Chords for Amos Lee - Mountains Of Sorrow, Rivers Of Song Album Trailer

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My songwriting approach for Mountains of Sorrow,
Rivers of Song, is [G#] _
kind of the [C#] same as it's always been,
which is, I wait.
_ _ [B] Up on Main Street
I guess my first [C#] couple records I wrote _
more on the road or more like kind [G#m] of bouncing [G#] around,
but [F#] now that it's kind of my job,
I can put aside [B] a year and just write. _
_ Down [F#] on Friday _
_ _ [G#m] People ask me
[B] Why I think so hard _
_ Nashville's a great town to record in.
I mean, there's like a good place to eat,
good [F#] studios, good musicians.
I think it was just kind of nice for [G#m] us to get
out of the town [D#m] that we live in
and [B] into a different scene of musicians
[F#] to just draw different inspiration [B] from.
I felt like my touring band really grew a lot
[F#] on that last tour, _
_ [D#m] and [B] doing the live sessions for the artist's den
[F#] and then re-watching that, I kind of felt like
they [G#m] were really ready to be a big part of this record,
and I wanted to [E] give them the opportunity
to grow even more from that last tour [B] we did. _ _
[G] The vision that [N] Jay and I both had for this record
was to record it live.
You know, I got this new place, and I just thought
it would be great to [F#] find somebody
who can [C] really deliver _ [F#] good live [E] performances
and [F] to kind of fill this church up
and baptize it with some [G] good vibe.
That's kind of what a studio should be,
just a nice place to make music.
It's not about what you did before,
it's about what you're doing right now.
I [F] want you to be a [C] truth _
[F] Truth is
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I'm the one [C] true
That was kind of the thing I [A#] think
about a lot of these recordings
[F] were some things just fell together like a [D#] dresser drawer.
Just a beautiful, beautiful country song, really.
There's countries you can [F] get, very honest.
But [A#]
yeah, [Fm] I think that turned out [Cm] to be my favorite song.
We knew we had something good [D#] when it went down.
Coffee [F] spills and unpaid bills
And all my _ [D] _ _
dust at the [A#] restaurant _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Everyone who played and guested on this record
wanted to be there.
_ Nothing was arranged _ by [F] record companies or managers.
It was very [G#] organic and just purely respect for one another.
Alison Krauss, [C#] I've been a fan of hers forever,
just a magical singer.
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_ You [F#] got a new life
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Mountains of Sorrow was just a great track
that [B] we just felt was missing just something.
I mean, I've been listening to Patty Griffin for a [G] long time.
I knew that Jay had worked with her before
and that her piano [Bm] was in that studio,
so I just [G] figured I'd ask Jay, I'd [F] say hey man,
if you know, [G] Patty would be into singing on this,
that'd be great.
So we sent [D] Patty a mix [G] of Mountains of [D] Sorrow
and of course, she sent back [Bm] The Shiz.
It was [A] just magical.
I think she brought this song to a whole other level,
which is what I thought she would [Bm] do.
So it was pretty cool, it was kind of like
the [A] Sam Beam thing from the last record.
It's just, you know, you bring [B] people in
who you trust and [D] admire and just let them do what they do.
_ _ To the mountains of [A] sorrow and the rivers [D] of sorrow _
_ _ Oh, these mountains of sorrow [A] and these rivers of [D] sorrow _ _
_ _ _ [G#] They're masters of their craft.
There are people that I look up to as a musician and go,
that's the kind of focus and the kind of energy
that I want to [C#m] put into the stuff I do,
[F#] but I'm probably too scattered to really get there,
but they're an inspiration to me.
Oh, the streams _ everywhere _ _ _ _ _ I see _ _ _
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That's the thing I think about the whole record
is I feel it's the most balanced album.
A lot of that [C#] is owed to [G#] the songs, but then a lot of that
is also owed [F#] to the people in the room with me.
And you know, I can't say enough good stuff about the band
and how much good work they put in,
and Jay and Jason and everybody [B] in his crew, they all,
[D#m] everybody was just really [C#] together on it.
I felt like everybody put good [B] energy into making the music. _
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