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Last of the archives for now. A set of reels from the Last Nights Fun album. I did pipes, whistle and guitar on the last tune in the set. There's a live version of this up here too. This is the studio cut
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So I was locked in the broom-cupboard, checking out some old songs that need recording.
I'd just picked one and then suddenly this thing came out of nowehere. It started with one of those guitarist doodles that other musicians love so much…
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Sitting around in my shop a couple of days ago with the Goodall and the Zoom H4N. First time I've really messed with using the internal mics on the H4N in multitrack mode
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Recorded in 1990, this music brings together the alto sax of Carlos Ward, the late Tim Green on tenor, Louis Moholo on drums, and Paul Rogers on bass, along with Dallas trumpeter Dennis Gonzalez.
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The chorus is adapted from "O Death Rock Me Asleep", by Anne Boleyn, while imprisoned in the Tower of London, waiting for her execution.
(Tolar & Savigear 2010)
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Here is my entry for the "Who Knew" Song Writing Challenge. Thanks for including me :)
Lyrics:
When I was a young boy
I never knew what it meant
to be unloved
When I was a young man
I never knew what it meant
to be undone
Now I’m…
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I did this about 2 years ago and only found it the other day.
I think it sounds like something Robbie Williams would sing - and not really my style or cup of tea. It's a bit anthemic "come on and join in" (no thanks). Add to that I my singing…
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OgaNaMaster is a gerne of AfroHighlife written and sang by Benpinoz. it promot the African culture. so enjoy...
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Just another obscure saint. Not much known about him. Probably much more important and significant than any of us will ever realize.
Oh, yeah, and then there is Saint Simon. Same thing for him.
RIP Alex.
3 Congas, Vintage Bass Cocktail…
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Title track from the Scartaglen album of the same name. There is also a live version of this up here. Oddly enough the live version of the set actually has the tune called Last Nights Fun, but for some reason we couldn't get that to work in the…
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Terrible recording due to my old studio set up dying, but a nice keepsake of just how bad things became before the rebuild.
Lyrics by Brent Kinder.
With piano by Igor Alexeev.
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The song tells of growing older while living in the suburban bliss of comfort and one day being alarmed at how much time has gone by yet we still have our dreams and childhood heart and the contrast it makes.
The Silence Addicts ©2014 Words…
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A BIG, BIG thank you to Wildgeas who took my simple acoustic guitar song and turned it into a beautiful work of art. Arrangements and Production done magnificently by Paul Lennon (Wildgeas). Also, special thank you to Bethan who put her sweet…
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Poetic reading of poem by GOING UP friend Tom...about going to school.
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Here is a latest genre ready to rejoice you with its melodious tone that will give a sensational effect on your ears. It has a very futuristic tone and the singer has got a very tuneful voice.
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Greg Connor added his amazing harp to the song. It really adds depth to it. I love Greg's playing on the song. Thanks so much, Greg! This is why Alonetone is great.
Lyrics & Music by Nick Plagakis
I count my blessings…
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and you, again
a WAV format version of the album is available on soundcloud
https://soundcloud.com/brett-warren
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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…
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Here's my contribution to the "Who Knew" songwriting challenge. Also my first 12 bar blues song which was a challenge I added for myself, so hope you like it!
Who Knew
© 2015 Colleen Dillon
Verse 1:
You’re soft in your heart
But rough…
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What happened to the colors of expression in the arts? I miss the 60's and 70's. Enough said.
Notes from my rock and roll music theory class...
Find a riff and milk it! Check .
Find a four chord bed of lettuce to put that wonderful salad…
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True life story of a creepy humanities teacher that hit on our high school girl friend....slept with another, lost his job.
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I can communicate more then ever thru technology and social media yet still feel so isolated and anxious at times.
Telethon ©2015 Words & Music by Jeff Cole
Someday all my planes up in the air
What I am invading no one really cares…
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The Boogieman
tboudreau
I just might be hiding behind your bedroom door
you might find me lying under your bed, down on the floor
You swear you hear the creekin' coming up the stairs
you got your eye on the peep-hole and nobody's there…
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Here is my contribution to the latest song writing challenge posted in the Alonetone Forum.
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Who Knew when I first met you
That all your troubles would be mine
And you’d be coming around again…
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One of my first experiments with DADGAD tuning. I was hoping to get a dark,droning sound. I lived in Missouri for a lot of years and this sounds like what it feels like to be out in the sticks there.
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Fernando Guiomar - Acoustic guitar
Paulo Chagas - Sopranino clarinet
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Volcano was one of the first tracks that the Proods uploaded to Alonetone, it was fun because it features the Prood gals who aren't always available to jam.
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Imagining my band imaginary band in my head on one of those 60's type music shows. Just having fun with this one nothing too serious lyrically like solving world peace or finding high consciousness ..although it really is a true story.
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Done by the Blind Boys of Alabama and Johnny Cash but NEVER like this. The base for this song was constructed from home made samples, including the sound of a 9mm Sig Sauer being fired. Bass was my first attempt at using a synth (Massive).
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My apologies to Ray Willie Hubbard. This sounds nothing like his great version of this. All instruments played by me, in studio.
This was before I discovered the usefulness of a pop filter.
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This is a song I wrote this week, trying to capture that strange emotion you sometimes feel during times of great milestones in your life - good things happening, changes, moving on. Joy and melancholy all at the same time. Everyone feels it…
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This was a write it and record it in one session song challenge that my songwriting friends and I came up with this week. Lions and Lambs was started thinking of spring, but it turned into a song about relationships... as they often do.
