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Parts I and II originally written and performed by Neutral Milk Hotel
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originally written and recorded by the Foo Fighters
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originally written and performed by Stone Temple Pilots
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The last time I saw Grandpa was fifty years ago
Palmdale, California. I was 4 years old
He was stooped and withered. A worn-out little man.
I remember him the best I can
I swear I just saw Grandpa in Daddy's barn just now
Out beyond the…
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BIG FAT HORSE
I wish I had a big fat horse. Corn to feed him on.
Pretty little girl to say at home. Feed him when
I’m gone. Wish I had a big fat horse...
I wish I had a mountain top to look out to the sea
I wish I had a mountain top to…
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PROLOG
I was born in California. I was raised in California.
To me, the world was California. Evrything else
was some strange place. One place I knew about
was Tennessee, where my mom grew up. I heard
stories about her dad being a miner…
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Palmdale, California. 1950. 15th Street East.
CALIFORNIA CHRISTMAS MEMORIES
Take me back to California on that sunny Christmas morn.
Christmas there was different on those Mojave Desert nights
No snow and not much money for sharp clothes…
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DIAMONDS AND WATER
You wear diamonds on your fingers
You wear diamonds on your ears
and you wear diamonds on your necklace
You wear diamonds to the party
You wear diamonds to the banquet
You wear diamonds to the opera
But I’ll take a…
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FRUSTRATED ARTIST
He was a frustrated artist
trying to sell his pictures on the street.
He was a frustrated artist
never selling quite enough to eat,
so, he overcompensated for the lack of
compensation for the pictures that he
drew…
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LISA MAKES APPOINTMENTS
Capo @ 3 in C
C stepping down G
Lisa makes appointments for her friends to come and cry
She’s got a comfy shoulder and an empathetic sigh
Am. F. Am. F
Lisa’s…
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I wrote this song with Lisa Aschmann. CAPO @ 3
Video - https://www.facebook.com/100001011201926/videos/1285714588695761/
HICKORY STIX
Dm Am
Billy Mac and Don McCray drive to work each dawn at six
Down the mountain to the factory, makes…
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OH JIMMY
capo @ 4 or 5 live
C Am F G
On page thirty of the yearbook he found a picture sweet
A girl named Marie Angel, in school right down the street
Dm walk down G
He didn’t notice…
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SLAUGHTER MOUNTAIN
My mom’s dad was a coal miner. Her mother died of TB when she was a kid. When she was twelve, her dad, dying of black lung, slit his throat with a butcher knife. That left her with a cripple little brother to take care of…
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Who should turn up this evening down the cellar but Frank so Jango and Reg put this one together for him hope you enjoy........
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Cover of a 19th century minstrel tune attributed to S.S. Steele, popularize by the late great John Hartford. This is my own arrangement. I use it as a backing track for alive set without the banjo and lead vocal tracks.
BTW- that banjo is an…
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Jesus is my buddy
Jesus is my pal
I hold hands with Jesus
when I walk a troubled mile
He never will desert me
no matter what I do
So, won’t you come to Jesus
he’ll be your buddy too…
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YOU - in C
There's a place in my mind
Where your face had a home
Long before you walked into my life
Before you were a known
There's a note in my song
That I knew fit somewhere
Tho the journey was long
I hoped I wouldn't be wrong…
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HE MOVED ON
capo @ 7 in C positions
C G Am Em
Jenny left her husband many years ago
F C G
She got lost in menopause and found herself…
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Life seems to be training us to expect less while demanding that we give more and more.
ONE SMALL CANDLE Key - G
G D G
In this old world when things go wrong
D G
We hold our women. We sing our song.
D G
We call our children. We call…
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SINCE YOU WENT AWAY Key G
G Bar 7/ 6/ 5 D
I lie on my back. Look up thru the leaves
B C Cm
The stars are still there
G Bb Dim Em…
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THE DUST ON THE PIANO
Capo at 2 in Dm
Dm C (2) or Em D
He used to play piano because it made her smile
Dm C (2)
She could be in any room. He'd sit and play a while
F C Bb (G)Dm
He didn't need to see her. He knew she loved it so
He…
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WHERE
Where will I spend the rest of our life?
Where will I live our tomorrow
Our only hope springs from within your sorrow
And if I thot your pain could be bought
I'd start saving today for tomorrow
Where, where
Our only hope springs…
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DON'T TOUCH ME
Don't touch me and don't ask me why
Because I'll tell you
I'll take up your whole evening
And there's nothing you can say
And there's nothing you can do
So, don't touch me
And, don't ask me. Don't ask me how I've been…
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unWANTED - Capo @ 2
(Dm) A Dm
There'll be no poster of me looking ragged
There'll be no pictures of me strung around
Gm Dm
There'll be no subpoena. There'll be no warrant…
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INFATUATION, UNREQUITED
They say it's just infatuation
I only wish that it was true
Infatuation, unrequited
Feels like love to, for you
And then they say, 'Silence is golden,"
And I don't know what to do
The autumn leaves, the branched…
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IF I WRITE A LETTER TO YOU - Key of G
If I write a letter to you
Tell me who will I write to
A lover, a friend,
A beginning, an end
If I write a letter to you
If I send a flower to you
Tell me who would not go to
A friend or a foe…
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A man receives advice and guidance from his wife in a most unusual way.
