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This is one of the many songs going round my head from when I was young. No idea whose version I heard and used to sing along to back then, but it was written by Larry Collins and Alex Harvey.
(EDIT: Done some research. It was Dottie West's…
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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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Another old Favorite of mine thats good for a bit of a growl!
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Cascadia is the first solo work written and recorded by Andrew Davis. This funky instrumental blend of folk, rock and jazz features mandolin, acoustic and electric guitar, banjo, bass, and varied percussion. Enjoy!
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Come join me on this sonic joyride...I'm Saved
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W/M by Tharek Mokbul
-Lyrics-
When the world is in battle,
It grows hard to see,
The fights that occur within lines.
Constant distraction dispensed
From the top
of the castle
With oil down its sides.
All of the effort
now wasted…
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Year: 2010
Album:
Strange Danger
Artist's description:
Frank wrote the lyrics, sang, played bass and drums. Chris wrote the guitar and flute (sample) and mastered the affair.
Contributors:
blowing leaves by FM
i like to walk on a day like…
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A slower and perhaps dreamier version of the Simon and Garfunkel classic.
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Pink Floyd song, updated. I hope you enjoy this one.
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A slightly destructive children's song... But I suspect that many of you have tried some of the things mentioned.
I have a great idea up in my head
Let's try it out this afternoon
We'll tie the dog up to the sled
Pretend we're launching…
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Well, this is a tough one: It's an ironic song about a hot potato, but the way it's sung, the listener thinks it's about a beautiful woman until the very end. I'll post translations some day...
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This is a 3/16 Bembe on tuned congas, played with mallets. I've arranged it (at the very kind suggestion of Vaisvil & ReefWalker) in a verse/chorus/bridge/capo fashion to get away from a straight pattern - I think this sort of arrangement…
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and a quick montage done with some space doc footage.
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couple beers, 6 lonely strings, and an electric noise quicker-picker-upper.
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A bit of fun for the holiday. This one features guest vocalist R.I.P otherwise known as the cheap battery powered talking tombstone
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A weird experiment in polyrhythm. I think it could still use work but I've lost perspective...
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Here's a song about that crush on the teacher many of us will remember - but maybe not totally admit...
Many thanks to another cultural landslide (http://alonetone.com/anotherculturallandslide ) for sending a neat MIDI riff for this song. We…
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One from a year ago or so. Never was happy with the recording quality, but never got around to re recording it. My attempt at a kind of late 70's Phil Keaggy thing
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(c) Nick Torres 10/31/25
All instruments played by Nick Torres
Cubase MIDI drums and Crow Hill Pocket Strings
I play:
Mensinger Basses / Fender 1989 HM Made in USA Strat /
Breedlove Acoustic Jeff Bridges signature / AKAI Professional Keyboards…
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(samples music and interpolates lyrics by EPMD)
[Hook]
Whatever you want
Whatever you need
I wanna do it for you, I do
Whatever you want
Whatever you need
I wanna do it for you, I do
[Verse 1 (Erick Sermon)]
Let's get up, let's…
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Go forward, not back, move forward
Is Russia all guilty and Ukraine all wonderful? Hm
This conversation is awful one-sided
Waiting is but a lovely ride if you entertain that one idea one time
A positive thought tends to beget repetition
You…
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(Remastered 22/10/2021)
And here we go - Edith FINALLY gets it...
Actually, she's been getting it ever since I wrote it on the 29th May. I thought it would take a week or so, but it proved to be more of a fight than I was expecting.
On…
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(Remastered 22/10/2021)
Okies, so I'm working on some other thing and it's taking a while... drums to do and wotnot. But in the middle of it I'm digging how my Martin acoustic is working out. You probs won't even be able to hear it amongst…
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I recorded this song a couple of years ago in a church. It was raining and I felt a bit blue at the time. I only had a zoom h1 recorder, a metronome and headphones at the time.
So I couldn't really play over what I recorded previously. But…
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Title track from the Scartaglen album of the same name. There is also a live version of this up here. Oddly enough the live version of the set actually has the tune called Last Nights Fun, but for some reason we couldn't get that to work in the…
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This song has been the biggest mess of the month. It was the second idea I had, the first that wasn't dropped. I have fought with it more than any other song I've ever recorded. The drum parts have been recorded twice. They rhythm guitars have…
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Live at Hip Pocket Theater last night. Crowd laughter,crickets and all. An edit from an hour long set.
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I hardly ever cover songs, so this one was really fun to record. What a great little ditty, Macca!
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A sea shanty, pondering the ways Captain Digby may have lost his eye.
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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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An arrangement of chords, arpeggiated, and lightly drizzled with effects.
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Vultures
Are there vultures encircling you, again?
My friend they're coming for us all, in the end.
No half truth mother's lies or litany's
the mangle, tortured, atrophied
the beautiful strangeness of alone.
