"Beach Music" genre: Adult Contemporary
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	CD: Beach Music   Label: Indie
	Story Behind the Song Beach Music The genesis of Beach Music came about over the course of ten years. JD wrote a song in 1983 that he played around the SF Bay Area called "She's The One," which featured some interesting guitar work (on the demo) by Randy Jones, who Pederson played with in a band called Pilot. There was a Caribbean vibe to another Pederson tune entitled "Trinidad" that stuck in the songwriters head, and eventually manifested itself into the music for "Beach Music." It was kind of a "Neville Brothers meets Jimmy Buffet meets Tower of Power feel," recalls JD. "Beach Music" was really a rhythm and blues art form in the Southeast. The shagging and strolling done in out-of-the-way beach joints made the texture of that sound and the accompanying lyrics a lifestyle. If you listen to music coming out of that period in the early sixties in the Carolina's you understand why someone like Jimmy Buffet is as popular as he is today. Oh, to live vicariously through that sound and those images. Hopefully, what comes through in the lyric is a celebration of sorts, and a reminiscing of less conflicting and stressful times. Perhaps that's why the song evokes fond memories to anyone who remembers a place where "she smiles and lights dance in the streets." Lyrics Beach Music She smiles and the lights dance in the streets You know this girl knows just what to do And there's something so special about these times For me and you And I can still hear the music they played uptown I can still smell the perfume And the laughter of all those friends we made In every room Maybe I'm older, and maybe it's colder It's hard to believe it's true But there's something so special about This time with you And it's Beach Music, you know that it's Beach Music It's the life and the sand and sound of the bands we love Some folks like to rock, some folks like to roll Some know how to shag, in South Carolina they stroll And you know how to dance And you know how to go all night Running out of time, and running half blind Hoping that your dreams will come true When you need a place to go It's here for you Chorus Maybe I'm crazy but let's pull up stakes Move to the sun and away from these heartaches Chorus

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