Everybody loves "Acorn Man"

2009 has been making the rounds among my friends and family, and just about everybody I've talked to tabs "Acorn Man" as one of their favorites, if not THE favorite, song on the album.

I didn't think too much of it when I wrote it. I wrote it while I was at LSU, and I recorded the guitar and programmed the strings down there. When I got back to Peachtree City, I added real drums, bass and vocals to it. The result was a nice little song dedicated to those crunchy green acorns that are fun to step on in the autumn months in Baton Rouge.

I added a lot of alliteration, and I made some fun rhymes. My favorite part was rhyming "Cheeto" with "incognito". That's a cool rhyme.

I also think I did a good job with the string arrangement. It's the first time I really tried. I used what I learned from my Theory courses.

The chord progression is a lot older. The chord progression is the same from "Lay Back Down", which is from the mini-EP-thing Shamelessly Delightful Acoustic Demos. Listen for yourself.