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Recorded: December 30, 2008
Guitar: DADGAD (Capo III)
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sounds coalesce and become harmonious, no one knows which sounds came from where, and the spirits must have joined in, welcoming a new year
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I'm sure you know the feeling .........
That feeling of feeling flat
Its the day after Christmas
That feeling of feeling flat
Nothing to be excited for or needing
All the fun has been had
Theres nothing more to come…
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fom 3thrd Sunday Grackle improv jam 11/16/25
Miguel- percussion
Kavin.- fretless Chinese junk strat
added Bass Vi after the fact Jack
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credits: interpolates lyrics by Ahmad, Kanye West
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Here’s another one
[Verse 1]
I beat myself up ‘cause rap
We cuss, I don’t care about that
Coping mechanism, coping medicine
So obsession will hook me since I was in high school
I listened to rappers buzzing
I moved myself too because…
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(interpolates lyrics by Nas and samples music by L.E.S. and Trackmasters)
[Man 1] Hello?
[Man 2] What’s up, man?
[M1] Nothing really, my girl just left, she’s geeking out, talking ‘bout big house and kids, Norman Rockwell shit again
[M2…
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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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Were you guys aware that I'm a Beatles fan? Because, well.... I am.
I don't want you to come too close
I don’t need you to break the rules
Don't try to play my game
It’s not what you should do
I don’t think we can be friends
I don…
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Since you’ve gone
It’s all gone south
The dunces took over
Stupidity rules
They open their mouth
To prove they’re fools
You didn’t believe in god
And made me wonder how
If there was one
How could he allow
What evil has been done…
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Recorded way back (early '80s?) on open reel tape. The mumbly voices are from whatever was recorded on there before, as it was a former CBC Radio tape. The "instrument" is one of those little slicers for hard-boiled eggs. Submitted to Sound-In…
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A little dark......
I stand at the junction between life & death
As the count begins to rise
The darkened moon weeps but is blind to the grief
Of the ones left behind
We weep but we can not hide
Daytime nighttime the hunt for…
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Happy Halloween. Or should I say, Happy Covid-ween. Har Har.
Another song from 2007's failed RPM Challenge that wasn't finished until 2011. This was also on my short list of songs to re-record when I first thought of this whole silly project…
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Another in an endless string of recordings that would have been saved by a competent singer. Maybe. I like the individual pieces of this song, but I don't think I like the song as a whole. Okay... maybe I don't like the chorus at all. I don…
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10 Year Anniversary: Remastered
This track for me defines the name Movement To Contact as well as how I like to write music. The silent build of a wave and then the peaceful slide onto the shore once it has passed.
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Yah its going to be Fat Tuesday, king cake,
Green Purple and Gold and all Carnival.
see you all dancing on Canal Street
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She threw her slip down on the bed spread
She threw her panties on the stack
Now she must take them to the cleaners
He said that he will not be back
She turned and reached into the corner
She took her guitar from the rack...
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This one's the single. It's fun to play and fun to sing when I was in the studio. It's meant to played loud. Actually, the whole album is. Thanks for listening! Cheers, Gary
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A bit of a blue one live from the cellar.....
Time Please Fly Away
time has that way of healing pain
it can can turn a madman back to sane
long ago a dream was made
but like my thoughts that dream has strayed
now i’m lost on a dark…
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One of my first experiments with DADGAD tuning. I was hoping to get a dark,droning sound. I lived in Missouri for a lot of years and this sounds like what it feels like to be out in the sticks there.
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Ambient, building electric guitar instrumental, something like a cross between the late great Gary Moore and some softer stuff by Allan Holdsworth.
Imagine your spacecraft nearing a black hole, and the strain it puts on your vessel. Then, as…
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Here's me and the old Joanna live in the cellar for the John Lennon Jukebox ...i surprised myself on this one ....only a couple of fluffs on the piano..which with only three takes and reading the lyrics from the ipad is the surprise....hope you…
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Me, Regs, and Les covering Stephen Stills
Love the One Your With
Enjoy!
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Heres a cover of the Eagles life in the Fast lane with Frank on drums, Gene putting together the rest of the music & yours truly on vocal..........
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Two bass tracks and vocals...playing around with a Fender Jazz bass that I rented a while back.
I'm more a cat person but if I had a dog...
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More ambient experimentation with my fretless guitar and Roland GR20. This time I used some sounds from the magnetic pickups as well as the midi pickup. Kind of a cheesy synth patch I know, but it was working for me!
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Cuz who can ever get enough of Ghost in the Machine?
