This song is the result of exchanging “One Line Zingers” with my friend Tom last Saturday while playing a little music.

He challenged me to write a song about him and he would do the same at my expense.

The funiest song wins.

Please…read more

The circling of life
The ability to find your way
Like a compass in the night
And the coming of another day

It’s like when the stars align
You’ve been given just a glimpse of truth
And you think that you might find
The Optimism held in youth

Living where the stars align
Following…read more

Minnesota Coffee Table __________________Always Fun!

Written By Greg Connor

Performed by Mark Lofgren & Greg Connor

RPM Challenge 2018

Song #10

Listen to the entire album for FREE on CDBaby.com

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I played this song at the Minnesota Association of Songwriters last month and asked them to critique it.

They said it had too many chord changes.

In memory of my childhood friend and the Sawbill Trail that we visited together for 50 years.

This is one of 13 songs I have recorded lately for an album of Northern Minnesota songs. It’s been a lot of fun!

“SUNDAY” is one of 11 songs based loosely on an article:
“Pope Francis - 10 Tips to Happiness”.

Listen to the entire album “Simple Gestures - Greg Connor” for FREE on Spotify and…read more

Another Minnesota Coffee Table creation:

Written by Greg Connor
Performed by Colleen Dillon, Mark Lofgren and Greg Connor

Watch “Still On My Mind” and 5 other songs performed here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMJD3_1yzQs&t=600s

It’s been raining all day so I’ve been playing with my recorder and a new Irish Whistle that arrived from Scotland yesterday.

This song is in response to a song writing challenge; write a song about “Boots”.

Listen for my :

National Resolectric Baritone Guitar

Irish Whistle…read more

Minnesota Coffee Table Series

This song is more fun than substance. Recorded at the end of the evening featuring the glow of an empty bottle of wine.

Mark Lofgren, Colleen Dillon, Mike Rudquist, Greg Connor

We’re still short a few lyrics, so feel free to suggest some.

Minnesota Coffee Table Series

Written by Mike Rudquist and Greg Connor. Performed and recorded around my coffee table.

Colleen Dillon, Mark Lofgren, Mike Rudquist, Greg Connor

I sent Mike a rough idea of the first two…read more

This is my first recording with my new Big Muddy Mandolin, made in Missouri.

http://www.bigmuddymandolin.com

Minnesota Coffee Table. Recorded 3/15/2017 with:

Colleen Dillon - Percussion and Vocal

Mark Lofgren - Guitar and Vocal

Greg Connor - Guitar and Vocal

Snow on the ground. Wind and temperatures below zero. It’s time for another coffee table evening.

Recorded live around my coffee table with:

Mark Lofgren - Lead Guitar & Harmony
Colleen Dillon- Ukelele & Harmony
Greg Connor - Lead Vocal and Guitar

This song is in response to the song writting challenge offered by Carl Unbehaun of Minnesota HomeBrew Radio / Thief River Falls, MN

“Write a song about a Crazy X Girlfriend”

G A friend said he saw you in a C compromised way
With a G guy known…read more

Performed with National Baritone Guitar, Martin D-28, Morris Mandolin and Hohner EchoHarp.

D Down at the station Em waiting for a train,
G Try to find a brand new start D leave behind the A pain
D Looking in the mirror, Em I’m a losing hand
G Never…read more

Caught up in the recent political events, ISIS suicide bombers and pedifiles being protected by clergy … all on the evening news.

All guitar parts performed on my hand made Kapke Archtop Guitar made by my friend Damon Kapke.

There’s a cold wind blowing
Through a crack in the…read more

Something new here. Tilden Barger offered to arrange and produce this song. Tell me what you think.

Written by Greg Connor

Arranged and Produced by my friend Tilden Barger

Lyrics:

Down by the riverside, autumn wind blows cold
The river just keeps rolling by with just a hint of snow
I continue standing here, where did you go
Ain’t no use to worry, some things I’ll never know

Last thing that you told me, before you slammed the door
This ain’t no way…read more

Here is the latest Coffee Table Recording. We gave ourselves 2 ½ hours to pick a topic, write the song, and record it. It was GREAT FUN!

I left the pre bantar in just so you could get a feel of the “mood of the room”.

