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Some acoustic stuff i recorded for Samantha Leslie.
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A little bit of everything here. Looped guitars, live guitar, guitar triggered synths and clarinet.
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My contribution to this year's RPM Kitchen Challenge.
Very silly.
Well, can’t you see the baby’s crawling
And pulling up all by herself
I can’t imagine what will be falling
When she climbs up on the shelf
See how much she likes to…
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Words by Dennis Gonzalez; spoken by Sidsel Endresen; Dennis Gonzalez - acoustic guitar, trumpet; Nils Petter Molvaer - hand drums; Bugge Wesseltoft - piano; Terje Gewelt - contrabass: Oslo, March 1993.
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After the late naps
I can't get up, as should I?
Where I... Who am I?
Sounds comes, closer,
Ah! - here it is, my world,
Lovely, clear and simple
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...the state after summer sleep before I (you) have any thoughts, or, more precisely, about…
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This was gonna be the third movement of my piano concerto, but never finished it... I decided to upload it after quite a long time.
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Russian folk song, arranged for a trio. Zelko Krakan - violin, Kira Van Dausen - cello, and me - guitar.
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OCCUPY 0112
It's a highland I call my land
It's an island in the sun
No matter how you measure it
It's always number one
If I had a house to occupy
I'd occupy my wish
But to have a house to occupy
I must defy the rich
We buy the…
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The very first song written by Tomb. Lyrics by Tommy Lewis. Music by Mike Giles, Tommy Lewis.
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Name inspired by an episode of Sliders, song has nothing to do with the episode and is pretty self explanatory.
Features Gilly (http://alonetone.com/toolniner) on lead axe pumping out some sexy licks.
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Inspired by Voyager's recordings of Jupiter as it passed by. Check it out on youtube for more info.
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Inspired by and very very loosely based on a movie I watched that was made in the 30's about a naive small town guy that moved to Hollywood to make it big.
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A sci-fi-ish song about the sun burning out and the universe expanding to the point where it tears itself apart.
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An old guy checking into his deathbed and coming to terms with it.
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The decending line is about the coolest musical concept. Ear candy,and it can be Major or minor scale.Love my effects,but there's no substitution for plain old technique.
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Seen a Bowie documentary the other day and loved the live version of this one, gave it a try with mixed results.
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Forgot, the scream in this song is my finger being sliced open by the guitar string.
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*Pilón* reveals a Cuban pattern, traditionally played on Timbales, but in this case on Jr. Congas & Congas (with gated reverberation and flanger effect). The rhythm of Pilón is based on the motions of pounding sugar cane.
A new son reveals…
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This one sat around for quite a while collecting dust until I picked it up a couple days ago and started tinkering with it. I think I like it.
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Another quick record for my mother, although I did spend a bit more time on this one.
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This was written at a time when things weren't going so well for me. This will be my last upload until after the RPM Challenge.
The jeans are worn but they're clean.
The shirt is frayed at the elbows.
The shoes are dull, lost their sheen…
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Just a quick test of my new mic and recording setup.
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A story about the search for leader. People, independent as they are, often look for someone to tell them what to do. In their quest they will often go for a person who was just passing by and was never planing on leading anyone ... Things get…
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Here's a song I recorded a couple of months ago when I had the flu ... as the voice reveals :)
Recorded early in the morning,in the bathroom, using the built-in mics on my boss br800.
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Admitting I'd probably never own a Sea Plane, I decided to put one in a song and find out what might have happened.
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Recorded live on Br80 stereo mic for the protestfest.
Our henwrench then added some harmonies later.
Lyrics and music by OsCKilO
A man is as good as his word.
Never a truer word told.
When ever he lies, a part of him dies.
Left…
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A song from a 1996 band redone with myself on guitars and Shaun Barter on vocals. Written By me, Shaun, Tommy Lewis and Roy Sample.
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A track I did as part of an ImprovFriday tribute for Richard Lainhart who passed away recently.
Guitar, fx, live loops
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Jim Wearne added some lyrics to our local Hurling song, and I had the privilege of playing it with him when he came over from America last year.
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An example of a live performance of myself and Paul Mimlitsch at Michelangelo's in Denver, CO on December 4th 2011. As always it's completely improvised with minimal processing.
