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Separation brings always a heavy load of mixed and traverse emotions. Estrangement, hostility, loneliness...
Recorded at such a time, a phone message sprang this piece of music, memory & life, now forever intertwined.
I'm sorry the actual…
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Finally, at last... I've got something finished...
Been working on this for a few weeks.
A bit of a rocker... (and an aging lecherous one at that)
I got it as close as I could and then mixed it loud... I've over-cooked it slightly - but…
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STEPPIN' ON SOME TOES Key - Em and E
Em
Well, some folks got big noses
Some folks got big hats
Some folks stand out in the aisle
Make it hard to pass
Am
Some folks they got money
Em
They…
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Well, I'm almost on a roll now - this little love song was written, arranged, and recorded in just a week. I've been meaning to attempt something like this for years, just never got round to it.
I'd actually settled down to finally record a…
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I can only listen to Mustang Sally so many times. But Genghis has the most incredible tone. I can't keep my ears of it!
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So I dropped the guitar into DADGAD tuning for the first time, threw a capo on the third fret, rifled off something nice, and sent it to Movement to Contact for his contribution, got it back, did some mixing...
Here is the result.
YOU NEED…
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The song that led the way. I came up with the guitar sound first, and needed a song that evoked the pure energy that was coming from that guitar sound. It needed to be fast and intense. And it needed harmonies. We're full abandon 'cause it's time…
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This is the first time I have played in drop D
this is a Springsteen song that he borrowed the title from a Pete Seeger song..and I like the way Warren Haynes plays it live...so here is my humble attempt at it...
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Lyrics to this tune are purposefully ignorant, although I'd be lying if I told you that there isn't real life emotions in this one.
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So Jessica recorded this in one take. It won't be long before I'm just the guy that hits record.
...And she's already working out the harmonies.
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Paul Lennon and I got our "Irish up" after our last collaboration and did one more to share with everyone. Hope you all have a wonderful St. Patrick's Day! Here are the lyrics:
The Land We Call Tara
© 2015 Lyrics - Colleen Dillon, Music…
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There's a pretty good video for this song on YOUTUBE. We wrote this song years ago...90's in fact.
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Inspired by Last Week's Winter Storm where the only people out driving around in it were the people trying to prove Darwin's theory of Natural Selection.
Vocal addition by Colleen Dillon. Colleen also suggested the topic *"Winter Tune…
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"I'm GLAD I died in the car crash....but, I guess you died there too." So sad...
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Steve (SLKrell) and I have been competing over the same *"IMAGINARY"* girlfriend for years now.
And Yep . . . Steve started it. Well she's mine now, at least until Steve writes the next song. Look for Steve's music here:
http://alonetone…
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Track 5 from my RPMX album Cold Ground Was My Bed
Inspired by Salvador Dali. Mostly.
Gravity failing
Cats float flailing
Furniture in midair
Salvador smiling
Rainbows crying
Clocks melting everywhere
Pachyderms stilted
Lovers…
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Added some acoustic hammers and harmonics to JC Combs' "Phase Study for Paul Muller"
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The kids at their best. Jessica on flute, Rebecca on saxophone, Amelia on clarinet.
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#RPM 2015#
. . . . And We're off . . . First song of the RPM Challenge
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RPM 2k15
vocals by Ashley Reynolds
this whole place
going down the drain
and i’m going along for the ride
nobody forced my hand
nobody made me this way
nobody tried to stop me either
it’s not what i say, what i do
it’s everything all…
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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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Two Northumbrian Jigs for Concertina.net theme of the month for March 2015.
Lamb Skinnett is traditional Northumbrian. Wood Nunrich Fair I found in a book of tunes for Northumbrian Pipes.
Played on Anglo Concertina, Tenor Ukulele & Bass…
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LYRICS:
With Or Without You
Try to get along but it takes two
It’s a Whole lot of me and not much you
Working myself right to the bone
Thinking that I am all alone
Just like a monkey up in the tree
Throwing your feces straight…
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One of my favorite recordings and favorite songs. The drums of this Political Folk tune was generated with the Yamaha E313. The lead guitar break needs replaced with a violin, but…
THE FINAL HOUR
Welcome to the final hour
Everybody kneel…
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Keyboards (bagpipes) performed by Starry Nightmoth. Lead guitar by George Harrison. Vocals and all other instruments performed by Gene Eric Mann. Thunder and rain by Mother Nature. Lyrics by John Lennon.
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I'm channeling my inner Johnny Cash here, for this quick and dirty demo of a song I wrote for my musical "Lashing Of Ginger Beer". The lyric is rather more dark than the music might suggest.
All the world is changing
It never stays the…
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This song pretty much sums up my life right now. No direction and no ambition.
Maybe because it's SpringTime and Love is in the air.
In keeping with the romantic nature of the season, it features:
BANJO . . . . . The instrument made…
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HURRY
I'm not in a hurry
I've got all day to get there
You don't have to worry
I learned my lesson out there
I spent all night in Utah
As I make Green River
The chains banged on the exhaust
Til she began to quiver
Asphyxiation creates…
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It’s a lasting impression
Every time that you call
It’s my only intention
Leave you nothing at all
Whenever you ask me
I’m doing just fine
It’s the dance that I do
Every single time
It aint what it looks like, not like that at…
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The inspiration for this year's album. I wanted to make a track that would make both Neil Degrasse Tyson and Pete Seeger happy...
