Chords for Courtney Patton 'What It's Like to Fly Alone' an Album Interview on The Texas Music Scene

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_ _ [C] Welcome back to the Texas music scene amigos.
[F#] We're thrilled to show off another 2018 release
from a songwriter that we absolutely love.
Miss Courtney Patton.
What it's like to fly alone is her first as the producer.
She sat down for a conversation
at the Gibson Guitar [A] Showroom in South Austin.
♪ A hawk flew from my blind side and took my breath away.
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♪ The hawk seemed shocked like I was though the hawk _ _ _ _ [Bm] ♪
♪ Just getting started while I'm tucking in [A] my day.
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♪ Still I know what [E] it's like to fly alone.
♪ _
The title of this new record
is [B] What It's Like to Fly Alone.
I wrote the song coming home from a really
kind of bummer gig in Austin one night.
[F#] Jason had taken his daughter to college
and so he couldn't come
[A] and it was one of our supper clubs that we do together.
And four people got up during the first song
and asked for their money back because Jason wasn't there.
[F#] _ And it bummed me out so bad
that I couldn't [A] remember words to my song.
So I was just, I got in my own head
which is a terrible thing to happen when you're on stage.
♪ But I [Bm] picked up this guitar and [B] went to a bar.
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♪ And that's the deal.
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♪ Still [A] I know what it's [E] like to cry alone.
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As I was driving home, I was [Bm] a little emotional.
_ _ [A] _ And this hawk shot out [A] of a bar ditch _ [E] towards my [A] car,
almost hit my car and it kind of woke me [Bm] up
out of my pity party.
And the hawk [A] shot off back into the field
that it had come out of.
And I just had this idea [E] for a song,
like [A] I'm going home by myself.
He's going out to hunt and do his thing by himself.
And I don't know why, but I got home that night
and I started a song.
_ Still I know what it's like to fly alone.
And it starts out just [F#m] me and this hawk.
And I [E] figured out after a [A] while that all these songs
on this new record [B] kind of have the same theme
of doing life on one's own [Dm] in some way,
whether it's [G] grief or relationship or [G] however.
It kind of fit.
And I was pretty excited it [Em] worked out.
I didn't mean for it to, [D] but it did.
♪ This [Bm] road to you _ is [Em] _ _
_ [C] winding, steep [G] and cold.
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♪ This road to [Bm] _ you _ [Em] _ _
made of [C] concrete, gray [D] and gold.
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For the first time [G] in my whole life as a writer,
a lot of [C] the songs on this new record [G] are co-writes,
which is, _ [Bm] it was scary and really exciting too
[Em] because they _ helped me [C] get out of my [D] writer's block
and [G] find ways to tell stories that weren't about me.
They're [C] stories that I either heard
or I saw [G] while I was driving or I read somewhere
[C] and took one [G] line and then said,
hey, would you help me write [C] this song?
So [G] I would say probably three fourths of the songs
on this [Em] new record are co-writes,
which is [D] a brand new thing for me.
So I'm pretty [C] excited about it.
I am friends with a [G] couple of guys that live in Stephenville
[C] and they work out at Larry Joe [G] Taylor's.
So Ben Hussey, who is now trained with American [C] Aquarium
and Josh Serato, who's been with William Clark Greene
for a [Em] long time and went out there
[D] to Melody Mountain Ranch [Bm] and _ cut the [Em] songs
with [G] drums and bass.
We were out there for two days
and then I spent a third day doing vocals [Am] and guitar
and the talented Mr.
Lloyd Maynes to put [G] steel and dobro
and some more [C] acoustic stuff on it.
[G] ♪ Run [D] away _ from round [Bm] now. _ _ _
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♪ Hey, Miss [Em] Emily.
♪
I lost a sister back in [C] 2002 in a car accident
_ and it [Em] was a drunk driving accident.
We buried her on her 19th birthday
and it [F] was a huge devastation to a family
like it [C] would be for any family.
_ And I've never been able to put it into words ever.
_ And last year on the anniversary of the last time [Em] I saw her,
which was my mom's birthday,
I had a show [C] in Weatherford, which is our hometown.
[F] I had played this gig in Weatherford and it was great
and there were a lot of faces from our childhood there,
people we went to church with
and [G] I drove past where her accident was
[F] and as I hit the interstate, I was [G] just bawling.
And I [C] have eight or nine voice memos
of [G] me just singing into my phone,
different lines as I felt them.
[C] And by the time I got home, I had a full song for her.
♪ I don't know what we'd do.
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♪ I [Em] don't know who you'd be.
♪
♪ I'd [F] give anything just to have you standing [C] here next to me.
♪
_ [A] I don't know if [C] I'm gonna regret doing this on my own,
but I wanted to try it.
And I think [Em] it's okay to try something once
and if it doesn't work,
it may be the last time [F] I produce myself
because it is really, really nice
to have somebody [C] else's opinion
that you can step back from your own work
and let somebody else's ideas come in
and maybe help make the song better than it's going [Em] to be
because I've been dreaming about how these [Em] songs sound
for like a couple of years [F] now.
So I'm proud of the work.
I really am excited.
I think for the [C] first time I sat back [A] and thought,
okay, this is me.
♪ Still I know [E] what it's like [A] to fly alone. _
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♪ Hey, I know what it's like to fly alone.
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