"Who You Are" by Silverwing is Number One in Nevada Country at Number1Music

So last week, I chatted about our song "Who You Are" and how it is still lingering around the top 20 at N1M even a year later.  I wondered why that song has made a connection with people who obviously enjoy it.  I have my theories, but maybe you have a different idea. Feel free to share. 

But, I am pleased to say that the song has jumped back up to #1 in Nevada Country Music for this week.  So after being included in the chart for over a year, here it is at the top again.  Quite amazing. 

So, in case you missed the blog last week, here it is again.  Learn about "Who You Are"

Please let me know your story about how you met your significant other.  I would love to share experiences and what song goes along with your fondest memories. 

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SO HERE IT IS! THE STORY OF "WHO YOU ARE"

We’ve had our new CD “County Line” on the Number1Music chart for a few months and different songs have jumped up to #1 and back down and sometimes back up.  It’s interesting to watch and wonder what makes a song jump back up to the top ten.

One thing I noticed from watching the chart is that we still have a song from the first CD lingering around.  So, for over a year our song “Who You Are” is still bouncing around the top 20 in Nevada Country at N1M.  Wow! 

That made me wonder, what is it about that song that keeps it on the radar?  I know why I like it.  Does everyone else like it for the same reasons?  It’s about being noticed.  It’s about someone paying attention to you.  It’s about someone showing interest in your thoughts and feelings.  Don’t we all want that? 

It was written several years ago. And the first time we played it at the old Pure Country in Sparks, NV, one of the dancers came out of the crowd after the set was over and specifically asked about that one song they didn’t recognize, that cha-cha.  What was that song?  They had never heard before.  Wow!  It stood out that much that someone went out of their way to come ask us about it.  We felt that was a sign we had written a great song.

The actual inspiration for the song is how Mel and I met many years ago. 

I was hanging out with the girls from work.  One of my co-worker’s husband was a drummer in a local band, so we went to dance and have fun.  Mel was the lead singer and guitar player and I had never met him, but he definitely noticed me.

I went out with these girls a few times and finally he tried to get my attention.  At an event he tried to speak to me, but I was leaving early and just giggled at him and headed home alone.  That just made him more interested in me.  A guitar player expects to get the girl, but apparently not that girl!

Honestly, I didn’t get it.  I just thought he was being polite.  We’d bumped into each other at other events and I honestly had no idea why he was talking to me. I thought maybe we had met somewhere else and I had forgotten, so I just continued to be polite. 

 Finally, one night, he just sat right down next to me and started a conversation.  He asked me questions, about kids, work, friends, etc.  I recognized that he wasn’t talking about himself, but he was interested in what I had to say.  I wasn’t used to that, and I was smart enough to recognize it and I appreciate it.

I was not exactly forth coming, a little reserved, but at the end of every set he got his beer, wandered just a little and ended up sitting next me again and had thought up a new question to ask me and get the conversation started back up till it was time to play music again.

Eventually I GOT it and realized he was standing right in front of me, just waiting for me to notice.  So I noticed and we’ve been together for years.

Years later we bought a multi-track recorder and Mel was playing with it, wishing he could do more than just lay down a guitar riff, so I offered to write a few lines.  They were rough, but it made us realize that we could write a song.

I'm not sure when this song was written, probably 10 years ago.  It probably started with a guitar riff and then one hook line “who you are and what you do” and from there will built a story from that hook line, filing in around the edges.  The song was completed with some help from our drummer Dave Block during a camping trip at Lake Davis, CA.

Silverwing doesn’t play it often anymore, but we added it to the set list during our CD release party for “County Line” and it seemed fresh again.

The lyrics amaze me.  Really isn’t that what a person wants?  To find someone who is interested in them?  Someone who will care about what’s important to them, how they feel, and what interests them?  We all need to feel important. We want to be noticed and appreciated.  We want to be around people who value us and understand us.  We want to click with someone.  Feel that “I’ve known you my whole life” sense of calm.  

 We are so busy trying to get a word in edgewise or share our funny story that we are in a hurry for the other person to end their story, so we can jump in and top it.  So, this is the lesson of  “who you are and what you do?”  Be interested, be quiet and listen, you might learn something.  

You might learn that this is a person you could spend a lot of time with, like almost 25 years!  It’s only when you are being yourself and listening to the other person tell you who they are and what interests them, it's at that point, where you can see if this person is really who you might become friends.  Or, as we say in the bridge, “maybe you and I could make a real romance.”

You can listen to "Who You Are" at reverbnation.  And while you are there check out some of the other Silverwing songs.  One of my favorites is "Moonshine" off the first CD of the same name.  It is edgy, swamp rock song.  Reminds me of southern rock.  I love it.   

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