Brett - Flatop Guitar
Harley- Bass
Tilden - Archtop Guitar…read more

It’s that time of year again. I like all the seasons, and Fall is definitely in the top 4!

Here is my contribution to the Pirate Song Challenge offered by Robert Palomo.

Find The Pirate Challenge Here:

http://alonetone.com/forums/making-music/topics/challenge-pirate-some-music

I once was in love with a lady, But she left me a long time…read more

The Gibson SG was all tuned up with new strings so I gave it a whirl. It’s still fun to hear that electric sound.

It’s been a long time! These past few months have evaporated. Time to dust off the recording equipment again.

Here is a MOJITO Fueled version of “TV Dinner” that we recorded last Monday night in my Basement.

It’s one of 9 songs we will be taping for Community TV, thanks to the Minnesota Association Of SongWriters

Harley Coborn - Bass
Tilden Barger - Mandolin, Guitar, Vocal Backup
Greg Connor…read more

Pack a bag and head out west
Change of clothes and leave the rest
Northern skin needs a little sun
Sunshine can cure anyone

Slow it down to a steady pace
Forget about the human race
All I need is what’s inside
Take the rest and let it slide

Ghost Ranch New Mexico
Tale of witches…read more

Whiskey performed by my little group 4B4U.

Gloria - Fiddle & Backup Vocal
Harley - Bass

Tilden - Guitar & Backup Vocal
Greg - Guitar & Vocal

Here is my contribution to the latest song writing challenge posted in the Alonetone Forum.

Who Knew when I first met you
That all your troubles would be mine
And you’d be coming around again
To hurt me one more time

It’s been a lot…read more

I was down at the station
Catch the Greyhound to Go My Way
And I heard the loudspeaker
We’ll be leaving some time today

You just Say no thank you
When I ask you to be mine
I’ll be looking for that green light
When I ask you the next time

All them red lights turn to green lights…read more

Here is my contribution to the latest song writing challenge offered by the Minnesota Songwriters.

(Write a song using the topic: GLASS) Everyone is welcome to participate.

STAINED GLASS

Guitar: Double Drop D tuning
Mandolin
Irish Whistle…read more

Inspired by a couple of recent road trips.

Just like two sides
Of the same silver dollar
We’re not alike but still the same
And your big life
Makes mine look smaller
I wonder if you know my name

I wait around
You might be calling
A telephone that never rings
End of the day
I still got nothing
Let’s all see what tomorrow…read more

Two hours before morning light
Highway signs go by all night
Open window to catch the breeze
Helps me clear my cluttered mind

Road noise rumbling through the floor
Been on this road once or twice before
My mind is racing up ahead
Leaving everything behind

I just want to
Listen…read more

This song pretty much sums up my life right now. No direction and no ambition.

Maybe because it’s SpringTime and Love is in the air.

In keeping with the romantic nature of the season, it features:

BANJO … . . The instrument made for LOVE.

It’s a lasting impression
Every time that you call
It’s my only intention
Leave you nothing at all

Whenever you ask me
I’m doing just fine
It’s the dance that I do
Every single time

It aint what it looks like, not like that at all
It’s a broken down person at the end of the line…read more

RPM Challenge 2015

Here is my contribution to Gene’s Challenge. Find it here:

http://alonetone.com/koehl/tracks/songwriting-challenge-1

How to Assemble Your Android

How to assemble your android
With pitfalls that you should avoid
Like send in the warranty card
Before the thing gets destroyed…read more

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Full moon, full of mystery
Full moon, shadows thru the trees
I can feel your spell, I’m beggin at you please

So long I been straight and true
No wrong has come into view…read more

RPM 2015

… . And We’re off … First song of the RPM Challenge

Steve (SLKrell) and I have been competing over the same “IMAGINARY” girlfriend for years now.

And Yep … Steve started it. Well she’s mine now, at least until Steve writes the next song. Look for Steve’s music here:
http://alonetone.com/slkrell
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This shirt got no gravy
I’m…read more

I had fun singing this at the open mic this past week.

Originally written for a song writing challenge using the phrase “Chicken Plucking Time In Petaluma”

Inspired by Last Week’s Winter Storm where the only people out driving around in it were the people trying to prove Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection.

