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From 2011 but apparently never got around to uploading this. Live looping with the 12 string. The title refers to the great Ralph Towner.
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LOCOMOTIVE BREATH
In the shuffling madness
Of the locomotive breath
Runs the all time loser
Headlong to his death
Oh, he feels the piston scraping
Steam breaking on his brow
Old Charlie stole the handle
And the train, it won't stop going…
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gig rehearsal recording. overdubbed bass and gtr.
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Final track for RPM14. 5 guitar tracks. Lotsa editing. Not my usual way.
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I think the muse of jj cale must have paid me a visit/
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Capo @ 3 in Em
Em D
Weather man is talking on the radio.
Am C B7
Says the sun is going to shine but does he…
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Recorded for the 2013 [NaSoAlMo challenge.](http://www.nasoalmo.org/)
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You're livin' hard
And I understand
You have my word
I won't make demands
There's a feelin'
I got about you
And we'll soon find out
If the feelin's true…
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Recorded for the 2013 [NaSoAlMo challenge.](http://www.nasoalmo.org/)
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It's amazing what they'll tell ya
When they got somethin' to sell
Their mama shoulda told 'em
It's a sin to tell a lie
But it's too late now
So I guess they can…
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At last... I've managed to finish something.
This was written months ago. I was about to try recording it with one or two others when this year's decorating started. With various buggered fingers, back muscles, etc, etc, I wasn't actually able…
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cbg,TF Looper and NSynth app
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO4tEQHTrIU
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"Above the hills, along the blue,
Round the bright air with footing true,
To please the child, to paint the rose,
The gardener of the World, he goes.
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R.L.Stevenson
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Live from the Feed Your Head set. This one is an ebow loop with the drummers mixed in later.
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lots of different things I tried in this one, mostly in structure and vox, as well as harmony and texture. I guess it is a progressive type song with some gloom.
the intro is a short bass thing with effects called nectar, its like 25 sec.s…
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Unplugged cover of the Beastie Boys track off of their first album.
Beastie Boys have always been a big influence on me, great to cover one of their songs.
Also in tribute to Adam
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"I Pity The Hipster" Will I Ram 2012
Lyrics :
Lipstick and makeup
Ashes in ashtray
Wake up and stay up
The night into day
Watch watching
Blot scatter polka dots
Like they mean a lot
Biker skater folk musician
Like they have something to say…
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Tom's mom once described Killian's Irish Red as "Coors with red dye." We found it hilarious.
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Short ambient piece with loops created in animoog and thumbjam apps.
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So I was locked in the broom-cupboard, checking out some old songs that need recording.
I'd just picked one and then suddenly this thing came out of nowehere. It started with one of those guitarist doodles that other musicians love so much…
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I ruin it again - but in a different way.
This is the harpsichord that was sampled.
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First new one from me in a long time.
Kind of a love song, I guess.
Recorded in my new "studio" (3rd bedroom in the new house). Almost up and running now... shine and don't stop wondering!
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**Shine - A A J Russe**
On my way…
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First hand at 'proper' sampling, tried mixing two opposite music genres. Result's not bad, but not best either. The premise is there, but it doesn't go above the atmosphere imo.
Vocals are public domain, here: http://archive.org/details/MariaPodgornik…
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This one features a backwards sample of one of my older songs, something I've been meaning to try for a while now.
Written & Performed by Rog Hildreth during February 2012.
Taken from "Rog Hildreth and The Enemies Of Progress".
