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MrMudd&MrGold is a duo project with my friend from Brooklyn, Jim Goodin. Inspired by our common interest for acoustic improv and love for the music of Townes VanZandt and Steve Earle.
Improv with Jim on violin
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The guy who lives next door to the guy who has lots and lots of friends...
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2011
One of my favorite songs I've recorded. An amalgamated tribute to 80's Crimson, Andy Summers and Peter Gabriel.
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2010
I just got a phone call...
offhand liz loves america
though she often falls in love with places she's never been.
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The single coil sound of my new used PRS guitar just got me in the funk. Had this partial riff on a Sony walkman from 10 years ago, decided to fill it out a little.
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a pleasant song about being hopelessly in denial
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At last... I've managed to finish something.
This was written months ago. I was about to try recording it with one or two others when this year's decorating started. With various buggered fingers, back muscles, etc, etc, I wasn't actually able…
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An Irish slow air played on a Sindt A pennywhistle
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Next in the little pile of songs from the shoe-box. This one has the date 27th January 1994 written on it, but it's describing an episode from many years earlier when I was, I'm guessing, something like 12 or 13 years old.
I had to go to a…
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This is a beautiful song from Joni Mitchell. My friend had his 50th birthday and this was my gift, I played it live at his party and recorded it later (4-2-2011)in my livingroom.
It's one take, can't mis that if you listen to it all the way…
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This is a piece written for the Linux Musicians Uncompetition (http://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10331).
The purpose of such un-competition is making some music with Linux tools, and then share it.
The premise for this…
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2010
Depeche Mode lite
I was going to hire Meatloaf for the ending but it turns out he will NOT work for pancakes... which is what I had heard.
This is one of the prime examples of (early on) being WAY more ambitious than what my ability…
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About no one in particular, just a figment of my imagination.
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Harmony by [Tess Savigear](https://soundcloud.com/peppermintsky).
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Track 3 from The Bunker 2013
Summer Breeze
The summer breeze
Brings it all back to me
starlight skies
Pull me to my knees to cry
But the Blue sky and the sun gives me hope
love will come to me again
The greys skies
Take my hope…
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*Irish Whistle* by Lisa D
http://alonetone.com/lisad
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This one is written for my niece Madelyn. I love you.
[By: Andrew Sweet]
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This is a song about trying to bring the dead to life and other things that seem hopeless! Enjoy!
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The recording is from my 2010 RPM album. I thought I'd find out what it would sound like with all the production taken off.
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The Bunker Sessions MK11
A Led Zeppelin song from The Two Regs in Germany.
The Two Regs re-united in The Bunker 2013.
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~For whom who far away~
Also:
"The Red Cow tried to stop dancing but it was no good. "' I can't. It is the seventh day of dancing. And I can't eat. I can't sleep.'
"Hm - very strange." said the King. What does it feel like?"
"Funny…
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from the album "Sunny, sorta..."
Tess Savigear w/Chris Gemson, Geoffrey Armes, Norm Harris
it’s no wonder you are dieing
but I hate it, and you won’t admit it
with each day you smile
almost work, crocodile
I love you too much to criticize…
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MrMudd&MrGold is a duo project with my friend from Brooklyn, Jim Goodin. Inspired by our common interest for acoustic improv and love for the music of Townes VanZandt and Steve Earle.
Jim's free form cover of a TVZ song. I added some cigarbox…
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from the album "Sunny, sorta..."
Bethan Mathis w/Brian Bazeley, Paul Lennon Tess Savigear.
the queen on the bed is not breathing so well
better tell her mother, better call the doctor
the queen on the bed so lovely and white
I can barely…
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2nd song form the Bunker Sessions 2013..
Sunshine
The flower blooms all by its self
With the love from the sun and nothing else but a little rain and life becomes real
We need the sun and here it is
It sits above like gods…
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Writing this song was a very cathartic experience. This gamut of emotions took place in just one week - last week.
Unfortunately, I couldn't sing the first word without it sounding ridiculous, and so I decided to get back to my Northern roots…
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Inspired by a hail storm in late April, no construction workers were harmed during the recording of this song!
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This is the final track for the Metamorphis album, it is a musical soundscape, inspired by the Yorkshire Dales and the Moors. I have tried to paint a picture of the changing seasons and it should be taken in 1 minute sequences, 1 minute = 1 month…
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Right from today's headlines....a shameful tune I just had to write.
Lyrics and inspiration by Greg Connor
Lyrics, music and all instruments and vocals by Ron
Send me your email
If you’d be so kind
I’ll send you a picture
From front and behind…
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Seasons
OsCKilO
Changing Room 2013
What is the Earth without the wind
To turn the soil
To let the water in
When it comes
At the moment of the rain
Those cracks the wind swept
Now left to drink the whole sky in
Till its bubble rise a top on…
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This is the title song from my first LP.
