Here’s ‘Clever Dame’ from the Charlie Bookout Studio Works album “Last Fall.”  -  You can purchase this song, as well as my other music, on my Bandcamp page here  =  https://charliebookoutstudioworks.bandcamp.com/

There are a lot of synthesizer elements in this one. The horn-synth at the end is my favorite. I’d been experimenting with the song’s chord progressions in half-time, and the solo I layered over the top of that experiment wasn’t bad, so I tacked it on at the end. It turned out to be kind of a neat device to help fade the song out.
The lyrical point of “Clever Dame” is similar to that of “Rare Indeed”, only a little cruder.
~  Produced on a vintage Ensoniq SQ-80 with additional sounds from old Roland and Alesis gear

Last Fall

Clever Dame

Multi-instrumentalist writer and composer Charlie Bookout first played in Arkansas-based funk/pop bands like The Regent and The Gender Max. Throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s, Charlie and other band members used their small town’s abandoned funeral chapel as a rehearsal hall and recording studio. They further developed the building into a creative project space, and for many years now Mortuary Studios has been producing its unique brand of independent film, music, and art—including the yearly presentation of a haunted attraction that has become one of the most popular in the state (Carpenter’s Mortuary Spook House).

Charlie Bookout Studio Works is the project name for Charlie’s original Mortuary Studios recordings. While his quirky Pop/Rock/R&B sound often draws inspiration from a range of influences—from 80s mainstream to 70s prog-rock—each song in Charlie’s prolific catalog retains a unique and identifiable sound. Other than his cover recording of “Three is a Magic Number” written by the late Bob Dorough, Charlie writes, composes, arranges, and performs all his music.