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Inspired by the "Metal for Life" Column in the Guitar World Feb 2012 issue, I stuck to the original etude probably only 80% or so and changed the arrangement, plus added an extra solo section in the middle.
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Digitech RP-50 turned loose on a Civil War era melody.
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The riff came from Bad Boyz. The story came from my life experience.
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Written by Ross ... you might have heard this somewhere before ...! Stay tuned for a duet version of this one day.
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A track written by Alex over 10 years ago and yet the lyrics seem more relevant today than they even were back then. Recorded and mixed by other Spencer sibling, Tomas.
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Sometimes the best attention you get give someone is to leave him alone for while ...
Lyrics:
You've been away, you took your time
You lost your mind, now you are mine ...
Locked in a basement of a house you never been to
... I'll be kind…
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Open Concept coming with an original laid back slow jam using ONLY Vocals and Beatbox. A great compliment to the previously released original 'Light This Up'. Enjoy and thanks for listening!
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Um arranjo de uma música natalina com ritmo e acordes de bossa pra os meus amigos brasileiros. Um feliz ano 2012 pra todos.
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O menino Rei (What child is this)
Dm7 Cdim CM7 Am7
A crian…
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I wrote this tune while studying with Jim Rotondi. That was the first time in my career as a musician where I started to feel like I was making some real headway and actually creating something of my own. The title is representative of the long…
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Slick is a nick name that my friend Charles coined for me that has stuck amongst a niche of my friends. Presumably it's representative to the way my hair is usually styled, however it could be any number of reasons. I never really questioned it…
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I composed this tune in 2009. I wrote part of the melody after a European vacation back in 2006 and didn't complete the piece until a few years later. It's named after the first town I visited in Sicily on the outskirts of Palermo. It used to…
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In the spring of 2011, I was recovering from a serious medical issue and, in addition to the support of family and colleagues, that rather dark time was lightened by two happy occurrences. The first was connecting with Elise Pittenger, one of…
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This is a recording of me performing with Boom Bits at Spike Hill in Williamsburg on 11-21-11. We play every third Wednesday at Shrine in Harlem.
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A song about conspiracy theorists. They bug me with their wingeing. "Wah wah wah, it's not fair" - well do something about it then, instead of claiming some kind of superiority and secret knowledge like we give a damn! Rant over, lol.
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This is a minor blues I wrote for the quintet Equilibrium in 2010. I wrote it to impress my red headed girlfriend who I had just started dating at the time.
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When destruction hit ... what do you do? look back or build anew? in any case, I hope you're smiling ...
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about moving on and not letting people get to me
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I recorded this for a friend to play at her wedding ceremony.
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Blame Toby again, he stayed over one night and we were messing about, like most kids they love to mess about with mikes & I came up with this tune.
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komposition: spindler/tenner
text: tenner
gitarre: spindler
bass: spindler/sturm
drums: superior drummer
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Just finished this one over the weekend. Definitely one of my favorite songs i've written/recorded.
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The title track from the Dennis Gonzalez LP "Stars/Air/Stripes", recorded after listening to the record by the Chicago trio Air, titled "Lore"...a very big influence on the music being made at the time.
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I wrote a lot of songs as a teenager in the early 80's and recorded them on a cheap push button cassette recorder. This song was sent to a local radio station as part of a contest and actually garnered some airplay and was a minor local hit, despite…
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I re-recorded this song for my wife for Christmas, 30 years after it was originally written and recorded. It was my most popular of the songs I wrote when I was a teenager, and even had some radio airplay in 1981, despite its horrible recording…
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My tribute to Bill Hicks, one of the all time great stand-up comedians...always liked this guy... another one that died way too soon...youtube him if unaware of his work. Peace.
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This is a piece in a microtonal tuning - but sounds very much like pentatonic in "normal" 12 equal tuning to my ears. But I work in microtonal tunings all the time and may be biased.
How "in tune" does this sound to you?
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There are things I cannot do without x2
And if I ever run out of the things I cannot do without
I'll run to the nearest 'things I cannot do without' store
And I'll run in and I'll buy some x2
And if someday their running out
Of the things…
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This is the fourth song from the Thomas - Lennon project.
