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Last skirmish of this years 50/90. Great prompt: "Wonder"
A1:
The days
The Days of Wonder
Are they gone
Gone forever
It makes me sad
I thought I'd never
I'd hoped my hard-nosed nature was a fad
With blinders on
Can't see the beauty…
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Song #50!! Another part of the super-skirmish weekend. Prompt was to use 5 of 10 randomly generated words. I used: cowgirl, alaska, fools, madness, top, taco
V1:
Drivin' down Main I noticed her license plate
Man, she was a long, long…
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Another superskirmish, prompt: "Hideaway".
V1:
Sometimes
I find myself at odds
With everything about this world
I wanna shout up to the Gods
And that's when
I know I need a break
A quiet place to settle in
For everybody's sake…
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Next superskirmish, 1-hr write - prompt: "Unexpected (Something you didn't anticipate, whether a Positive surprise (a wonderful occurrence/event) or a Negative one (a challenge/obstacle/disappointment)" So of course the subject of aging was…
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Superskirmish L - one hour write (except I went over by 15 minutes) - prompt: "The Road Ahead"
A1:
I Can't See the Road Ahead
We're in the kind of storm I dread
Driving slower so I might find
A speed where I won't feel so blind
This feeling…
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There was an album by a Los Angeles singer/songwriter named Judee Sill that came into KINK-FM back in 1971.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/obituaries/judee-sill-overlooked.html
MISSING JUDY - Capo 2
Stepping down from C
C B…
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Its all about being true to yourself and not letting the demons get you - remember your lies will comeback to you
V1 The darkness it comes to me
Before sleep penetrates this gloom
I reach out to touch you
Yet I know you’re not in the room…
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But the Sun
I close the curtains
To shut out the darkness
I shut the window
To keep out the cold
But the Sun is shining
Somewhere, I know.
(C) 2020 Royal T Music
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Week 10 challenge - Place Name. I lived in LIC for about 4 of the 10 years that I lived in NYC. While mostly not a true story, I do love Long Island City - it's very close to Manhattan and has a distinct and individual charm. For those who…
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September 20 - 2 hr. Sunday skirmish. Prompt - "sleep" - got this in in just over 2 hours.
V1:
Sometimes when I wake
I have an uneasy feeling
Like a leafy yard that needs a rake
What am I not revealing
There must be something going…
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Hey there,
This is a song that has been in my head for a while now. I think it has an amazing content. It's originally for Violin Solo, but I made an arrangement for 2 Violas and 2 Violins. I added/changed perhaps 10 notes in total, it's crazy…
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Here's another original song that I wrote this year!
I may have gone a little insane with the layering in this one... but I kinda like it so I won't apologise for it lol
Lyrics:
You can take your time, I'll wait for you
Suppose that's all…
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I was trying out the new guitar a Harley Benton 12String just like Tims (Greeny's) an its a beauty it sounds great and for just over £200 a bargin to boot. Heres a bit of blues the Harley benton and a fender strat and a wha peddle
I travelled…
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Inspired by a drum track from Emily Dolan Davies I tried to produce a cinematic sounding track.
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I wrote this one in response to a song writing challenge from the Minnesota Association of Songwriters. The title had to be Mississippi Moon and it had to have a I V VI I II chord progression somewhere in the song. Over 20 writers have signed…
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Messing around with AudioDirector, I got it for free in a bundle. I'm very impressed as I can do a whole lot with a whole lot of little.
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The Other Road is really about the roads we take in life , this road or that road, Thanx for tuning in, "G
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Result of experimenting around with some ghostlike effects
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Tim Chandler was a tall man with a big heart and a great sense of humor. He was the bassist for a number of bands including Daniel Amos, The Choir, and The Swirling Eddies. He also played bass on sessions and tours for Phil Keaggy, Randy Stonehill…
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Sometime around 1988.. Sam Mann and Thee Apes... Band is fucking killing it.......
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Remix with lap steel added to Chris Vaisvil's track Casting Ballots.
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Here's the band version of this song
Hans Nooitgedagt Jr - drums
Bingsolex - lead guitar
Erwin b - bass, recording
KC - guitar, vocals & mix
The moon comes up
The sun goes down
The circle of life
Going 'round and 'round
Living…
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Written Last Century....Every Word Holds It's Own Today.
