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First Release as Frek and The Elixir
Improvised electro acoustic
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First experimental release from Frek and the Elixir.
Frek and the Elixir is my solo project.
The song changes a lot! listen through to the end to take the whole journey!
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I play live at my Dad's assisted living facility on a Yamaha Clarinova.
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I play live at my Dad's assisted living facility on a Yamaha Clarinova in whatever tuning Yamaha thinks is "pure minor". You'll hear the difference.
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I play live at my Dad's assisted living facility on a Yamaha Clarinova.
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I play live at my Dad's assisted living facility on a Yamaha Clarinova.
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Reg was looking through some old notebooks last night in the cellar and found this one..................Divorce is a terrible thing to experience all the mixed emotions and torment.............
VOICES IN THE NIGHT (Lyrics)
Voices in the…
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A tail-end edit from the Halloween Mega-track. Jeff Duke provided the ambient guitarscapes.
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I decided to take this classic Doors song in a totally different direction to the first one i put up......so here it is hope you enjoy it as much as i did doing it..........
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Just posting a stripped-down version (as per a listener request) of this DADGAD tuned song.
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This one is for the U2 Fest over at Songcrafters .....i've always loved this song so i thought i'd try to cover it using the £16 Guitar
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Bluesy country song with a dobro about a man who didn't like my leadership style. "I know who I am, and what I believe...that's alright" !.
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6 string lapsteel fun ! Luv dat slidey sound !.
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A simple uke song about the simple things in life..."I like simplicity"
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This began as a remix of a song I did almost exactly a year ago, and I wanted to see how the same melodies and motifs could evolve over the amount of time. While I stuck with the same acoustic recordings from the original session, the synths ended…
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THE GIRL HERE IN MY HEART
If anybody sees her will you tell her that I love her
She might not remember. Now she loves another
If you ever see her you will recognize her
The girl here in this picture. She's the girl here in my heart
If…
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I heard shamoozey do this one the other day and enjoyed listening to his version, it got me remembering that I first sang this as a young boy soloist in the Choir for the Christmas carol concert. I recall being scared and thrilled at the same…
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Reg has never really understood Love.......... not in last 20years since first hearing this song .........it's still all a Mystery to him................
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A song made thanks to the Net. Music by Greg Connor & Steve Krell, Lyrics by me and Harmonica by my best mate Dave. Love it.
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Interstellar Wind is a microtonal piece performed on Tibetan Singing Bowls creating samples that were then sequenced in Sonar X1.
Details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1522
Full quality video (~90 megabytes)can be downloaded here:
http://micro…
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Reg was looking through you tube videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGQxhaPhFDs&feature=related and was shocked at what he saw.........
THE PLAGUE OF METH (Lyrics)
She seems twisted in her agony
her pain is visible
its destroyed her
tormented…
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One of my first songs on geetar that wasnt for a girl
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An adaptation of Blake's poem, featuring his ghost.
AND - a treat for Halloween - a video, also featuring his ghost.
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Recorded at the V.I.P. Pizza & Pub in Superior Wisconsin
7-23-11.
Two Original Songs:
1. Mini Van
2. Hey Motorman
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Drum-n-bass composition I did back in 2004 via digital-razor-blade technique with an additional fat synth line. That's it. Hear something you want to add? Go for it!
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Reg has never been to America but he loves the idea of the freedom of such a huge country with so much variation.....so one day he’s going to get himself a ticket and find out for himself.......mean while he’ll have to do with writing songs about…
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I wanted to do a country song for my brother Mike, but I really don't know much about country music. This is the result.
Hope you like it, Mike.
LYRICS:
Ain't got no woman
Ain't got no car
All I got is bills
and a half assed will…
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Dad made notes everday from about 1950 to 1992 about the weather and things going on...I am lucky to have these notes to put to song.
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Dedicated to the pastime of watching birds.