Lyrics: Stewart Copeland
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I trust this song is an encouragement to you...we are not alone.
There is an intimate Divine closeness that we are invited into...moment by moment.
I am so thankful for this...
You are with me now
You are with me now
Within this sacred moment…
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A bit of improv done yesterday with my newly refurbished fretless guitar. Finally got the midi pickup to track almost right! Part of the sounds were gotten by rubbing a teaspoon on the strings.
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This is like, hmm... like talking to a stranger on a train. First, it's nothing about, and then suddenly you discover that you're about to tell your life; or you listen to someone's story, seemingly intricate or simple (and therefore seemed familiar…
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Well Reg has just realised that he keep making the same mistakes with his relationships as he always has....the first song from the Newly built cellar.....Jim just had to jump o this one............
Hello pain my old friend it's so nice to see…
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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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I was listening to Jims beautiful instrumental and it struck a chord ...so here it is Thanks Jim.....
Shadow of a man (Lyrics)
As i look in the water i see a reflection of what i was
i see the strong man who could have done what ever he wants…
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This is the original version before I messed it up with Maxicraft :P
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Shows when you get fed up enough,you ain't afraid to raise hell and put a brick under it. (Icelandic national anthem-lyric)-...Oh, God of our country! Oh, our country's God!
We worship Thy name in its wonder sublime.
The suns of the heavens…
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in life, my foot print is my legacy...good or bad.... my existence is meaningless.
-a little on the chill side-
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K.G. made gold with this one. words are oh so good. J.H. broke away from his bass and added a very nice banjo part. i did a little clapton bending . i think this is a magical moment for our band. we all came together at the end and did it! i hope…
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from the album "Uniform"
she hides her heart under the pillow
waiting for the good fairy to come
replace this worn and broken thing
with a heart that can feel again
she's never sure which night will be her lucky one
but she anticipates…
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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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"After my house burn down I was confuse.
Why are they burning down my house? My neighbor house..."
"We called it The American War."
My friend, John, said this about this bit of audio drama:
I had forgotten how painful I find…
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The lyrics of this song,
as they pertain to plot,
are my exact memory of the event.
I had spoken to the kid maybe a minute before the "action" started about how the pressure of the water was very strong. He was nestled down with his back…
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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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Hanging out in the living room with one of my sons, just making stuff up. I wish I'd had the recorder closer to him - whistle too loud, guitar too soft.
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It's not funny 'cause it's true. God's a very busy man.
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Mario... what can I say about our lovable Nintendo mascot. He's short... chubby... fights reptiles of many shapes and sizes.
The music is deffinitely fitting for our Plumber's adventures into the Mushroomy, Mushroom Kingdom. Maybe he'll get…
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Sometime yesterday, sandbags posted "In the Ocean of Night".
Fuelled by a lovely walk and some pints, I was inspired to make some additions.
Technical/process details:
Guitar was my Michael Kelly going into GT-10 which had compressor, delay…
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Along with her magnificent harmonizing vocal tracks, Inge sent me one track which was crashed by her 2-year old son Willem. He pretty much takes over the whole operation at about 3:00.
In the background you can hear the original rough vocals…
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Nirvana - the perfect state of bliss from pain & suffering.
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This traditional Cuban rhythm is the well established "go-to" pattern for 4/4 songs. It is perhaps the most commonly heard conga pattern in 4/4 music. The bongo pattern that accompanies the congas is referred to as "martillo" (the hammer…
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Cover of the Joy Division classic, with a little drum'n'bass thrown into the mix
This version from September 2010
The youtube version is my original recording going back to 1997.
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This is a Ralph Mctell song , a very underated British singer / songwriter , probably famous for one song , The Streets of London , but in fact wrote many great songs , he wrote this while working on a building site before he was signed by a record…
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11 notes per octave (11 edo) has been a tuning that has generated a lot of music later. Not wanting to be left out I decided to take some time to compose a piece in 11 edo using Garritan Personal Orchestra. As a subject matter suitable for…
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It's been a long time since Bethesda released smash hit The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, so I thought I'd make a little something commemorating that. The song starts off note for note and finishes, then plays through again with my tweaks. I…
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A test track of sorts.
I typically mix a track, bounce it out to my ipod and then go for a drive. The stereo in my truck is kind of boomy and if I get the bass wrong, I'll hear about it. This has been a matter of a certain amount of guesswork…
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Really wanted to try and learn what i would consider one of the best lead guitar solos of all time, recorded this in early 2010 and it's my effort at learning the solo. Hope you enjoy it.
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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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Recorded in 2001.
