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clenching teeth
through an iron jaw
your eyes are just slivers on your face
rosy glow
on your porcelain cheeks
there is nothing not a trace
happy, are you?
losing sleep
the weight is heavy
you can barely keep afloat
clenching…
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This song came to me in 1979, just one year prior to the miracle of the light beam pointing to where I should start playing. Here is a version done at Pat Smolinski's Alternative Studio in New London, WI. He does combination digital and analogue…
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A beam of light, the same one that shone on the hotel with the white grand piano in 1980, carried this tune to my mind in 1984. This is a digital/analogue combination recording of it done at Pat Smolinski's Alternative Studio in New London, WI…
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Well, I hate to change my story, but I'm nobody's savior any more
If you're looking for salvation you can find it at the Salvation Army store
They got a Naugahyde recliner they say will save your back
And if you've got a multi tool, they've…
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this is sort of a metal prog ballad. it starts out slow till 2:09
and then gets into metalish prog.
the story is about a weird guys love, a vampyress.
song is about 6:45 mins. for those who listen, thanks for taking
the time!
cold…
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Music: Larry Bailey, Nat Slautich, Ethan Osborne
Words: Larry Bailey
Guitar/vocals: Larry Bailey
Bass/back-up vocal: Nat Slautich
Drums/back-up vocal: Ethan Osborne
Live @ Sante Fe, Fredericksburg, VA June 2001
Quality performance that…
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Got a guitar for my birthday... I have been trying to learn how to play it. This is a cover of an old Smiths song I tried to tackle for Lesson 10 "Finger Picking."
12.10.2013: rerecorded at slightly faster tempo; added small amount of distortion…
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Inspired by those “music everyday” iphone commercials.
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written by Brent Kinder of Angie Fights Crime for the XCHANGE album
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Back from my holiday in the Lakes and couldn't wait to start Jamming with Les in Dm……. to one of the Reverends Backers. The Reverend Mike is giving me guitar lessons and this is number 3……..Two guitar tracks fighting for supremacy…..hope you enjoy…
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Cover of the Blink 182 song.
All done in GarageBand except for the crappy vocals. I have to own up to those...
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Fans of Holy Grail already know where I nicked this title and do not require this hint. Those who do not appreciate Python probably don't know and will never bother to look for it. Why then did I type this comment? I don't know that! Aaaaaaargh!
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Rough mix of a work in progress that has been gestating since late May 2013. still working out the lyrics/vocal parts. dunno if there will eventually be keys and/or synths.
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Just a slide tune. More about the sound of the National than the vocals.
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Thanks to the online Spanish/English dictionary guy for providing the vocals
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A collaboration with buddies of mine from songcrafters.org Just dug it out again today and thought I'd share it.
Gnasty - Guitars, T-Jam
Ratatat-tat Drums
Me - Bass, Vox
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A collaboration by Burtog, oldrottenhead and 64Guitars on a cover of the song by The Smiths, though influenced by the Love Spit Love version.
Tremolo guitar, bass and drums by Burtog.
Vocals by oldrottenhead.
Other guitars by 64Guitars.
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This is one of my more agressive industrial-ish tunes. There's also an orchestral version done by vaisvil; it should be somewhere in his gigantic list of tracks...I'll see if I can find it and post a link.
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Unfortunately, vaisvil doesn…
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just a weird instrumental with a metal guitar edge to it. basically played in 3 parts. I thought it held some interesting atmospheres here and there. ;)
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10/8 with lots of supporting parts but no real melody. This song would definitely benefit from a vocal track, but alas I'm not much of a singer.
This was mixed using K-14 metering, which means most listeners will want to turn their speakers…
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A lil rocker influenced by some of my faves, Springsteen, Petty etc.. well i left my home and family
and made my way out west
i lost my job at the steel mill
im a hoping for the best
in this life
for my kids and wife
just outside of Davenport…
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About February everyone in Central New York State feels this way.
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Electric Piano Improv on a Triton Korg Extreme Synthesizer
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Song about the UK dance culture, from a sceptics perspective.
For Carl. who loves this shit.