More of…
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Tess Savage - composition, synth, strings, voice
Mr Sandbags - beats & reichatron samples
Deep in the night
I remember
Euphoria
(Savage 2012)
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Still waiting for the bump to hatch.....so i thought there all a sleep i’ll nip down the cellar........well heres a depressing un-trusting one....i always seem to write a real sad song when i’m really happy...i wonder why that is???...anyway i…
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They stuck me in a room with air in good condition
And a two-piece box of Kentucky Fried Chicken
I even ate the biscuit that came with the deal
I didn't like it but I ate it
Just to see how it would feel
Just to see how it would feel
I…
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SLOOP JOHN B - REVISITED
My 9/11 song
Come on the Sloop John B, my grandfather and me
Blindly sailing. Hopes are failing. Storm hangs o're the sea
Guns a-blazing! Blaze amazing. Pants down around my feet
Captain, he got drunk. Just sits…
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This is, actually, the instrumental version of I Play C and THEN comes SNAPSHOTS, which was written one morning at a campground between Comfort and Welfare, Texas called OLD NUMBER NINE Depot. It was a weekend songwriter retreat with Liza Gilkyson…
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HE MOVED ON
capo @ 7 in C positions
C G Am Em
Jenny left her husband many years ago
F C G
She got lost in menopause and found herself…
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CHRISTMAS@#$%&
I don't want to seem obnoxious
I always try to be polite
But there are some things that bother me
That keep me up at night
And I ain't no damned atheist
and I ain't no Hebrew
And I ain't one to hold my tongue
when the thots…
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This is an instrumental, really 2 songs. The 1st part is funky with Tom Pecard on sax. The 2nd part is a carnival, polka thing inspired by Wisconsin. Hope you dig it.
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A cover of a song by Sufjan Stevens.
JV- vocals, guitalele
Veejay- vocals, mandolin, shaker, tambourine, bells
Abraham, worth a righteous one.
Take up on the wood,
put it on your son.
Lake or lamb.
There is none to harm.
When…
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This song was originally written for my church's 2011 Good Friday service. It's been tweaked to fit into a farewell album recorded for my pastor and his family.
JV- vocals, guitar
Holy one
You are the way
Precious son
Of light and clay…
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A cover of a song written by Welcome Wagon and written by Vito Auito.
JV- guitar, vocals
Veejay- piano, mandolin, vocals
Up on a mountain our Lord is alone
Without a family, friends or a home
He cries ooh, ooh, ooh, will you stay with…
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This song is an arrangement by Neil Anderson of a hymn by S. Trevor Francis.
JV- vocals, guitar
Veejay- vocals, melodica, shaker, foot tambourine
O the deep, deep love of Jesus,
vast, unmeasured, boundless, free!
Rolling as a mighty…
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Reg has had a little too much to drink and decides to have a dance................while the piano players are at combat for supremacy......there's a rumble going on...............
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Poor old Reg he cant figure it out!! ........ since he's been listening to his self help tapes to stop drinking he has never got any money and he just doesn't understand it, he keeps working coming home relaxing to the tape........... then when…
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This one was so much fun to do its over run a bit and wore poor old Reg out so much they have had to call an ambulance to the cellar to get him ..... His two friends worry about him on the way home.....................hope his ok?
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.......if there not the one,should you keep looking, if so for how long...........well Reg threw Henwrench's music into the cellar and what bounced out was a song he wasn't suspecting....
Love me tender
I've been alone now seems to long…
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Louis was back in the cellar last night and he was telling Reg how Blue he was and they got to jamming...............This morning i arrived at the cellar to find Bon was passed out in the corner....Dave was right with his guess....He could never…
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New one from me. It's ended up as a bit of a "crying into yer beer at Bob's Country Bunker" sort of song lol...
I've been sat on these lyrics in some form or another for absolutely years. I first wrote them one very dark night a few years after…
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No more messing about for Reg, this is the one she has long black satin hair the body of an angel, her accent is pure English rose she stands by the bar talking to her friends, she turns Reg catches her eye and smiles a bolt of electricity zaps…
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This is a one hour piece I did after having poisoned myself with MSG.
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Reg is wanting his lady to come home, he misses her, he needs her everything has gone wrong................RPM2011
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There is a small flicker of faith that he will make it through. He has found himself in the market place surrounded by people, looking for compassion. There is none. He feels invisible, centered on his own problems but that small flicker of faith…
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Well, I finally got my hands on a 17 note per octave electric guitar thanks for Brad Smith, a local Luthier who did a lovely conversion of a Jay Turser strat copy I bought at the local Guitar Center for $65. The guitar is nicely very bright…
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Reg told her it all, then he had to leave. His new flat has a bit of a gloom about it on this morning when he wakes to the Buzz of the Tv....................
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How can anyone love me if i don't love myself again from the Begingings tapes
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"Somewhere between the stumbling and the falling..."