Tom Higgins - vocals
Joe Silence - guitars
Mark Cook - fretless bass and beats
This track sounds kinda fuzzoid for a reason: It was originally recorded to a Roland VS-880 hard disk recorder, but then mixed to cassette…
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... again ... for Randy.
Memories of old magazines gathering dust on the shelves with things you never could let go of.
Dirty chess sets hardly touched. Empty bottles of cheap scotch you never could get enough of.
And it's a shameful world…
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I wrote this after seeing the film "I'm Not There" about all them Bob Dylans. The early acoustic take of the song was much more nasaly.
©2010 Sandy Gritt
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So, I was just funnin' around. Mostly from the ambient menus, plus, I added some Zippo slide guitar with lots of FX. Then I added the internet porn queen wav file.
Lyrics:
Aaah Oooooo!!!
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Finally back to work with this latest album. It's a bit backward looking, but still swanky enough.
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Another wacky production from the stretchy, bouncy, and elastic world of Rubber. Special thanks to Mark (Launched) for writing this one for us.
We had a whole bunch of fun with this song and you will too.
Enjoy!
Flies in my lunchbox
(Help…
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warning!!! this is a long 10+ min instrumental
It's a piece about 4 years old that was my first attempt at using synth voices,, I am still looking for a good one,, if anyone knows.
The music itself is a tone poem, loosely dedicated to a children…
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a percussive instrumental, featuring a bell sounding wood stove, yes that is a burning instrument.
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I'm not sure if I'm happy with how the mastering came out but I figured it's time to let this one fly and get some feedback on it. I recorded the 'robot' voice using Audio Hijack Pro to record my Apple's system voice and then added some effects…
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Guitar, $300... Folding chair, $30... Firewood, free... Labor Day, priceless.
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It's kinda nasty, kinda funny, kinda sad but kinda true.
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I imagine this music playing in a bar sometime in the future, probably in the background while cybernetic bar patrons interface with one another in full view of the world's sensor network.
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A little fun with a looper and an e-bow.
Unmastered.
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Trying to stay awake...to get it down...without going down...for the night.
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White Light was written in June along with 10 other "Off the cuff" tunes. Just before the great flood in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Our house was flooded and slowly being rebuilt. This is 4th of the 10 to be recorded.
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I composed this track as a demo of my sampling project "The First Bulgarian Virtual Choir" some time ago...
I invited the famous folk singer Katia Georgieva to perform the live lead vocal.
www.audiogrocery.com
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I went into the studio to record something I wrote... I came out to find out that 32 students had been gunned down... I already had the mandolin song and melody with a writing direction... and this senseless evil really derailed the whole thing…
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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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[Intro]
Why you push away my fyah? Fyah
[Verse 1]
2024
They’re still only out for money
Every message you receive
Is so that you give up your green
And give it to thieves
And the info you get
Is for you to return it to them
All of…
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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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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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(samples music sampled/produced by Dr. Dre from Labi Siffre's "I Got The..." for the song "My Name Is" by Eminem)
Freestyle, relax, relax, listen ‘cause I’m not gonna repeat myself
[Verse 1]
It’s not that I hate you
It’s just I don’t like…
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This song is dedicated to my wife Karen, remembering back to when first we danced.
This is our submission to the March 2022 Record Every Month (REM) Challenge.
Dan Will - Keyboards
David True - Bass
Tony Gallo - Percussion
Written…
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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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2009, having fun with Johnny Stone's awesome music.
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A New Year ...... a new song .... Happy New Year Alonetoners
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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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An original guitar arrangement by Movement to Contact stirred this dormant memory from a long slumber.
Enjoy!
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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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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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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 tune from my back catalog which i thought needed a little overhaul
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From the CD
FONTANELLE II by GHOST OF JOHN MURPHY
Formerly unknown as FONTANELLE
© 2013 Royal T Music
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from the album xChange
performed by AM/FM Dreams
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But maybe I should have been...
12 string n vocal improvisation
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rough mix (midi) of new work for piano, vibes & computer
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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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Just in time for the big 2012 election!
*** BANJO WARNING ***
Just me and me banjo.
Inspired by a story my journalist daughter in Moscow just published. She was too small when we moved to Russia to remember that politicians shaking hands…
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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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Well if it was a dream Reg would have met his wife on the Dance floor but as it was'nt he met her at the Bar ...of course.....and if Reg was a musician instead of a singer it may have been in time too......
G7 Em7 G7 Em7 C D
I think I love…
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(Featuring Jim Goodin fretless guitar, Chris Vaisvil fretless bass)
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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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