THE VOICE & THE TWANGY GUITAR... (My poem about a Sara Evans recording...)

 The Voice & the Twangy Guitar…

The range shifts from a honey poignancy

To a rich red wine,

The melody rising

Like a clarinet, plaintive,

Then tumbling dramatically

To a tenor saxophone, thrumming.

And the breath is held

At the singer’s tendency

To stoke the soul

And render minds emotive,

As a loose twangy guitar

Plucks Duane Eddy from the past,

His riffs persistent and strumming…

Pete Ray…

Listening to Sara Evans singing ‘I Could Not Ask For More’, I couldn’t help thinking of Duane Eddy’s twangy guitar on songs like ‘Dance With the Guitar Man’ but then when I heard the new song by the artist, ‘Marquee Sign’, the way her voice dropped to a rich deep sound made me want to write about the two things…