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A blasphemously reverent prayer to the Goddess of Sacred Uproar. The lyrics can be found at bit.ly/PrayerforUs
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"You gotta put your pencil to the paper. Don't bother with the intricate chords. Hell it doesn't matter if the damned thing doesn't rhyme. Write it down. Run it through. Make some noise." These were actually the first words I wrote when…
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All right, so one of those silly songs needed to find its way onto the album. In an effort to teach the students on my middle school team about rhythm in poetry, I wrote this little bit of foolishness about a fictional character (so yes, you…
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Three years ago, I brought my two youngest up to the summit of a local mountain (actually, we went up Shelving Rock Mountain, but that song wouldn't be as good). Have a listen to see how that hike went.
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This year will be my fifth year coaching one of my daughters in tee ball, and although I played ball competitively into my thirties, coaching the kids is easily the most fun I've ever had on the diamond.
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Thank God!... Something up-beat. One of my colleagues has THE party of the year on Labor Day weekend every year, and I play around the bonfire from dusk until everyone is unconscious... and the ladies like to dance.
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Exorcising an old demon. Eight or ten years ago, one of my ninth grade students came up with a permanent solution to a temporary problem on Halloween night. He was the last kid I had spoken to that day on my way out the door. Again, if you…
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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…
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Written while watching a good friend going through the run-up to a divorce. This song isn't a whole lot of fun, and for that I apologize... But when all you have is twenty-eight days, you have to go with what you've got.
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What started as an interesting hiking concept that I contrived for my sister's next trip out "Hey, what if you climbed up Sleeping Beauty Mountain and I climbed up Shelving Rock. We could get out the binoculars and see each other from different…
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Believe it or not, this song was written while swimming laps in the high school pool (I had to have the life-guard kid write down lines for me every time I returned from the deep end). Oddly enough, the first line I came up with was "Swimming…
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"The pictures that she paints while you're keeping time might just make you think again if you don't believe in the divine." Simply, it's a delicate little song appreciating the talents behind a beautifully written and performed song with the…
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Wrote this song this weekend. Based on an idea from a good friend Sherri Silverwolf. The chorus comes from a saying she came up with. She suggested I write a song for it. So here it 'tis. I think it turned out pretty good. Demo style, just…
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Tried to capture the spirit of the e.e. Cummings poem, didn't quite make it.
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Written after reading an article about Robert Oppenheimer.
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This is for the couple that sat behind me while i was eating and were referring to everyone going into the Target next door as "sheeple".
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My attempt at a happy love song, the name is borrowed from an old tv show.
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A tribute to the man, inspired by a line in Bob Seger's Rock and Roll Never Forgets.
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A song about roads not taken, regrets, and a girl I knew in junior high school.
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This was inspired by my fight (and eventual loss) with the city
building department.
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This is an instrumental intro that never found a home, I named it after a poster we had in our old rehearsal room.
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I know, I know, this one is so unlike all my other stuff. It's hard to believe a raggedy road warrior has this kind of thing in him, but, it's true. I used to wander the wild lands of the west, the red buttes and the lonesome peaks. In my dreams…
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Well, the truth is I run a little hot. I think maybe all artists do. Creative fire is creative fire. Sorry about the vocals here, this is the scratch track, didn't have time to lay down the real thing before the clock struck twelve and I turned…
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I tried to utilize the swelling of sound that can be created with a guitar to re-create the atmosphere around me (its been rainy all day, with some thunder in the background). This piece is semi improvisational, in that none of it was planned…
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Inspired by a series of springs in the Hill Country, that are said to be so full of life that you can even see the ghosts. Or if you know the right time, the hummingbirds. A recent composition using samples and FS1R.
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I know, you think I've completely lost it. This is actually a cover tune. Originally done by Wall of Voodoo around 1979. I did it from memory and ear, so I'm not sure if I got the notes or the Key right. It don't matter though, It was fun.
I…
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This is a filler piece for this cool new CD I'm working on. I got this Clint movie thing working pretty good :) Think of it as our hero horsebackin' it across the plains in the land of the big sky.
