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I struggled to get this thing completed. I've been sat on it for weeks, finished, debating whether I was really prepared to let it go.
I loved the song when I wrote it, inspired by a wonderful week at the end of September. But the recording…
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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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This was a good challenge for me. I had bits and pieces of songs half done and I needed to finish this project to round it out.
Who Knew ©2015 Jeff Cole
Just leave a number
I have gone for a drive
Electric reflections
on a 3x5
I gotta…
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A demonstration of the "glissando" technique of dragging a finger across a conga head.
(Original Lynch song: "Stranger Than Friction")
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This is a rough cut, but I like it. Here are the lyrics:
TOMORROW WILL BE YOU
It’s been a long time since I saw you
I’m at a loss for words
But when I heard the news
I went straight to your room
There’s no point in looking…
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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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Songwriting Sessions at "Crisis Skylight" (Homeless Charity: London) today.
Theme was "A Place"... I Chose home... Or what I understand of it...
Concrete Ocean
Tharek Ali Mokbul 2015
-Lyrics-
Home is where I fell down
It's where…
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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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11/12/15
Felt like loosening up and making something simple and pleasant.
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Wrote this song yesterday after another long week of crummy news in the world and had the good fortune of the Minnesota song writers in my living room tonight to help me bring it to life. Greg Connor - on the cigar beat box, Colin Walterson on…
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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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Cover of a Baroness song March to the Sea. I decided to drop the vocals for now until I can sing them better :) Enjoy!
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It's not really a finished, polished recording, but isn't that the point of this website? Hope you like it.
sunshine and all the dust
faded colors up above
memories of the one I loved
coulda been the one
the desert she don’t forgive ya…
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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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a one-off, unrehearsed piano version of "Creep" in memory of Scott....click "about" and "view more" for the video...
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A mashup with
Roger Sundström Objects,Homemade Instruments, Soundscapes, Mix
Benjamin Smith (Ben.improv.Dec.10.2015)
Jim Goodin (Michael John)
Steve Layton (Gloria)
Tom O'Neill (Tensone)
Paul Mimlitsch ("twix n tween")
Norbert Oldani (The…
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a.k.a. "The Ballad of Big Celine"
What ever happened to ballads - stories told in song? The internet and TV have reduced attention spans, and long songs a la Don McLean, Harry Chapin, and Gordon Lightfoot have fallen by the wayside. If you…
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This was part of the 'who knew' song challenge, recorded live at Colleen Dillon's on 12-09-15, with Greg Connor on guitar. Love his part, didn't edit out anything, even left the comments on the beginning and end.
(This is a story about Chilean…
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an impression for processed sound, brass and percussion in adaptive just intonation is a piece inspired by the first successful test of a large scale stellarator fusion reactor. Click on the graphic for more information. NOTE: this piece has a…
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RPM 2k15
extra guitars Jeff Treese
i’m tired of waiting for
the mail to come today
it’s obvious your letter’s
not on its way, but i still stay
i’m staring blankly up
into the cloudless sky
don’t ask me why, i’m going blind
staring at…
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extra guitars Brent Nolan
for every choice I've made
another path unfolds
this is but one of many ways
the story could go
we're waiting for the train
but we've been here before
once on you're sped away
while you watch yourself…
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vocals by Nikki Goodson
i'd like to live among the bees
fly from hive to flower
and do my honey dance
for all the fellas
no senseless purpose
no one doubts my resolve
no one pushes me around
we're all the same after all
i…
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vocals by Gregg Todt
extra guitars Jeff Treese
you come to me
and i’ll take your hand
and you take my heart
it’s just a start
and i’ll come to you
and our love will soar
up to the stars
that’s pretty far
away, you’re safe…
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vocals by Jeff Treese
it was your eyes
that saw into my soul
the me that nobody knows about
and magic kisses
that make you float up
so high, i am, so high
and i fault your dreams
they’re not the same as mine
but now you…
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vocal by Colin Garvey
extra guitars Brent Nolan
he’s hiding in plain sight
sends a message, don’t bother
drive away, refuse to fight
and try to be the father
left alone with the radio
and wipe away my tears
weakness reveals…
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vocal by Gregg Todt
is it the medication
that makes her stare off into space?
those little pills in the bottle
grab your collar
smack you in the face
i want to make an appointment to see
that drug, so he will give her back to…
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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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vocals by David George
you said it a thousand times before
i know, i know, i know
as if you thought i wasn’t listening
anymore
if i could i would ease your sorrow and your pain
so you won’t ever have to say these things again…
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vocal by Madeline Koestner
she tries to push me away
nothing that i can do
so hard just to maintain
and keep my mind focused
to not let my eyes betray
i’m watching her slide away
into the abyss, call it nothing
call it nothing…
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This is the first demo [Sister Savage](http://alonetone.com/sistersavage) and I have made for our RPM 2011 album.
