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Maybe I missed a career scoring for no budget spaghetti westerns, because this is what this reminds me of. Done live a couple weeks ago with the Taylor and a floor full of toys and loopers.
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This song features synth strings and ebow.
Written & Performed by Rog Hildreth during February 2012.
Taken from "Rog Hildreth and The Enemies Of Progress".
More of this sort of thing at www.facebook.com/roghildreth
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Quite possibly my favourite song on the record, this one features a Android sequencer (Blip Synthesizer) and some slide guitar.
Written & Performed by Rog Hildreth during February 2012.
Taken from "Rog Hildreth and The Enemies Of Progress…
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Come join me on this sonic joyride...I'm Saved
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This ain't no song about being pretty and watching out for nutty boyfriends...Listen more closely. ;)
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This song sounds like a lonely road by the beach in the late summer/early fall. Try it out when the weather is cooperating with you. Then, reflect on who you are.
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This one is a bit off the beaten path for me, but was fun to record. It has some great tonal coloring happening throughout, so take a listen. See if you can guess what it's about...
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I put locking tuners and flat wound chrome strings on my 17 edo axe. Oh and I quieted the hum quite a bit. There will be more coming. Been a busy week - I think this is the first music I've made all week. I'm outta practice. A whirl with the whammy…
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This is not a song about cheese. (I'm lying.) This is a song about cheese.
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Your typical RPM throw away song. Please don't waste your life listening to this.
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The Broken Cathedral of Christchurch is an ambient poly-tuning piece using 11, 12, and 19 notes to the octave. The instruments used are a Korg MS2000 synthesizer, 19 edo electric guitar (several tracks), and 5 string bass – all with liberal…
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This song IS autobiographical.
I been thinkin about what they call the best-case scenario
And it's 20 more years of this shit, don't you know
dealing with stuff I don't give a damn about
in return for a certain pecuniary amount
ref:
can't…
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Signifies 'Day', second of the two part drone release under the moniker 'Bigotry'.
Usually it goes Day->Night, but because of the dark nature overall, decided to put this track after. The intro provides some soothing, followed by the dusk…
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Regrets are useless. Make it right the next time. Stick around for the Pet Warning reprise.
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Untold stories of the Fab Four
Amy Gilronan-Zanelli - Vocals
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Some jackoff at Wawa switched the pots on us. Now driving drowsy. FRESH POTS!!!!
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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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K.G. had a moody theme going on some of his tunes this year. love his words. this song is very easy on my ears. hope you agree.
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It was just how long to piece was..but somehow five more seconds crept on...
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TWO POUNDS - (Diethylstilbestrol Daughters)
"DES, which was once prescribed to prevent miscarriages, caused obesity, rare vaginal tumors, infertility, and testicular growths among those exposed in utero." http://www.motherjones.com/environment…
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i can hear the digits in your digital audio
i feel the need to fidget with my mouse and my moby
i’m listless as i listen to prestigious presentations
of manipulated data and prestidigitation
i type unlisted numbers into my communicator
i'm dubious…
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I grew up in Redding, California. That part of Northern California is more like Alabama than it is San Francisco. Hence, it could be called "Calibama."
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Track 4 of "Cutting Edge Nonsense"
Alas..the title cut.That deep bass rumble you first hear? That would be a Tibetan Singing Bowl.I wanted a tribal feeling for this piece.
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Apocrypha is a progressive rock song in the sense of Rush more than ELP or Yes. I had come up with the guitar and via my GR-20 the strings - everything else you hear was performed by my long time collaborator Frank Miller (Phantasm777) - so that…
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Finally something reasonably heavy! Rock on! Climate change is a real thing. Denying it doesn't change that. End political statement.
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hehehee, wrote this with a high fever, and Tim of Letter 17 was gracious enough to sing it for me. My house plants being psycho and eating each other. I SAID I had a high fever =D Dawna~
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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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I did this classic a little while back with Mike over at the cool lab and i'd forgotten to put it up.....one from the teenage mists of time.........
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originally written and performed by Chris Cornell.
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Reg has met a new girl she’s a little unstable but he loves her just the same................
Time Bomb (Lyrics)
Yeah baby your just like a ticking bomb
Ooh baby your just like a ticking bomb
The only trouble is if you explode
The only trouble…
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Well E did a drums and vocal down the cellar early this morning............
A Love That Is Real
i know that love can be lonely
i know that love can be cruel
i know what i want and i know what your love
so don’t be so cold, lady don’t be so…
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Well you knew he would be in the end.. .i liked the song but not the way it was performed so here's Take 2......
Going to hell in a rowing boat (Lyrics)
Im Going off to hell in a rowing boat
He’s going to hell in a rowing boat
Im Going to…
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Here's Number 9 for the RPM Challenge nearly finished writing ....then i'll try to clean them up a bit if i have time....i dragged Elvis out again for this one and tried to play my uncles Harmonica he left me for the first time.........