Are the vultures encircling…
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The energy levels were at an all time high this weekend when Bon and jimi turned up down the Cellar for a session. Here's a little something from the session........... Reg'n'Roll...other Reg really blisters the guitar on this one
OH WHAT A…
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Music & Vocals by Holger Bremer
Lyrics: Johnny Ace Williams
Arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
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This song was written and performed by Holger Bremer. My only role in it was the mix and master…
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This is a tune I picked up from alonetone a while back. Johnny did a piano version of "I'd Love to Change the World", and Michael Thomas from Cave Street added the outstanding vocals.
When Michael told me he was doing the vox on it, I wanted…
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Final version
RPM 2011 - my first track recorded and the opening track for the CD
A kind of Old Time gospel number, which, if you listen to those pre-war guitar playing preachers, are virtually indistinguishable from blues. Except for the lyrics…
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Inspired by Captgene's post of this song I happened upon, so I dug this one out of the archives, from several years ago..
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full title:
"input output smoothnews standstill on frog pond"
ImprovFriday (8/27/10) mashup featuring Jeff Fairbanks (US), Jukka-Pekka Kervinen (Finland), Todd Lainhart (US), Steve Moyes (UK), & me w/the psychedelic vocals & bass.
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Second movment,, perhaps a little rough,, comments welcome,,, 6/11 Third mov is now done,,, and very very different from the first two,, scares me a little
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Album: The End of Happy Endings
Year: 2010 (RPM)
Written by: Marc Poirier
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Written and produced by Michelangelo. I just added some slide reso. Mick's dad played harp.
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this is a new song not much to it , all instruments played by myself , drums , programmed ,by myself, vocals and backing vocals by myself, thanks for your time ,cheers tony cee
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Such an emotive piece I have always loved, from Miss Saigon...given a more orchestral feel and arrangement.
© and written by:- Alain Boubil, Richard Maltby and Claude-Michel Schonberg
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Another improv with the Pure Data patch taking live guitar input and outputting samples with delay along with some droning synth tones.
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Water
Where do you go
O water
Where do you go
Said I'm going down
Gulf of Mexico
Bluebird
Where have you been
O bluebird
Where have you been
I went all the way to Texas
And back again
Winter
Has come and gone
O winter
Has come…
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This was one of the most hilarious songwriting sessions we've had in a long time.... One for all the single people still searching for the elusive LTR out there - a classic with Greg Connor - guitar, Mark Lofgren - guitar and lead vocals, yours…
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[Verse 1]
The vagaries of the ancient seas create a playful array of glee
Whereas the fire transpires to stay away from these, lest its splaying flames get erased completely
Opposing forces host a swarm of locusts
The focus is the path placed…
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this is a cover of Letter Seventeen by Zero Incentive and the Bluffs
Here is the original
https://alonetone.com/zeroincentiveandtheBluffs/playlists/wilsun/05---letter-seventeen
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Mike (Dragonsong) asked me to sing this poem, from a well loved C17th Somerset folk song, over his music - was a lovely pleasure.
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The desert heat can twist a mode as the ears suffer a mirage .
Twist twisted spin in the heat your senses are turned senselessly swirling octaves high
Made possible by Gibson’s brilliant P - 90 ‘s
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Copyright © 2020 Roger Harris, Steve Krell, Colleen Dillon, Greg Connor
All Rights Reserved
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_jBUi4Swck&feature=youtu.be
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Circumstances… distant romances
I’m waiting for you to come home
And…
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Found a real old one that's not here, must be 10 years old, if not more.
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I BUY GUITARS
Em
One man might buy cigarettes and waste it all in smoke
Another marijuana and share a friendly toke
Am
Another, with more money, might invest in antique cars
Em
I buy guitars
A man might buy a baseball card
Keep it…
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Rendition of Stepping Out originally by John Mayall and the Blues Breakers. A little tone secret that Eric used on some of these tracks is he set his toggle switch to the middle position and turned his neck pickup volume down to about 7 or 8 by…
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For improvFriday event 3/13/15
prepared 12 string guitar
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You are loved, imperfect as you may be. It's easy to hate yourself, but hard to do the opposite. This song holds out that hand to pull you up.
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LOCOMOTIVE BREATH
In the shuffling madness
Of the locomotive breath
Runs the all time loser
Headlong to his death
Oh, he feels the piston scraping
Steam breaking on his brow
Old Charlie stole the handle
And the train, it won't stop going…
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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…
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Uploaded just in time for the 2013 peak of the Perseid meteor showers of 2013, which I definitely won't see, as our autumnal "maritime" (i.e. sh**ty) climate is doing its thing.
This is my arrangement of a wonderful romantic tune by the inimitable…
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There was a decision to be made to join our passions for each other and make a go of it, or go back to our simple lives.
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I'd been following the Euro horsemeat scandal since it broke in the UK some time ago. But the songwriter in me didn't react until Ikea found pony in their Swedish meatballs the other day.
Alonetoners - you're hearing it first!
