James Michael Taylor

Maybe I could be a potter
Throwing all the words away
Maybe I could learn the language of the clay

Maybe I could be a potter
Sweep the words out of the way
Let my fingers find the music in the clay

A song for Barbara and Jeff…

When love is late it doesn’t matter
It will flow back thru the cracks
Be it truth or idle chatter
Love shines sunshine on the facts
How many chapters in the story
Or how much time it spends
Be it tragedy or glory
It only matters how the story ends
A love…read more

I QUIT

Nobody has to put up with this shit
You can make your stand and tell the world, “I quit.”
You can do it with a gun. You can do it with a corvette
But nobody has to put up with this shit.

© 2017 Royal T Music

IRON

I’ve got iron for my anemia
A bucket trip to Tanzenia
I’ve got a picture of a lion with a bone
A transfusion in Monrovia
Red blood cells in Angolia
And I wonder if I’m going to make it home

Take a week off from my medicine
Doctor said, “Get back in bed, son.”

In a parallel universe by late 1968 the band began to become more solo in their writing. One of the final tracks of the Telethon album shows the soul numbing social and cultural norms of grinding out a living while also trying to remain positive and appreciative. The answer is not just blowing…read more

I could not ignore this hypnotic circling guitar riff on my mind keeping me awake endlessly spinning above the drop “D” tuning registers of a complicated web of entangled guitars that are driving atop the very solid bass horizon the tension is palatable. The same horizon where reality meets dreams.

The pages of the book were leaking into the dream
Wading through waters of time, an unconscious stream

Eyes begin to flicker, getting heavier with sleep
Takes you by force into the deep

Cobras hood like an open sail
Eternity tries to eat its tail

There’s a lapse of reason
In everyone…read more

leave us not forget, that we are men after all.

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

12 string in David Crosby tuning, strat thru Red Panda Particle pedal

My friend, John, said this about this bit of audio drama:
I had forgotten how painful I find this recording… I had forgotten how painful I found that time of our country’s history… that time of my life… (and I was not one of those who “Had To Go”… or should I say, I was not one of those men…read more

My friend, John, said this about this bit of audio drama:
I had forgotten how painful I find this recording… I had forgotten how painful I found that time of our country’s history… that time of my life… (and I was not one of those who “Had To Go”… or should I say, I was not one of those men…read more

This song is just what it is and says what it says.
It’s where I am and where my hopes lie. It all just happens to fit into a song…

WHEN PEGGY COMES HOME

When Peggy comes home I’ll have the dishes put away
The floor will be swept and all the bills will be paid
When Peggy comers home…read more

BEANSPILLER

I’m a beanspiller
I’m a squeaky wheel
I’m the guy that speaks up
and ruins the deal
and when you get hurt
I say,“Ouch!”
I’m the change
you loose in your couch
I’m a leaky faucet
I’m a tree that weeps
I’m a tattle tale
I’m a canary that sleeps
I can see you coming
before…read more

Refuge into the imagination:Is it crazy? Is it survival? Is desire to survive crazy?

THERE SHE WAS Key - G 102811

G
She’d been gone for three years now so he’d been on the road
Playing every truck stop bar and every song he wrote
C
A week in Winslow, Arizona. A month in…read more

A chapter in my bio…

ONE SMALL CANDLE Key - G

G D G
In this old world when things go wrong
D G
We hold our women. We sing our song.
D G
We call our children. We call our friends
D…read more

A PICTURE I CAN’T THROW AWAY Key C

            C         G            C

I have a picture I can’t throw away
C C+ F
A pretty girl with a smile on her face
F C walk down to Am
On the back it just says 1978
C…read more

My friend, John, said this about this bit of audio drama:
I had forgotten how painful I find this recording… I had forgotten how painful I found that time of our country’s history… that time of my life… (and I was not one of those who “Had To Go”… or should I say, I was not one of those men…read more

My friend, John, said this about this bit of audio drama:
I had forgotten how painful I find this recording… I had forgotten how painful I found that time of our country’s history… that time of my life… (and I was not one of those who “Had To Go”… or should I say, I was not one of those men…read more