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          Once upon a time, in a land far away...
Just a minute!
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And here we go - Edith FINALLY gets it...
Actually, she's been getting it ever since I wrote it on the 29th May. I thought it would take a week or so, but it proved to be more of a fight than I was expecting.
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          Just a mellow instrumental to get involved here. Hope you like it!
        
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          My wife Rita mentioned that she had not heard my dulcimer on any music recently, so I tuned it up and wrote First Morning Light.  A little Low D Irish Whistle flavored it just a bit.  
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Fresh air through…
        
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          A song about my wife. Recorded 2005.
I'd just taught myself how to play piano (badly). 
I'd always wanted to be Freddie Mercury when I was younger... still got a bit of a ways to go.
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**Now It's Done - A A J Russe**
I said it…
        
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          Pop-rock song. Recorded 2009.
I wrote this several years earlier and rehearsed it with the last band I was in.
The recording was my first "serious" project on my Boss MBR, I was stunned that you could do something like this on a little silver…
        
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          As a teen Ringo had wanted to emigrate to Texas to meet Lightnin' Hopkins.. what if?
Liverpool to Houston
Liverpool is far from Houston
1960 to present day too
What if fab was just fine
And Ringo had gone to Texas to hear Sam sing the…
        
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          A playmate for Alea on the Reeltime playlist.
Uploaded 6.29.2020
        
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          This is from the band  Sam Mann and The Apes sometime in the mid later 80's.  Brilliant guitar work from Al Teman.   Great playing and singing from a top knotch Hollywood strip band.   
Lyrics......
Revolution  Contribution   Make Some Change…
        
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          Well
    its such a fun thing to do so go out and turn up your radio . 
         Ill be listening for you
        
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          A funny song about someone's poor luck in marriage. Not being judgmental, but sometimes we just need to laugh.
My first Ex-wife, she bet me, I'd never marry again
She said no woman with half a brain would have me for her man
Well, I proved…
        
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          This song scares me.  This song stresses me out.  This song confuses me.  I could write a song about how messed up this song makes me feel.
Is it the best song I've ever written?  Not even close.  Why then do I insist to myself that it's the…
        
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          So my lovely wife bought me a guitar this week... I started by learning some basic and easy chord shapes and this song came together. It's the first one I've done where everything is played by me. 
It also features my voice on lead and backing…
        
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          Copyright © 2020 Roger Harris, Steve Krell, Colleen Dillon, Greg Connor  
All Rights Reserved
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_jBUi4Swck&feature=youtu.be
Verse 1
Circumstances… distant romances
I’m waiting for you to come home
And…
        
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I wrote this one last September.
Allison Jane Sixsmith 1965-2016.
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**Forever - A A J Russe**
I can see you on your rocking horse now
The one that turned around and kicked you in the teeth
He thought…
        
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          Sam Mann and The Apes .  Al Teman   Howard Teman Eric Teman   Sam Mann  The original incarnation of this surreal conglomerate of undefinable talent.  Ryan Mallory on sax.  Brilliant  Playing by everyone.   Al's guitar playing on this song is some…
        
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          A Caustic track, created for a friend's movie project.
        
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          (Remastered 22/10/2021)
Here it is in all of its glory...
THIS is the song that Mrs R and I had decided was a suitable response to a request to "Upload something HAPPY, stat!!!!!!!!!"
I tried to record it back in 2013 when I wrote it…
        
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          Red Tank Top Photo From A Late Love Of My Life Inspired This.
WOW  Made You Look.
LYRICS
WOW  JUST WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR  WOW
DEDICATED TO THE LATE, ALWAYS HOT, ALWAYS FREE, ALWAYS AWESOME.  JENN JENN
        
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          Found an old one not on here.
https://youtu.be/-hwthla49v8
        
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          please check the video!!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyytSMYAARo
I wrote this song about my father and Dementia/Alzheimer's over a year and a half ago.  We just finished the song and video, kind of surreal because Dad is in a nursing…
        
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          Another re-recorded 2014 50/90 song.  This one was written on or about July 4th as New England was about to get spanked by Hurricane Arthur.  I tend to write about hurricanes a lot.  Weird.
The guitars here are all Gibson ES-335.  The amps…
        
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          Featuring the lovely voice of Naomi Daulby on all vocals, and the mastering guru 13111y (Billy) on bass......
        
