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Ill Drink a little slower
can't make my mind slow down
Im thinking of nothing
at a million miles an hour
makes me burn a little deeper
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But all my dreams are gone
you were there before it burned away
and all our love is done
im just looking…
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I was flapping around working on something else with just vocal and guitar the other day. It wasn't going well, so I just started slapping the guitar and singing one of my favourite songs.
What I didn't realise was that I was recording it…
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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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Always on the threshold, always buzzing, get out of my head, get out get out
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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 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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Just a slide tune. More about the sound of the National than the vocals.
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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.
This is an improv composition by Jim, who plays 12 string…
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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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Written for: Sing Me A Story
http://singmeastory.org/
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*World Of Art* was written specifically for *Victoria's Story*
http://singmeastory.org/stories/victoria-s-story
The world of art
Design and color
Leaves…
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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 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~
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"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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The last of the songs that i wrote on my German Holiday....Hope you enjoy!
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Magpie
By OsCKilO
RC300 Looper
Mummy's in the kitchen working out her dreams....
Tempted by the torture that she always feels.
Running out of things that she wants to steal.
You're the apple of her eye...
She just wants to feel....
Scared…
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Many years ago I read the Herman Hesse book Siddhartha. It tells the story of a family man who meets his dream girl and he leaves it all to be with her. She is what he lives for. Then she leaves him and he finishes his life sitting beside the…
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Had a bad back just of late (working to hard) so i put it in a song,and my favorite painkiller is ? you guessed it WHISKY.
PS The backs feeling much better now!
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A song about a walk i took on a recent holiday....
At One (Lyrics)
I feel the thermal stir the air
I watch Life evolve before me everywhere
I see life's palette live and fluoresce
I feel, I feel at one
I feel at one with the sun
There's that…
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"Tether"
Whatever it was, is wasn't manumission
To spill the blood, to pull the weed
You can bury the past, but it's a mausoleum
With the ghost of a fist that won't let us be
Can we bring it together,
Can we call from the mountain to the valley…
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RPM 2013 feat. Keith Landry guitar collab
there is a crack
in the concrete of our wall
where the sun creeps into all
of the dark things that are
hanging in the silence
even the wind
seems too afraid to come inside
like it may know…
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i wrote this for the Martin Guitar and Lifespan guitar strings contest and didn't get anywhere with it! it's a simple song with a simple message to love one another as Our Lord loves us. it easy to say but hard to do! i initially called the song…
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whenever I get tired of what I see
I'm shoving my reality away
and it makes me wonder
why is everyone around me
playing with my mind
and why do I agree?
'cause this is
my reality, my faked reality
is this the way that I'm supposed to…
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another step on the path of constant fear
of getting caught in another lie
discouraged by my appearance I try
to clear my mind for a while this time
I'm standing in line
just another escape from myself
who's tearing me down
cause once more…
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time's spilling out take your chance while
I'm the last tile don't catch up let me go while you can
I'm going down use your time wise don't waste your time
don't catch up let me go if you can
just let me go this world can never be too tough for…
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just another “wasted night”
just another memory
of what is long time gone
just another “hopeless dream”
just another fade away
of what is in my sight
just another “said enough”
bringing back the memory
that's hiding deep inside
just…
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Had to reload this one to get it to the top of my list. Just had news ezfolk Mp3 section is to close down :( Looks like I'm here to stay !!! I found alot of fellow musicians on that site, many who are here now, any way, here's to Ezfolk, au revoir…
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Written in memory of a friend for whom nothing in the world could change his fate.
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Yet another version of this oneyet another version of this one still trying to work this song out I am currently working on another one
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This song is on the soundtrack of
River Phoenix's last movie, DARK BLOOD,
(filmed in 1993 and finally completed in 2012)
now making the festival rounds.
Video at Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mazlk2rM6_0
STRICKEN - Capo…
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Acoustic live looping improv, through the DL4..DADGBD tuning with a banjo capo 3rd fret under the neck.
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MrMudd&MrGold cover a Steve Earle tune. Saddest thing I've ever heard. Jim on vocal and guitar, me on slide reso.
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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.
vocal sample of Lightnin' Hopkins. An improv by Jim…
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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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Practical Applications by Vivian Circle
you stuck it through
they know its you
you wanted to be something that you're not
you wanted to be something you forgot
you want me to believe in what you stand for
but all you show me is your…
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Just a simple Blues in Em, many thanks to my mate Dave for the harmonica.
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Power outages, deadlines, and needing to leave home. A Girl Named Sam lends some beautiful vocal harmonies.
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So at the moment I am working in my local emergency department, and was recently verbally abused and threatened by a patient. At the time I was a little shocked, but not really offended. Later on, however, I thought to myself - 7 years of tertiary…
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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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My "banjo-centric" arrangement of this old minstrel show tune. I recorded it for backing tracks for my live set. I kind of wanted a fiddle solo, but I don't play fiddle. So in the middle there's a little "fiddle synthesizer" - just a couple of…
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I am currently working on a Concept album with a good friend of mine and great musician/ guitarist Chuck D. Although this track does not feature Chuck , it was developed based on the chord progression he came up with which opens the song up. We…
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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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This is one of the things I was fiddling with when I sang Me and Bobby McGee as a distraction last week.
I'm working on finding out how to get acoustic stuff down consistently and effectively within the confines of what I've got here - I wasn…
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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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