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Keep It To Myself

from Turn Up For The Books by Robbie McIntosh

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In one way this is a song about being a bloody-minded, miserable old git, but on another level it's about pleasing yourself and not caring about other people's opinions. I like lines in it like "I can see pretty clearly, I just never care to look"
The bottom line is, I'll please myself and bugger off and do it myself, I won't shout about it or tell people about it, I'll just keep quiet about it and put it up on the shelf with the tax returns.
Is that a bit like me? Probably, that's why it's taken me ten years to do another flippin' album!

The song came about from a jam by me and Paul Beavis; me on my old Dobro and Paul on drums.
The jam was just one take and at one point I hit the guitar a bit hard and the string slipped off the bridge. You can hear me slide the string back into the slot on the bridge (it's just after the guitar solo if anybody's interested).
So anyway, I'd had those lyrics knocking around for a while so I shoe horned them into that jam and then overdubbed one electric guitar part.
It sounds like it's two electric guitars but that's because we recorded it on a close microphone and an ambient microphone and put them quite wide in the stereo, so it sounds like two guitars because the ambient mic was in the next room so obviously the sound takes longer to get there, so it's almost like having a delay. You get the effect of double tracking.
The electric guitar is an old Silvertone. They were made for the Sears company in the 60s by other guitar companies; This particular one was made by Harmony, a cheap guitar in it's day, but it sounds fantastic, and I played it through a Jackson Ampworks 'Britain' amp which is the amp company that I endorse. It's a wicked guitar sound, I love it.
So there's no bass on the track. It s just drums, a Dobro, an electric guitar and vocals.

lyrics

You know that I can see pretty clearly I just never care to look
I'm gonna take some notes and maybe I will try to write a book
Or get myself some pots and pans and then I'll teach myself to cook
And I'll be gone, yes I'm gone

And I'll keep it to myself
Why would I want to tell anybody else
I'll put it up on the top shelf and I'll keep it to myself
Yeah I'll keep it to myself
I'll keep it to myself
Yeah I'll keep it to myself

I could shout it from the roof tops maybe I could write it in the sky
Or get myself a judge and a jury and I'll stand up and I'll testify
Or put on my traveling' shoes and then wave everyone goodbye
And I'll be gone, yes I'm gone

And I'll keep it to myself
Why would I etc.

credits

from Turn Up For The Books, released September 7, 2013
RM: Dobro and Electric Guitar, Vocals
Paul Beavis: Drums

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Robbie McIntosh Weymouth, UK

Robbie McIntosh is well known as a sideman/session player (Paul McCartney, The Pretenders, Talk Talk, Norah Jones, Tears For Fears, to name but a few)
As a solo performer and singer, he has released 8 albums:
Seaworld,
Fortuneswell,
Turn Up For The Books,
Widescreen, Emotional Bends
3 albums of instrumentals:
Unsung, Hush Hour and Christmas Carols.
Also the Let’s Put It All Together EP.
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