YouTube video attached:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN_x2C-uq4M&t=30s
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Reg woke from his nightmare gasping for breath.....but it was ok it was only a dream........it was only a dream....wasn't it?
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summer 77, good times, partying up a storm and met the love of my life. its a slow rock song about remembering and learning to move on.
14. 77 ©
back then i didnt know
captured…
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starts as kind of a uriah heep instrumental then right into a haunting gothic love song.
13. ethereal stagecoach ride / dance macabre ©
the suns gone down
no humans to be found
the shadows will…
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Inspired by the local Farmers Market in my community.
YouTube video is attached.
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Details and another piece
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1477
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Powerful lyrics not mine but very good......you can see the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ju5QNsEAcU
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"Hey Motorman" was written for the 100 year celebration of the Ariel Lift Bridge.
The bridge was originally built in 1907 with a gondola that went from side to side carrying passengers and vehicles. It was later replaced with a lift system.
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"The Bridge" was written for the 100 year celebration of the Ariel Lift Bridge in Duluth MN.
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an outtake from the first album in 2005.
Joe Silence - guitar and electronics
Mark Cook - Warr Guitar, programming and electronics
Jason Spradlin - drums
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Dedicated to my grandfather, and not dedicated to a few people... especially a certain one named "bob".
Lyrics:
the last true gentleman is dead. i’d ask you to care, but you can’t begin to understand what that means. i’d ask you to mourn…
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a song done by many folk/country performers ,chokes me up every time. there are much better renditions of it out there in music land,buy those!. this I just wanted to add to my list of occupy songs. to drive home the point.
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Soldiers deal with life and death moral issues every day.Then the letters from home-and the involuntary extension of their present duty assignment.
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The 99% has found its voice. I grew up in the 60's when music was a part of the protest movement.
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I've always liked the word "wireless" instead of "radio". There is something wonderfully archaic about it.
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This reflects what I think the dust bowl poet may have said in the current housing market.
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work from my forthcoming jamendo.com album...electronic collaborations..pure free experimental ambient psychedelic underground groovebox electronica...
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The title track. At one point I had visions of everyone singing at the end of the album (and thank you to those of you that did), but I just couldn't get it to sound right (I don't really know what I'm doing after all). So instead of voices…
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Recorded at home, all done digitally by myself.
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God pity the poor sailer out in a night like this
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learned from the Carter family, that just about says it all.
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jqscutt posted the acoustic guitar track looking for ideas, not sure if it turned into the genre he was looking for :)
The auuuggga horn sound was another classic unplanned phone interruption during the vocal recording but it seems to fit in…
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There is more than a few side tracks on the road to health and happyness
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Like anyone who happens to look, I see the signs of a failing economy all over the Country. This song is a effort to encourage folks to struggle for a more open and equitable system for the financial benefit of all of us.
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I wrote this song, in hopes of drawing attention for the need to get better hourly wages for Americas working poor.
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...almost a love song ... - ish. deal with it, and don't come to expect it from here.
Scent
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I can smell your perfume on my body
*scent of the chase i need what i want, this is on
Invigorating my sense of taste for your world
Making…
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It was busy down the cellar tonight.....someone slipped something into Reg's and Jim's drink........now their out there trying to find the gold for the mind from the other side..........we tried to stop them but you know what their like when they…
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A stretch ode to my favorite guitarist. Those of you more familiar with him will understand the reference in the title. Fahey paulstretched and manipulated.
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11th track off of 2nd album "Hidden Inspiration"
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10th track off of 2nd album "Hidden Inspiration"
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2nd track off of 2nd album "Hidden Inspiration"d
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Reg has re-leaved his inner thespian tonight in another reading........... this time........... The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge...Done in one take mistakes and all ......he hadn't come across this one since his school…
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With Frank Miller on drums and bass as the band "2" - a rescue of a late 90's song grabbed from 4-track.