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billy boy where did you go
sittin in a pile of snow
come on down its gettin cold
for the time is getting old
well we made our way to the old wigwam
frozen lake and wind was calm
standing bow did strike a deer
to feed the tribe…
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Ernesto Cavallini was considered the foremost Italian clarinetist of the 19th century. His playing was admired by both Gioachino Rossini and Giuseppe Verdi. He was in the orchestra that premiered four of Verdi’s operas at the La Scala opera…
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Found a interesting sounding indian instrument via the computer world and strummed out chords on my lil midi guitar. Added some percussion, strings and a flute.
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Written by Rick Couture, Recorded with Blue Movie in 1985, Originally released on a vinyl four song EP, then on CD in March of 2012. This song got the most airplay for Blue movie and put this band on the map. Especially in the New London,CT area…
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Flow to this new original by oPen cOncept! Only vocals and beatbox accompany this fun track. Get crazy, tonight we're going to loose our minds....
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Having more fun with Hendrix. I tried to stay true to the original as far as using no overdubs. Just one guitar, bass, drum and vocal track. Kind of used a mix approach and used a bit from the record and a bit from his live performance in Winterland…
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I threw this one together tonite/early am...yawnnnnn. Not an exact replica but always a tribute to Jimi's music. I was originally turned on to do this by some new free vst effects I found on the net. A cool fuzz face vst that is very realistic…
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A collab between Phantasm777 who did all the mixing Vaisvil and Reg.......Rock out........
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This is a bonus track of sorts for the mock EP It takes a village. I had the verse chord chages around for many years but just until last week the song and lyrics came together really quickly. I thought I heard a band arrangement originally but…
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I've been working on this song for 3 years. I recorded it many times. I was never happy with it until Trevor(Regs) made it a song. Fantastic job on the vox man.
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Cover of one of my favortie Beatles songs, from the White Album.
I actually bought a capo for this, after 30+ years of thinking capos are for wimps.
The Songcrafters.org Beatles II fest prompted me to go ahead and record it.
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This song was done in one take enjoy !
and we were very hung over too :)
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This was written as an instrumental at first and then the words for the chorus came to me. i was goign to leave it at that but on the following Sunday - the Sunday after Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday)the verses came to me during mass as I heard…
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Well Reg has just realised that he keep making the same mistakes with his relationships as he always has....the first song from the Newly built cellar.....Jim just had to jump o this one............
Hello pain my old friend it's so nice to see…
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Cover of the Cure song, the B side to Boys Don't Cry and the first on their first album
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This is about people who don't take much responsibility for their lives and are always looking without rather than within.
Isn’t It Hard
You never thought that you would feel so bad for so long
Sitting and waiting for the sunny days
Thinking…
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Matthew cowrote Eyes of a Child with Rick Jude. Performed by Garden of Joy, this is the theme song for the movie Into the West.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104522/
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Please also listen to the first part of this track, "Man of the morning fog".
Lots of letters downstairs.
John Capulator is a comics character drawn by my uncle. This is his own description of JC:
well first we must know what John Capulator…
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Did this many years ago. It came together very quickly. There are know synths, all guitars and backwards vocals, sped up vocals, detuned vocals.....whacked sounds. I wrote the lyrics on the spot. I love its deep personal message...lol!
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Wrote this in response to all tge news footage of unibombers , shoe bombers....etc....back in the day.
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this is me working out the opening and chorus of a new song for a band i just kinda rejoined. figured i'd post since there's a certain rockness to it that i find appealing. i'll post the completed tune later, but first i gotta reorganise my…
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Written in the mid-90s and recorded several times. this is the last one from 2002. i played all of the instruments and Tom Higgins did the vocal.
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Tried my hand at lead guitar on this one for a different flavor, Thanks to Norm for his percussion magic!
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trying to sound like the great Freddie King...
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Well Will got me all inspired to tell a yarn after listening to his remix of adious http://soundcloud.com/ramseywill82/nevermind-adios-your-just-a so here it is.....i finally got round to it hope you enjoy....Reg
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I was recording some warmup stuff. A bird landed outside and contributed a counterpoint of his own.
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an instrumental! i don't know if it is prog. + rock + space rock, or what!?
but the title might sort of explain the journey of the song.
and as usual, i wrote it and play everything on it.
