new video to go along with my original song, The Ballad of Aubrey McClendon
**** the video clip seems to only work on a desktop PC or laptop – not on a smartphone or iPad****

Here it is, as requested, we are revisiting the song that kicked off everything --- the first fully produced original song I wrote -- which really got the ball rolling on Eddington Records, launching it like a rocket into orbit. 
This is Aubrey McClendon and his story -- a modern folk song based on a modern folktale about a modern folk hero. There are 5 different versions presented here, basically different mixes of instruments with different emphasis on sections and parts. I was really on the steep learning curve here of using digital audio workstation software and I think I learned almost everything I know from this song.
It felt like I was racing against time, but I wanted to get the song out while things were still fresh in the case. 
A few notes
– Most people in OKC loved Aubrey for the things he did for our city, such as helping to bring the Thunder, instigating all the construction and activity at the Boathouse District, spearheading the development of Nichols Hills Plaza, at Classen Triangle , and at Classen Curve. He brought Whole Foods, to our city , which is better known for fried food. 
But there was another side of Aubrey that some other people knew about and saw. Extreme risk taking. Maybe playing fast and loose with the rules. 
A side of questionable business practices, self-dealing, and likely more trouble to come, debt problems, and rumors of worse on the way. It seemed to me that that side of the story needed to be addressed as well. 
Interestingly, most people are not overly taken aback if someone they respect and admire is accused of wrongdoing. Look at the popularity of El Chapo in Mexico. He's a narco murderer but he is still loved by the ordinary people for standing up to the government and doing things they cannot or do not feel empowered enough to get away with themselves but do vicariously through their folk hero figure.
– My lyrics address some of his controversial sides and the ambiguity of his character. Clearly he was a great, even heroic, figure to the people in Oklahoma City, but was he also robber baron or more of a Robin Hood?
-- There is an old Irish folk saying, a blessing really, that includes the lines, "May the road rise up to meet you and the wind be at your back always." It is supposed to mean you hope the road will be easy and the wind will be carrying you forward. It takes on a different meaning, however, when you’re going too fast and hit the road embankment. Also the lyric "you hit the road but the road hit back” suddenly struck me in a stroke of creativity – it is a line I may never again rise up again to equal.
– The song uses some folk instruments, at various points bagpipes, a harmonica, and a whistle -like instrument,] along with real whistling to flesh out the folk aspects and the idea of whistleblowers causing Aubrey’s ultimate sudden crash
– At the end we hear a confused person, perhaps an art ordinary citizen or perhaps Aubrey himself, repeating over and over in a mantra -like fashion, “I love my Thunder, I love my city as we are left unsettled about Aubrey’s legacy. 
Please feel free to spread this tail around if I ever make any money from it, I will donate all the earnings to some of the causes he championed which I also care about, such as Boys/Girls Clubs and the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma.