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The guitarist started this one out as a love song, but it became something much different.
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Written and recorded for the Record Every Month Challenge in September 2025
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she's beckoned by the turnstiles
she prays they'll let her in
a token that she's missing
for a dream that may begin
she hops across the banister
and darts down darkened halls
mad humming of the terminal
reverberates the walls
do you…
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Tworegs visited and we couldn't help but get at least one colaboration song done in the studio. I wish we would have had time to get some other songs he wrote in SF recorded in my studio but I was out of town during part of his stay, and to be…
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I think...
I might...
I think I might absolutely freakin' love this song.
Well... the chorus at least. The rest is okay, but the chorus friggin' slams.
I wrote and recorded this in November 2014 for that year's National Solo Album Month…
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[Verse 1]
Why do you think getting approval from [*gap*] is better than being better than [*gap*], or copying is better than what you have?
You, the average person, sees the [*gap*] and imitates them, so yes, you’re a [*gap*]
If all people…
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2022 RPM Challenge song number 18.
I still have two more songs to mix but as of right now this is hands down my favorite of the batch (spoiler alert, I think I might be saying that about the two songs that are left as well). Usually when I…
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Brace yourself! This is my latest Song Challenge entry for Carl Unbehaun’s Minnesota Homebrew Radio Show: Write a song about Groundhog’s Day, a Ground Hog or Woodchuck.
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Nothing better…
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Another late night session in a dark blue-ish cloud.
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2009, having fun with Johnny Stone's awesome music.
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The 10th and final song for the third round or re-recorded Quarantine Tunes is now complete. I wish it closed with a better effort though.
I don't dislike the way this came out, I just had higher hopes. This song is probably the most difficult…
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Here's a new song.
Just me...
KC
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I've been callin' your number – I was so alone
I've been callin' all night long – You didn't pick up your phone
I want to hear you whisper – Sweet things in my ear…
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Brian of A Beautiful Scene wrote an amazing tune for the 2020 A Beautiful Scene RPM record and I couldn't get it out of my head. I hope I did it justice.
(updated May 10 with a slightly different mix)
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An original guitar arrangement by Movement to Contact stirred this dormant memory from a long slumber.
Enjoy!
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Shout out to Tom Waits, one of my favs. Rumor has it, he has had a similar problem with his piano.
I didnt think I would make it signing this way to the end of the song, lol.
Throat lozenge anyone??
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from the album "A440" vocals by Wilsun
feel, the weight
as faith falls apart
know, the truth
that lies inside your heart
trade, the fear
for hope inside of you
cause this is real
the touch of something new
wake up from this fairy tale…
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song#2 for RPMC2016
Expiration date
A rough month for rock stars
All the good ones are leaving
It's about that time
Just the songs remain and
Public grieving
I read the news today oh no
When you died they wrote you up
Counted your…
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The 1916 Rebellion was a sad time in Irish history. The public outcry after the execution of the leaders of the rebellion led to the War of Independence resulting in the creation of the Irish Free state in 1922. While Independence was achieved…
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Runway Lights (in 128) was the solo I performed at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem North Carolina on the 26th of September 2015. The recording you hear is from the University mics. The title is actually a misnomer – a mistake on my…
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More from the archives. This was the opening cut on Scartaglen's 1986 album "The Middle Path". A double jig, a slip jig, and 2 reels. I played bouzouki and Uilleann pipes on this cut
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I am learning a bit more each day about how to write/compose for guitar ,, quite fun. This RPM piece is dedicated for our 16 and 1/2 year old mini red Dachshund,, Howie.. though blind and mostly deaf, and recovering from illness, he still…
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a slightly different track. was my first track with GT-DN. will not please everyone
ein etwas anderer track. war mein erster track mit GT-DN . wird auch nicht jedem gefallen
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Remember that last level of old Nintendo games? Late at night stressed out screaming at the television just hoping you will beat the game? The stress? The anxiety?
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Me, Regs, and Les covering Stephen Stills
Love the One Your With
Enjoy!
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from the album xChange
performed by AM/FM Dreams
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So you stopped coming round
Your heart buried in the ground
It's a shock, it's a scene
You never say what you mean
Emotional landmines
You can see the stop signs
But you're not slowing down
One foot on the trip line
And the words fly…
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From heart to heart it comes
A stream of sounds
That so worries,
So beckon ...
