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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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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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I wrote this song with Lisa Aschmann. CAPO @ 3
Video - https://www.facebook.com/100001011201926/videos/1285714588695761/
HICKORY STIX
Dm Am
Billy Mac and Don McCray drive to work each dawn at six
Down the mountain to the factory, makes…
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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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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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THE ONLY THINGS
Any road that leads to somewhere
Any thought that comes to mind
Any sight on the horizon
Any friend that's left behind
Any meal that's ever eaten
Any quilt that's ever lined
Any concert that is set thru
Any document that…
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I'M A STRANGER TO ME - capo @ 3 playing in C
I'm a stranger to me
I make the bed where I sleep
I cook the food that I eat
I fold the towel that dries
The tears in my eyes
I'm a stranger to me
I'm a stranger to me
Every morning we meet…
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Let the choir sing and spiral 'til you feel fine
Angels on a train calling 'heresy helpline'
I see force ready aim and fire
I'm coming to see you
I'm coming to see you
I dont feel like leaving town
If you don't wake up and come around…
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A song that Rick Babb started and I finished. He brought me the first verse and the chorus and the music. I finished it.
© 2007 Royal T Music
HERE COMES LONELY Key D
D
Peggy says it’s over but I don’t believe…
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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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One night after our gigs, Chris Zeller at the Hilton Hotel and me at Shananagans in Midland we met in his hotel room and decided we would both write a song called THE CHANGING OF THE WAYS. I wonder what ever happened to him.
THE CHANGING OF…
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I was trying to learn I'M IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE and gave up and took what I had already and wrote this.
CACTUS FLOWER
Cactus flower shining.
Simple song of life
never in a bouquet
Gathered for a wife
Cactus flower growing
In a land…
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HOME ON THE RANGE
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play…
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This was my dad's favorite song of mine about thirty years ago. Maybe it was because he just liked to hear me sing s positive song for a change.
(C) 2011 Royal T Music
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A song that Rick Babb started and I helped finish. (He brought me the first verse and the chorus and the music.)
HERE COMES LONELY
Ronnie says it's over but I don't believe
I'm not willing to give up I'm not willing to see She's made up…
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This song was written about being around someone who just didn't take any notice of what they were doing and took no notice of the warnings you had given them about their actions, so you had to go.
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A CASKET AND A ROSE
capo @ 2 Am
There's nothing quite as slow to grow
Than a cherry laurel tree
A fingerling that grows beneath
That old oak canopy
Presented as a volunteer
On that creek bank south of town
One hundred yards from our…
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About no one in particular, just a figment of my imagination.
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Rythm guitar, meaningless lyrics and a guy playing drums
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Dare ya to not be singing this the rest of the day
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This is a “cross-over” pattern. Cross-over patterns are a type of enharmonic polymeter, where 2 rhythms with different numbers of beats/measure are played at the same tempo: the measures do not line up each time. These rhythms have measures…
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The guy who lives next door to the guy who has lots and lots of friends...
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This is the third song from the Thomas - Lennon project.
A collaboration with Michael Thomas of Cave Street.
http://alonetone.com/cavestreet
Lyrics and vocals - Michael Thomas
Wildgeas Music - Paul Lennon
Enjoy!
Love is Free
as you let it…
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Taken from a legendary show at the now-defuct At The Hop nightclub and restaurant, this recording features Bruce Forr on vocals. Originally an early hit for Little Jimmy Dickens, it's always a crowd-pleaser, and a lot of fun to play!
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Featuring Brad Floyd on mandolin, this is one of those songs we never really "learned," we just "did." Mama Corn often attempts something onstage that we've never even tried at rehearsal, and sometimes, it turns out nice.
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From a rainy summer evening at Brookmere Winery's vineyard, Belleville, PA. Wine was flowing, and we made a bunch of new friends that night.
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From the Beech Creek Barnburner, early 2008, public domain song. Very enjoyable afternoon with good friends, and it shows in our playing that day. This is an old song about sharing the moonshine, a "demijohn" is a container used for carrying corn…
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Shadows & Light, A compilation between:
Bethan Mathis, Vocals
http://alonetone.com/bethanmathis
Lisa D, Irish Whistle
http://alonetone.com/lisad
Greg Connor, Guitar
Lyrics:
Shadows And Light, Written by…
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One of a series of improvised ambient guitar recordings. Part of the Ambient Dreams 1 album
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Me and buddies first shot at this, bet there'll be many more.
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This is my wife Patrice doing the lead vocal. With her singing lead, our band name is The Heartbreak of Invention
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The first of 4 tunes coming your way with
the spotlight on my friend "Michael Thomas of Cave Street"
http://alonetone.com/cavestreet
This one is my favorite and chills me every time I hear it.
It never, ever, gets old.
Until Then (Shine…
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a working track.
i dip in once in a while and scrub this bit, file back that bit.
let me know what yous think! good/bad criticisms.
also the title is lame. that will change.
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A little bit of pop with a strong 80s touch (I hope).
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Summer Love
Lyrics: John Scunziano
Vocals: Domenico Mercurio
Guitars: David Patterson, Domenico Mercurio
Composed by Steffen…
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Another early Sluggos tune brought back in the modern era; from 2007's "Songs About Girls."
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One of my several songs about marriage & divorce; from 2007's "Songs About Girls."