Are you…
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I tried to replicate the sound of a baby's heartbeat and made a song out of it.
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Another Live performance with former band mates in Scartaglen back in 1988 on the NPR show Mountain Stage. This time a piece of Gaelic mouth music followed by 3 reels. Maybe the most complex arrangement of a set of tunes that we ever did.
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Took a sample of a cd skipping (artist was Skip James, irony) and messed with it in Filtatron app,added some awful funk accompaniment that sounds like a soundtrack for a bad porn movie, hence the title.
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Frank Miller (phantasm777) added excellent vocals and drums - I like it much better this way - hope you do too! (still 17 equal tuning)
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revamping the old mind set with a chromatic run up and down :)
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Also just for storage purposes.
A track I made in high school when I was 16 or 17 with my sax buddy Matt Nelson who is currently touring with tUnE-YaRdS.
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My second attempt at the RPM challenge 2012......
DO WE STAY OR DO WE GO (Lyrics)
I drink to try and resolve all the problems that i know
i try to find some kind of escape but i’m afraid that i’m just too late
all my thoughts they whirl around…
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I was listening to Jesmiaus earlier Trick of your love (RPM2012) and it gave me an idea for my first RPM this year...so thanks Will...... hope you all enjoy this....i did doing it...they say smoking weed can make you schitzophrenic but i’m not…
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Another cut from the 1988 cassette tape of a live performance by Scartaglen on the NPR show Mountain stage. This time some tunes from County Kerry.
Kirk Lynch- Uilleann pipes and whistle. Becky Pringle- Fiddle. Mike Dugger- Fiddle and guitar…
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working out a few ideas for my RPM2012 album. A Couple of em might make it up here before I really begin working on it in february :)
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I really enjoyed this collab took me back to my teens....Led Zep 2 was my first introduction into Zeppelin and i loved every track....and thanks to Gene i got to be the lead singer for a few Minutes..
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Act 1 Scene 1 The Disco - this is music from my musical, the opening scene which is set in a disco (nightclub - if you are under 40!!). It explores the different perceptions of the club in a pseudo-political and economic view. Mr Evol - the…
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The old Blues man came down the cellar tonight and wanted to sing some Elvis and this is what we cam up with hope you enjoy......
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Had an hour or so this evening spare so i dragged the £16 special out and joined Elvis down the cellar and we got down to this one a Regged up version of the Elvis Classic ....
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This is my bluegrass cover of an Ernest Tubb tune. Guitar, banjo, mandolin and bass. Check out the video.
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Recorded with friends at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Oregon in 2006 or 2007. Far from a track of much worth, but uploaded here for posterity and sharing of what I find to be a fairly amusing recording.
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My Blues Lesson 2 redone the lead with less notes which i think is more what teach wanted than the first one........and wrote a different song to the tune
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This song was inspired by a long walk....
Lyrics:
Down by the river, down by the shore we go
The moon above cast a beautiful glow
We walked around talking through the night
I can’t help but think how it felt right
Hey Constance, don’t you feel…
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The other Reg has got the Blues too the Folsom kind......
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Poor Reg's mate Ronald lost his job in the Government cuts now this whole world is caving in..... he has the bailiffs pounding at his door and he can't take anymore........he has lost his pension....soon to lose his house ......he's already lost…
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The rhythm is a little off here and there. I'm not used to playing a keyboard.
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live at Avant Garden in Houston, Tx. 12/28/11
This edit contains the motifs Up the Chupacabra and Hymn.
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Down the cellar this evening we were having a bit of fun with this old Elvis Classic ....he didn't seem to mind.....but Dr Nick had been in earlier.........with the one armed Banjo band backing...
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The insecurity of criticism to the nowhere man ......... I didn't have time this evening to put any music to this so i've put an old instrumental (The Turkish Lout) to it.....hope you enjoy my little drama about that nowhere man....(Be Warned…
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Well heres my attempt at singing Jerusalem....i would have liked to have performed it better so that the vocal would have done Chris's music more Justice but sometimes you just have to do what you can and go with the flow........thanks Chris…
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originally written and performed by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.
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Homer used to play music for a living and you know what that means
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Parts I and II originally written and performed by Neutral Milk Hotel
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originally written and perfomed by Jeremy Messersmith
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This one seems very apt for today's financial climate..........
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Barbara Anne Taylor sings.
Que Paso capo @ 5 in G
Am/G x3
G G bass Em Am bass G bass F#
The man on the radio said we are falling apart
Am bass G bass F# G
Falling apart…
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C F Dm
Last night I was riding alone with the herd
G C
The moon and the stars in the night
The smell of the horses and grasses…
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It was a huge affair. Bigger than the Texas Jam.
But what would you expect from the first concert
staged on the moon?