Always someone out there judging shit they know nothing about. As it will be till the end of time. In the meantime, my simple response has always been, "Who Asked You"
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lap steel frenzy over a tape loop. For Sound-In Event No Formula
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Hello Hello The original of this song was recorded in 1981 Using my Permanent Adolescent technique of drums first. No click, no follow along to other instruments. Just the drums and the musical arrangement in my head. I joined a band in 1984…
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I believe the year was 1981. My friend Tim Brown and I recorded a bunch of music. Since I played all of the instruments(except the lead guitar parts:which Tim played) and sang all of the parts on this song: I believe I still have some recall…
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I wish I could come up with lyrics that make at least a little sense
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This is a love song for Idaho. Funny thing is I've never even been to Idaho, but I dreamed the chorus and the happy little riff some years ago, and it's stuck with me ever since. So, I filled it in with some verses and an outro that capture the…
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An animal lover feeds a snake...
For https://pinkamenaparty.bandcamp.com/album/fluttershy-s-paradoxically-soft-hardcore-tea-party — many cool tracks by many cool artists, proceeds benefit organizations for racial justice!
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Making tea goes horribly awry.
A collab with https://soundcloud.com/dj26cheez00 as Halloumi Unit
For https://pinkamenaparty.bandcamp.com/album/fluttershy-s-paradoxically-soft-hardcore-tea-party — many cool tracks by many cool artists, proceeds…
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Inspired by Steve Krell who wrote the first verse and chorus. Colleen Dillon wrote the second verse and Greg Connor, the third. Authentic Native American War Cry by Kimmie who has Cherokee heritage.
V1- Steve
On the banks of the Ojibwa…
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Now here's a bit of an oldie - the second song I ever wrote. In... 1978!
I think I played it once, or maybe twice, at school assemblies. My musical peers and colleagues back then dismissed it as corny/rancid pop music…
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GONE - My sequester song...
Chain wrapped around the dog park gate
Weeds growing on the school yard lawn
Where has everybody gone
The chairs are stacked
And the stage is dusty
And my strings are getting rusty...
(C) Royal T Music
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Fresh breeze on Lake Superior
And waves collide with the shore
The sailor must be watching
For gusting wind we can’t ignore
Loose the main, correct the healing
Point the bow to the wind
Recognize the peaceful feeling
In this sacred…
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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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DJチーズ2600 approached So?ing Machine with some song seeds. Their care instructions involved atypical rituals. Once performed, songs rapidly sprouted forth. (This is one of them. You must sit and listen.) Then a guy in a suit leaned out of a helicopter…
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THE TIDE POOLS OF CALIFORNIA
capo @ 5 in C. 4/6 time…
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An old tune of mine that I recently added the vocal intro too.
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Maxine turns 70 this week. Spoiler alert.. she's my mum.
Happy birthday Ma!
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The Good Old Days
Greg V1
G Hot summer evening windows down
D Nothing to do but drive around
Am Turn up the song on the radio
C Cruise around nice and slow
Colleen V2
G Wind in my hair and my fav tune on
D I sing the verse and…
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One of those moments I had disappointed my lovely bride...
Tried to apologize with my guitar....hasn't worked yet...
I have a lonely guitar I keep beside my bed
"cause when my guitar's happy my lady's always sad?
The two don't get along…
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As I have said many times...I am happily married 99% of the time.
But this song was written in that 1% time frame? Jokingly.....
I disagree with what you see is always what you get
All I said is two little words, now my life is filled with…
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This would be the ballad of Rick and Debbie, head over heals, how about you?
It was a simple plan take her out one time
But something went wrong with that plan of mine
I didn't fall I didn't fall I didn't fall in love--I took a tumble…
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This song was written for those interested to hear a list of breakfast cereals.
Also, when you reverse "all brands kellogg's" you can hear "smell that in your pool" which makes an interesting title.
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This didn't go as planned... I wrote this song for my wife Nicola while I was away in the UK working in March 2020... I excitedly played it to her from 3,500 miles away over the ether and.... I think she was expecting a ballad rather than a rather…
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It’s like floating down a river
When you’re not quite in control
That river’s going to take you
Only where it wants to go
So you reach out with conviction
At debris along the way
That river’s going to take you
If you give up and say…
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THE TIDE POOLS OF CALIFORNIA
When you're born in California
There are things you take for granted
The sunshine and the desert and
The forests, and the bears and the beaches
In the tide pools of California
In the memories of one little…
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JUNK
This week's prompt is "DIRTY LAUNDRY"
Key C
I got a call from Russell
He had to move his Junk
He'd filled his car
He'd filled his trunk
Big black bags of Something
I said, "What's with these?"
He said…
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OK, let's delve once more into the magical shoebox of unused songs...
I've already recorded several that were written in 1994 (Sleeping with the Ghost, Elizabeth's Room, With Mum Again, If You Knew, A Hundred and…
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A song about two sides of Nashville. One, loving and perfect to nurture an upcoming songwriter. Two, a business of endless circles of deception and frustration. I mostly know the second.....