A collaboration with Michael Thomas of Cave Street.
http://alonetone.com/cavestreet
Michael and I always have something going on, So I'm sure there will be more.
Lyrics and…
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Original song using:
Martin 12 String Guitar
Gibson J 200 Guitar
Deering Senator Open Back Banjo
Gibson SG Bass Guitar
Lyrics:
Tonight - Written by Greg Connor
The wind is blowing hard tonight
The moon and stars are shining…
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acapella vocal loop
In the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind made moan
Earth stood hard as iron
Water turned to stone
Snow had fallen
Snow on snow on snow
In the bleak midwinter
Long, long ago
- Christina Rossetti 1872
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BAND AIDS
Words won't heal what's wrong with me
and I suspect it's true
all these band aids made of words
won't heal what's wrong with you.
(C) 2011 Royal T Music
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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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another just lying around thought hmm nothing else to do enjoy!
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Another festive cover, this was recorded in December 2010.
Written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan.
(Please let me know if there is a copyright issue here and I will happily remove the track. Thanks.)
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This is a cover of the Wings song 'Bluebird', written by Paul & Linda McCartney and recorded by me back in 2009.
(Please let me know if there is a copyright issue here and I will happily remove the track. Thanks.)
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The audio from my phone that I took during our Black Box collab with Big Rig up in Denton on 12.16.2011 and 12.17.2011.
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Written in the depths of the Bush Administration.
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This is a response to a terrific biography by Fawn Brodie called 'No Man Knows My History.'
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A fun little tune. Made all the synths from scratch.
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The middle verses are a poem written in the thirteenth century by William the Clerk
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Homer's songs are inside your little phones all having a good time
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The experience: First reaction - "This sound feels so wrong!". Second Reaction - "My eyes are opened!". Third Reaction - "This sound feels so right!".
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The first sound reminds me of my father's first electric piano that I play with when I was 5 years old. It's a simple beautiful thing! I tried to create a snapshot of simplicity that blossoms into a full blown "Christmas Extravaganza".
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An Aggressively Electronic Sonic Barrage of Christmas Merriment!
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Homer used to play music for a living and you know what that means
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Watch out when opposites start attracting all the time
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You can never regain what's gone down with the flood
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A remix of Hentai Improvising Orchestra's live set at Doc's Records with Chris Vaisvil's fretless bass improv thrown in.
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(Snakeskin Sally)
Open E tuning - EBEGBE
She wears a snake skin belt that says SALLY
and she's working at the lumber yard
I know you're thinking, "With a job like that
the lady must be hard."
She cuts my glass. Threads my pipe.
She really…
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This originated as a poem sent to me by Rose Kampton, morning the loss of her father. I turned it into a prayer and put music to it. Then when Brook drowned it became something altogether else.
(c) 1990 Royal T Muaic
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That's Peggy singing this song which was ironic because when all the stuff was going on around Brook's life and drowning she had been off in college hearing about it all from a distance...never thinking that someday she would be in the middle…
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I wrote this song after planting and fertalizing a crop of sudan grass just to have the sun shine down with no relief on it for 100 days and no rain. We, Texas Water, were heading home one night AFTER A GIG at Gringo's in Grapevine when the…
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FORTY YEAR BARN
words by Jacque Shelton and JMT (I wrote the chorus.)
I had a dream as a little boy
Not a policeman, a fireman or even a toy
I picked cotton, I waitered
My sox need darned
But all that I dreamed was my Forty Year Barn…
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Key - G
Texas Water might be the only trio besides The Browns to do this song in the later part of the twentieth century. By Jacque Brel via the Browns.
Here it is by There Browns:
https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+the+browns+three…
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This one seems very apt for today's financial climate..........
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Homer has paid his debt to the female mystery and is tired
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Of course, this is an old song.
My mom would always say, "Jimmy, play The Wild Wood Flower, like Dick Melton used to."
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In G Capo @ 1
Well, some folks think that Texas is just boots and belts and hat.
And Lone Star Chili's just carbohydrates, proteins and fats
I'll try to curb a snicker but I'm apt to disagree
TEXAS IS AS FAR AS I CAN SEE
Where the wind…
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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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PALMDALE, CALIFORNIA 1951
Palmdale, California 1951. Pretty yellow chickens hatching in the sun
Fertilizer spreader flings its fecal load. I climb up to watch in the trees along the road.
