Continuing with the kitchen party kind of theme: this is a very old and very catchy French folk song. I learned it from a recording by Marcel Bénéteau, who did a really nice a capella version. I've added a few chords and a little spoons to it…
Had a French teacher in high school who used to play a lot of French folk songs for us, and for me that was the very best part of the class! This song takes me back to that time.
After seeing a quick pick up at the Leather Ball Saloon in Dallas one 1974 evening. This is a song from the album, FEATHERS IN THE WING by Snow Geese/Barbara, Michael Jeffrey and me. 1976
(50 years later, I am stunned at the starkness of this…
The wife was on a work call and I got bored so I ventured down to the cellar and a couple of hours passed and this is what came out ....Thanks for listening
You need a dream cause your barely living
Now open your eyes and go try make it…
Hi Brett...it's been a while, I'm tuning in exclusively to catch up on your BRILLIANT music! Starting with this one....AMAZING. Different from your music that I'm familiar with.
I wrote this song when I was 15 or 16. I was hitchhiking from Austin TX where I'd been playing music, back to Utah for xmas. I was stranded in the cold rain, no money, no ride, outside of El Paso. Recorded it years later..
The story our song that night (Songwriter night, Tuesday, at The Post, where we would divide up into groups and have a new song ready to perform in one hour) was about railroads and a girl from San Antone. When I got home I had the Tejas/Chaos…
The story our song that night (Songwriter night, Tuesday, at The Post)
was about railroads and a girl from San Antone. I had the Tejas/Chaos rhyme and when I rhymed "confetti" with Texas City, I had the local. Once I saw her on that shrimp boat it wrote itself.
The story our song that night (Songwriter night, Tuesday, at The Post, where we would divide up into groups and have a new song ready to perform in one hour) was about railroads and a girl from San Antone. When I got home I had the Tejas/Chaos…
SOMETHING ABOUT THE NIGHT TIME
(Am)Something about the (Bm)night time makes me feel alive
Makes me want to sing a song. Think about my life
(C)Maybe light a (D)candle. I like lemon grass
(Am)Something about the (Bm)night time (B Am E…
so chill-- then after a minute it is like yeah,.. wow -- it is like after a minute each time something changes and a new thing starts in the mix --- oh yeah this ending is really really intense -- dag-
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fabulous sense of poise and taking your time Ben.
brooding and spiritual, great use of the samples!
that was a real Electric ending - sounds like fire in the circuit! Fits the title Kav!
Had a French teacher in high school who used to play a lot of French folk songs for us, and for me that was the very best part of the class! This song takes me back to that time.
ooooh like that twinkle patch at the end!
Fabulous James - Keith Hass
Nice one!
Nice
This is perfect ambience!
Hi Brett...it's been a while, I'm tuning in exclusively to catch up on your BRILLIANT music! Starting with this one....AMAZING. Different from your music that I'm familiar with.
nice! I have Melodyne and never messed around with it.
been there brother. not fun. cold rain on an empty highway hitchin' from New York to S. Dakota.
real good track man.
The story our song that night (Songwriter night, Tuesday, at The Post) was about railroads and a girl from San Antone. I had the Tejas/Chaos rhyme and when I rhymed "confetti" with Texas City, I had the local. Once I saw her on that shrimp boat it wrote itself.
Classic! — Wade Jackson
excellent mellow here
Lovely piece James. Nicely done. — Wade Jackson
yeah this is out there somewhere- :)
so chill-- then after a minute it is like yeah,.. wow -- it is like after a minute each time something changes and a new thing starts in the mix --- oh yeah this ending is really really intense -- dag-
Really cool. Feels kinda like O.Rang, the Talk Talk spinoff.