I think the piano has a bit of Robert Nichols…
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From the Himitsu jam sessions. Electronic punk jazz or almost anything else. A group of 3 to 5 musicians meeting weekly to just play. All improvisation, no planning or themes, just what you bring.
Heavy use of Kaos Pad and vocoders, as a…
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two quotes off some TCM-movie and an edited Lady Gaga interview pretty much make up the vocal portion of the track. the rest was born from the fat beats i started out with.
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From the Himitsu jam sessions. Electronic punk jazz or almost anything else. A group of 3 to 5 musicians meeting weekly to just play. All improvisation, no planning or themes, just what you bring.
This one's a three piece set, after the keyboard…
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From the Himitsu jam sessions. Electronic punk jazz or almost anything else. A group of 3 to 5 musicians meeting weekly to just play. All improvisation, no planning or themes, just what you bring.
Our guitarist led this 5 player piece, though…
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From the Himitsu jam sessions. Electronic punk jazz or almost anything else. A group of 3 to 5 musicians meeting weekly to just play. All improvisation, no planning or themes, just what you bring.
Kaos Pad twisted vocals run beneath this heavilly…
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A Dennis song.
Thanks to Mike for playing Drums.
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To me is very difficult to describe this song, but I like it.
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This was my last rpm2010 piece. i had recorded the rhythm track in early feb, and put the triple mandolin harmonies on at the very end of feb. i really love mandolin harmonies...this has more of a mediterranean vibe...
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This is a live recording from a club that had a studio built into it. Unfortuntately, the club shut down.
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This is a live recording from a club that had a studio built into it. Unfortuntately, the club shut down.
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This is a live recording from a club that had a studio built into it. Unfortuntately, the club shut down.
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This is a live recording from a club that had a studio built into it. Unfortuntately, the club shut down. After performing this one, there was a chill up my spine. It's a haunting one.
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This is a live recording from a club that had a studio built into it. Unfortuntately, the club shut down.
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This is a live recording from a club that had a studio built into it. Unfortuntately, the club shut down.
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This is a live recording from a club that had a studio built into it. Unfortuntately, the club shut down.
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This is a live recording from a club that had a studio built into it. Unfortuntately, the club shut down.
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This is a live recording from a club that had a studio built into it. Unfortuntately, the club shut down.
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This is a nice T Bone Walker shuffle feel. This song, like all our albums, feature Rob Waters from the Lonnie Brooks Band.
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I wanted to write a tradional blues with just accoustic guitar and so here it is. I think most people have that one person they wish they wouldn't of left or would of asked out. I know I do.
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This has got that southern blues thing going on.
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This is the title track of this album. I wrote it about a girlfriend my friend had at the time. She was a bit of a gold digger. This is a shuffle with a Luther Allison feel.
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This is a John Lee Hooker feel that we just jammed on in the studio. I don't really like Gritz that much but the name seemed to fit.
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This song was written by the bass player and is a massage for the ears. This has a jazz/blues feel.
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This song has a rock element and a latin jam at the end.
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This is the first version of the song we recorded with our original singer.
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I wrote this for a friend of mine and every word is true. You should meet her.
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My bass player at the time really loved thick women and so I wrote him a song. It's him singing on this one.
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I wrote this song for my cousin. She has had a lot of problems in her life and I still worry about her.
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This has a Delta/Muddy Waters feel to it and it was fun to record. The E stands for my daughter's name Ehlona and the A for my wife's name Amy and both the song and my home feel a bit like a train.
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This is a minor blues about a hard breakup in the vein of Luther Allison.
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I was thinking about people who live in run down hotels when I wrote this song and had been listening to alot of Robert Cray at the time.
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This is a gospel blues feel that evokes the emotion of the title.
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I wrote this song after living in Milwaukee for awhile. The ghetto is a hard place to grow up and live. Things become normal there that shouldn't be normal. It's quite sad.
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I wrote this song for a singer that used to be with the band. After you listen to it, you'll get a good feel for her. This is a Delta Blues feel.
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