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Here Are My Thoughts Behind Every Song That I Wrote For This CD
You May Click On Any Song Title To Hear A Short Sample
It’s just really one of those songs that you write after listening to someone’s real life experience. I’ve been around a lot of different people and heard a million and one stories. If you listen to the words to my songs, they are all true. Remember that every song is written from “Someone’s” real life experience. This means a lot to me.
I spent a lot of time around the bar rooms. Sometimes, all you have to do is listen. There are a lot of times when a perfect country & western song is being written while a broken hearted man is talking to you.
This song has a good cowboy Cha-Cha beat. It’s really fun to dance to. The band and I had a good time cutting this song.
A good two stepping song - I
got the idea for this song while my future wife “at the time” and I were
traveling all over Texas building offshore rigs. I was a trashy drilling hand and she was a classy logistic
coordinator. I finally talked her
into going out two stepping in Texas and we’ve been two stepping every since.
A very special song! While dating “my future wife”, I wrote this song. We did a lot of dancing and hanging out at the beach in Corpus Christi, Texas. It was a very romantic time in my life, just dancing on the beach under the stars and the moonlight. At the end of the song you’ll here 7827. Well, we both had pagers on us at the time and there would be certain times of the day that we would send out a code “7827” which spells “Star”. This was just a simple method of saying that we were thinking of each other and thinking of dancing under the stars.
The working song. I sent an e-mail around the rig having all the guys pitch in a few words for an offshore song. After filtering through everyone’s idea, this song was born. “The Perfect Offshore Song” has a good beat and every word in the song is true and up-to-date pertaining to our normal offshore duties as an “Offshore Man”.
After sitting and having a few beers at Tooties in Nashville, I got the idea for this song from a couple of guys who had taken a few shots at the major record labels but never made it. I, also, met a few guys in there who are currently songwriters in Nashville. After several beers and several hours later, the song “Rainy Road To Stardom” was born in my head.
Wow! After listening to the song that “Someone” came out with about Gay-Cowboys, I was really floored. A lot of us Redneck boys from around the house were a little upset. We were really upset over the movie “Broke Back Mountain”, too. I decided to write this song explaining that I’m not a man to judge, but not all cowboys are gay.
This song was written during some troubling times in my first marriage. I knew that my first marriage was heading down the road to a divorce, so in my mind I was thinking about what was in store for me in the future. A lot of questions had to be answered. Who will be taking my place in my children’s life? Was I making the right decisions? Am I a fool?
A friend of mine who is no
longer married decided that he would like to go back to school to learn a trade.
He decided to go up to Oklahoma to the horse shoeing school and learn how
to shoe horses. Well listen to the song, shortly after he graduated, a divorce
was on the horizon. Now, you know why he is no longer married.
“Bad Boy Timmy”.
11. Boiling It Down, On The Bayou
This is a fun song! I got the idea from my family who lives down in Morgan City and Stephenville, Louisiana. The Belair’s and the Cheramie’s do know how to boil crabs and party on the bayou! I spend a lot of time down there, now that I have a houseboat docked in the area. The start of the song says Daddy Al just sparked a flame beneath the ole crab pot and at the end of the song it says “bring it on”! Daddy Al. Well, Mr. Al Belair is one of the best crab boiling guys you will ever meet. He knows how to put the pepper to them just right.
Songwriters: Abell D. Tourera / Earlinet T. Grizzaffi
Mr. Abell D. Tourera and Mrs. Marie L. Tourera had been married 4 years. Mr. Abell was out on the front lines and hunkered down while being stationed in Germany during War War II in 1943. He couldn't help but thinking about his wife back home in Morgan City, La. Mr. Abell wrote this song hoping that one day when returning back to Morgan City, he would be able to record this song for his wife. Mr. Abell at the age of 80 past away in 1998 while the song that he had written was still lying on the family shelf for 63 years. When Mrs. Earlinet T. Grizzaffi (Daughter) found out I that was working on a recording project with KMA Records out of Nashville, Tennessee, she handed the song over to me. I took her father’s song and my guitar to Nashville with me. The song turned out really good. The first time that Mrs. Marie L. Tourera listened to the song, she had tears of joy. It made me feel great to know that the song had finally been completed.
