This is one of my earliest tunes, written in 1974 just after high school in my
childhood bedroom on Maryvale Street in Mobile. I remember picking up my guitar,
and then the song just happened. I had a vision of Spanish galleons, and a woman
beckoning me aboard. I couldn't have asked for an easier path to a song. This was
the first tune I recorded when I got a multitrack, but that tape was lost in the sands
of time. This version was recorded live by Pluto Jones one afternoon in June 1980
at the Brass Monkey Lounge in Marathon in the Florida Keys. I hung two Shure SM-57
microphones from the ceiling and pressed 'record' on an $80 Sanyo cassette deck.
Somehow, I kept track of that old cassette, and I still have it today. There's also a
newer version, recorded in 2008 during the session celebrating Michael's 50th
birthday and Pluto Jones' 30th anniversary. 'Come To Me' features one of my
favorite lyrics...as I join the woman on one of the galleons she says,
"Come to me...be set free...know love eternally".
What an invitation! And as we say in Bama, "it just don't get no better than that!"
Come To Me © 2024 - Joey Arata