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A cover of The Choir's Beautiful Scandalous night.
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I JUST NEED A GIRLFRIEND 'TIL MY BABY COMES BACK Key - C
C F
I just need a girlfriend 'til my baby comes back
G F C
Baby comes…
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Railroad rightofways are often seeded with hemp as a soil erosion measure. Hiking the unused tracks are a delight in midsummer.
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“Second chance”: (Richard Hardrick)
I passed out.
The new journey will begin and I'm still here,
All for an angular brightness.
They try to wake me up.
I left the ground
floating and smiling with the bright light, al fin
in front of…
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Publicado bajo autorizacion y sin animo de lucro. www.carranga.org
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Originalversionen af In This Age, skrevet af Alchemy, og senere genindspillet til Alchemy-pladen "Complacency Kills": http://spaendstigmusik.wordpress.com/bands/alchemy/complacency-kills/
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The Second Coming (Slouching Towards Bethlehem)
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and…
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Just Passin’ Thru
(t boudreau)
Take whatever you want from me (babe)
Take all that you need
I need to lighten my load lately
To a certain degree
Tokens only are slowing me down
There’s a lot of luggage in life
Chatter scattered across…
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rpm 2012 #3
no lie this was a ton of fun to make
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were all going to be dead one day ...... what do we care?................
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will i ram/jesmiaus/cryptic meadow 's "mosquito summer killing" bye bye remix
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Years ago, when I had just started writing songs, I read a novel by Terry Pratchett (Equal Rites) that inspired me to write a song which I imagined as a soundtrack for a scene from the book where Grandma Weatherwax was riding on a broom stick…
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Remember the waitress in the Blues Brothers saying,"Oh,we got both kinds of music. Country and western" This melody hearkens back to the day when we was raping and pillaging the land. Killing off the buffalo and the Indians and generally trying…
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Just a remix I did for a remix contest. Permission for spreading on the web granted by the original artist in the contest rules. :]
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Lyrics and Chords:
Winter Solstice
Written by Greg Connor
When the G days are short, and the C evening’s so D long
And the C wind is D shaking the G trees
When the cold snow crunches C beneath your D feet
And your C cheeks are D…
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TEXAS RAIN
They're stopping cars near Tyler
Just want to check your breath
They think they can prevent another death
And a skunk is eating June bugs beneath a light in Cedar Hill
Before day light, he's sure to get his fill
Texas nights…
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My most requested song.
(c) 1990 Royal T Music
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THE BUDS AND BLOSSOMS
I've been meaning to write you a letter
But I did not know what I would say
I've been thinking about you and your new love
And wishing that there was a way...
And the buds and the blossoms remind me of you today…
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One publisher told me, after listening to this song, "I don't like songs about Texas." I responded, "This is not about Texas."
(c) 1990 Royal T Music
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THE CHILD WITH THE BEAUTIFUL NAME
(The story is @ iburymydead.com)
What remains of an eagle that's fallen
The roots of an oak tree now claim
To draw sap for the shade for the cattle
O're the child with the beautiful name
The law, it…
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I was trying to write a Willie Nelson/Buddy Holly song. RaByn was 12 when he did the drums and bass on this. I think we did it on a Teac Porta Studio. 4 track cassette.
TEXAS SKIES Key A
Well, there was a time in Texas when the bars were…
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COWTOWN
In a court yard down the alley
There's a grave yard, weeds and litter
Memories, undisturbed, await their doom
Beneath the glitter of COWTOWN
You take a building, old and crooked
Long ago the life forsook it
Paint it up and name…
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I FELL IN LOVE WITH TEXAS
Well, I was not born in Texas
I just came here for a while
You give a state like this an inch
It turns into a mile
I came to stay a day or two
It turned into a life
Now I've got three hungry kids
And one Texas…
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IF I HAD A LADY LIKE THAT
If I had a lady like that I wouldn't take her to the General Store
If I had a lady like that I wouldn't go there any more
If I had a lady like that I'd take her to some high-class joint
Buy her some candle light…
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This is my anti-pro Texas song song.