The rejection letters keep piling up, saying your…
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(Sadly, sometimes one friend thinks they are more than friends?)
Friend, she calls me friend. and I'll never tell her the truth
What I feel, how I wish that this friend could be so much more
But she's too close to ever see, that this friend…
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A song about regrets. Luckily I changed my hectic schedule and was able to spend time with family, especially my Dad before he passed.
If I had time? I'd go visit with my Dad, and listen to those stories of when he was just a child.....If I…
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A funny song about someone's poor luck in marriage. Not being judgmental, but sometimes we just need to laugh.
My first Ex-wife, she bet me, I'd never marry again
She said no woman with half a brain would have me for her man
Well, I proved…
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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
Verse 1
Circumstances… distant romances
I’m waiting for you to come home
And…
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Lyrics:
and i am worn down and i was torn out.
all the things i could've, filled a form right out
is it a worm hole is it a warm hole?
should i take a jacket is it cold outside?
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enter the void now, enter the void now,
every…
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So my lovely wife bought me a guitar this week... I started by learning some basic and easy chord shapes and this song came together. It's the first one I've done where everything is played by me.
It also features my voice on lead and backing…
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Sam Mann and The Apes . Al Teman Howard Teman Eric Teman Sam Mann The original incarnation of this surreal conglomerate of undefinable talent. Ryan Mallory on sax. Brilliant Playing by everyone. Al's guitar playing on this song is some…
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This is from the band Sam Mann and The Apes sometime in the mid later 80's. Brilliant guitar work from Al Teman. Great playing and singing from a top knotch Hollywood strip band.
Lyrics......
Revolution Contribution Make Some Change…
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Just a mellow instrumental to get involved here. Hope you like it!
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please check the video!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyytSMYAARo
I wrote this song about my father and Dementia/Alzheimer's over a year and a half ago. We just finished the song and video, kind of surreal because Dad is in a nursing…
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The Great 2015 Re-Recording Project finally has a final mix!
In 2015, after RPM ended, I asked myself, "now what?" The answer was to take a handful of songs from the previous few years worth of song writing and recording challenges and turn…
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A playmate for Alea on the Reeltime playlist.
Uploaded 6.29.2020
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We got motivated to write something a bit light hearted about our Covid-19 Times.... I hope you'll laugh and sing along with Roger , Colleen, Greg and Steve on this one... any maybe raise a glass of your personal moonshine!!!
https://www.youtube…
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I don't say this often... if you go through the ton of songs I've uploaded here you can probably count the number of times I said this on one hand and have some fingers left over...
I really like this one. Literally everything about it. If…
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First attempt at running a Mini-Moog through a Cry Baby wah-wah pedal. Sound setting was pink noise, with modulation added to the filter about half way through.
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No Matter what,
Believe u can,
Believe in ur seff,
never relen.
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Just a run through in the cellar that turned out pretty cool til the end. I lost my way on the mandolin. The bass track was laid down later. Bless him for trying keep up with the trash I played at the end.
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I recorded 4 separate vox tracks and I couldn't see dumping any of them. Better than reverb!
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A song I recorded along with a friend. We are both guitar focused, so naturally this tracks focuses on the guitar as well.
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I've been busy lately playing The Last Of Us 2 and the similarities between what's going on in reality and the game are on point. We're not far off the cliff. I imagine every man for himself and Evil is resurrected in plain view but believing…
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Rival
Unbridled rivalry
Come down and right on me
I know you won’t take me again
Unbridled rivalry
Come down and right on me
And I know you won’t take me again
Welcome disaster
Hand colored view
We’ve made our beds here
And so…
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This is the last song on The edge of Winter but it is not finished there is another part yet to be written ...
Winter's tale of woe : Part 1 - The end of winter. Part 2 - The last snowstorm
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AKA New Wave or "Unknown #1"
As always, apologies to the band for the guesswork.
LYRICS:
New wave
Wine
Dine
Smile
because I said so that's
Why
Mired
Fired
because I said so
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Excuse the weird title. After completion of the track i had a really weird dream and this is my interpretation of it.
Min 4:00 and on is a calming landing into peacefulness and mindfulness.
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This may well have been our first collaboration, many, many Moons ago.
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I wrote this song as a way to process some of the feelings of sadness, dismay, anger, fear and love that were brewing inside my heart this past week. I live in Minneapolis, where the terrible killing of George Floyd occurred, and the subsequent…
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Another silly little tune, this time about the world's favourite stout! (Edit: uploaded a new version. Fixed a few mistakes.)
Lyrics:
When the sun is up high, in a bright blue sky
And you're walking around in Dublin town
You got nothing…
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Another original tune from Randy Arenson. I get to play a little harmonica on this one.
