A dark ambient piece built up from a drone that I created using Mangle. Best enjoyed loudly in a darkened room. For week 4 on weeklybeats.com.

A collab with LJ. You may have heard it with a Burnley accent. This is a softer version.

Copyright © 2014 John 'Buck' Erpestad If you listen closely at 47 seconds you will hear a "swoosh" sound - it was my wife moving something around upstairs. It adds something extra that works somehow. A breath, a sigh, a surprise... Hope you…

This is an old song that I wrote a few years ago. I noticed it on my iPod this morning and thought it was fun to hear it again.

Oh a lil bluesy feeling one night...so I threw this simple lil number down.

Some time ago whilst YouTubing, I stumbled across several videos of old seafaring songs or sea "shanties". Unbelievably, that triggered some very ancient RAM of elementary school music classes wherein we were taught several of these songs. And…

Copyright © 2014 John 'Buck' Erpestad Instrumental. It was hot outside and I needed a title.

A little more somber than the original .......to say the least.......with the world band backing Reg....

No more sin or sorrow foolish fancy to a fault No more dirth upon the land that withers under the assault No more Babylon behavior bobbing up and down and up until we drown away each memory scattered from a shattered cup. No more crying for…

Capo at 5 - playing in Am position I got my standards. Oh, yes, I do Don't allow no smoking No tobacco chew Don't allow no boozin' Don't allow no grass If I catch you hurting yourself again I'll leave your ass Oh, yeah, you're pretty…

I feel so small. I feel so weak I feel so small © 2014 ROYAL T MUSIC

Capo @ 3 in Em Em D Weather man is talking on the radio. Am C B7 Says the sun is going to shine but does he…

sometimes you just gotta get away...far away.

Another new release direct to you!

Bridges She put a message up on Facebook She'd wrecked her car and couldn't get to work I watched to see if any of her friends would volunteer They just wished her well There'd been a storm. The streets were frozen Cobblestone ice on…

In 1979, my father came home from the record store with an album that forever changed my life, Pete Seeger's Circles & Seasons. Before I knew Pete to be the blacklisted folk icon that had been on the humanitarian side of every fight since…

Not the whole thing, just the first 16 bars of it, with other stuff added. Made up the chord progression by ear so it's not legit.