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I became fed up with all the half truths and lies that the nationw was told by Bush Jr. and had to put my frustrations to music. The feel of this is New Orleans Blues.
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This is a John Lee Hooker feel that is fun to dance to.
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This is a smooth R&B feel that I wrote for my wife. This one's for the lovers.
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This is a heavy, dirty shuffle that I wrote after reading some pretty heavy stuff about the poor in the US.
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I had a falling out with a long time friend when I wrote this song. It has a Ray Charles/Aretha Franklin gospel/blues feel.
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This song is has an old school blues medium shuffle feel.
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I have lived in Milwaukee for six years now and I felt I had to write a song for the city. This has a Muddy Waters feel with harmonica.
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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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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 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 minor blues about a hard breakup in the vein of Luther Allison.
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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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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 for a friend of mine and every word is true. You should meet her.
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This is the first version of the song we recorded with our original singer.
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This song has a rock element and a latin jam at the end.
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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 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 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 has got that southern blues thing going on.
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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 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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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 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 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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To me is very difficult to describe this song, but I like it.
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A Dennis song.
Thanks to Mike for playing Drums.
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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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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.
This one's a three piece set, after the keyboard…
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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.
Heavy use of Kaos Pad and vocoders, as a…
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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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This was inspired by my fight (and eventual loss) with the city
building department.
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A song about roads not taken, regrets, and a girl I knew in junior high school.
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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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My attempt at a happy love song, the name is borrowed from an old tv show.
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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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Written after reading an article about Robert Oppenheimer.
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Tried to capture the spirit of the e.e. Cummings poem, didn't quite make it.
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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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A blasphemously reverent prayer to the Goddess of Sacred Uproar. The lyrics can be found at bit.ly/PrayerforUs
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Power outages, deadlines, and needing to leave home. A Girl Named Sam lends some beautiful vocal harmonies.
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I was in a very dark place when I wrote this tune. Now I'm back in the light it sounds very self-pitying, but hey. From 2006 album Too many magpies
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Just an old-timey thing I wrote. From 2006 album Too Many Magpies
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Another song from the dark period. Don't get involved in messy affairs is my advice! From 2006 album Too Many Magpies
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Written for my best mate's first son. From 2006 album Too Many Magpies
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Yet another tune from the dark period. To be honest I'm never fond of my slower tunes. From 2006 album Too Many Magpies
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Haitian rhythm bed with kalimba and Ney and synthflute. Rejected for its original purpose as being 'too jazzy' ;)
The rhythmns and kalimba were old favorites that I had not adapted to anything. Added flute and textures for a website project…
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Playing with reverberation and stretching, part of a larger ambient piece for the RPM2010 challenge. It uses heavilly effected and modified samples and VST Synplant.
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My second ever foray into GarageBand inna reggae style. From 2008 album Do What I Gotta Do
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My first ever GarageBand experiment. Not a good mix. Contains a sample of Bob Baker - please don't sue me! From 2008 album Do What I Gotta Do
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A reggae version of my country/pop tune. From 2008 album Do What I Gotta Do
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Late night, last piece from a Himitsu session. Very laid back. All electronic. Recorded on minidisc and rescued later from a random hard drive.
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The title came to me when I saw what impending maelstrom was headed our way on satellite imagry. Lots of space in this tune...
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This one is named after the resident cat who loved me dearly when I was a visitor. Now that I've moved in I'm pretty much only good for adminstering food and occasional petting- on the cat's terms of course!
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instrumental of a flourishing nature with fun in its veins
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A pop song without the 'ular' about the struggle of the addict and the feeling of obsession.
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Sometimes a tune pops up right to left field. This is one of em! I backed it up with a stand-up bass track which I was intending to re-record before RPM submission but ran outta time.
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bejewled casing flutter inside wink twitch and pacing on a moonlit wing turn...
beautiful song by Juniper set to one of hotwheels most ambient boop jobs..NOW WITH CLEARER VOCALS
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another lively instrumental with mirth and subversion.
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Named after a painting which was named after a lovely little daily ritual I share with my best friend.
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I figure if I keep trying long enough, I'll start channeling the great Django Reinhardt. Perhaps it's like squeezing blood from a stone but if I get a drop or two, I'm happy with that!
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I live near the beautiful ocean. This is a contemplative moment viewing the ocean from a small bluff. Dobro and mando.
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Written with thoughts for Nodar Kumaritashvili who died at the 2010 Olympics. It was a one in a million chance...
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But don't answer yet, we will DOUBLE the offer if you call right now...
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We play even number of games of backgammon and sometimes it ends in a...
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Inspiration for this quick fun one came from Uncommon Ritual and other works by Edgar Meyer: I wanted to take a run of notes across multiple instruments just to have fun!
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OK we lost power at a critical point in recording for RPM. This one was written and recorded the day I had to pack up all my recording gear and borrow a room at a local public business which was on a different power grid. The wind had caused some…
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an emmotional storytelling through instrumentalism. a whistle transcends the feeling of an explosive bowel movement. a noisy arcane reduction of bass jagged jarring hook and pursed lipped vocals
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sixteen htz: as in the frequency of the majority of the noise in this epoch, reminiscent of kubrick. The frequency is thought to clear up mucus when played on a modified flute
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waves that often crash though each other, meow a rythym guitar, hazy and recollected begins to putter in the mid morning. The howling of the wind grows as the guitar becomes frantic then frenzied in a driven pounding of the upper strings, loosely…
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million billion stars up in the sky
ive got some questions fer you
whyve i gotta die
whyve i gotta live at all
when the world is so riduculous
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theres no reason, no reason why this song is so catchy, so sexxxy, no reason at all. it doesn't make sense.
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i lay my head down on my pillow
outside i can see the evening sky
you are just over that Western horizon
and i dream that i can fly
the earth shakes '
my water breaks
we have given birth to something new
i see you standing hear before me
we…
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i actually got to kidnap a real live drunk sax player for this instrumental kick in the face of traditional arrangement.
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at heart a skitter bopping rythym guitar, overlayed with punchy kick drums and synthy mods at mid and low frequencies. Churreling winds spring through the upper atmosphere.
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a monumentally simple instrumental. that might make you cry.
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