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          A new song
I used some older lyrics 
All instruments by me
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See the birds of fire
Against a blackened sky
Fences of barbed wire
Hear that freedom cry
The masters of war
They're playing their…
        
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          Huge rain thunder and lightning storm swept thru, and right behind 
a bunch of frogs serenaded us ........ Bull frogs. ...are allright
   wish  I had recorded their song it would fit in here
        
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          Tiggy Acworth 141110
Classical guitar heaven...for me at least!:-)
        
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          150211   Tiggy Acworth Feat Mark Barnwell on Spanish guitar.
It always feels so good when we're together.
        
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          After the lockdown, I felt Out of the Darkness. It's still a long way to go but at least I can breath fresh air and walk immersed in nature once again.  
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives…
        
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          I have never composed using shuffle tempo so I thought if would have taken me a lot of time and in the end it was quick and I enjoyed it. Hope the same for you. 
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives…
        
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          I remembered an incredible night at the seaside some years ago. The moon over the water and the waves, the stars in the sky and the wind with a natural sense of movement. I hope I was able to transfer those sensations into the song. 
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          Spirit is about the inner child that still exists inside us even in the adult age.  He likes to play, observe, dance and run, change game very often and experience new things. 
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial…
        
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          Started out by recording a single tone on the guitar and sampled other recordings on the loop. If you listen carefully you can hear the tone repeat itself for 420 times
        
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          Somewhat inspired by king gizzard and the lizard wizard. I may have taken it too far experimenting with the vocal effects, but still had fun recording this
        
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          Not bad, 10 to 15 years to to get this one done  Ha  Ha.  This was wrote  tongue in
cheek. The story behind it is, a group of us used to meet up, taking turns whose house we used, have a chat, a bit of food, a few drinks ( ok then, more than…
        
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          We got motivated to write something a bit light hearted about our Covid-19 Times....  I hope you'll laugh and sing along with Roger , Colleen, Greg and Steve on this one... any maybe raise a glass of your personal moonshine!!!
https://www.youtube…
        
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          I left my home in paradise when warning signs  begun
With a member of my aging family  
I left behind the trees so tall they almost blocked the Sun
And a lake so big it looked just like the sea
The wind blows cold through paradise in winter…
        
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          I was messing about and this came out. Thanks for listening
GET DOWN ON MY KNEES
I get down on my knees and I pray for a day
Where we can all go outside to run and play
Take my hand and  tell what you see 
can you see a future, for likes…
        
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          This ones for a collaboration on Songcrafters with Kari from Finland. I heard his composition and an idea jumped into my head. So here it is. Thanks for listening
Callous smiles and whispers wake the drunk from his dream 
Eyes unfocused to a…
        
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          A real change of tone here....introducing classical guitars into the orchestra!  Trying here to evoke the feel and spirit of the home of Flamenco, envisaging a cellar bar of rustic Spain, with the lady's skirts twirling and the hands and feet…
        
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          This may well have been our first collaboration, many, many Moons ago.
        
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          after a zoom meeting with friends, one of us was going cycle ing and this came to me . see if you can hear Colleen  breathing heavy.     haha
        
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          Electric blues. Recorded 2007. I was learning how to use my DAW and trying to figure out how a one-man-band could get to sound like a bunch of old bluesers in a sweaty bar...
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**Rabbit Boy - A A J Russe**
Well she don't mind crying…
        
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          Acoustic tale of revenge. Recorded 2010 on a Boss BR1600CD.
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**The Knife - A A J Russe**
A dark and star-less night 
Probably driving rain 
That's what they think became of me 
A foolish walk along the cliff when he was drunk…
        
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          So, after the manic mayhem of 'Hunted' here is a rather more romantic piece for no. 6, and that I have subtitled with the French word for 'Love'......
        
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