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This is just a bit of silly fun I had one day with a four-track cassette recorder...about 9 years ago (yup...another lost find fro the racks). Just blowin' off some steam on a day off in my little apartment of Tokyo. On first listen-back...it…
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This is a cover of a wonderful song by Yoko Kanno, Steve Conte, & Shanti Snyder.
Music by Brian Vaughn
Vocals by Brian Vaughn and Stephanie Hossfeld-Downey
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This is my cover of Geir Alfsons song, like a fool , i did this as a tribute to him on songcrafters music forum
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Recorded This a while back....
It is an Indian flute my Dad used to play....
Just a few little toots I remember him playing..
Peace
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Just some sounds I stumbled across during "rehearsal".
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... just found this cover of "Doll Parts" i recorded a few years back and thought I'd share!
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This is a twisted cover of a Princess Seismograph song. Their version is brilliant and beautiful. This was recorded on a phone using Amplitube.
Support their new album!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/437910990/we-put-the-situation-in…
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Inspired by the comic Achewood. A lesson on a difficult life.
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New song demo. Recorded on my phone using Amplitube.
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Long ago One mans argument against the opposition of the many didn't go down too well............Thanks Norm for Groove for St. Ambrose
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This is a “cross-over” pattern. Cross-over patterns are a type of enharmonic polymeter, where 2 rhythms with different numbers of beats/measure are played at the same tempo: the measures do not line up each time. These rhythms have measures…
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Song about a miscarriage Beth and I had back in January of 2008. Written in November of 2008.
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all i did was tweake with the instrumentation from a midi file in fl studio, but I just felt like uploading it anyway, here you go.
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Started out be an innocent little jazzy study in quartal harmony, but the DL4 was still in my signal path and things went downhill from there! Another done with my beloved '58 Stratotone
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This is the third song from the Thomas - Lennon project.
A collaboration with Michael Thomas of Cave Street.
http://alonetone.com/cavestreet
Lyrics and vocals - Michael Thomas
Wildgeas Music - Paul Lennon
Enjoy!
Love is Free
as you let it…
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Another one For Wren's Album
Little Bird
ORH:Vocals and Lyrics
OsCKilO: MusicLittle Bird, Little Bird
the tiny brown wren
so small but so loud
its voice fills the woodlands and moorlands and farms
its beautiful song
so vibrant and full
it…
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Written and Recorded on 04/12/11 in Otley, Yorkshire.
We were all in the same room for a change. Lol
"Dont Mind The Rain"
By Jim Higgins, Tharek Mokbul and Mike Fife
Met UK
Well what you say
let's get together
and do it all again
i've packed…
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Taken from a legendary show at the now-defuct At The Hop nightclub and restaurant, this recording features Bruce Forr on vocals. Originally an early hit for Little Jimmy Dickens, it's always a crowd-pleaser, and a lot of fun to play!
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Featuring Brad Floyd on mandolin, this is one of those songs we never really "learned," we just "did." Mama Corn often attempts something onstage that we've never even tried at rehearsal, and sometimes, it turns out nice.
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From a rainy summer evening at Brookmere Winery's vineyard, Belleville, PA. Wine was flowing, and we made a bunch of new friends that night.
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From the Beech Creek Barnburner, early 2008, public domain song. Very enjoyable afternoon with good friends, and it shows in our playing that day. This is an old song about sharing the moonshine, a "demijohn" is a container used for carrying corn…
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The finished article of the brand new Alpha Road track!
www.facebook.com/alpharoad
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This is the second song from this amazing collaboration with Michael Thomas of Cave Street.
http://alonetone.com/cavestreet
It's not a Cave Street collab. but rather a project by Thomas - Lennon.
I do the music and mixing. Michael does…
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One of a series of improvised ambient guitar recordings. Part of the Ambient Dreams 1 album
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One of a series of improvised ambient guitar recordings. Part of the Ambient Dreams 1 album
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Well last night down in the cellar we got ourselves a train theme riding and this is the result hope you like it...........
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Spoof rock, tongue in cheek electronica, dance track
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Drums/percussion played on Roland HD-1
Tele, bass, keys.
Recorded on Boss BR-80
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This was played on my Yamaha Guitalele, recorded direct into my Boss BR-80. Its like a Uke with 6 strings. I tune it to the equivalent of DADGAD, like a guitar in DADGAD capo'd at the 5th fret. These are wonderful little instruments, and hours…
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The first of 4 tunes coming your way with
the spotlight on my friend "Michael Thomas of Cave Street"
http://alonetone.com/cavestreet
This one is my favorite and chills me every time I hear it.
It never, ever, gets old.
Until Then (Shine…
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I have just received the little black songbook through the post and couldn't resist having a go at this one...
