"Beautiful Big Blue" was my first foray into a style of music I'm calling "banjo EDM" which has now become one of my favorite styles to work with.
This song fuses clawhammer banjo folk with tropical house and EDM elements for an energizing and cheerful mix you're not likely to find anywhere else.
The message of this song is about shared humanity. It is an embrace of the collective journey we are on as we cruise together on this planet through the "beautiful big blue".
A huge thanks to the award-winning producer Ovi Bistriceanu who produced, mixed, and mastered the track (he even rented a banjo and learned to play it in order to add a few extra banjo riffs).
Here's a fun homemade music video I made with family and friends, who submitted footage from around the world during the pandemic to create a fun video:
I don’t know your name
But I love you all the same
And I don’t need a thing
But a banjo and a little song to sing
I’ve got the sun in the southern sky
Wind in my hair and the tide rollin' in
Don’t think that I will ever have another worry on Earth again
In all my life, la-da-da-da
Nothing I’d rather do than ride the Earth with you
In the beautiful big blue, blue
Me and you-hoo
Ridin' the Earth on through the beautiful big blue
Beautiful big blue
Dreaming, roller coaster screaming
Happy hours that head late into the evening
Dancing, second chancing
Making up songs, and loving and not understanding
Under that sun in the southern sky
Wind in my hair and the tide rollin' in
Don’t think that I will ever have another worry on Earth again
In all my life, la-da-da-da
Nothing I’d rather do than ride the Earth with you
In the beautiful big blue, blue
Me and you-hoo
Ridin' the Earth on through the
Beau-do-do-do-do-do-hoo-tiful big blue
Living, home-run hitting
Striking out, moving along, forgiving
Hoping, never knowing
Never sure exactly where we’re going
Under that sun in the southern sky
Wind in my hair and the tide rollin' in
Don’t think that I will ever have another worry on Earth again
In all my life, la-da-da-da
Nothing I’d rather do than ride the Earth with you
In the beautiful big blue, blue
Me and you-hoo
Ridin' the Earth on through the beautiful big blue
Beautiful big blue
