RECLINER G There's nothing much sadder G Than an old brown recliner F G Waiting by the road in the rain... (C) 2021 Royal T Music

Song 1 for the RPM Challenge. Wanted to feature an incessant base line inspired by The Smoke.

Song 4 of my 2022 RPM challenge. A simple popish tune to add to the mix. I never told you what I wanted no, it don’t feel right the things you say the things you do well they hold me hold me I never asked you for anything I…

**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022** Song number 1 Written Sunday 6th February 2022 **** OK, this is a bit of a departure for me - posting songwriting demos. This is a one mic recording made this morning in the living room, touch of reverbs…

The title says it all.

Song 5 for the RPM Challenge. Building tunes around an incessant bass line is oddly appealing to me. This is a bit of a dystopian song of sorts. Thanks to anyone who listens! Take me to the river and hold me under water Bow down beside…

Song 2 for the RPM Challenge. Wrote this at the piano and then had fun trying all sorts of spontaneous vocal harmonies. Switching time signatures for the chorus made for some challenging recording!

Can you hear me? Can you see my screen? I'm explaining Exactly what I mean There's an error on the next slide, and I hope that you will bear with me 15 minutes Read it word-for-word You'll be reading Exactly what you heard I will…

A little more wurli...

I was going to make an electronic track, but I grabbed a microphone and this happened.

MISS HER I hardly know her But I miss her more each day...

IN MY ROOM In my room there's no day and there's no night In my room, just an incandescent light ...hanging from a wire. In my room there's no hot and there's no cold In my room,I'm not young. I'm not old ...hanging from a wire…

BROCCOLI Every day I stop at Walmart And buy a crown of broccoli Get it fresh. Eat it before it dies...

improvisation with prepared electric guitar and electronics.

The Minnesota Association of Songwriters issued a writing challenge this January to "borrow" conceptually from a writer that has influenced our writing to create a new original work of our own. Once you hear this, I think you'll get the idea…

Another one for the RPM Challange

Just a little ditty ......

Cute little song about the evils of Gerrymandering

A live improv of dulcimer and voice, continuing on the energy from my October 21 Shiver session. With Sound-In in mind to say I ain't dead yet!

Another little ditty. A bit different, just me and my Guitar ( tuned to Open D ) and recorded on my i-Pad ( Garageband ) very few tweaks.

garage band playing the strings on note/string at a time... :) then the layering of that recording backwards with both recordings left and right stereo sides. -with freesound heartbeat sound layer made by matlab stretched 2x and layered with itself…

Bonus points if you can figure out what this song is about before the end of the first verse. ____________________________________________________ Starting out on Sunday morning, nothing else to do Getting right through 1 dash 1, moving right…

(Remastered 22/10/2021) I found this one while I was digging through the shoe-box for the 1994 songs. Apparently I wrote it on 10th November 1995. Foolishly, I thought it would only take a week or so to record... I was originally expecting…

Song 3 of RPM 2022. For the many tortured artists I've met with a bit of a dance spin to it. Most of my songs are unintentional and unplanned....they just happen. Thanks to anyone who's listening!! :)

something of a logic and theme type song with a heartbeat --- made in matlab and put at freesound as a layer,,..

Song I wrote last year about struggling with identity... lyrics below lol it's hard for me to be myself when i don't know who i am feel like i'm just an empty shelf filled with empty photographs and i might be all alright if i don't think…

The coffee table gang helped me round out this one that I shared earlier. I love this version with Mark Lofgren and Greg Connor's wonderful talents on the backup vocals and guitars. I like how my ukulele blended in on this version. Sometimes…

A song I wrote over the last few days. Did a one-take-wonder on the recording, so it's pretty simple. Hope you like it! Sometimes You Don't Verse 1 Sometimes in the early morning hours As the sun lights up the sky I look back and think…