This is a song I started several years ago. I was recording a music bed for it when my recording system crashed. I was able to salvage the main section and the feel of the song, but there was nothing left that I could work with. When I finally got back to the song early in 2016, I had to recreate it from scratch. It was actually pretty hard to do because it was in a bit of an oddball key compared to most of my songs. At that point, I didn’t even have a title . . . or a melody. I identified my new bed recording of the song with the working title “Say Something”. I ended up sticking with the title and used it as a focal point for the lyrics. There were a lot of different possibilities for a song called “Say Something,” but what you hear on this recording is what I ended up with.

Credits: I start most of my songs in my home studio where I sing and play on the basic tracks. On this one I played all the keyboard parts and basic electronic drums plus a few of the guitar parts. I sang and added a few finger pops and claps. Then I brought Jamie Philp in to play a variety of rhythm and lead guitar parts with his Telecaster and his Hohner Steinberger (the one with no headstock). Clint Frazier (Shout Out Out Out Out/Physical Copies) later played his Simmons kit to bring some life to the drums, especially in the middle instrumental section where I asked him to ‘think disco’. That’s my son, Nik Kozub (Shout Out Out Out Out/the Paronomasiac), on the Carole Kaye-inspired bass. These guys totally nailed it.