SOMEWHERE
G capo @ 2 - live @ 4
Somewhere between the summer and the winter
The leaves between the tree tops and the fall
Somewhere between my heart and circled letters
Somewhere…
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Percussion by Norm
Lyrics by Rat-Hybrids
It's been tough to keep up lately, hope everyone is well.
Something I was working on as part of a larger project. When it's done I'll link it.
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I also recorded this once through on the Martin and Zoom H-2 yesterday as well. One day I'll do a decent version of this, I promise. For now this is my modest Happy B-day to John.
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Thought I'd try an improv with two capos to get an open C tuning.
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as the name implies this is sans plectrum. as I have often done in my prerecording days I pluck and strum at a ferocious pace, executing some epic switch backs around :45. There is no distortion on this, compressed acoustic guitar track.
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A few of you know I accidentally wiped out one of my SD cards that had all my works in progress on it. I'm just starting to piece it all together again - A slow process. This was supposed to be a reprise to "In My Head", but ended up being in…
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24-hour album.
This album is a collage of several disconnected pieces recorded & mixed over 18 hours or so.
I've left it as a single long track, but here's a sort of navigational guide if you want to skip around:
0:00 - 1:30 = Living…
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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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The verses in this song alternate being about my best friend when I was a little kid, and my best friend at the time I wrote it. I thought it was brave and artsy at the time. Then I grew up. :)
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Moody, ambient track with a bit of clicky rhythm to it. This is what happens when I compose music when I've got a headache.
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live @ Dunn Bros. 1/29/10
Ross Reitzammer - flute
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Never know what you'll find in the junk yard.
This builds Space Junk up to a glorious 7 instances of Alchemy (all frozen and flattened of course).
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All Alchemy all the time.
Three instances of Alchemy, and tons of automation. There are laws against this kind of fun. Please don't turn me in.
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As another day ends, nightfall comes to the city.
I dedicate this song to my home, México City. This tune was inspired by its quiet and beautiful side and the remnants of nature still present on it.
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This song was made by two different piano samples (both
from Sudara):
1. One was recorded by Sudara (and gang?) axing away at a hapless old piano in New Mexico.
2. today, I convinced Sudara to noodle on the piano and send it over to me…
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Another experiment. The name comes from the fact that I was in the woods; not because I was really concerned about making woodsy sounds...
Thanks again to glu and Chris McGrath for opening my eyes to some different Live tricks...
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First, I did Voices. Then glu worked his magic. Then I hated my guitar part so I redid it. Here's the result.
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Brief musical sketch, to be transformed into a teary-eyed country weeper.
Instrumentation:
1 Dobro Resonator Guitar, played on both sides of a slide.
[If you give a page a dobro ...]
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This is a track that I started and glu finished (more like knocked out of the park).
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NOT FINISHED. another draft. just putting it up here so that i kick myself in the pants to flesh it out and write verses and whatnot and redo everything. great!
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Something completely different- Uilleann pipes(Irish bagpipes) and synth. I wrote this tune over 20 years ago in the style of traditional Irish slow airs. It was recorded way back in 1991 for an album that's been out of print for over 15 years…
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the first multi track piece that I actually finished "in the box" in Cubase. An ambient kinda thing that grew out of playing around with the Line 6 DL4. Not sure I like the bow parts, but I may re do it later
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This tune has been knocking about in various forms for the last decade and I've never given it a name.
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The first track I built, back when I was still full of hope for this exercise. I'm not convinced the hope survived it :)
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This is a remastered version of DJam, uploaded previously, with Darrin Kobetich on mandolin. Look him up on myspace, he's an incredible guitarist! I am playing a National Estralita resonator tuned to double drop-D.
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Recorded at Coldbath Rd. Moseley, Birmingham. I don't remember many warm days in that house. Cups of soup, rolled cigarets, and the luxury of new strings by the sounds of it.
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part of my epic poem! I wouldn't blame you if you don't want to listen, I sure as hell still don't know how to read poetry!
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A little instrumental collaboration with John MacDonald on guitar.
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Nice melodic pop song. Mostly guitar instrumental with a roll your top down, feel good outlook.