No Place
I'm lost, you're lost
Ships at sea
There is no place
We can be
I'm lost, you're lost
In this world
There is no…
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Well reg was down the cellar last night watching re runs of Saturday night Live http://www.videolog.tv/video.php?id=503192 that Chris and Norm had sent him and they gave Reg an idea which John who sat quietly watching approved off..........it…
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A homage to Steve Hackett (who wrote this piece)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Hackett
This is played using John O'Sullivan's Blue JI tuning. Pianoteq and Kontakt didn't play nice together so I had add 4.81 cents to all of the flute notes.
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This one is live from the cellar last night...Unplugged recorded with one mic..so close your eyes and imagine me here alone on a wet Monday night in Sheffield in the cellar alone as Elvis and Jim had heard about an Happy hour round the corner…
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Had some minor drama.
Afterwards, I made this.
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This was inspired by some recordings of people's dreams on the Olympia Dream Phone site (http://olympiadreamphone.tumblr.com/).
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Reg has done a reading from Edgar Allen Poe's work The Raven for you this evening in one take mistakes and all ....he hopes the words wash over you with some understanding....it was a bit of a tongue twister
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"Don't mind me. I'm just in love with you. I'll try to stay out of the way..."
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Choices (midnight)
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Words don't mean anything
I've watched so many words burn down
Passionate things like good intents
most take them to their graves
Everything I've ever loved
It's all gone away
If I don't love you…
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Ya know, online collaborating is the greatest thing going since the trans-Atlantic cable.
The next best thing at least to actually being there.
ORH on the lead vocal and synth strings. Hoop on electric guitars, bass, robo drums, backing…
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It's funny but Reg doesn't feel the same when he goes back to his old hometown....He feels a bit of a stranger not just to the folks but to himself it's like he doesn't recognise his old self anymore ..........so Reg discussed this over with Elvis…
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Waking up beside your best girlie for the first time. You celebrate by having sex in bed. Hence the dramatic climax at the end.
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...with light emerging among the old branches, and staring at the nought.
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Remastered from 4 track circa 1987. The backing track was shoved into one track (drum machine, casio CZ-101 synthesizer bass, rythmn guitar) - the vocals are buried because I wrote a song that was way way too high for my range. The backwards-ness…
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Written about a bar called Sobels in Richmond, Va about '96-'97. Many shots on a Sunday afternoon led to this tune which is really a description of the bar itself. I'm on vocals/acoustic, Justin Lineberry on keys, Forest Young on drums, Chris…
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Written with a buddy of mine Chris Clark in 1991. Initially he had a great guitar part and a harmony vocals part that was better than what I did here. This was recorded @ Halvorsound all parts performed by Hook.
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Written for my wife but she really didn't like it. I thought it was sweet she thought otherwise. Recorded @ Halvorsound all parts performed by Hook.
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This was written for my 2nd daughter Ember,shortly before she was born.I'm very proud of the production on this one. It was recorded @ Halvorsound, all parts performed by Hook.
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It's not funny 'cause it's true. God's a very busy man.
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George Gershwin in 1926 composed 3 preludes for piano. George synthesized American Jazz and European classical music to make a very recognizable musical voice.
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3 layered guitar tracks, basically all just playing around with an open D chord. Some accidentally pleasing solo-ing in the middle there.
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From what I remember this is a very out of tune uke, a harmonica, a spinning coin, an egg shaker and a bird call.
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apologies to the fab four
scored for orchestral percussion, harp, harpsichord, dbl bass, string ensemble, men's choir and flute.
Interesting aside...
This is the only Beatles song covered by The Residents - because it is the only Beatles song…
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Reg adds much better vocals to the backing track.
I dreamed I met a Galilean;
A most amazing man.
He had that look you very rarely find:
The haunting, hunted kind.
I asked him to say what had happened,
How it all began.
