rock'n'rill

Nowhere Begins Revisited

video by Ingo Wählisch

Nowhere Begins was the title track of my third album from 2001.
As a young songwriter I was severely fascinated with storytelling outlaw songs. Steve Earle’s got plenty of them and I had tried my hand at them, too. Working on “Nowhere Begins” I thought to myself that if I wrote another outlaw story song I’d better find somewhere new to go with it and I thought the lyric came out alright.

A few months after my album came out, the Coen brothers movie “The Man Who Wasn’t There” came out. I saw it and loved it and it occurred to me that the essence of the movie’s story was very similar to my song. A guy commits a crime and gets away with it but then gets wrongly convicted of another crime. Call it poetic justice if you will. I was very flattered when I wasn’t the only one who saw that similarity. A good friend of mine at the time saw the movie and said it reminded her of my song.
At any rate, while I always liked the story and lyric of Nowhere Begins after a while I felt that musically the song relied too strongly on that little guitar lick. Over the course of four verses and choruses and a solo, the musical composition was stretched a little too thin.

So a couple years ago, I messed around with the song some more, changing chords and adding parts. I have not done this with any other song of mine. I may have changed a line here or there (and did that also in Nowhere Begins) but I never went back to change the music on anything. I felt this song was worth it.

This video shows the new version of the song recorded on August 21, 2011 at Königsallee Fahrental. (This is the same gig we filmed for the forthcoming DVD, different video material, though.)

20 September 2011 ·