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I took you seriously
I took it carefully
I didn't want to breathe too loudly
I walked around silently
I didn't say a word
Fear was there beside me
I know it sounds absurd
But so what?
So what.
I lived without money
I've lived without…
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credits: samples Sailesh Rao of Climate Healers and music by Peder B. Helland
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Some cd glitching mashed with a track from exactly a year ago, "schyzotransient"
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The Analog Sun pierces through the blinds and windows of The Digital City, signalling a new day has begun.
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Waiting for someone to come over. Around the playground of children, in the garden of love.
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These tracks (Easyeverything) were made while trying out some new gear; Moog Grandmother and Elektron Model Samples specifically. I tried to make the sort of Chillwave/Vaporwave I like to use as background music, while trying out arps and sequencers…
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Kavin aka Coelocanth created two percussive pieces for this weekend's Sound-In Event that after a couple listens I wanted to remix. That led to some twisting and adding in a couple of sequences from the Freesound.org world featuring Aceinet and…
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I was just experimenting with a new arrangement for my cheap condenser mics to try to get better acoustic instrument sound. I think I got on to something I like better. Anyway, fooling around with it, and with this traditional sea shanty (and…
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This song is the result of a dream that our bass guitarist had. The words describe the dream...
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Track 4 from our Second Release Entitled
PATH TO REPRESSION from 2006
Vocals - Zack Muffett
Bass - Tyler Harvey/Ed Price
Guitar - Tyler Harvey
Guitar - Ed Price
Keyboards - Dave Jelsma
Drums - Todd Weir
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Track 1 from our 2010 EP Nefarious Evils
Gregg Bock - Vocals
Javier Silva - Bass
Guitar - Ed Price
Guitar - Tyler Harvey
Keyboards - Carreen Price
Drums - Todd Weir
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Piano that I have not played in ages a bit rough.
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chris vaisvil did all guitars (22 edo) and the basic idea, therefore, it is his song mostly!
I did the drums, bass, vox, lyrics and mix.
just another monday © - words by frank miller
feel indifference spreading
i feel…
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Has an intro and outro. It's a guitar solo! ...I woke up from a Coma a couple of years ago with nerve damage in my left arm, and was told I'd never play again. Since then, I've worked hard to do so, and this is one such attempt.
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I'd been following the Euro horsemeat scandal since it broke in the UK some time ago. But the songwriter in me didn't react until Ikea found pony in their Swedish meatballs the other day.
Alonetoners - you're hearing it first!
** THE PONY…
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here is my cover of the turtles covering the byrds with - you showed me. one of the mellower songs i've done in my collection of creations.
i spent many hours on it, there is a harmony blunder very briefly, about half way through but other than…
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sorry about the title (working title). actually a strange little track for Shorties designed for an upcoming "indie" "rock" album...
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He walks through the city, the lights all aglow,
Faces rush past him, but none seem to know.
He whispers to shadows, he speaks to the skies,
Asking the night where his true love hides.
But the stars keep their silence, the moon turns away…
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The city hums like a restless dream
Lights flicker
Fade
Then lose their gleam
I walk these streets
But they don’t know my name
I’ve been chasing shadows
Losing time
Looking for a spark
A sign
Take me home
Where the air feels lighter…
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Young but Ready
Chorus:
I am young but ready—oh yes, send me, Lord.
My wasted days are gone; they are no more. Lead me, Lord.
With You by my side, I have nothing to fear;
You’re my rock and shield. Dear Lord, send me!
Verse 1:
I was…
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When the rain comes
as it always does
I remember you with me
Under the kissing tree
you fell with me
fell with me
You have been so far
so far from me
across the sea
And when the rain comes
as it always does
I remember you…
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developing a new technique, playing with two slides on left hand, first and third finger. "Desert" tuning: CGDEGD
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I wrote this when the cliche's were still new and dirt was rocks. Keith Richards was still pretty old though.
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Lost In The Wild
Chorus:
Lost in the wild, then You found me, Lord, and made me whole.
In desert winds, You were the spring that soothed my weary soul.
When I was blind, Your light broke through and led me on my way.
When I fell silent…
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