I asked again…
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A tune by my friend Darrin Kobetich, I added some electric guitar. Check out Darrin's stuff, available in all the usual places.
http://www.reverbnation.com/darrinkobetich
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A friend of mine wrote a poem and asked me to make lyrics out of them. The lyrics are... [Intro] "The fading embers of the fire, which once burned in my heart, are slowly dying. And they will blow in the wind." [Chorus] "The flames have died…
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Come as you are, as you were,
As I want you to be
As a friend, as a friend, ‘cause I want you with me.
Take your time, but hurry up
The choice is yours, don't be late.
Take a rest, as a friend, for a warm memoria
Memoria [x3]
Come to…
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Reg has nipped down the cellar tonight to contemplate the big question...this is what he came up with ...he could be wrong who knows...and now he's going for a nice hot bath...............
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old skool but still dope new ACTiVE for ya ear!!!
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Oh bright morning star
Draw me to your light
How far do I have to travel
How many lonely nights
I don’t know where I’m heading
Just don’t lead me astray
In my search for tomorrow
Or for a better day
Oh bright morning star
Draw me to your light…
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stared out
feet of glass
they told me to forget
I looked outside for offering
and I still haven't lost you yet
and I still haven't lost you yet...
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Sea planes and the space race, dreams and destinies.
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This is a song I have just recently finished recorded over the summer in my basement using all live recordings of real instruments (intro vocals were recorded literally on a cliffside), and this is the first of more to come. It's a song about…
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recorded on this day one year ago in geirs hut in porsgrunn norway.
met are: Geir (geir alfsen)Guitar
osckilo (tharek mokbul)guitar
flash harry (mike fife) bass guitar and homemade tambourine
oldrottenhead (jim higgins…
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Song about jealousy and weakness
Lyrics
He's here again, still hanging around
He's getting closer, [this] new friend that you've found
You tell me to cool it, don't over-react
I'm finding it hard, with the men you attract
I've seen…
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I've been thinking about lost time and if you can make up for it...
LYRICS:
Hey there
How do you do?
Allow me to introduce myself
Before
I think I knew you
Wondered if you were doing well
The things we left behind
were never led astray…
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Reg will just not listen not only have Chris and Norm told him but Elvis Jim and Louie all had the same advice..Forget her....move on but he is going against all the advice. He just can't get Desirea out of his mind, he loves her. He's trying…
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Third of possibly four songs written either just before or during Hurricane Irene's visit to New England. This one seems a little too busy and the mix feels funny, but I think it would be fun to play live if I ever get myself back into a band.
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This is a song some 15 years in the making. The original 4-track cassette tape tracks laid down in 1997 - and this past year Frank added bass and drums. Its my fault on how there are still rough edges - that is the result of how I did things…
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The trees turned blue
And the sky outside is yellow
I hear you sigh
While you dream of purple cellos
I don’t in dream in colors baby
nor in black and white
and I can’t tell what’s up or down
or wrong and right
You turned blonde
When I thought…
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Geas sent me this tune for National talk like a pirate a day so we took it down the cellar and luckily Robert Newton was down there so we got him up on the stage and got him to do this little number......Hoping Yee enjoy eye arrh…
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Chris sent me the the track this afternoon and i took to it straight away and threw it down the cellar to see what would happen and Frankie Zee quickly scribbled the lyrics and Reg sang it or should i say spoke it straight in one take because…
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There are 3 styles of the Rumba Guáguánco pattern: this one originates from the Cuban province of Matanzas (to the east of Havana).
“Rumba” is a Spanish term for a gathering of musicians, singers & dancers (what West Africans refer to…
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Just a very rough demo of a song I wrote for some friends.
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This is my contribution to the Angie Fights Crime project titled "Sunny Sorta"...." It's 12 songs written by A.F.C. and performed by 12 different artists.
I chose Honky Tonk Prison because I knew it would rock and roll :)
So CRANK IT UP…
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I can't remember her name. I saw her at Kerrville back in 2005. A little blond that always wore a leather cowboy had, played keys and wrote music for movies. (Someone remind me.)
COULD SHE KNOW
Could she know I think about her
Thinking…
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