6. Tim Bennett - Come On By (5:04)

Come On By - Tim Bennett (5:02)

Contact:
tbennettmusic@gmail.com
(714) 499-4091

Songwriter: Timothy K Bennett
Publisher/PRO: tbennettmusic, ASCAP
Administered by: Tunecore
Release Date: January 21, 2019

Musicians:
Tim Bennett - lead vocal & rhythm guitar
Byron Berline – fiddle
Dan Cartmell – banjo and harmony vocal
RJ Williams – bass and harmony vocal

Recorded by: Keith Taylor at Custom Taylored Studios, Fountain Valley, CA
Mastered by: Keith Taylor at Custom Taylored Studios, Fountain Valley, CA
Additional recording by: Steve Short at PrimeTime Audio/Video, Oklahoma City, OK

Come On By was the result of my attending the Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest at Paramount Ranch, Agoura Hills, CA for the first time in May 2014. I wasn’t performing. I went purely out of curiosity.

I was writing songs for a project I had started a little less than a year prior with a couple old friends. Back then, we were just trying to put a cover band together.

That changed when I recorded four of my original songs at Custom Taylored Studios in Fountain Valley, CA in December 2013 and January 2014. Only one of those recordings would be included on “Highly Irregular”, the only album from Whistler’s Father. The other three songs would be on my first solo album, Inevitable Discovery, released in October 2016.

The fourth song, “I Really Don’t Miss You At All”, was responsible for changing the trajectory of “Highly Irregular” and the songs it would contain, but I’ll save that story for the notes for “I Really Don’t Miss You At All”.

One of the things that struck me about The Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest was how folks would gather in groups of impromptu “pickin’ parties” comprised of fiddlers, banjo players, and mandolin players with a few flatpickers thrown in (all of various proficiency), playing bluegrass standards all afternoon long. I woke up the next morning with the chorus of “Come On By” already in my head.

The first verse is addressed to my actual friend Billy but he’s a piano player so I had to change his instrument because you can’t really drag a piano over to a pickin’ party.