Song of the Week 08: Mountain Storm
When A Little Farther West was opening act for western music artist Michael Martin Murphey several years back, he performed this song “Mountain Storm” in concert. In the audience I turned to Susie and said, “That’s a song for us!” It happened the song, co-written by Michael and his son Ryan, was quite recent, appearing on his 2013 album “Red River Drifter.”
The essence of the song is that in true love, hard times mostly are of short duration (akin to the quickness of a rain storm in the mountains) and it’s best to delay in immediately responding to perceived transgressions. It truly is a “modern western” song and very well-written.
Instead of the fiddle part in the original, I played it on tremolo guitar and included rain storm sound effects in the introduction and the ending. “Mountain Storm” is the title song of our second album.