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Original song by my friend and music partner Randy Arneson.
Recorded in Garageband using a pickup plus condenser mic on a vintage Gibson 12 string (2 channels of guitar). I have a couple different versions of this one recorded...
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Due to climate change we've had little rain in the last couple of years
The day after I had written this song it rained all day :-)
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The third year of drought
Three summers in a row
A relentless…
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I listened to a lot of Orbital back in the days. This song obviously materializes those melodic ideas I've kept safe somewhere in my aural memory.
BTW, the name of the track is a nonexistent word generated by AI.
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the tapes on top of the box of tapes there were three.. that had not been digitized :) and done.. more inside the box and two more boxes after this..--- :)
link to video playlist ---
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9Zb80ovNLWES3c9eCtgUpDZU…
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the tapes on top of the box of tapes there were three.. that had not been digitized :) and done.. more inside the box and two more boxes after this..--- :)
link to video playlist ---
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9Zb80ovNLWES3c9eCtgUpDZU…
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I made a silly little song in French about the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy `:-) Recorded on my phone, hope it sounds ok on the website!
Lyrics:
Je viens d'reveiller
Je ne peux plus dormir
J'prends du cafe
C'comme ça, i'faut s'nourrir…
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I know we're not supposed to pick favorites among our children, but this is my favorite.
I've been told the initial instruments are a little too bold; I kinda think that's the point, but what do I know?
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So named because I overheard a conversation between two people, and one of them actually used this phrase.
It was in Cambridge, if that matters.
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Here it is in all of its glory...
THIS is the song that Mrs R and I had decided was a suitable response to a request to "Upload something HAPPY, stat!!!!!!!!!"
I tried to record it back in 2013 when I wrote it…
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Deep in the dungeons of the dusty archive. I mean, that's where Hopeless Romantics belong, no?
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I don't really remember this one. Oh yeah, on second thought... maybe I do.
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A song from 2015, thinking about goats. Like goats, this one is only smelly if you're standing too close to it.
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Our namesake collaboration!!!!
Empty Bottles Video, compliments of Roger Harris!
https://youtu.be/Tl2pMPFZq7Y
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This is one of the first songs that Dad taught me. It's from the album Mitchell/Coe Mysteries - Exiled. One of my favourite albums ever!
Lead and Backing Vocals: Naomi Daulby
Piano and Orchestration: Performed and recorded at home by Paul…
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Lockdown 2020. Recorded, mixed and mastered at home by me & Billy.
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I was asked (told?) to upload something happy. Hmmm, I thought. This will end well...
So, a few days later, I was rehearsing a pleasant little thing I wrote several years ago that has a working title of "She Was…
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No more covid songs....
Time to write about other things
This one's for my muse
I had uploaded an earlier version, but didn't like the mix
here's another version
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So many years we've been…
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I guess you can call that a religious experience:)
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A new twist on an old favorite (or two!).
In the dumpster fire that was 2020 during Wisconsin's shut down orders for the coof, I was involved with a Facebook group called Jump Around Wisconsin. For those who don't know, between the third and…
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the telemarketers are working from home, very hard indeed.
this gives me the modern blues
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Beauty and artistic taste is clear to everyone and eternal, although it does not save the world.
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A Late Walk
Robert Frost
When I go up through the mowing field,
The headless aftermath,
Smooth-laid like thatch with the heavy dew…
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Steve developed this beautiful track with his ukulele and I added some lyrics to make a "positive message" song for the times we are in.... Hope it makes you smile too...
It Won’t Be Like This Forever
Sitting here on my front steps
Listening…
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A song I made up in retro style, just for a bit of fun ;- ) I used various guitars. It's partly sung in English and some of it in French. I try to do my own mixing, so don't expect too much LOL... Regardless, I hope you enjoy it ! Kind regards…
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We wrote and recorded a new song while we are all on lock down...have really missed playing with the band. Lindy wrote the song and recorded his part at his home studio sent it to me and I added my parts and vocals Our studio is behind Ken's house…
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With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved…
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It was a bright cold day in May, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
- adapted from 1984 by George Orwell
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they were last looking for it where the change goes between the car cushions...
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Free beat Friday 8 is here, and this is
The Remake of Oxlade O2 Song
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a few of us are writing a song using the same base track .
when they are all finished we will put up a play list here is mine
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The creepiest dungeon and fortress beasts are alive during peculiar hours.
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Here's the first of several versions that you'll see from a collaboration across the inter webs started by Greg Connor. He got us together on the Zoom and then look what happened!!!! Music and lyrics collaborated with the talents of Steve Krell…
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