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Thru this together this morning. A lil Jimi tribute before I change these strings.
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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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Thanks to the online Spanish/English dictionary guy for providing the vocals
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Classical Crossover version of "Wicked Game" originally by Chris Isaak
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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'm back at Caffe Lena on Thursday night gearing up for my two songs and a band called "Driftwood" takes the stage (banjo, acoustic guitar, fiddle) and blows everyone away.
Kinda gets me thinking...
And writing...
"Driftwood"
Coming down…
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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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What with all the great Zep covers posted by Tworegs and Chris Vaisvil, here's mine, I enlisted the vocal of the man himself, thanks Reg! Also note my new fretless strat as second guitar here.
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A lil rocker influenced by some of my faves, Springsteen, Petty etc.. well i left my home and family
and made my way out west
i lost my job at the steel mill
im a hoping for the best
in this life
for my kids and wife
just outside of Davenport…
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A collaboration with buddies of mine from songcrafters.org Just dug it out again today and thought I'd share it.
Gnasty - Guitars, T-Jam
Ratatat-tat Drums
Me - Bass, Vox
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With Mark *"Sweet Lips"* Imsdahl on Harmonica.
This is a story about my friend with impure thoughts of stealing Lilly Pads for his carp pond in the back yard.
I guess it all started, Out in the dark
I was stealing lily pads, From the local…
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billy boy where did you go
sittin in a pile of snow
come on down its gettin cold
for the time is getting old
well we made our way to the old wigwam
frozen lake and wind was calm
standing bow did strike a deer
to feed the tribe…
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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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One of my very first songs ..... loneliness is a cold cold place.
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Just a slide tune. More about the sound of the National than the vocals.
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Where to go away everything that we created? To nowhere, I guess. So, the show goes on. Or: tomfoolery all the way, yeah!
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A shorter, stripped down version of a drone piece I submitted for the ongoing Fukushima Drones project, which you will find here:
http://auralfilms.bandcamp.com/album/fukushima-drones
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A loving ballad for loving lovers everywhere of all sexy ages.
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I just got back from a weeks worth of sailing in Duluth MN. Perfect week.
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Written for:
"SingMeA Story" . . . Kids inNeed http://singmeastory.org/stories/truck
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Unfulfilled dreams of a mysterious tango dancer.
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From heart to heart it comes
A stream of sounds
That so worries,
So beckon ...
For Trevor, the one and only
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time goes by, we never notice til we die
this is the why, the how the where the goodbye
maybe the preacher told you right from wrong
maybe you think the wait is far too long
to worry your head with every little thing
cause life is just a dream…
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Meeting the Gremlin's at my house for a quick brunch.
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This is a longish one so crack open a beer and make yourself comfortable!
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fading slowly
i'll disappear, and you won't even notice
it's just a trick the light plays on your face
and erase, the frowns of worry
might be less and growing more less every day
hurry now, oh boy, you'd better hurry
now here, is where…
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Classical Crossover cover of Mariah Carey's "Without You" and Celine Dion's "All by Myself" combined to create an entirely new song
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Classical Crossover version of Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters"
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Who says that I define you?
Who says I should label you?
Who says I should shelter you? Who says i should restrict you?
Who says I should limit you? Who says i should hold back you?
There is no user guide.
There is no yellow brick road.
There…
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Originally by Paul Simon, covered by Tiggy Acworth 130826
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Your eyes reflect my future.
Your smile explains my past.
Your eyes reflect to me a future that I’d never seen.
A kind of family, an unknown commonality.
Your blue eyes staring into my blue eyes feels new to me.
A mirror but the lines around…
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t twenty, life was all planned out.
Did everything they said to do.
Stopped thinking for myself and turned my will over to you.
Ten years later, I was gone.
You'd stolen my identity.
I tried to pick the pieces up, but there was nothing left of…
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My response to John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High."
The first time I dropped my lowest string
Was for Rocky Mountain High
Last night I caught a flight
To see the fire in the sky
Where John found twenty-seven
Now I'm turning thirty-five…
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Well, I sent this simple little arrangement off to Jana to see what he thought it needed. When he suggested a uke, I said "Go for it!"