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I wrote this song in 1990 for the early Sluggos; this recording is from 2007's "Songs About Girls."
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A modern-day Sluggos tune, written as love letter to Wichita, Kansas. This song is now being used as theme song to "Wichita Sessions," a locally-produced public television show (KPTS-8) featuring area musicians. Live version from KPTS-TV's "Wichita…
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Another geeky supergroup of sorts was Jones Six, featuring Tom Page, Albert Alfonso, original Sluggos drummer Kent Downing and myself. This recording was made live on KMUW-FM in 1996.
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From "Anomalon," a lost rock opera; recorded in 1996 in the basement beneath Miller Concert Hall at WSU.
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From the Sunshine Family's 1994 LP "Windbreaker," recorded in Lawrence, Kansas by Robert Rebeck.
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New AR track, really keen to get a great mix, so I'd be very grateful if you could let me know how it sounds on your speakers. I'm a bit unsure about the bottom end.
Any mastering tips?
Thank you!
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Improvised/recorded on 11-12-11 in Alpharetta GA, mixed/edited on 11-13-11 in Summertown, TN.
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This is a remix I did with wavs from geronimodeleon, who you can find here too, Used his great drony pieces and gave them a KraftiM treat, so: loud on headphones & couch
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recomposition of Steve Moshier's "The Land, the Crow, the Wind"
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Ideal words by TJC music by Vivian Circle
Your porn makes me jealous
When I think I’m in love
And the televisions not there
I want a boy that shakes it
That makes the most of everyday
A sense of humor
and all those sorts of things…
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A story of naivety and a girl, who 'without knowing, where she's going"....the world around her knows, but she is totally naive and we have to root for her....read the last verse, and see if you know who its about??? Sitting at #3 at www.soundclick…
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Lyrics:
Trading Smiles
Trading smiles on a cloudy day
Wish good fortune come your way
A passing glance, I’m on my way
Trading smiles
Courtesy seems all but gone
No idea what went wrong
For most of us, it’s been too long
Trading…
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This is a bit of piano from a concerto I started writing last night. I'm not sure what I'll call it yet, but I'm thinking something about a storm at sea.
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Sort of a Tuesday improv...
Built up around a synth texture that I built up with:
Operator->FilterStation->Volcano->Kombinat->Panstation->RP-Delay
(what's the fun in having plugins if you can't abuse them)
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For a special friend who went from a normal life to battling cancer. <3
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A song about a jerk, hope all you jerks enjoy it. ;)
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I've got no cash, got no girl, got the world, in the palm of my hand...
sigh.
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Improvisation for banjo with a rabbit banging around in the background.
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a theme + two scenes for a movie that was never made
set in a nuclear winter wasteland
the ants have taken over
in it was used 4 max patches (un-un-specified):
onebitisallittakes.maxpat
phasorbeat.maxpat
jhslrate.maxpat (mythical)
rectaldac…
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A glitchy, noisy, drum & bass remix by Acid42 of an abstract track by artist Fatima Lasay.
The original "Severe and Multiply" track (http://korakora.org/node/39) was a one-minute composition created by running an algorithm on a computer…
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A traditional Philippines folk song from central Luzon about a funeral wake, turned into joyful electronica.
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Gloomy downtempo groove as an homage to the trojan horse email virus of '03. Click "More" to watch the video.
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addressing the dividing disparity. in earnings, this one is based roughly on "railroading on the great divide" I stopped a little short so others may add verses of their own.
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God Made Me Sense-ational Series
Like in Psalms 139:14 "I praise you because of the wonderful way you created me" we talk about our 5 senses and how special God made us.
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God Made Me Sense-ational Series
Like in Psalms 139:14 "I praise you because of the wonderful way you created me" we talk about our 5 senses and how special God made us.
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It's rough and filled with coughing, but hey I was sick.
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Two guitar parts.The lyrics are still a work in progress.
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Me2 doin his thing once again on a spacey beat
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Im Bigg!!! Makes you feel big bang it in the whip over some subs
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End of the day ...going to town on Saturday night during the early 1940's
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Cover of the early eighties Japan song, motivated by the Songcrafters.org Cityfest.
Deliberately meant to sound 'Eighties'. Decided to leave the last two minutes in as 12" extended remix.
New mix uploaded 16th November
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Jazz fusion piece. Thanks to Marc Halikas for bass & guitar.
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This song is for my work as an English teacher. I train up primary school children and then record them singing it. if all goes well, I give them an mp3 with their vocals in it and cut mine out.
Thom
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Reg got to thinking and it's pretty simple really all he needs is Love.......
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For Smoking Joe...
Wondered what might be fitting.
Thought some music to train to may be appropriate.
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'Blue Shade Shadow,
Rearranging all the night,
We slept within,
But now well crawl out of sight,
Dont try to,
Hypnotize me,
You keep failing to see,
The spread of my disease,
Ill come to you,
In the worst time I could,
Cause it will…
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Lyrics:
Crazy people, wander round all night
Looking toward the Heavens
At little specs of light
Dragging round their telescopes
And Binoculars
All the tools they need to gaze among the stars
Crazy people, look at what they do…
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I found a cassette tape the other day from 1991 which turned out to be live to 2 track demos that Scartaglen did in the studio in preparation for our 3rd and (as it turned out) final album. This tune didn't make the cut for the record but I always…
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