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Larry Sepulvado: Music

Hurricane

writer: Larry Sepulvado

I evacuated Houston along with 2.5 million other people preceding Hurricane Rita. I headed to Dennis Challman's house outside Austin, Texas. Normally a 3.5 hour drive that took me and my kids 28 hours!! Along the way, it was like a true to life reality show out of 'Lord Of The Flies'. The next day I wrote this song.

In the studio I told guitarist Rob McNelly to think like a 13 year old & make his guitar sound like 'dirty side' hurricane guitar grunge. He nailed it!

My son, Austin, plays the clean sounding guitar accompaniment & the guitar solo.

This song is as close as I will ever come to sounding like Neil Young!

 

HURRICANE

 

Bring on the wind, bring on the rain

Bring on another damn hurricane

Cause I can take the wind, I can take the rain

Long as I can take god's name in vain

 

Hurricane, hurricane 

Staring eye to eye with this hurricane

Hurricane, hurricane 

Take everything I got to my name

 

Thunder's rolling in, there's no way out

Sky blacker than the shadow of a doubt

Bulls eye dirty side, we are all about to die 

On a rooftop screaming for a helicopter ride

 

Chorus

 

Right before our eyes, water's on the rise

Grab up the kids run for the roof reach for the sky

It's raining waterlogged cajun cats and creole dogs

Human remains sucking their way down a sewage drain

 

Verse

Chorus

 


Piano: Kevin McKendree

Bass: Steve Mackey

Drums: Lynn Williams

Dirty Side Guitar: Rob McNelly

Lead Guitar: Austin Sepulvado

Backup Vocals: Loyce Washington & David Hanshaw