Greg…
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This is one of my favorite collaborations with Paul Lennon so far. I wrote the song with king of a bluesy feel, and then found a perfect marriage for the music with one of Paul's awesome tracks. Then we tinkered on it together to make it so…
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Reg crawled out of his bunker and wandered down the hill where Jip 1965 found him and dragged him round to FDR,s cave,the beer flowed,the whiskey jug was emptied and we all turned into AC/DC. And then we went down the Rum Runner and rocked the…
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Live at Cherrywood coffeehouse in Austin Tx for Loopiest 2105
A lot of improv and a touch of John Coltrane's A Love Supreme.
Thanks to Noah Peterson
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A couple of years ago the inventor of the Marshall amp passed away. I was so bummed out I plugged my Les Paul Studio into my stack and just let all my frustration out into the world via his great amp. Crappy backing track but, at the time I didn…
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This was the B side of Randy Newman's "Short People". My first recording with my new jumbo acoustic Michael Kelly. Please excuse the voice. Trying to sound like an old man on a farm with my voice ain't easy! :)
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Thanks for the suggestion MMI!
Here's the playlist with all 3 versions
http://alonetone.com/breakinglight/playlists/fading-light
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Well the MN songwriters were in my living room tonight. We all shared our contributions to the "glass" songwriting challenge. Here's the live version of Poorly Blown Glass with Greg Connor on Guitar, Scott Zosel on Mandolin, Colin Walterson…
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Always been a fan of John Prine and next to Sam Stone this was one of my favorites. Done with a slight hip hop beat to it.
All tracks played by me....in my studio....in my office....at home.
Yeah, I'm kinda low budget...
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from the Poisonous EP
wait for the worry lines, the worry lines
to disappear
they get me every time, me every time
that you are near
won’t let you get inside, this heart of mine
i must be strong
you knew you’d get to me, you’d get to…
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from the Poisonous EP
look at that face in the mirror
same one you had before
harder to recognize these days
time has not been kind
still a ways to go
better hurry up
don’t let it slip away
ok is not enough
you gotta take a chance…
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Chris sent me over this track and i got to wondering what i could do to add to it. The tragedy of the Russian plane flying back from Egypt came to mind .....
CHAOS
The chaos of our time
rules our minds
The crazy
trust in chaos
Chaos will…
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from the Poisonous EP
the thought of it makes me cry
i’d like to be friends
with all of my enemies tonight
i see her in tattered rags
i’m blinded by what she once was
and now there are no more to say
i’m empty, there’s nothing left…
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Penny Wise ©2015 Words and music by Jeff Cole
Winter's solstice is on to you
In a week you’ll be looking where to hide
The mercy you called shy
In faith so penny wise
Slowly watch the tide
The love you had to pine
In faith so penny wise…
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First track of 2015...
mega shimmery verbs + beat + funky gated guitar = this
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African beauty by NY is a song to praise and appreciates the beauty of African women
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Title track from the album I'm Your Geography Teacher.
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This is my submission for the "write something about glass" challenge.... It battled me a bit, and I ended up with a fairly spare arrangement, but it's simple like GLASS!
Poorly Blown Glass
© 2015 Colleen Dillon
Verse 1:
Your love was…
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Last year friends and family seemed to be dieing right, left and centre. Part of my RPM 2015 effort
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A track coming off my new Mixtape "Sounds of an Unknown Stoner" that is prod. and written by myself! I basically speak on how unfair the police can be and how I just want to be chill and high.
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Jesus Christ Lives,this shows that we don't serve a dead God,Our God is surely alive,Living in the inside,ruling like a lion!
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A friend of Gochii's laughed at the fact he didn't use paper and pencil to write his songs and that his method of storing his rhymes and was risky. Gochii response simply was my mind is a computer.
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Its a slow groovy song that expresses some basic reasons for love. "Ja Lo Jo is a yoruba native word which means "let's go & dance"
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This song is just talking about the money,the women and the hustle.
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Boys goin in hard on a dope beat from engr.bings! Enjoy this!
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Just wanted to capture the freshness of rain this morning.. I don't think this song would evolve into anything, but it sounds kinda neat!(MAN, that right midtom is sticking out too much!!)
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7.10.2015
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here's a practice room recording of our attempt at the Massive Attack cover. rough.
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My nephew Spencer or (SZC) as he goes by wrote this song entirely as we were talking about the sad news of Robin Williams passing in a conversation last year and how it felt. So he asked me to do the vocals and guitar.. He will be joining alonetone…
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Boy meets girl and folds like a lawn chair in a hurricane. She makes him want to be a better man. The End.
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One of the first songs I did in the psychedelic phase.
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This song will touch your heart, once. Its composition is so well. One of my friend sent me this song. She made me perk up with this song. Its wordings are not only remarkable but unforgettable. Let me know your opinion for this song.
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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.
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STAINED GLASS…
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Recorded 9 Aug 2015, the first anniversary of the killing of Michael Brown
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Copyright © 2014 John 'Buck' Erpestad
Rather than taking a nap after Thanksgiving meal I played around and came up with instead of dessert. Thanks for paying a little attention. Buck
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Released via CD Baby this past week. The full version is available to stream on my site: www.robertpalomo.com/corporation_blues
I'm embedding the video here below.
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Udon Noodles; back from prison, reform school, hospital, psychiatric and respite care; bring us a new noodle, obviously unfinished and with an instruction of how to dance to it included in the title…..
with apologies FFFO/UN-MUSIC
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Another (probably the last) track for Rhythm & Hues.
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