For Trevor, the one and only
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Here is a Steve Krell song.
Buck Erpestad and I recorded live using two acoustic guitars.
Here is a link to Steve's original version : http://alonetone.com/slkrell/tracks/saskatchewanshostalconnorkrell
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I've been sent to the cellar by the wife as she has a visitor...bad luck hey!...so i got the acoustic down of the wall and even tried a little harmonica...hope you enjoy........
Over the Hills and far away (Lyrics)
over the hills and far away…
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i just played some simple triads that matched the basic chord progression to Pachelbel's Canon in D(didn't try to play the original melody or anything), then improvised a few solos, hope you like it.
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I put up a wren house in the trees and garden where I was living and surprisingly a house wren moved in. Every day he sang his song in a repeating pattern ... a natural loop. I held a mic out the window one morning and taped his beautiful repetitive…
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Waiting for something that would be: familiar feeling, isn't it? We look forward to when she comes back, look forward to when the morning comes; waiting to stop the rain (or when will finally rain...).
Life itself is a... waiting?
Note…
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Had to cover this one,why?......it's got alcohol in it ha ha ha!
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Summer Sun
Sitting in the summer sun
The heat warms the soul
Sitting reminiscing
Got no particular place go
life is all around me
The motion of the birds and bees
Is like heaven to me
Heaven to me
I lay out in an open field
Making…
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This song is about a friend of ours back in 2009. A lot of people called it very strange because she lost her 2 children, Husband, Mother and Father all in one week and they died of natural causes. One night she couldn't take it anymore she was…
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A mando improv for Doc Watson, who left this week. For the improvFriday event "blues" theme.
http://www.docsguitar.com/
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This one features a backwards sample of one of my older songs, something I've been meaning to try for a while now.
Written & Performed by Rog Hildreth during February 2012.
Taken from "Rog Hildreth and The Enemies Of Progress".
More of…
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Naively conceived, written and published in February 2012 for "Contemporary Chamber Music" (vol.1), an RPM12 album.
The titles of the pieces in album are follow each other in a certain order - see album description.
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Recorded this a few years back,needed something to blow my harp too. Didnt know all the words so i made the last couple of versus up.
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(Click the link above for a live studio version with many other musicians)
This is a solo acoustic version of my song Water Trees and Poison
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It's the strangest thing
Must be a waking dream
The strangest thing
Or the latest invention
Reflections
Holographic projections
Some cruel trick
Or pharmaceutical deception
Through the downtown crowds in the rainy streets
You were walking around…
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Song #2 for the RPMC. My goal is to have 12 short tunes (1-3 minutes long), so I need to pick up the pace.
Again, quartal tuning on the top 3 unison pairs of the 12 string. I've been listening to Ralph Towner's Blue Sun, hence the title.
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Here's one....an Easyrider classic ......with the music thanks to Gene and the 70's rock vocal from Reg....hope you enjoy it was a lot of fun to do......
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This one seems very apt for today's financial climate..........
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This cut was made right after operation Shock and Awe started. I wanted to try and capture the feel of being an innocent civilian caught in the middle of it with helicopters flying around...gun-fire swirling around, etc. It's particularly a tribute…
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The passport, acapulco and finding out about the affair with Reg was the final straw ithe saga of Desirea and Reg is finally over Reg has drawn a line in the sand and stepped over it. It over and done he washes his hands of her. So he went out…
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I had a little time this evening to noodle about so i noodled with the Zep...i've Regged another one another classic i had to take down the cellar and Reg over ....i'm gonna revisit this so class it as a work in progress ....Hope you like it...i do
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Lionel the hermit crab - Skeen Remix 120607
Lionel the hermit crab lives by the sea, oh yeh
He looks a little bit like you, a little bit like me,
Lionel the hermit crab doesn't have no friends, oh no
He'll live his life alone in his shell…
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Acoustic improv. Top 3 pairs of strings tuned a 4th apart on 11 string guitar. And a touch of synth.
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For Dave.
Blues Man and Capt'n Beefhearts Long Lost Brother.
Passed away from Cancer on Friday the 4th of March 2011, aged 62.
You Were a Great friend and taught me alot about music and life.
Peace be Upon you Bro....
