I was listening to Leonard Cohen a lot this winter, and these lyrics sort of came out from there...don't know what they really mean, i was more interested in trying to see if I could mimic Leonard's style, which of course I can't, but this was…
Inspired by Neil Gaiman's Sandman series (my favorite reading material). What would happen if Death came for you, like in the series. This is that conversation.
Written and Recorded: Feb 24-25, 2010
Details: Lap Steel (FCFFCF), Epiphone Les Paul (FBbEbAbCF), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, Audacity...all fingers, no picks.
Just never got this one sounding like I envisioned it…
another lullaby type piece
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It seems that any time I feel confident about being able to continue doing a song a day, I jinx my next day.
Like last night, I made it known that I was probably going to continue with song a day in March, whilst…
Written for the "My First Sing-A-Long Dictionary" RPM 2010 project.
See myfirstdictionary.blogspot.com/
Daddy's away
Posted abroad
Sending home pay
All he can afford
Mummy pretends
But I notice that something has changed
The letters…
Part 1 - Hotel & Backstory.
Hotel.
In which Johnny tries to betray Angela, whose suspicions are raised when Jenny calls.
Backstory.
In which we learn about Julia's involvement in the affair.
Lyric -
So Jennifer sits…
This album is very captivating. You definitely wear your influences on your sleeve, but it's a certainly a good shirt.
This is playing like a concept album - is there a theme to all of this? I'm detecting links between the various tracks.
Recent Comments
cool.
May I just say it's nice to have you back bringing us gems like this.
Brilliant lyrics, I do love a good storyline.
Beautifully dreamy.
You have a way of convincing me you are sat beside a river in the rockies, just singing and playing to yourself.
I really enjoyed that, vocal, melody, tempo. Perfect.
Yawl come back now! Delightfully done. Tess and I are packing.
Just great!!
Very cool! Reminds me a little of Brian Wilson (and that's a good thing!)
you go girl
Well done Doug, I could almost hear bagpipes playing along side this track. Excellent feel to it.
I 'm enjoying these - would love some more info but hey. No Pressure ;-)
beautiful to listen to at sunrise
Yip this works for me, nice sound!! keep on rockin.
The intro for this is *so* delicate, and the lyric is whimsically wonderful. Faved. AND KAZOO! Sold!
oh yes!! this is kick ass! Couldnt agree more.. with both sentiment and guitar fuelled wrath!
very engaging. instant..
The mellotron sound is Meltron 1.0 (freeware vst) by ArtiFake. For a freebie I found it very usable, and it's found all over this album.
This album is very captivating. You definitely wear your influences on your sleeve, but it's a certainly a good shirt. This is playing like a concept album - is there a theme to all of this? I'm detecting links between the various tracks.
Rock on.