{"id":621,"date":"2017-02-04T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplecarnival.com\/site\/?p=621"},"modified":"2020-04-18T20:33:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T00:33:02","slug":"14-days-of-the-simple-carnival-day-4-bittersweet-the-simple-carnival-song-youve-never-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplecarnival.com\/site\/2017\/02\/04\/14-days-of-the-simple-carnival-day-4-bittersweet-the-simple-carnival-song-youve-never-heard\/","title":{"rendered":"14 Days of The Simple Carnival, Day 4: \u201cBittersweet\u201d: The Simple Carnival song you’ve never heard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
\"14-days-of-the-simple-carnival-03\"Welcome to Day 4<\/strong> of the 14 Days of The Simple Carnival<\/strong>!<\/em><\/p>\n

Every day until February 14 (Valentine’s Day), I’ll be posting one cool, free Simple Carnival thing. <\/em><\/p>\n

On February 14, The Simple Carnival’s new (and final) album, Smitten<\/a>, will be released. It’s been <\/em>nine years<\/strong> since The Simple Carnival has released an album, so I’d like to celebrate the occasion by sharing a bunch of good stuff over these 14 days.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Today’s Simple Carnival thing is a special throwback recording that only two or three people have ever heard.<\/p>\n

I wrote and recorded literally hundreds of songs on a cassette four track from the mid-’80s up through the mid-’90s.<\/p>\n

\"4track\"<\/p>\n

Most of these songs were awful. However, creating awful stuff is often a necessary step toward creating stuff that is not<\/em> awful.<\/p>\n

One of the last songs that I recorded on four track inadvertently hit some sort of nerve that all of my previous songs failed to hit. I think this track was recorded in 1993 — eight years before I decided to publicly release songs as The Simple Carnival.<\/p>\n

In retrospect, this is a Simple Carnival song. I just didn’t know it when I recorded it.<\/p>\n

So here’s me from over 20 years ago.<\/p>\n

\"1954\"<\/p>\n

I had WAY<\/em> more hair, my voice sounded a little different, and my guitar was slightly out of tune. But the song came from a sincere place. The song is called “Bittersweet”. Hope you like it.<\/p>\n\n