The Vessel & The Void
I keep feeling compelled to write little musical meditations and self-reflections. Is this song wholly representative how I feel today? Not really - I'm just digging into past bits and bobs that stuck out to me. I've made it a long way since January 2023, and writing has helped inform and document that progress. So, from time to time, I may post that writing here for the Internet to pry into.
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Acoustic Guitar: 1959 Harmony H-162 restored by Morris Rowell
Vocal mic: sE X1 R
Acoustic guitar mic: AKG D112 (believe it or not)
Room mic: Warm Audio WA-14
Camera: iPhone 15 Pro Max
Interface: Pro Tools Carbon
Tuning: DADDAD
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Your words run deep in many souls Carson. We love your writings. Can’t wait to see you and Josh on tour again but bring Skylar with you! We are huge fans.
@murphyebass7837
6 ай бұрын
Run deep in many souls ? 😂 WTF are you smoking! He’s good but get a fuckin grip. 🤣
100.000 sub❤. That is ok! Thank you for the Music from Denmark.
@carsonmckeemusic
6 ай бұрын
We made it!! Still surreal!
I follow you since you first videos here. It's amazing to see you growing to the point that you, and your lovely friend Josh, entered into the Olimpus of the great artists. You make my life better with your music.
What a beautiful song. Don't change a thing
Beautiful I'm in bed and getting ready to read. My dog came to tell me there's a storm rolling in. We need the rain here, and she needs to settle. Your words help me settle. ❤
@carolynbrightfield8911
6 ай бұрын
There's a song there. Very nice compliment.
Thank you Carson for giving us a glimpse onto your creative process of writing songs. Some snippets of a song in the making can be so refreshing and makes us eager to hear your final piece of art.
*tears*
Authentic voice, Carson. You wrote a really good song, and you're the voice to sing it. As I listened, a song in the movie 'Jeramia Johnson' came to mind. This song comes in and out of various scenes through the movie, it seems. Perhaps the singer performs several songs, but his voice, like yours, has its very own signature. I grew up in two gas stations dad owned, one after another. The radio was always on (days of AM radio) and the stations were frequently changed depending on who was listening. At fourteen, I bought my first eight-track tape - Bob Dylan's Greatest hits Vol I. I was hooked and every album Dylan put out, I've owned it. Others, 60's - 70's mellow kind of stuff like Joni, Prine, Buffett, GFR, Spirit, and many more, but the country, easy listening songs on the radio (Roger Miller, Cash, Haggard, Willie, Aretha, etc.), too. Alison Kraus and Robert Plant discovered pure gold together and your voice is of that caliber. Keep at it, you will be found!
Xlint story/song/poem - B proud AGAIN - remember sometimes a poem can be enough to smooth the road bumpy rough a sad Friend who smiles again and is why a tear drips near your ear so you can hear every part inside The HEART
Thank you for sharing and expressing , you touch our hearts. ❤
Once again...GREAT Carson...thanks.
Thanks Carson.
Carson is an exquisite poet. The Vessel & The Void (lyrics) I've learned to carry my guilt like a newborn child, So immaculately built of my own blood and vile. Safe from smothering, for if I killed it, what would that make me? I've tried to swallow the sea to quench my thirst, Fill the emptiness in me, but it made things worse. I am the vessel, and I am the void. Don't get lost in me (X4) by Carson McKee
You are a poet! Your songs are little stories and I adore them. Thank you for sharing with us.
I hope you are coming out stronger the other side of 2023. Good luck and thank you for the music.
Glad to see you posting again, hope everything is ok, beauty of a song, that old Harmony sounds pretty darn good too.
Nice
Very nice. A mature piece of writing, worth continuing to work on. It resonates with many things. Nietzsche and the Abyss. But also My Back Pages. It's like a Zen koan. Thanks.
@MaryAnnBeaven
6 ай бұрын
Carson’s zen den 🙂
@mikem668
6 ай бұрын
@@MaryAnnBeavenShould we ask Carson if a dog has a Buddha-nature? And then what is the sound of one hand clapping?
