This was written and recorded on 19th September 05
aka International Talk Like A Pirate Day 2005 ( a wet afternoon as I recall) and is posted here so you start to get the hint.
Sorry- can't agree with SS about you sounding sexy- you ain't my type!, but this a very cool track. I was wondering the date of international talk like a pirate day!
This was written and recorded on 19th September 05
aka International Talk Like A Pirate Day 2005 ( a wet afternoon as I recall) and is posted here so you start to get the hint.
This was written and recorded on 19th September 05
aka International Talk Like A Pirate Day 2005 ( a wet afternoon as I recall) and is posted here so you start to get the hint.
Love the double vocal - you have a fantastic range!
Oh and if you ever have any lyrics, you know, just lying around, that you don't want...I could always take them off your hands...I mean, if you didn't *want* them.
Thanks, Bethan, kirk. it was quite a different writing process for me, and you're right, kirk, a change of pace as well. Perhaps I was just enjoying the last of the hurricane blowing out!
Fiddling around with an open G tuning and I found the chord that 'Prodigal Son' is based on (a Robert Wilkins tune from the 30s made famous by the Stones) so I had a play around with it, stopped for dinner and came back and wrote the lyrics…
A one hour track start to finish - words music and all the faffing around at the end to get the levels right.
It's a ghost story. So go get your cocoa now!
And a Murder ballad and a love story (but aren't they all).
Old Conor Higgins…
A happy song about being left by your no-good spouse. There's a word for the attitude in this song but I can't think of it right now ...
this is now a tidied up version 18/3/09
A one hour track start to finish - words music and all the faffing around at the end to get the levels right.
It's a ghost story. So go get your cocoa now!
And a Murder ballad and a love story (but aren't they all).
Old Conor Higgins…
Fiddling around with an open G tuning and I found the chord that 'Prodigal Son' is based on (a Robert Wilkins tune from the 30s made famous by the Stones) so I had a play around with it, stopped for dinner and came back and wrote the lyrics…
I needed a place to host a work in progress where it wouldn't be obvious so you might have found a secret mix!!!
So that 4 minute song with the slide guitar that no-one listens to is gone ;-)
OK it's the morning after the party at the China Quay, and our hero is waking up. What has happened?
Influenced by about 6 different doowop tunes (great for hangovers!)
OK it's the morning after the party at the China Quay, and our hero is waking up. What has happened?
Influenced by about 6 different doowop tunes (great for hangovers!)
OK it's the morning after the party at the China Quay, and our hero is waking up. What has happened?
Influenced by about 6 different doowop tunes (great for hangovers!)
I needed a place to host a work in progress where it wouldn't be obvious so you might have found a secret mix!!!
So that 4 minute song with the slide guitar that no-one listens to is gone ;-)
I just left this on repeat for the last hour
There's a wonderful melancholy to it that sits nicely with the optimistic trotting horse of the music
I love this!
Dang, everyone except Rob (and Laura) (and me) liked the previous version! (Cupid's Own Knife)
Only i did this with the lyrics so maybe one can be a bonus track ...
aargghh ... why didn't i write a *different* song?
i just went and re-read what you wrote at RPM, Rob/Laura and I must apologise - you actually said you like it - i didn't though, so i re-recorded, but then it felt like me against the world lol
ANd now guess what - i listened to the first one again and it sounds OK to me too. Aaaarrggghhh again. :-)
Weird how my mind plays tricks on me
Dang, everyone except Rob (and Laura) (and me) liked the previous version! (Cupid's Own Knife)
Only i did this with the lyrics so maybe one can be a bonus track ...
aargghh ... why didn't i write a *different* song?
This is a good place for me to be....it does me good to remember this.
God around me
God within me
there's nothing i need to fear
always remember you're here
Love is a slippery beast.
Just when you think you've got a firm hold of it, it squirts out of your hands like a piece of wet soap and ends up somewhere in India on a spiritual quest for an obscure guru.
better than i expected from your write up lol
this is pretty smooth and i think i might have to fave it
i'll hold off for a few minutes though to make sure i'm not just ab-reacting
This is the finished version of Iris Florentine. The acoustic version is still up, though...
Iris Florentina
by Jack Merlot
copyright 2009 all rights reserved
--- --- ---
young and lovely, with a wise patina
tapping her toe like Degas' ballerinas…
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Sorry- can't agree with SS about you sounding sexy- you ain't my type!, but this a very cool track. I was wondering the date of international talk like a pirate day!
You sound really sexy.
With a title like that, this shouldn't be feelgood, but damn it is! ARHHHHH!
can i comment hear? junk this kirk if you see it LOL
*sitting* lovely little ditty, Gumbo!
Love the double vocal - you have a fantastic range! Oh and if you ever have any lyrics, you know, just lying around, that you don't want...I could always take them off your hands...I mean, if you didn't *want* them.
Thanks, Bethan, kirk. it was quite a different writing process for me, and you're right, kirk, a change of pace as well. Perhaps I was just enjoying the last of the hurricane blowing out!
Nice ditty and a kind of change of pace for you. Like it!
Brilliant little ditty, very enjoyable.
Most excellent Gumbo!
Thanks for this morning,Gumbo, really enjoyed it!
Oh, I love these lyrics. You are getting me through my housework this morning.
Great fun track. No cocoa for me - fave!
I was just getting in to that!
You had me waiting to find out what happened - through all those pauses. Lovely guitar playing.
Very cool! Sam Cook stopped by for a drink and to play guitars! Well done!
quite lovely instrumenting here.
Nice one mate and thanks for your comment. Nice guitars
i love the simplicity of this, great vocal melody.
Love that slide!!
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I just left this on repeat for the last hour There's a wonderful melancholy to it that sits nicely with the optimistic trotting horse of the music I love this!
Beaut!
You have to grin to this one!
Wonderful!
Groovy!
i just went and re-read what you wrote at RPM, Rob/Laura and I must apologise - you actually said you like it - i didn't though, so i re-recorded, but then it felt like me against the world lol ANd now guess what - i listened to the first one again and it sounds OK to me too. Aaaarrggghhh again. :-) Weird how my mind plays tricks on me
so is this number 5?
Thanks Gary - now read the about blurb that i just posted lol
Pretty slick!
Fun!
Cool - very Green World.
Very Nice Mr Choirvey! Love the shifts within it.
My partner just asked if this was Antony and the Johnsons, which I take as a fine compliment so I'm passing it on. Beautiful track.
Groovy track. Builds nicely And five stars for the written introduction! That's so true!
Heavenly Heartbreak, Batman! What a melter! Poo-Pa-Doo, baby.
Good stuff Sandy! And thanks for the comments.
Beaut! Big grin here :-D
better than i expected from your write up lol this is pretty smooth and i think i might have to fave it i'll hold off for a few minutes though to make sure i'm not just ab-reacting
cool - i don't think i'd heard this version - there's a lovely lilt to your melody
Beaut!