He was right... Can't thank him enough for his contribution.
HERE WE ARE TODAY
How can it be so…
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just the Main Theme for a 2D game I'm working on.
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Just the starting theme for a 2D game I'm working on.
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I got a new kitten named Midnight! Isaac my older cat and her have become best buds :)
I made this video for the "Cats" event at sound-in.org this week.
The music is from a practice session working with material sent to me by my friend Cousin…
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The last of the songs that i wrote on my German Holiday....Hope you enjoy!
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This is the 1.Song from the 12.Single from Collection 4.0 from SUB OUT RIPPER.
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Elektro mix of the vocal track of [Overboard](http://ccmixter.org/files/shannonsongs/15136) by Shannon Hurley.
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Something I came up with while messing around with an electric guitar for the first time in about 6 years.
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An excellent backer by Wildgeas and some waffle by me equals....well what do you think?
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This song is dedicated to my dad. He is a great man in every sense of the word. I also wanted to do a song in general for "Dads", because they're every bit as important as "Moms" but seldom get the same respect. "Moms have songs...and now "Dads…
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Wildgeas sent me over this excellent backer and in return i sent him back a garbled vocal and a jumbled lead guitar and out of the pigs ear that i sent him ….the Surgeon that he is…cut and pasted and he has created a silk purse…i even sound…
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Final Version
If in doubt write more songs
with Kazoo solo! and heckling!
this is as close as i got to some hokum jug band
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I'm finally happy with this track - v1 was too much of a nothing song and it's been bugging me all the way to the last night of the challenge.
1 more to mix
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HE STILL LIMPS
A song by James Michael Taylor
On the CD
FONTANELLE TWO
HE STILL LIMPS
EEEEBB/DDDDAA (2) C# (4)
C# It was his birthday. He got a puppy.
She took a hold of his heart B C C#
C# I’ll call you Princess. You’ll be my buddy…
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It started again tonight....the haunting of Big E ....he wouldn't leave me alone until i played him this one.....i said to him...i said "now Elvis i'm not quite the guitar man yet but give me time ....20 years or so"...He said don't give me no…
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Some places (like Salisbury Beach in Massachusetts) are just sacred ground.
"This tide rolls out and in my life."
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A simple as it is musically, this song pretty much sums it all up for me. What started as the simple appreciation of a hiking t-shirt evolved into this song about the duality of this domesticated artist who recognizes the importance of wandering…
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So I'm watching Ken Burns' documentary on the National Parks and realize that I'd never written that John Muir song I had been meaning to get to... So I got to it. Tim Alexander (Letter Seventeen) mentioned that he thought the song needed a…
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sculpted improv in mixed intonations for Sound-In 8/15-17/2013.
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"Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is a Season)", often abbreviated to "Turn! Turn! Turn!", is a song written by Pete Seeger in the late 1950s. The lyrics were adapted almost entirely from verses in the Book of Ecclesiastes, set to music…
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2010 24 hour challenge. Record a 24 minute song in less then 24 hours.
Work has been so crazy music has been taking a back seat. I might have to try this concept again to get anything done on the creative side of things. :)
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Made with 100% real cheese flavored bi-product.
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Classical Crossover version of the Pretenders' "I'll Stand by You"
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Classical Crossover version of "Total Eclipse of the Heart" originally by Bonnie Tyler
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Recording some match lighting samples recently and felt compelled to put some music to it.
I put the mic up to some raw acoustic guitar. Bass and lead added with FX. Norm added percussion, making it sound waaaay better.
Contributors:
lyrics…
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Evan tries his hand at horseback riding. The steed gets away from him at one point and runs until it is exhausted.
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Here is Evan yet again at the business of relaxation, this time in a forested setting.
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This tune was inspired by an old Jacques-Yves Cousteau special called "World without Sun". This is one of my favorites from the album because I captures what was hearing in my head at the time. I don't deny the heavy Floyd / Bowie influence…
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Had a jam with myself at the weekend and into Monday and then Tuesday evening, and now my fingers are sore!
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Well i had to have a drink it is my birthday...Hic!!
it can only get better.......
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