@MaryAnnBeaven
6 ай бұрын
Yes, good questions for Carson. He seems pretty philosophical and he sure put us in a zen mood today. I love how he plays the Harmony guitar. Hey @mikem668, is it the flag that moves or is it the wind that moves?
@mikem668
6 ай бұрын
@@MaryAnnBeaven I like your koan, better that mine. It reminds my of Blowin in the Wind. It took years for me to realize Dylan's double meaning. Growing up I thought he only meant a favorable wind was blowing. Now I think he also meant something like who knows? The word translated as vanity in Ecclesiastes, where Turn, Turn, Turn comes, also means wind. The Vessel and the Void also picks up on the Buddhist idea of emptiness. And warnings. When pointing at the sky, mistake your finger for the moon. Or the moon's reflection for the moon itself. Which isn't trivial if the distinction itself is an illusion. Thou art that. And where does the self come from? Old and deep ideas. Knowing yourself isn't easy. I hope Carson knows we aren't poking fun, but enjoying his thoughts on the mysteries of life
@MaryAnnBeaven
6 ай бұрын
😊
congrats on 100k 👏👏👏
Amen
Ah, more Carson!
Nice, Carson - beautifully deep song...
Genuine, pure, heartfelt. ❤👏👏
Fabulous Carson
wow, you're a good writer. keep it up. music is healing.
nice to see some some deeper reflection and soul in your resonance of your words and voice ....short okay..... just feel it,.... live it , ....sing it...at your moment in time.....we will enjoy the beauty
Oh man, this is incredible. Beautiful all the way around.
Wow!👍❤️
bravo, carson. your song remind me of the mark strand poem keeping things whole Keeping Things Whole BY MARK STRAND In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body’s been. We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.
You have such an authentic voice, it's quite amazing! :):)
Carson your voice is full and complete.
Beautiful song Carson!!! I had to double take the guitar mic but it works quite well!!! Keep up the great work!!
That VOICE 🤩🤩🤩
👏👏👏👏👏
Beautiful. Keep up the good work. Greatings from Sweden.
One of my favorite open tunings. Powerful piece of music and lyrics, very nicely done. Thanks
Great song sir! And I love that Harmony guitar!
This is amazing Carson, keep up the good work! 😁
Beautiful!
You should make the subtitles available! Although they are not perfect in transcription 😅, it helps us to understand better the lyrics. Love from Brazil ❤
Nice. Love the way you swell your voice. Thanks for sharing the music -Matt- Hudson Valley, NY
Such beautiful words Carson... your voice is the vessel for your words. Thank you for sharing your gift with us.
So relaxing!
What can I say? It's been fantastic. Thank you.
I loved this
The open tuning on that restored old Harmony is just beautiful...And so is the song, the sentiment and your vocal...Well done, keep going... song writing is not so easy.
feelgood music, great perfoemance😊
Thank you for singing to us
Always great music. Very talented young man
I hope you keep working on this Meditations series; fascinating work. Maybe we'll get a whole suite? Thank you Carson. Lovely lyrics, as per you usual highly skilled wordsmithing.
Very good, as always!
lovely and moving!
You are growing musically. And artisically.
I miss The Other Favorites
perfect song for a rainy Sunday morning. Well done!!!
Yer a "BUZZSAW" CARSON.
nice song Carson
When will you put these recordings on a solo album, we need it ! 💗
Nice song! It can became a famous some time.
Very nice. Not sure what that tuning was, but I'm guessing the Harmony is the one you keep that way. Never too many guitars.
Harmony guitar?! That’s what I grew up playing in the ‘50s (along with Silvertone from Sears). Sounds great, as do you and your song. Is the Harmony really old, or has someone else been producing under that name?
This was intriguing to listen to. Is this available for purchase?
This was really good. Would love to see the lyrics. Open tuning?
One thing that would be nice is to post the lyrics in the description.
Since January 2023? I am not getting the reference, but certainly felt a change/shift?
Just wondering what the tuning is on your guitar? I hear the drop D but any other changes? Very nice.
@elxakiltse8773
6 ай бұрын
DADDAD, it's in the description.
Interesting tuning - maybe fairly common?, but not to me - an amateur. :)
is this a hint that your girlfriend is pregnant?
Beautiful!