Vocal addition by Colleen Dillon. Colleen also suggested the topic “Winter Tune”

Check out Colleen Dillon Here:
http://alonetone…read more

Copy Right © 2014 Gregory A Connor

Party Party Party . . . and then Regret … …It’s the same old story!

LYRICS:

With Or Without You

Try to get along but it takes two
It’s a Whole lot of me and not much you
Working myself right to the bone
Thinking that I am all alone

Just like a monkey up in the tree
Throwing your feces straight at me
Wish you knew how to meet half way
Then…read more

Bethan Mathis on Uke and Vocals.

Now we got some class!

Thanks to Robert Palomo for giving this a little sound engineering. Robert said “ I mixed thru my mastering plugin (Ozone 5).

WordsMightBethe Weapon ToCreateThePerfect Crime

If I had a dollar for everything I done
To help you through this crazy world
Since my life begun
I’d be standing…read more

Pleasure boats and fishermen
Tugboat pushin three barges wide
Sit on the banks from morn till evening
Wave to the people as they pass me by

Up in Minnesota she’s fast and cold
Walleye fishing just below the dam
Go and catch em til I’m way too old
Real them in fast as I can…read more

County Line

Making my way to the County Line
Gonna leave my troubles far behind
Change my name to something new
My happy life is overdue

Everyone I owe is standing in line
If I was just broke, I’d be doing fine
Everybody wants a little piece of me
No way out far as I can see…read more

Dedicated to the Winter that never seems to end.

New Moon

G I’m making my way down this C old muddy G road
Em Clay and the C ruts slow me D down
And a G thin sheet of ice oer the C puddles so G cold
Em I’m making my way D down this G road

I G hope you can sing me a C sweet song…read more

One of my other hobbies is watching wildlife in the area. I’m the happiest with a pair of binoculars around my neck and my hiking boots laced up.

Rita and I took these photos over the last few days, near our home.

Dakota County / February 2014

RPM Challenge 2014

First Song of the Challenge … Here We Go!

I’m doing just Fine with Buck Erpestad. Check out Bucks music here:
http://alonetone.com/buck

Here is what Buck said he added:
“So I used the tremolophone (vibes) and tuba sounds in Garageband and played them on the keyboard.”

This is an old song that I wrote a few years ago. I noticed it on my iPod this morning and thought it was fun to hear it again.

First song of the New Year.

Written by Greg Connor

Written for:

“SingMeA Story” … Kids inNeed http://singmeastory.org/stories/truck

With Mark “Sweet Lips” Imsdahl on Harmonica.

This is a story about my friend with impure thoughts of stealing Lilly Pads for his carp pond in the back yard.

I guess it all started, Out in the dark
I was stealing lily pads, From the local park
Bad idea, That I learned so hard
Just to help…read more

I just got back from a weeks worth of sailing in Duluth MN. Perfect week.

Written for: Sing Me A Story
http://singmeastory.org/

World Of Art was written specifically for Victoria’s Story
http://singmeastory.org/stories/victoria-s-story

The world of art
Design and color
Leaves no other
Way to go through life

The world of…read more

Irish Whistle by Lisa D
http://alonetone.com/lisad

Remastered using Ozone 5 Mastering Software,

Thanks to Robert Palomo and his new software. Thanks Robert

No Idea where this one came from … .

Gone

I left you a note on your pillow
You will find it the moment you wake
No need for some kind…read more

RePosting for a good friend of mine.

Leave your best behind

They say your life is nothing more
Than the blinking of an eye
And everything you say or do
In a moment flashes by

And in the end what is left of you
Are the memories that unwind
They tell the tale of the one they knew
So leave your best behind

Live a life exemplary…read more

Here is a John Lee Hooker Song that Buck and I used to sing in Duluth. We were playing in a group called “THE LARRYS”

I love Bucks harmony on this!

I moved away a couple years ago, and Buck stopped by for a visit last Friday. As you can see, we had a lot of fun!

Buck Erpestad & Greg Connor

Here is a Steve Krell song.

Buck Erpestad and I recorded live using two acoustic guitars.

