Guyanese Online: I got back to the Pegasus, borrowed an acoustic guitar from Bobby Hunter, locked myself in the hotel room, and shut off the phone. Some songs can take weeks or months to write; I wrote Blade O’ Grass in about an hour.
That’s the first interesting aspect; I had not written a song that fast before, and I haven’t since. The other aspect is that I didn’t fully grasp the reach of what I had written. I knew it was a concise piece, and it was emotional, but those ingredients don’t always result in a great work, so I left Guyana pleased with the song but with no inkling of what was to follow.
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