...I hope you ruminate on the size of the universe - and just what that means - while hearing the girls play.
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Guess I am..... and keep calm it's a new track !!!
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Yeah, I know. There's an out of tune string in there. Well, bite me. I like it.
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Rebecca shocked me with her vocals on this little song about the family dog's lack of intelligence.
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A collaborative composition driven by Jessica's opening hook... And she recorded it in one take.
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A true story of one of the worst lapses in parental judgment I've ever displayed. I think the song's hilarious. The older girls are still scarred.
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A nod to ACL's inspired musical genre "Bunny Funk."
Sadly, squirrels don't tend to be as happy as bunnies.
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Arranged by Jessica (with contributions from Amelia), I've gone days without being able to shake this melody.
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I was having a break revising for my exam on Monday night....i can't remember a dam thing......must be an early set on alziehmers.....anyway what was i saying??..Oh yeah a Regged Version of the Zep Classic Rock n roll ........
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Third piece for the Rhythm & Hues playlist.
Uploaded 3.22.2015
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Here is my version of Greg's Cherry Pie...I took a little liberty with it and recorded a whole new song.....I think Greg said that would be ok!!
Tried to put the Sweet Ronnie Cream Cheese Mojo on it....good gawd!!!!
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It's about a eerie and imaginary freedom.
Palm trees, wonderful cloudless skies.
But alongside this an undercurrent of something distinctly not right.
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An original composition. The Moors refer to the North Yorks Moors in the UK which has a fine stretch of heather moorland which looks magnificent when the heather is in bloom in late August/Early September
Instrumentation: CG Anglo Concertina…
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Another cut from the 1988 cassette tape of a live performance by Scartaglen on the NPR show Mountain stage. This time some tunes from County Kerry.
Kirk Lynch- Uilleann pipes and whistle. Becky Pringle- Fiddle. Mike Dugger- Fiddle and guitar…
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Another Live performance with former band mates in Scartaglen back in 1988 on the NPR show Mountain Stage. This time a piece of Gaelic mouth music followed by 3 reels. Maybe the most complex arrangement of a set of tunes that we ever did.
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Bethan Mathis on Uke and Vocals.
Now we got some class!
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I had fun singing this at the open mic this past week.
Originally written for a song writing challenge using the phrase *"Chicken Plucking Time In Petaluma"*
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Was messing about one day and this was the result.
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Another rant, again from a few years back. And yes, lyrics from News items at the time. Again no offense meant, just a rant !!!!
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Greg let me have another go at one of his songs and I the wrote the words and music for a bridge
so that way he has to pay me some royalties when he sells a million !!! lol thanks Greg for your inspiration and great music!!
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WRITER’S BLOCK
I went out to the stockyards last night. I don’t get out much but I had an invite.
My buddy, Guthrie Kennard was playing.
The place was full. The band was tight. Whitney Raquel opened the night
And the kids from the 2500 Club…
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In this track the guitar melodies and solos are based on an unusual scale John McLaughlin (of Mahavishnu Orchestra fame) liked to use. It's basically a Phrygian Dominant scale with the flat-6 removed.
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Let's have a rant, from a few years ago now. Mostly gleaned from various News items. No offense meant to any one concerning the lyrics.
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Remix of the elephant march from Disney's The Jungle Book
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GOOD-BYE
I don't want to say good-bye
But I have to go
Catch the train that's heading West
Do another show
I don't want to make you cry
There's no other way
Give your weary head a rest
Carry on the day
- Don't know how to say good…
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I asked Gene if he would like to do a backer for I got mine by the black keys i was hoping to see in Leeds until the guitarist hurt his shoulder but thats a different story........anyway Gene agreed his contribution was Rhythm and bass he bought…
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Pink Floyd - Echoes (Waters, Wright, Mason, Gilmour)
Overhead the albatross
Hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves
In labyrinths of coral caves
An echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand
And…
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This was a favourite tune of Chief O'Neill (you don't say!) an Irish police captain in the USA who used to enlist Irish musicians into the police force so they could play music sessions together.
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An Irish slow air played on a Sindt A pennywhistle
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She wakes across the ocean, and sighs when she discovers...the man who's sleeping with her looks like her last two lovers. No one wants to be a banana head.
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Lyrics, melody, vocals, and lead guitar by Roger M. Harris. Everything else is my fault.
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MONOLOGUE
I found a hole, it's in the wall
And reaching up, I crawled inside
And to the stars I gave a call
To grant a better place to hide
I cannot leave the hole I found
The chapel for my dark despair
I do not seek to hang around…
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a tribute to Pierluigi Billone's 'Sgorogo Y and Sgorgo N' !
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My friend, George Sluizer was making a film DARK BLOOD with River Phoenix and asked me to submit some music to possibly be used in the movie. He didn’t end up using this but he did use four other of my submissions.
(C) 2015 Royal T Music
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Love is an illusion, especially when you love a hologram.
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