Song From a Dream
Very early Monday morning I had a dream in which Tom Petty (and also Will Henson) were helping me write a song called “Westwood”. I was working on a verse when my wife inadvertently woke me up. As it turns out, that was probably fortunate, because I was able to remember the verse I was working on, the title, and some other ideas. Within a couple of hours I had completed the song and recorded it demo. It will likely be the last song we will record in sessions for the upcoming album. It’s one of those songs that seems familiar but so far I’ve not been able to identify any particular song that it’s based on; rather there are bits and pieces of a lot of different songs that bear some similarity. John described the style as “Neil Young (without the high whining voice) or Bruce Springsteen (without the lower gravelly voice)”. Thanks, Tom and Will, for your help in my dream, but I’m afraid that dream-people aren’t entitled to songwriting credit.