Little chickens, running, pecking, darting, so…
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WE DON'T KNOW MUCH
We don't know much...
We could be sad and not know why
We could say we're happy and know that it's a lie
We could say we're finished and start right up again
We could sware we're losin' and turn around and win
We could…
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JESSE
I never met Jesse, but I heard her howl in the night
And I heard her pup yelping for whatever they help for
She was strong and she was there in the Texas night
Out on the prairie between Alvarado and Lillian
You could hear them, singing…
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When I wrote this I thought
the idea was pretty far-fetched.
Little did I know...
I started this song in Nashville.
I was hanging out with Lisa Aschmann.
She was going to tell me a melody for it
but that never happened
so I took the…
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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 from a poem by Cindy Sheehan's daughter, who's name I will include here when I remember it. It's her response to losing her brother in the Iraq war. A much publicised death. I think her name is Carlie.
A NATION ROCKED TO SLEEP
Have…
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JONAH LIVES UNDER THE BRIDGE
Jonah lives under the bridge
He's there, up off the ground
His world is looking down
Bicycles pass him by
Children ask parents why
Jonah lives under the bridge
Jonah lives under the bridge
No insurance…
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Rough draft Gustav Holst's In the Bleak Midwinter. Debating whether to ruin this with a vocal part or not.
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Wasting Time // a Collaboration with Steve Krell
Steve Krell - Electric Guitar Magic
http://alonetone.com/slkrell
Greg Connor - Guitar, Harmonica, Bass
Lyrics & Chords
Wasting Time
Capo II and play in A
G It’s a C medley of G changes…
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One day Connie Ramsey called and let it slip
that she was writing a rocking chair song. I thot that was a good subject for a song so I wrote one too.
Rocking Chair
Well, I got one on the porch and one in the den
And just enough umph for…
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TROJAN capo @ 3 in C
(C) When mommy and daddy live two thousand miles from each other it’s hard on the (G) kid
He can’t hold both their hands but he must stand between them and you know it’s for nothing he (C) did
And you (F) know it’s…
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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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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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Saw a black man on TV one night. His name was John Ferguson. This is his story. He's not a songwriter.
DAMNED IF I DO - G
I got thrown in jail for killing a guy
Then I went crazy, waiting to die
So, now they can't kill me
Because I'm…
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This song is akin to REMEMBERING BABE. Another night to Keren's. Almost got caught by the cops. Saw 'em coming so Babe and I hid in the olive orchard until they turned off the spot light and left. THEN, I did what came to be called my Night Ride…
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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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HOEDOWN
Hey now. Hoe now. Hey now. Hoe now.
Chop that cotton. row now. Oh. Oh.
...two, three, four. Hoe now. Hey now.
What you got to say, now? Tell me what you
said. What’s in your pretty head now.
Swing your partner. Oh. Allemande right…
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PROLOG
I was born in California. I was raised in California.
To me, the world was California. Evrything else
was some strange place. One place I knew about
was Tennessee, where my mom grew up. I heard
stories about her dad being a miner…
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THE DENA WIND
The winds, they blow down thru the canyon
(Dena and I met in Canyon, Texas to check out a museum.)
Blowing so wild and free
And the night is my only companion
As they're blowing La Dena to me
Blowing in the wind
Canyons…
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This is one of the tracks off of my upcoming Album "Lightning Strikes" I signed with an Indipendent label back in July of this year and will be releasing my first album through them this month. "Best Of All" is an old school power ballad...Hope…
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I'm five feet tall, skinny as a rail in the shade of the rag weed down along the trail. It's a Grasshopper world. I grab myself a coffee can or a Mason jar, I don't know where I'm going but I know where I are. It's a grasshopper world. "Look here…
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It's just a Matter of Time.
We're born, and we live and we die
With tears in our eyes it's still a surprise
It's just a Matter of Time
It's just a Matter of Time.
Will Love, like all else soon decline?
Must glove and above turn into…
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Capo @ 5 in C
Back in 2008 I was the recording secretary for the Fort Worth Singer/Songwriter Association. I submitted this song at our annual contests and was awarded a plaque
for BEST COMEDY SONG, which I consider a serious misunderstanding…
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