TEXAS WATER
She's got stretch marks on her psyche
Her attitude is hanging down
But she's gonna pull it all together…
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CHOICES
"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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I have a video called THE BROKE PIANO on line at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JON_poM_sdY
Ironically, it does not include this song.
Key D
D (figure is D D sus, D D sus)
I am a BROKE PIANO. Got no damper and no keys
G…
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JUST A CAT
It looks like someone taped a firecracker to him and blew it off.
"Firecracker?"
He's just a cat. Just a cat. A raggedy old cat.
So why are we crying?
The world is on fire.
Light the fuse. It's a firecracker
"Firecracker…
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ACID TEARS
As the hours turn into days and the weeks turn into years
I am happy, but I'm always close to tears
Surely as the love that we share will last forever
Our bodies will die and our love will go on
And tho the thot that love will…
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DENIAL SANATA
Denial's not a river in Egypt.
Oh, yes it is. Oh, yes it is.
The Nile is a river in Egypt
Oh, yes it is. Oh, yes it is
Put your feet in the water
Put your head in the sand
Put your hands in your pockets
Try to clap for…
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ADOLESCENT ANGEL - capo @ 6 in C
C F C
Morning sun shies thru the curtains
C G C
Throwing shadows on her face
C F C
I…
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TESLA
Who invented remote control? TESLA
Who invented the fluorescent light? TESLA
Who invented the radio? TESLA
And who died alone and forgotten in 1943? TESLA
So, you say now, “Don’t be angry.”
And you say, “Just tell the story…
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KAMP KERR
Well, I ain't no hero. I'm just trying to survive
Me and Cindy, we just staying alive
We got a hurt in our heart and a tear in our eye
But, we ain't heroes
There's a small-town constable, he likes to play cop
So he bought a…
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This is my Katrina song.
THE NEW NEW ORLEANS WALTZ
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
It's been the ruin of many a boy
And Lord knows I am one
Storms may come and storms may go
But the sun will always shine
Unless…
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HERE COMES LONELY
A Rick Babb song
Ronnie says it's over. I don't believe
I'm not willing to give up
I'm not ready to see
She's made up her mind
She's counted to three
Here comes Lonely
Ronnie says it's over. I understand
It's been…
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BACK TO ONCE UPON A TIME
What does it profit a man to win the whole world and lose his girl?
A man must have a reason. A poet needs a rhyme
To make it thru a dark season, back to Once Upon A Time
The seasons pass so slowly as the seeds push…
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HER DOG
Alright, everybody gather 'round. Got it? Here we go.
Her dog is old. She ;listens as it coughs
He sobers on the hardwood floor
and then he licks the sloper off.
She swears the day is coming when she'll take him to the vet
But…
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POTTER'S FIELD KEY Em Capo @ 3
Em……..(hold) Figure 1 is C G Am Em, Figure 2 is A A Em Em
F 1 - You might as well take me out and stand me up against the wall
F 1 - I don't want no bandanna, no cigarettes to ease the fall
F 2 - No…
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I DO - capo @ 3 in C
C Dm
You made the stars disappear
G C G
You said the words that I most feared
C stepping down to G...C
Why in the world…
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THE POWER OF GOOD-BYE
I guess I've always been a sissy
I smash my finger and I cry
And when you say that you don't miss me
I wonder at The power of Good-bye
I know a man should never crumble
The faith he claims, it will deny…
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PEGGY'S GONE Key of F
Peggy’s gone. After 29 years.
Three grown children. What am I doing here.
Why am I still alive? What am I supposed to do?
I ask myself. I’m asking you.
Peggy’s gone. She says it’s for good
I say, “That’s bad,” but…
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This is my adaptation of a poem by Rosemarie Kempton.
"I always felt that it was fitting that you turned the poem I wrote into a poignant hymn that captured the feeling of loss of a loved one. My words sprang from my attempts to understand…
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CEDRICK Key G Open G tuning (GGDGBD)
He gave me 2 rings. Silver with turquoise insets. That was 1974. We were moving from Oregon to Texas in an old Dodge school bus. Towing the Chevy Van behind it. Unhitched the van when we stopped in Albuquerque…
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This is the title song from my first LP.
FEATHERS IN THE WIND by SNOWGEESE.
Snowgeese was my first wife, BarbaraAnne and me. Michael was a new friend we met when we moved to Texas that liked my songs enough to produce and arrange and record…
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SHE DOESN'T THINK WE CAN MAKE IT
She doesn't think we can make it
She doesn't think you can take it
She'll do what she can to break it
If she can't have me, she'd rather see me alone
She asked me into her mind, and
She knew the things…
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The banjo, bass and guitar on this song
was played by Michael Jeffrey. This is one song off the record we did together back in 1975/6 on his 4 track machine. Michael and Barbara Anne Taylor sing harmony.
