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“It’s such an easy thing to be lonely / You can build a wall around yourself / And you can feel like you’re the one and only / When it’s the rest of us as well.”
The heart wants what the heart wants. That’s the story that lies beneath Charles Brown and Sleepy Creek’s lovesick 1979 “I Just Want to Talk To You,” is a record made in the closet that went straight back into an actual closet. Written by Brown and inspired by his secret infatuation with a Sleepy Creek bandmate, the song is impossibly tender and imbued with a universal sentiment.
In 1977, Brown’s senior year, he received a literal knock on the door that changed his musical direction. Drummer Kendall Diehl, bassist Greg Hardin, and guitarists Steve Bernd and Alan Slawter showed up at his house late at night and asked him to join their fledgling group as lead singer and songwriter.
Recording at Omega Studios in Kensington, Maryland, the band cut three songs: “Tennessee Woman,” “Trouble Is,” and “I Just Want to Talk To You.” While the first two are fine pieces of youthful musical craftsmanship, it’s the last that really hits the heartstrings, coming from a place of pure emotion and first-love romantic desperation. It was the first time Brown “had ever felt truly, helplessly in love,” and his aching lyrics and vocal delivery convey sentiments he couldn’t bring himself to confess to his compatriot.
The heart wants what the heart wants. That’s the story that lies beneath Charles Brown and Sleepy Creek’s lovesick 1979 “I Just Want to Talk To You,” is a record made in the closet that went straight back into an actual closet. Written by Brown and inspired by his secret infatuation with a Sleepy Creek bandmate, the song is impossibly tender and imbued with a universal sentiment.
In 1977, Brown’s senior year, he received a literal knock on the door that changed his musical direction. Drummer Kendall Diehl, bassist Greg Hardin, and guitarists Steve Bernd and Alan Slawter showed up at his house late at night and asked him to join their fledgling group as lead singer and songwriter.
Recording at Omega Studios in Kensington, Maryland, the band cut three songs: “Tennessee Woman,” “Trouble Is,” and “I Just Want to Talk To You.” While the first two are fine pieces of youthful musical craftsmanship, it’s the last that really hits the heartstrings, coming from a place of pure emotion and first-love romantic desperation. It was the first time Brown “had ever felt truly, helplessly in love,” and his aching lyrics and vocal delivery convey sentiments he couldn’t bring himself to confess to his compatriot.
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