** THE PONY…
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Jip1965 came round to kick my ass into gear and played a bit of rhythm i did the rest and then sent it off to the good Lady Jane to do her stuff and very nice stuff indeed! Cheers Me Lady!!! x
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I've been watching the new series on the Great Train Robber Mrs Biggs which is about the robbery and his escape through his wives eyes......tonights episode got me thinking about what you know about your work mates...the answer is what they tell…
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Another Regged Beatle cover for the fest on the otherside............what can i say i gave it a go......
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Cascadia is the first solo work written and recorded by Andrew Davis. This funky instrumental blend of folk, rock and jazz features mandolin, acoustic and electric guitar, banjo, bass, and varied percussion. Enjoy!
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featuring Mathias Kom on trumpet, horns and backup vocals
Black Widow
Black Widow don’t hesitate
Lock the door, draw the shades
In your web I have been caught
Not enough to fill you up
Leave me a skin
A shell of the man that I was…
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Reg has put into words want he wants do and why...............
I WANT TO SING
I don't want to be like you or you
I just want to be like me
so i’m going inside myself, to try and figure, the whole thing out
the whole thing out
So i can jump…
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Come as you are, as you were,
As I want you to be
As a friend, as a friend, ‘cause I want you with me.
Take your time, but hurry up
The choice is yours, don't be late.
Take a rest, as a friend, for a warm memoria
Memoria [x3]
Come to…
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This acoustic song is a drunk nihilistic escapade with a surprise ending; so if you like to howl, join along and do your best "ahhoooo.."
Lyrics:
At full moon, I was drunk as a skunk
My belly full of bourbon, and my breath really stunk…
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Some may say that given time, every one messes up and thinks of no one else,
Sins their sin, their selfish acts.
But you I would have sworn were different, a faithful heart.
Not without fault, but I never thought you would cut me like that.
Some…
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For 2011 RPM Challenge album John the Resonator
A Sword and Sorcery parody. With Elvis.
Daughter Brit sang the vocal in the middle part.
Elvis was the mountain king
Who ruled the land of El-Karyaang
His wife Priscilla lady fair
Was taken…
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When you have been trying to drink away your problems and the bar closes and you find yourself alone in the darkness trying to come to terms with them. Ever been there?
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I had some fun this afternoon with a bluesy tune - and ran out of time for singing and my vocals are not good - wanna try?
I need to remember to tune my guitars down when I want to sing - that would make my life easier.
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The first song (with vocals) I've recorded for RPM month, for the Love Light Shine project.
A depressing tale of redneck angst.
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Three hours.
No plan.
Halloween.
Thirteen tracks.
Dark but not dark.
Toys used:
Synths: FM8, Massive, Absynth
Guitar: GT-10, Timeless 2, Volcano 2, Eos, BigSeq2
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Summertime in Boston, and this little tune is about how it goes by way too fast. Some hilarious chatter between the guys before and after they kick of a pseudo-psychedelic groove that I hope you will enjoy.
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(samples "One Thing Leads to Another" by the Fixx)
[Verse]
Life’s a series of actions and reactions
One gets what she gives, or doesn’t if one didn’t
Do you see signs in the time?
Do you see the crimes? That’s a sign of the times
Life…
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Tim played and sang everything
Another cover for the May 30 Day Songs project (https://30daysongs.com).
This has always been one of my favorite songs and I saw that Ben Kweller's album
"Sha Sha" is turning 20 this year. I needed a b…
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When the student is ready, then the teacher appears
And you’ll never get clean until you’ve had it up to here
You’re at rock bottom
I used to take hard shots of spirits and suck down Tourneys and what a disgrace
You have to say “I’m to be…
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So there’s this phenomenon about controversial works of art
That there’s the establishment that wants to suppress and take down and attack controversial works of art
And this arises because there’s a viewership or a viewer-base, listeners, watchers…
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Who Is My Neighbour - A A J Russe
Written sometime in 1992
Recorded 12th March 2022
The Shoebox Demos Vol 1
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I wrote this 30 years ago when I was 29. There were a bunch of people killing other people. There were refugees.
By the…
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Just in time for St Patrick's Day . . . . And with any luck we might have a bonus "LIVE" Leprechaun track coming soon. The Minnesota Coffee table met and recorded a fun version last night.
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I was…
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Foolishness - A A J Russe
Written 3rd January 1988
Recorded 1st March 2022
The Shoebox Demos Vol 1
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While writing and recording songs for FAWM 2022 I discovered that I can create acoustic demos of nearly any song I've ever written…
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fresha beats productions
fresha beats cattle lick
2021 Dance if you can vol.2👄
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I didn't even think of this until I started mixing tonight that this song has the exact same structural gimmick as the last song I posted. Ooops. I guess that's the risk you take when you are totally unoriginal and working on a sort of compilation…
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C.S. Lewis once wrote about the concept of "out of simple evil comes complex good." These are trying times, an understatement if there ever was one. As you read this, you have uncertainties and fears for what our current situation means for right…
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"Play what you know and then play above that."
-Miles Davis
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Since you've all been such good boys and girls this year, I decided I should give you all a present. Here is a song written by yours, truly, and sung by the incredible Inge Meijer. I can't say enough about what an great job she did on the song…
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