Thanks to Mr. & Mrs. Ronnie and Earlinet Grizzaffi, Mr. & Mrs. Mark and Gina Clements for giving me the opportunity to record this very special song. Thank you, too, Mrs. Marie L. Tourera for your final approval.
Here Are My Thoughts Behind Every Song That I Wrote For This CD
You May Click On Any Song Title To Hear A Short Sample
1) “Honky Tonk World” (Song Writer: Clay Alston)
I’ve played music in a lot of honky-tonks and I’ve seen lots of things go on in the dark honky-tonks. I’ve seen good women and good men turn bad because of the honky-tonk life, and I’ve seen it make better people out of them too. Sometimes it makes them realize what they have at home is much better than what you may find hanging out in the bars.
2) 24/7 (Song Writer: Clay Alston)
I felt like it was time to write a country song with that old honky-tonk style beat. I first created the music and then wrote the words, when you listen to this one it’ll make you wanna grab your partner and hit the floor.
3) “Old Hickory” (Song Writer: Clay Alston)
“Very Special” I love this song. I wrote this song straight from my heart, this song is a true story from my real life experience as a young boy camping out with my dad, uncles, and friends of the family. As a kid I use to sit on that old picnic table on old hickory and listen to the grown up stories, they would talk about fighting in the bars, racing cars and trying to out run the police. I can’t say no more than that….. “What is told on Old Hickory (Stays On Old Hickory)”.
4) “Flashing Lights” (Song Writer: Clay Alston)
This is an older song that I had recorded with A.V. Records 1992 out of Houston Tx. I wrote this song simply because when my buddies would call and say hey Clay what-ya doing this Saturday Night, I would say the usual. I’m singing under the “Flashing Lights”. My Aunt Francis and Uncle Leo gave me the idea of re-recording this song with KMA Records out of Nashville so that’s what we’re doing.
5) “Silver Eagle” (Song Writer: Clay Alston & Sabine Country Band)
This is a song I wrote back in the early 90’s while on the road with A.V. Records / Record producer A.V. Middlested I came up with the idea of this song while we were traveling on a Silver Eagle Tour bus. We had a lot of fun on the bus and it really didn’t get as wild as the song sounds at the end…. But it was an experience.
6) “Crossing The Line” (Song Writer: Clay Alston)
In the busy world that we live in now days it’s easy for our partners to spend several nights away from home, and it’s easy to build walls and let our imaginations get out of hand. Sometimes you just have to call a time out and get things back in order “Life Is Too Short”. If you married them, there must have been something there… Fix it.
7) “Alcohol Ride” (Song Writer: Clay Alston)
I got the idea of this song from one night a close family member and I was buzzing pretty good, when we decided to ride a very scary ride at the Morgan City petroleum festival. This ride, would go high and low and turn upside down and travel at very high speeds, it dawned on me. Hey when you’re buzzing on alcohol, life really turns in to a fast ride. You are either high or low.
8) “Casino Beach” (Song Writer and arrangements: Ed Wright)
I work with a Rig Electrician on H&P Rig 201 / Mars TLP who is a very talented man, I can tell by listening to him talk and listen to the recordings of his guitar picking and singing that this is a man who really missed his calling in life. Ed lives down in Florida and got the idea of this song while hanging out on “Casino Beach” he asked me to listen to the song and within the first two seconds of the song I new I wanted to put it on my
“Old Hickory” CD. Thank you Ed for letting me record this song and I hope we will hear more of your work on my future recordings.
9) “Drinking Beer From A Icee Cup” (Song Writers: Clay Alston / Tony Peoples)
Well sometimes when you need that one beer, and I mean “One Beer” on the way home from a hard day on the job. Yelp the cops don’t pay much attention to a man with a Icee in is hand….”That’s my story” and I’m sticking to it…. One beer… One beer….
10) “Gro’s on 4 mile” (Song Writer: Clay Alston)
For folks that have not been to a party on 4 mile Bayou… Well I feel sorry for you. Don’t go through life without having some fun on the Bayou, I’m telling you.. You’re missing it. I wrote this song so that me and my good friend Leroy Gro, could record a song together. Just listen to the words it tells the story.