I LIVE WITH REBECCA
I live with…
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SWEET YOUNG THING
He lays out a freshly pressed Arrow
Clean socks and his new underwear
He brushes his teeth with tooth paste
There's a charge in the air
He thinks about that Sweet Young Thing
And how she trembled, the night before
He…
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Yes. Every word of it...
Blue Reversing Taylor
Born in 1979
Almost lost in 2008
Bullet
River took a bullet. A bullet in his chest
One went thru his forearm. In his hip one came to rest.
But River didn't feel it. He was busy at the time…
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BOBBIE DIED
Bobby died night before last
I didn't notice
I walked right past all the cars on the street
I thot it must me some kind of church group
Bobby died and I know she'll be missed
And, Buford, he won't get over this
He depended…
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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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There was a guy I met. His name was King.
He gave me this title and a bit of the story.
He liked what I did with his idea...
and, then, he vanished.
I can't understand the words either.
(C) 2008 Royal T Music
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THE ANGELS CRIED NO - capo @ 4 in Am
Am Em - He lived high up on the mountain top
He lived there with his love
He tumbled to the valley deep
F - When she gave him a shove
And, when he hit the valley deep
It must have broke his heart…
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THE RING IN THE ASH TRAY
Capo @ 3 in G
G
There's a ring in the ash tray of a blue '95 Bronco
C G
In a driveway with a sign that says FOR SALE
D…
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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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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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HOME ON THE RANGE
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play…
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When this happened I couldn't get home before I had the song half written. What a lonely feeling.
NOBODY KNOW ME IN TOWN ANY MORE Key of G
G Em
There’s a bird in the gutter that…
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This was my dad's favorite song of mine about thirty years ago. Maybe it was because he just liked to hear me sing s positive song for a change.
(C) 2011 Royal T Music
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This is a Rick Babb song.
Hey! What's that sound
You're not around
The silence makes me see
Just what you meant to me
It's quiet tonight
Ah, you're not coming back
You drove away
I watched you pack
I can't hear a thing
But the sound…
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My high school friend was transporting a scroll to Los Angeles to be repaired...
SCROLL
There was a girl with a broken scroll
To make repairs, she took a stroll
To the city of angles right down the road
She made plans, then up and goed…
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THE BASHFUL TROMBONE
I'd be embarrassed by this if I had any pride.
But I don't so....
(C) 2009 Royal T Music
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WHEN I BELIEVED IN CHRISTMAS
When I was a kid
going home on the bus
we would sing Christmas songs
all the way to our stop
and we never asked questions
or doubted the things
we were told by our
parents or teachers or politicians.
How I wish…
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This started off as the first unplugged recording I ever made.
Bruce (Blooby)kindly added some drums and pipes to it....
Then Oldrottenhead sang a lyric over it a bit later...
The way this evolved amazed be. Never thought it would…
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Well Reg is drunk again in the cellar and getting Morose thinking of how he was treated so badly by yet another woman who has left him....... so he's had to vent it into this blues song for the broken people................He just doesn't know…
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Jango and Louis got to it this afternoon after watching the Wizard Of Oz on the Tv after a hefty lunch down the cellar and brought a tear to everyones eye.....................after Norm said about the dark side of the Rainbow i decided to check…
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Veejay Andres- vocals, bells, bass drum, cymbal
Raeann Feist- vocals
Daniel Wilson- accordion
Josh Brokaw- lyrics, mandolin
Justin Alcasid- upright bass
JV Andres- vocals, guitalele, tambourine, claps, whistle, violin, mandolin, banjo…
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A Christmas song about what really matters.........i got the idea for the music listening to Jarvis and his accordian the other evening so thanks J........
A CHRISTMAS SONG (Lyrics)
Welcome to christmas eve the show begins again
were going…
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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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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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Well Jefferry came down the cellar this evening for a chat and a bit of consoling.................. so we decided to recant his tale of woe........................poor old Jeferry.............
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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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Written in 1989 and performed ever since by the Sluggos, this song was also covered by Split Lip Rayfield and appears on their album "Never Make It Home." The one song in my catalog that draws any royalties.
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A bit of a Jazzy noodle under influence of a nice drop of Red.................
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I heard Jimi Jamin for the first time the other day after M.T.C commented on it with ".yep....this jim is jammin today" and it got me thinking about Jim when he's jamming and his inspirations i may be well of the mark but hey! were trying…
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Heres a collab with Wildgeas Music a beautiful bit of music hope i did it justice with the vocal............
Tomorrow (Lyrics)
I know the curse of the darkness is coming
those dark nights that will feed upon my soul
with no forward glance of tomorrow…
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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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Sympathy for a Friend is an ambient 19 edo electric guitar solo, picked, finger picked, and ebowed with effects.
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Details for this solo piano waltz
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1716
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