#SongStarter

Bringing “George Jonesin'” To Life

Written by Cassidy Lynn, Daniel Wilson & Paul Bogart

Join us on this page as we take you from the birth of a song, all the way to release and beyond! AND ARE YOU READY TO HELP ME MAKE A VIDEO? Stay tuned right here for more news on that!

DO YOU WANT TO BE IN PAUL’S NEW “GEORGE JONESIN'” VIDEO??

YOU CAN! JUST FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS:

Just record YOUR “George Jonesin'” lip sync video to the song
Don’t worry if it has your voice singing and maybe you’re a bit out of tune – we will only use the video, not the audio 🙂
Don’t record too much of the song – if you do, the file will be too large to email
Feel free to sing any part of the song… verse 1, verse 2, chorus or bridge!
Use a guitar or any props you want… just make sure your mouth is moving to the words in the song
Then email your video to us using the button below!

SIMPLE, RIGHT? WE CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOUR VIDEOS!
(Please get them to us by September 7th!)

Click this video to see Dan Wilson, one of my cowriters on this song, and his wife, and the song’s producer, Trent Willmon, giving you an example of what we want…

CLICK HERE TO EMAIL YOUR VIDEO!

George Jonesin' - LISTEN NOW!

by Paul Bogart | from the new album "Leather"

VERSE 1

You said you had enough
I watched you pack your bags
And the way that you walked out
I knew that you weren’t coming back
And so I let you slam that door
And I didn’t chase you down
I don’t know where you’re going
Can’t do nothing ’bout it now

CHORUS

And so I’m Jonesin’
And all I know is
I need that steel guitar in the corner crying
About her leaving while I do some drinking
She stopped loving me today and I’m heartbroken
George Jonesin’

VERSE 2

I guess I could have begged you
With that shiny diamond ring
But you were so far gone
I knew it wouldn’t change a thing
I know I’ll miss your touch
And the way you say my name
Girl, my life without you
It won’t ever be the same

CHORUS

BRIDGE

I’ve gotta cure this dog-gone,
lonesome, feeling in my bones

CHORUS

First of all…

… I’d like you to meet my great buddies Cassidy Lynn and Daniel Wilson, my co-writers for this song. We’ve written a lot of songs together over the years, and “George Jonesin'” is definitely up there as one of our favorites. We’ve also become close friends over the years, and not only perform together quite a bit at songwriting rounds, but spend personal time together with our families, too.

So we wrote this little song together, and then it was time to record it as what’s called a “demo” – which is a rough (not fully produced) version of the song…

CHECK OUT OUR FIRST DEMO VERSION!

by Paul Bogart | Songwriter Demo

Writing the song…

Writing this song with Dan & Cassidy was a fun day! Both are great writers and incredibly talented artists and I’m trilled that I get to make music with them regularly. George Jonesin’ came about because Cassidy showed up to our writing session with a George Jones t-shirt on. She threw out this potential title and Dan and I loved it… Then we started strumming this swampy kind of groove that progressively got swampier — mostly because of Dan’s knuckles of steel that he was beating on the body of his guitar like it was a drum set. We all knew this tune was going to be cool as soon as we wrote the first line.

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