Lock Your Pocket
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Words & Music by Gael MacGregor, Sam Winans & Ramona Wright
(with a thanks to Stuart Weinstein for the title & inspiration)
© MacMusic Magic, Betsy Winans Music & Cosmotion Music
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No pockets to lock!
This song actually developed from a real incident. Some years before, Ramona, Barry & I were in a band that did a song called “Lock Your Pocket”. The guy who wrote it wanted to ditch all the lyrics and asked Ramona and I to pen some new ones. He said a friend of his was in a bank, set his briefcase down for a moment to make a transaction, and when he went to pick it up, it was gone. His comment? “I gotta remember to lock my pocket from now on.”
With that inspiration, Ramona and I wrote some lyrics and (of course) the band promptly broke up.
Fast forward to the studio with Sam Winans (our string & horn arranger and studio owner) playing a bluesy & fun guitar progression during a break. I started humming some melody ideas and realized that our old “Lock Your Pocket” lyrics would fit really well, so starting fooling around with them. Sam made a few adjustments to the progression, and a new “Lock Your Pocket” was born in about an hour. Sam & Mike Lent put together a kicking arrangement, and I recorded a final lead vocal in 22 minutes.
Barry was mad ‘cause I beat his prior studio record. 
The horns were recorded well after the initial sessions, and we were quite fortunate to have Dale Penner (producer/engineer for Nickelback’s breakout CD, ‘The State’) taking care of the final mix.
Gael
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CREDITS:
Produced by Barry Coffing
Engineered by Chris Hufford & Bobby Ginsberg
Mixed by Dale Penner
Recorded at Tempo Studios—Hollywood, CA, USA
Mixed at Hipposonic Studios—Vancouver, BC, Canada
Horn Arrangement by Sam Winans
Instrumental Arrangement by Sam Winans & Michael Lent
Guitars—Michael Lent
Bass—Osama Afifi
B3 Organ—Greg Mathieson
Piano—Mark Mathieson
Drums—Gary Ponder
Harmonica—John Mirani
Horns—Mark Hollingsworth, Rusty Higgins, Wayne Bergeron, Andy Martin, Sal Lozano & Rick Baptist
Background Vocals—Gael MacGregor, Ramona Wright & Julie Chadwick
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