See you and your…
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Our entry into a compilation CD for the Acid Exchange International Music and Arts Guild double-CD. I wrote the music and cowrote the Lyric with Scott Graves, and sang the song. Other players are Jay P Lindsey, Dave Bell, and Steve of Asymetric…
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Mancera is an spanish Fortress build about 500 years ago in an island with the same name, in the south of Chile.
Off course it has a lot of history, i used to go there when i was a kid and i have big memories of it, been in the big dungeon, where…
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Previously released as "a little moon music", Here, used as the background for a video i made in Oct of Great White Sharks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX5R3lrxmYs
This is not the typical Discovery Channel version, here i saw the more languid…
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Drive cleaning....
This is a lost instrumental. I have no interest.
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Fasten your seatbelts, this jeep is going deep into the heart of the jungle! Sound clips cut and pasted against Norm's Fat Baby Bembe.
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From the Angie Fights Crime/AM FM Dreams split album "Faiths" (2010)
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Well, it's like I went down town last night to see Guthrie playing with Ray and I came home with a song.
NOBODY KNOW ME IN TOWN ANY MORE Capo @ 1 in G
There’s a bird in the gutter that’s so sound asleep
He can’t hear the music that’s sweeping…
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There are a bunch of bass tracks going on here. Headphones help pick out what's going on. This one came to me leaving Taos on the drive back to Phoenix, coming down out of the canyon. I suddenly became conscious of a disturbing dream from the…
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Something you don't often hear from me and that's
straight drummin'. On this track I left the
original L/R kit track because it just sounded
more raw and nasty. Listen close and you'll hear different levels on the high hat. Plus, you can…
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A very special love song.
Featuring Ewan Crossan on guitar.
One touch
Can make you do anything
Your light shows me everything
Please know i'll carry you everywhere
I go, my plaything
Chorus:
And i knew i'd have you
moment my eyes…
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A happy song about being left by your no-good spouse. There's a word for the attitude in this song but I can't think of it right now ...
this is now a tidied up version 18/3/09
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03 – Meteorites. Written 2nd/3rd Feb. Recorded 3rd Feb.
Inspired by the film ‘Stardust’ where our hero meets a (literal) fallen star. The painful low vocals were particularly fun, and their emotional cracking was acting rather than the fact…
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There was a director who was so happy to show off his lead singer to the playwrite... she was young and beautiful and a talented singer... when he finally got to present her to the playwrite... the playwrite nodded, and smiled.. he told the director…
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robot tries to convince human female subject to be his lady.
Instrumentation: bamboo flute, violin, programmed drums, vocals, synthesizer.
LYRICS:
you smell botanical,
I am mechanical,
Machines and animals,
Are sexually compatible…
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kimono rose, is that feeling/thing/person you always long for
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Hey gang! It’s us again, The Proods…thousands of followers worldwide!
Here’s another track by Brian…channeling his inner heavy-metal lover….
It was fun working on this, though I prefer the OTHER version that we did. A groovy 1960’s styled version…
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Well she's left him it wasn't even a week he's not sure he didn't just dream it...
It was only you
i stumble from my bed
my life lived is lived like a dream
Nothing going wrong
Nothing too extreme…
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Getting lost in the maze from time to time is just part of life
The maze of misfortune
I get one step forward and three steps back
Can’t see where I’m going
Lifes so dark and black
Looking ahead seems stupid and pretty…
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He looks into a maelstrom of fragmented thoughts and half-remembered faces. The dust claims it all in the end, leaving just incomplete remnants of indecipherable emotion.
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Freesound Sample Used (and it's buried deep, deep in there…
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This song/hymn consists of lines lifted from Psalm 34. I had written it in April of 2024 but didn't record it until March of 2025. I would play and sing it often through the year trying to perfect the guitar arrangement of it, and then I eventually…
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Another song from the 2021 RPM Challenge (I think?) that has been re-recorded for the Quarantine Tunes Volume Seven project. This song sort of rocks. I changed the arrangement a little and rethought the way the harmony vocals were structured…
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for sound in abstract noise constructions - all abelton live
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[Chorus]
Good morning, America
Big race problem everywhere we are
If there’s trouble for minority
It probably ‘cause of ethnicity
If colored man is content, he is a bitch
You should let it get to you, be pissed
I wish I never been born…
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