Here is a link to Steve’s original version : http://alonetone.com/slkrell/tracks/saskatchewanshostalconnorkrell

Recorded Last Friday - I sprung this song on Mark Imsdahl while we were playing music together.

I thought he did pretty good for never hearing the song before.

Check out Marks Music here: http://alonetone.com/imsdahl/tracks

Just checking to see if the Kazoo is playing in tune.

TRUE STORY

Here comes Ernest he say how you want your eggs
Don’t matter what you say to me, don’t care how much you beg
This here is my damn place and you are just a passing through
You’re lucky just to be alive cause I don’t care about you

I ordered my breakfast, all I did…read more

Where did this song come from?

Let’s blame Steve Krell for introducing the outlaw, misfits of society theme.

It was just a laps of judgment
I should have thought it through
I swung and then I hit him
And I did it all for you

He went down hard and sudden
Then he got back up for…read more

Thanks to Roger Harris for the idea!

Here are pictures of Minnesota in Spring 2013. Music provided by Steve Krell - CANYON THAW.

RPM Challenge 2013

“Under Watchful Eyes” is my 10th song for the RPM Challenge 2013. Thank you for taking the time to listen.

The adjoining video was filmed February 6, 2013 along the Mississippi River near Red Wing Minnesota (approximately 50 miles from where I live)

Oh it’s cold…read more

RPM Challenge 2013

I’m a lucky boy
I’m filled with joy
I got angels guiding me

Happens every time
I don’t walk that line
Seems to work out splendidly

Stop and look around
I’m the luckiest boy in town
Ain’t no better can be found
Look long and hard, nothing holds me down…read more

Steve Krell (SLKrell) and I have been feuding over the same girlfriend for a while now. In fact, there are several songs about her on Alonetone. Here is the latest in the story…read more

RPM Challenge 2013

Written for Robert Palomo, who probably endures more winter than any of us. Check out Robert’s Music:

http://alonetone.com/1rubanjoguy/tracks

Flowers Under The Snow - Written By Greg Connor

These G late winter blues just keep C coming G around
Em Day after C…read more

RPM Challenge 2013

Wake up in the morning, I’m still in my cloths
I got one eye open but the other wont go
Barely can remember the night before
Except for how you threw me out the door

Whiskey, Whiskey, Whiskey
I think I’m in trouble again

Mailman says I got something here
Looks like a…read more

RPM Challenge 2013

I was standing behind an elderly couple in the grocery store checkout line last week.

The cashier told them that someone had donated $100 toward their groceries. $100 had already been paid toward their $121 grocery bill … anonymously.

Lyrics
It happened…read more

RPM Challenge 2013

Oh it caught me by surprise
I Looked into your pretty eyes
Nothing more than a simple kiss
And a moment like this

We don’t need no fancy cars
Diamond Rings that shine like stars
You never really asked for more
Than moments like this

Moments like this,
You and I
Little…read more

2 for RPM Challenge 2013

First song of the RPM Challenge 2013

I don’t know why … it just came out this way.

I’m using a new Line 6 M13 pedal board and experimenting a little.

Written by Greg Connor

Feel the wind in my sails
Heading toward a brighter day
No more dark, dead end trails
Looks like sunshine all the way
Aint no stopping me now

Been a long time in the darkness
Bangin round where I can’t see
Smell the fresh air through the window
Blue sky right in front of me
Aint no stopping…read more

I just bought a new Gibson SG Standard guitar with P90 pickups. I bought it after listening to Steve Krell’s Gibson Gold Top with P90’s.

Here is my first recording with the guitar.

Lyrics:

Sitting in my living room
Sunlight will be fading soon
Wont be long, I’m calling it a day

Next to…read more

With My Sister Kathy Bores

Last Waltz Of The Evening

The last waltz of the evening
Last dance of the night
I’m making the most of each beat of my heart
Music plays and I’m holding you so tight
Hard to see it come to an end
But it’s going to be alright
Be Alright

And I say I can’t help but…read more

I’ve been teasing Steve (SLKrell) about Rose, from Las Cruces Nevada, ever since he wrote a song about her for Valentines Day a few years ago.

Rosie is a figment of our imagination. I wrote a song about stealing her away from Steve:
http://alonetone.com/connor/tracks/rose-of-las-cruces…read more