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. Whatcha got? Chris Barron : I can't believe 20 years went by. I'm lucky to be in a band that was awesome enough to make a record that people still are remotely interested in 20 years later. MR : Since this is a celebration of your biggest album, let's cover the whole deal. Can you go into the story including Trucking Company and John Popper? CB : Well yeah, I went to high school with John Popper, we were in English class. John was a hell of a character to have known when he was 16 years old. I feel privileged to have known somebody that at 16, you just knew the guy was going to be a star. He was just playing the harmonica like that in junior year of high school. He was a mysterious guy that I slowly became friends with. I crashed his car and then he let me drive his car all the time after that, he's just a funny guy. So, after high school, I was an aspiring musician myself and I was writing songs. You just knew if you had John Popper in your band, you just knew something good was going to happen because he was such a virtuoso. I was trying to get him to do something with me, meanwhile Eric Schenkman was trying to get him to do something. They were already in a band called Trucking Company together, but John had the Blues Traveler. The Blues Traveler formed in high school, and I actually was in a predecessor of Blues Traveler called Blues Band with some of the same guys--John Popper and Brendan Hill who's still the drummer now. So, I knew John, Eric knew John, Eric wanted John to be more involved with Trucking Company, and I wanted John to start a band with me, but all John wanted to do was the Blues Traveler. He figured if he introduced me and Eric, something cool would happen. He was right except we did a rehearsal together and it was great we made some great music together. Then the next time we got together, Eric and I almost got into a fistfight. MR : (laughs) Seriously? What was that about? CB : (laughs) Oh nothing, probably some silly thing, Eric has a bit of a temper. I was really green and didn't know how to be in a band and I had offended him somehow. He threatened to kick my ass and I was in his face, then John split us up and we didn't talk for a year. Then I ran into Eric in New York City about a year later and he asked me to do a gig with him, I was like, what the hell. He had a gig at a frat way up in Harlem at Columbia called Delta Phi. He and I started preparing for this gig, and during that period of time, he found Aaron Comess the drummer, practicing in a practice room at the New School in New York City in the jazz program there. Eric came in one day and said, "I found us a drummer." I said, "Really?" Then he said, "Yeah, I heard this guy practicing and I just walked in and asked him if he wanted to be in our band and he said yes." So, that was Aaron. We did this gig up at Delta Phi and we played all night long, people took their clothes off, we had a horn section, John Popper sat in. It was this legendary crazy gig.Bad Company Chords - News
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There are actually three popular songs that are all referred to by the same name.
The first and most current of the bunch is just called By and By, written by Brett Dennen. This song came out in 2004 on Dennen’s first album. It’s a delicate acoustic song that is a vehicle for Brett to express his love for someone without the complications of talking about it to the person in regular conversation. The instrumentation is also fairly simple, comprising of finger picked guitar and light drums.
In the Sweet By and By seemed to be the most popular song that came up during my research. This is no doubt as a result of the famous country artists that have covered the song. Johnny Cash was one of the first to really make it a hit with the likes of other Nashville luminaries like Emmy Lou Harris and Dolly Parton following suit. The instrumentation for this song often features guitar, pedal steel, country fiddle and a keyboard instrument like piano or organ.
We’ll Understand it Better By and By is an old gospel tune which is the most uplifting of the three. It has been performed several ways, from slow and soulful to a tempo that has people on their feet and clapping their hands. A staple of worship song of gospel churches, a certain Elvis also recorded a version of it in the 1950′s. Many versions of this song have been recorded with vocal only, this works extremely well as the praise like lyrics of the song are given the spotlight, in churches where there is not a choir worshippers may be given a keyboard backing in order to grasp the tune.
I hope that this article has managed to clear up any confusion in identifying the song By and By. Chords for all of these are not always easy to find by with a bit of research they can be found.
About the AuthorThe author is a big fan of all of the versions of this song and has started an enthusiasts site called by and by chords where he hopes to transcribe all of the versions of the song. Visit at www.byandbychords.
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