FEATHERS IN THE WIND by SNOWGEESE.
Snowgeese was my first wife, BarbaraAnne and me. Michael was a new friend we met when we moved to Texas that liked my songs enough to produce and arrange and record…
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I think this is my favorite song ive done but idk you decide.
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Track 5 from my 2010 RPM Challenge Album "King Astro" written and recorded entirely in February.
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Reworked the vocals a bit (quite a bit). And yet again! And now, Gumbo Stu is singing backup bits. Thanks for the vocals Gumbo, a very welcome addition!
And, as requested, here are the lyrics:
I'm Not Afraid
You can blow me up
You…
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OK, you caught me cheating again (see "Supervillain" description). The chord progression is original this time, but instead of a proper arrangement, it's an improvised guitar solo over a sort of trippy sound collage.
It has its moments, but…
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hazy, green eyes, growing
thinking harder than I can
narrow down the choices, simply
eliminate the obvious obsessions
eliminate
come together
we'll see if it gets any better
cause forever, is forever and ever
staring at barely and missing
beaming…
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“December rock”:
I told you, I don´t took a shower the last week; I stayed in route.
You think because you care I must be worry about this things
I try to explain I only care about to be on my trip
You think because you want I will change…
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so pleased to meet me now please, just go away
no introductions needed, i've got nothing left to say
so many stories that i really don't need to know
this conversation's over, and i really wish you'd go
oh please, go away, save yourself
i…
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Compositionally this song started out with the drum pattern and grew from there. I'm not sure why I chose the title 'Mad Man' but in some ways I thought it was fitting.
Anyway, this song is dedicated to crazy geniuses whose academic work is…
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This song is a song I wrote crunched up in the back of an equipment van on the way to a Blue Movie gig in New London,CT, probably around 1987 This song was a lot of fun to play and was one of the favorite live tunes for our fans as well. It was…
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Vocal excellence from girl named Sam... Do you really need any other reason to listen?
A Little Playing
Blue sky
Only getting clearer
Blue eyes
Like looking in a mirror
I can tell just what you're thinking
By that tiny little flicker…
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Sometimes the oddest things inspire a song. This one, about a long-time friend and former bandmate, a consummate musician, who passed away suddenly last year... just leaped out after I read a Facebook post where a couple of mutual friends had…
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When I was about 5 years old, my grandmother gave me a set of those old 78 rpm "records" titled "Songs Many Lands". For some reason this song was always my favorite... to the point I don't even remember anymore what other songs were in that collection…
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Sort of inspired by random soundtracks. Of course it ends up being 8 minutes long...
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were all going to be dead one day ...... what do we care?................
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I'm not Robert Plant or Jimmy Page. This is probably the best I"ll do. You've been warned.
Acoustic guitar / vocal cover.
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Never take seriously what can be taken with alcohol.
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I recorded this acoustic piece a year ago. A very sweet lil melody.
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We are all walking a road in life that is ours alone... sometimes we are surrounded by friends and loved ones, sometimes walk it alone.
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This is another collaboration with Greg Connor....
Greg wrote the lyrics and asked me to come up with a blues song...I recorded the guitars, bass and organ.....and screamed out some vocals...but the best part is Greg blowing harp...check out his…
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This has probably happened to every one....family comes in for a visit but just uses you as a hotel...and leaves the dog for you to take care of while they are out having a ball.....freeloaders!!!
Inspired by Uncle Greg!!
all instruments and…
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Not sure where I was going with this, but it ended up quite dreary for what I thought were quite motivating lyrics.
Watch this space, it may well appear again with more upbeat music.
Lyrics:
I choose the light to drive away the darkness
Choose…
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This is the story of what happened when a girlfriend left me for a guy I knew to be a real loser. Enjoy.
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from the album "Que Vive!"
shadows fly across the ground
vultures circle in the sky
animations swallow imaginary hollow
empty promise fleeting, the approach of death
with my last breath I’m not broken yet
the way ahead turns grey, crawl towards…
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Technically it's OK; I like the guitar and basslines. The lyrics and vocals I'm not so fond of. I hoped to have enough time to replace this one later in february with a better one but alas, it was not to be...
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2010
or... dig this, why not try a sensual massage from a manatee masseuse?
It's a fun, sexy time at the endless seafood buffet!
The little intro ballad here was inspired by the overly sentimental, 80's synth-cheese soundtrack to Wong…
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im not sure what happened here. i played my carvin 6 string bolt guitar and my carvin 5 string bass- then my drums.then i took a nap,or im gonna when in done writing this.
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This is a post-RPM version of this track. (I had gotten some feedback that it seemed incomplete, so I spent some time developing it.)
I'm going to leave the original version of the track available, since it's interesting to compare how the…
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Cover of the Adam and the Antz song, for the songcrafters.com suggestfest
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