TEXAS IS AS FAR AS I CAN SEE
Well, some folks say that Texas is boots and belts and hats
And Lone Star chili's just carbohydrates, proteins and fats
I'll try to curb a snicker but I'm apt to disagree…
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Quannah Parker was the son born to Cynthia Parker, a white girl, stolen by Comanche raiders who grew up to be the wife of the chief. Quannah, in turn became the leader of his tribe. Eventually, Cynthia returned to her people.
QUANNAH - Cynthia…
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Tim Tandy said, "I enjoy the "play like" aspect of the Stockyards District today, but I KNOW what was real and what wasn't. When I grew up in East Fort Worth in the 50's thru the 70's, the Stockyards were a working affair. Everyone downwind got…
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This is the second song from this amazing collaboration with Michael Thomas of Cave Street.
http://alonetone.com/cavestreet
It's not a Cave Street collab. but rather a project by Thomas - Lennon.
I do the music and mixing. Michael does…
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I keep my mouth shut cos I don’t wanna be
I don’t wanna be obscene
I keep my eyes shut cos I don’t wanna see
I don’t wanna see what you won’t see in me
Sheared, shucked, soaking in the mud
None you could shake from me
Tucked up, pulled tight…
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Thanks Regs for making my crappy music in to great songs.
Enjoy!!!
Sunday morning and she’s gone
Sunday morning all day long
She’s gone
Now she’s gone I don’t feel a thing
I’m so happy i’m free again
She’s gone
She thought…
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Sunday morning warmup.A bit of Wes Montgomery octave playing,barre chording and working that little finger.
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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 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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It Regs birthday tomorrow and he's in party mood already getting it on in the cellar....with James and the crew....ooooh yeahhhh!!!!!!
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2nd of the 24 songs I have recently written. Simple fluff that started as something different. I could have done a better job on it but as I've said before "I'm lazy" and if it seems just "OK" I'll pop it up there. Hope y' like it!!
Using pointless…
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Ill Drink a little slower
can't make my mind slow down
Im thinking of nothing
at a million miles an hour
makes me burn a little deeper
Chorus
But all my dreams are gone
you were there before it burned away
and all our love is done
im just looking…
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The answer to the question:
What if The Eagles wrote for elevators?
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I'm not on top of it as usual, guys. But I did manage to let Greg Brady out of my basement and set him free. This is his testimonial regarding the incident. I hope he can forgive me.
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Reg was having another conversation with Elvis and Elvis told Reg what his Mama told him...............
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Unfinished. Got inspired by gated snare and all. I dig the little break, too.
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Chris sent this track to me earlier today with the request that I add some percussion to it.
I had something different in mind.
After the first take I was afraid to return it to him, fearing that he would convert it to 23 edo or something…
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Kathy Holdway and friends sings my song, CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT. It is available on a Cd titled PICKIN'IN THE SHED from Shadetree Recording, Athens, Texas..
My version is at https://alonetone.com/jamesmichaeltaylor/playlists/feathers-in-the-wind…
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The berimbau is a Brazilian instrument associated with Capoeira, which is a Brazilian art form that combines elements of martial arts, sports, and music. It was created in Brazil mainly by descendants of African slaves with Brazilian native…
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The island of Cuba was a Spanish possession for almost 400 years (1511-1898). The land-owning elite held social and economic power, supported by slaves, both indigenous and of South American and African descent, until slavery was abolished…
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This very monumental thing happened in my life, and I had to write a song about it. This one is for Mike, Desmond, Claudia and the rest of my siblings I've yet to meet.
* updated audio 1-10-12
LYRICS:
The craziest thing just happened…
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A favorite style of my wife... like Kris Kristofferson, in a way. Maybe more folk than Outlaw Country...? The song has great meaning for me.
Hope you like it!
Doug
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This is a song in two perspectives. It opens with a twinkling theme which moves throughout space. The first perspective is a man who is lost in a world of worry and has delusions of grandeur. He can't possibly get over the death of his father…
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From the Disney Interactive game "Nightmare Ned"
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Ferryman - Vocals (slightly re-imagined lyrics), bass, rhythm guitar
Dave Berry - guitar fills (r&l), lead solo, harmonica.
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