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inside, i feel so strange
but who am i to complain
inside, i feel alive
something died in my heart again tonight
...tonight
why are you everywhere?
you've poisoned everything i know.
your poisoned hearts, I drank them all
as you ask me why…
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An experimental sort of tune in a retro style. It's like music from an old 1950's silent film.
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In this recording I sing and play violin. This is one track, one take, one musician.
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Something i wrote and quickly recorded on Thanksgiving 2011. It will turn into something but it seems i must add two songs to make a playlist public? or something? i dont really know. but this is WIP, definitely.
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The problem with drinking too much hootch. Commonly referred to as mountain dew.
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Woods acoustic 6 str recorded by a Zoom H2 x 2 with a touch of lexicon reverberation.
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A simple short beat, kinda sounds like something out of a video game menu screen.
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Holiday song written and recorded for the RPM Holiday Challenge 2011. This is about a California transplant waxing nostalgic about Christmas in New England.
Remastered: Nov 2015
Remixed: Nov 2023
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recomposition of Steve Moshier's "The Land, the Crow, the Wind"
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I'd never played a U2 song before this one. Tried to give it a bit of a Reggae feel.
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A story of naivety and a girl, who 'without knowing, where she's going"....the world around her knows, but she is totally naive and we have to root for her....read the last verse, and see if you know who its about??? Sitting at #3 at www.soundclick…
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I won't tell you how many chords there are in this one but listen until the end.
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I'll tell you one thing for sure... I wouldn't trust no words written down on no piece of paper, especially from no Dickinson out in the town of Machine... you're just as likely to find your own grave.
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I'll tell you one thing: if that there Blake fella keeps on shootin' marshals, I might end up liking the bastard!
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Things which are alike, in nature, grow to look alike.
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Rough mix of something brewing.
Started with some minimalistic phrases of in different time signatures (5/4, 6/4, 7/4, 9/4) and grew from there.
From there, things got out of hand.
This is an attempt to bring things back.
Special thanks to my…
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Yet another happy tune with my jazz trio. This project is coming along nicely, I think.
www.facebook.com/Boris.Shpitalnik
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I thought I'd share a recording of one of the first rehearsals for a show I was a part of this november 16th
It's one of the newest songs I've written and I feel very close to it, also the people who I got to perform with are absolutely amazing…
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Different recording here as the electric guitar, bass guitar were not plugged in, just recorded raw with a power mic and then EQ'ed to make it sound amped - pardon mistakes!
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I wrote the middle of this song in Bali, Indonesia when traveling with my wife (fiance at the time) and her family. The other parts are inspired from traditional Hawaiian music. Maganda Isla means beautiful island in Tagalog, one of the main…
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Creation Series
These songs were created to go along with our creation video series known as Addy & Abel, adventures who explore all of God's creations!
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For a link to the visual artist and details on this piano piece see http://soonlabel.com/xenharmonic/archives/61
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Back in October, Ponyboy came over to the lounge to record a cover they did of a Peaches song, and the Midnight Finger Artist Guild came together to help them record it.The files have been distributed to guild members so everyone can mess around…
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as with all the works of this series,the gregorian chant is taken from the passion play of prague(jeu pascal de prague)
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Jazz fusion piece. Thanks to Marc Halikas for bass & guitar.
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Electronics and looped guitar
For more and a beautiful picture from a friend:
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1658
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A nice little pop ballad. This is the 2012 remix. The mix concept is pretty much the same as in the old version (although I did not listen to the old version before I started mixing the new one), but the new version sounds a little smoother and…
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A drone piece, recorded during equipment check for a live perf. A room recording, stereo amp setup.
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For Smoking Joe...
Wondered what might be fitting.
Thought some music to train to may be appropriate.
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'Blue Shade Shadow,
Rearranging all the night,
We slept within,
But now well crawl out of sight,
Dont try to,
Hypnotize me,
You keep failing to see,
The spread of my disease,
Ill come to you,
In the worst time I could,
Cause it will…
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I found a cassette tape the other day from 1991 which turned out to be live to 2 track demos that Scartaglen did in the studio in preparation for our 3rd and (as it turned out) final album. This tune didn't make the cut for the record but I always…
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So after hearing some of Stephen Krell's outstanding picking, I asked him if he'd like to play along with any of my songs... I can't be happier with the one he picked to add his banjo to (seeing as how the song is written about my favorite Pete…
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Ya, I'll just put this right here.
Not a big fan of Dragon Ball perse, but I do love the music. Even more so in this insane Japanese Dragon Ball game for the original NES. The Music was astounding even for something as simple as 8 bit midi…
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An ambient piece using Nanostudio app. pic by Will Shannonhouse
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The show here is the video below. The mp3 is just a stub to allow me to post this to AT though I'd appreciate you clicking it.
On June 26th Kenji Haba performed 15 one minute classical guitar pieces as part of the Vox Novus Composer’s Voice…
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Making a list. Making it long Strange what lists add up to.
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