Music Monday: Goodbye World Goodbye Podcast Edition

From Linwood:

Goodbye World, Goodbye is one of those southern gospel tunes that just makes you want to smile and tap your foot.

Last week my flugelhorn friend Lynn Nash, well, he’s actual a childhood friend - his father passed. As our former pastor John Vest would put it, he claimed the promise of the ressurection . I was asked to play for the funeral service, of which I was honored to do so. The only song they wanted played was Good bye World, goodbye. Lynn’s father, Bill, had heard the song somewhere and had leaned over to his wife and said I want they song done at my funeral.

Ok, so I was trying to figure out how you play that very uptempo song at a funeral service and try to retain some of the funnest of the song without being disrespect able - you know it’s a funeral service and everybody knows you have to tone everything down. It would appear not! When I expressed my concern over how to try and accomplish a respectable version, both the pastor and Mr. Nash’s wife said, just turn it loose.

I started and restarted this arrangement a half dozen times it seems like. I have gotten it to the point that I’m happy with it and what you heard was pretty close to what I played at the service. I have been tweaking it some and will continue to do so as Lynn has expressed an interest in adding a Flugelhorn part to the song. Of course he can - it was his dad this arrangement was created for and it would be only fitting to have it play.

Bill Nash was a quiet man. But when he cleared his throat to speak, everyone got quiet cause Bill always had something very good to share. It usually summed up everything that needed, or should have been said. You could count on him for that. For a quiet man, we raise this un-quiet song of tribute.