Although I've uploaded a copy here we'd be really grateful if you would listen to the [version uploaded by Sister](http://alonetone…
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watching swirling winds and blowing snow in front of the fireplace, feb 2013
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Lyrics:
How much will it cost to mail this fruitcake?
The one that I have baked with so much care.
Tell me, what’s the postal rate, and how long will it take,
And will it still be fresh when it gets there?
I stayed up all night just…
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Inspired by and in collaboration with [My First Dictionary](http://myfirstdictionary.blogspot.com), the [VUArtists](http://veryusartists.com/vuartists) bid farewell, fond wishes, and vague threats to all you kiddies who joined us on the musical…
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A little improv on my Zither Music Company zither acoustic.
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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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A great title for an okay song. Some day we'll do a great song using this GREAT title.
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I had to perform my original composition live on 12-2-15 for my semester-end concert. It was a nerve-wracking experience for me, I've only resumed playing the violin hardcore over the last three months.
I thought I made a ton of mistakes. They…
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I 've watching and reading the news this last week with interest and i feel they have got it wrong on the fight with IS but then i am only one voice and others have different opinions but i don't know how you can bomb to stop an idea...is it all…
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My final project for this semester. Done!!!!
We had to write a short piece for 2-5 players. I chose violin and piano.
The piece also had to represent what we hope to learn and what kind composer we hope to be in four years. (I almost called…
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In case you are in the mood today to kick some ass with Mike and me.
Congas, Vintage Bass Cocktail Drum, Bongos, and (of course) Cowbell.
Concept=>Drive=>Plan=>Engagement.
6/8
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And here another version of another classic... Based on the original Julie London, sweet, incredible recording.
I hope you like and/or enjoy this one.
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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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i went more for a metal/rock guitar tone using my walnut carvin bolt 6 into my mesa triple recto into mycrate celestion cab.then recorded bass and drums.
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this is a song about how humans,in general,are idiots.i played all the parts.
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"Love Me Somehow" is a track off my latest EP "Birds and Squirrels".
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Venus In Furs - Velvet Underground COVERed live by The Solutionists at The Woolly Mammoth on South Street, Philadelphia PA
11-28-2015
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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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This is a recent live recording of an old song. "Can't Do Right" is an upbeat, country folk song about a man who can't seem to stay on the straight and narrow but ultimately wants to be loved as much as anyone.
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from the album the Vulnerary Songs
porcelain figure, with a pain in the head
isn’t feeling so well
better give it some air
this warning is clear, that’s a frown not a smile
isn’t turning around
better give it some space
there are rules in this…
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from the album the Vulnerary Songs
hard to not
crawl up under
a pile of rocks and die
scrapping by
on next to nothing
swallow my pride
protect and survive
magazine
it’s not loaded
hope I get out alive
all I seek
what I got coming
nobody has…
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from the album the Vulnerary Songs
please cry me a river
bare your soul, your bleeding heart
til death do us part
statistically you win that one
innocence never ending
through will alone, I carry on
just enough, barely try, failure’s not much…
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Gene sent me over this great backer and i tried to fill the vocalists shoes......this is one of two different mix's the other is over on Songcrafters ........Thanks Gene
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This is a newly recorded version of a song I originally wrote and recorded in 2005 which can be heard o nthe playlist/album Songs Of The Heart. I re-did this for my son, Aidan's wedding as it seems really appriate for a wedding song.
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our music goes in cycles. this is from our organ numbers.
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I wrote the lyric about, ‘being caught unawares’ – then, Renard J. Cohen composed the melody and Rick Livingstone, formerly vocalist with The Best, recorded the song with Eclipse in Los Angeles, California.
'Blind Side’ was included on Coast…
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another sad one from me...i seem to be stuck in the groove....
F Am F Am
G Am G E7
Yesterday I had a dream I became one
I was Watching the waves play around with the sun
While dancing to the sweet vibe of that sunshine
I suddenly felt the…
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A very well known traditional Irish song. When I was looking into learning it, I found out that there are several versions of the lyrics, which is interesting. In some versions the singer shoots the Captain and goes to jail for it. In other…
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James Brown meets Earl Scruggs meets Black Sabbath & Pink Floyd.
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Lyrics:
Adrift, asleep
Swimming in a void
Fortune beckons
Heavy yet buoyed
Flail and sink
These fascist hands
will hurt no more
will crawl for all
help me up, get me out
ascend in a circular path
frightened now, hating all
cower…
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2015 Holiday song. Reflections of another year with the conclusion that we could all use some holiday cheer right about now.
Recorded Nov 2015.
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And old timey shuffle tune about a guy longing for what he can't afford. Assuming that another dollar more will be the key to happiness.
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Recorded live at my friend Colleen's studio in the clouds with Scott on the mandolin, Greg on guitar, Collin on bass, Colleen on ukulele. Thanks for a fun challenge!
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Sitting at home, not feeling restless, at peace with myself in this brief moment of time.
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