Chords for Lorrie Morgan: A Moment In Time

_ _ _ Hey everybody, [Bb] I'm Lori Morgan here on musiccityupdate.com talking about my brand new album, A Moment
in Time, [Eb] on Country Crossing Records.
Recorded the album _ the old-fashioned way, and I can say the old-fashioned way because
I was involved in the old-fashioned way of recording records [Ab] with my father, George [Eb] Morgan,
who I went to the studio with many, many times to listen to him record and watch him record.
And they would be in [N] a big room like this, and no vocal booths, no drum booths, no booths,
just everybody out on the floor, the producer, the singer, [G] all the musicians.
And that's
how they would record.
We wanted to create the old [Eb] style of music, where it was more raw and not as perfected.
So when we decided to do this, we of course had to get the great Nashville [C] musicians to
agree to do this because, as you know, they're [Ab] perfectionists.
So am I.
They agreed that we would record the album and we [Eb] would rehearse the song once or twice,
and we'd put it down, and no overdubs [Ab] for the singer, for the musicians, no one had overdubs.
It was a little scary going in, but I think there was just this incredible, _ energized
rebirth of enthusiasm in the studio, not just with me, but the musicians felt it.
[Ebm] And we created this really [Ab] cool, raw sound of [N] yesteryear meets _ today.
[G] My dad has always been my inspiration.
Recording these songs was, [Fm] it was like stepping back
in time [Db] to where when I fell in love with country music and wanting [E] to sing music, [Ab] this
is the feeling [F] I wanted to have.
When I was little, it was like, oh, [Abm] I want to go in the
studio and play and like that and sing with these string [Ab] section and just, you know, that's
a take, let's go to the next song.
I [E] always wanted to do that.
And so it was like me [Abm] getting to live out a dream of mine _ [Ab] that never really came [Gb] true
until this album.
And I remember walking, being down here, going to my [Ab] booking agent,
you know, Buddy [G] Lee's over there and [C] thinking one day I was going to be on the roster.
[Eb] _ _ _ [F] _ _ [D] Recording this album was that feeling of yesterday.
By the time I [Eb] get to Phoenix, of course, stole my heart.
[E] By the time I get to Phoenix, [Dbm] he will be rising.
_ [Gb] And I've loved that song since I was a little girl.
And I [Eb] remember my sister Candy had a
huge crush on Glenn Campbell growing up.
And, you [E] know, for me to [Eb] be able to record
a Glenn Campbell, Jimmy [Gb] Webb song was just very, [Ab] very chilling.
And when the strings
came [C] in on that song and the mood just hit, the lights were low in the studio, [Abm] it was
just a magical, magical [Gbm] feeling.
And I was just, I was [G] transformed.
I was like not in
myself.
[Eb] I was back in the studio, you know, 50 years ago.
If You Got Leaving on Your [E] Mind was a song that [Eb] I've always loved.
The melody, the lyrics.
But the melody of this [Eb] song has always been [D] one that I don't think has ever been copied
or it's just got its own sound.
And being a huge Patsy fan, I've always loved that song.
And a lot of these songs, really, not just If You Got Leaving on Your Mind, but a lot
of these songs was, people are like, how could you go in and redo a classic?
I mean, _ it's
very intimidating to go in and re-sing a [E] classic.
If you've got leaving [A] on your mind, _ _ tell me now, [Abm] get it over.
So you have to think of it as that [Gbm] I'm just paying tribute to the classics and the classic
singers.
[Bm] Not so much I'm trying to make it better or anything.
[B] You just want to [A] do your
interpretation of it.
[Ab] And If You've Got Leaving on Your Mind was just my interpretation of
a great [C] Patsy Cline song.
And there's nothing cold and [G] passionate after the fire [C] is gone.
I [Eb] was in the studio recording the first day when we did all [E] the string [Gb] music the first
day.
And I look in the production [Bb] booth and I [G] see a gentleman in there that I didn't recognize.
The lights were low.
And I'm thinking, who's here [Eb] in my session?
And we get done with the
song and I walk in and I said, [F] wow, Tracy.
He said, hey, this stuff is great.
And Wally
[N] said, how would you like to be on the session?
Tracy said, love to.
Wally said, well, there's
the list of songs.
[G] Call him, pick one out.
So Tracy went over and picked [C] out After the
Fire Is Gone and came back in the next day and we recorded [G] the song and no overdubs.
Are You Lonesome Tonight [Eb] was a stretch for me.
I never thought I would really [D] record
an Elvis Presley song, [Eb] even though I've loved him all my life.
[D] _
_ [Gbm] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ It was a stretch because it was [G] the first time I have done a recitation.
[D] _ _ _ [Gbm] _ _ _ [Bm]
And said that the world's a stage [D] and each must play a part.
I think we ran [C] the song one time and [B] when [G] we were finished with the song, everybody
was like, wow, we need to go in and hear this.
And we went back in and listened to it.
And
it [Eb] was, again, one of those moments in the studio that just will never be able to be
replaced or copied again.
It was a magical moment and I believe Elvis [Bb] was there. _ _ _ _ _ _