable to reach any high notes, so I left the singing to Karen. I contacted my old friend Teresa Brown and asked her if she’d add some violin to a couple of tracks. She came to the studio, had a listen to what we’d recorded and then played along with the track a couple of times. I was very happy with the results.
Events took a turn. My voice was not getting any better and I kept postponing the sessions. In the end we had to abandon the project. Karen started working with another guitarist, and I decided to take a break from music in order to start working on the first of my autobiographical books.
After a couple of years my son and I decided to update the studio, with new computers, audio interfaces and updated programmes. As part of the studio shake-down I revisited the old recordings. At the time of writing this, three tracks were found to be complete enough to turn into videos. This is the first, with more to follow.