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In the end we are all just fragments of fragments, particles of bone
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I was asked to come up with some gritty microtonal guitar. This is an out-take from that session.
17 Indulgences is a solo guitar piece in 17 edo featuring acoustic feedback, echo and a bluesy sort of point of view but does wander here and…
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An acoustic version of the song which always seemed to be the most popular among anyone who ever saw Winter Jargon play live as a three piece. This is the song in it's stripped back form, minus all the guitar solo's at the end. 'What you are…
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The original studio recorded version of 'Distinctly Average' can be found here: http://winterjargon.bandcamp.com/track/distinctly-average
This is another song inspired by the Dresden Dolls / Punk - Cabaret music and was written around the same…
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This is "Bright Eyes" written by Mike Batt and originally performed by Art Garfunkel. A song made famous by the film, 'watership down'.
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'In your hand' was supposed to feature on a Winter Jargon album called "The Aviary" Unfortunately, the sessions we recorded in 2008 were never completed.
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"At the bridge" was a track which was supposed to feature on an album Winter Jargon set out to record in 2008 entitled "The Aviary". Unfortunately the sessions were never finished. This is probably my favourite track from this gig which is funny…
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La la land , by David Bevan and Tiggy Acworth
When you’re in lala land the sky is always blue,
Yeh in between here and never land is something quite untrue,
CHORUS
You’ll amaze as you gaze into your imagination,
A world of makebelieve…
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I read in the newspaper about an 82-yr-old woman in Houston who got arrested for growing seven marijuana plants in her back yard. The song almost wrote itself.
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Another cut from the 1988 cassette tape of a live performance by Scartaglen on the NPR show Mountain stage. This time some tunes from County Kerry.
Kirk Lynch- Uilleann pipes and whistle. Becky Pringle- Fiddle. Mike Dugger- Fiddle and guitar…
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A rock song, in 17 notes per octave. Yes there is an echo of Buddy Holly... Lyrics, and chords and bass here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2071
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Although Asimov doesn't have a story directly named after the super-computer, it does
appear in many of his sci-fi stories, and is related to many of the stories that inspired
these compositions. So, it is fitting as it serves a bit of a 'overture…
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After defeating the Denebians, humans credit their all-knowning Multivac computer for the victory. But inside the computer, what do the humans tasked with feeding information into it do when given unreliable information? The sound of a flipped…
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One of Asimov's most famous stories, the music attempts to re-create the world that knows nothing but daylight. Unsettling, but bright sounds hint at the looming darkness that must come, ending with the crescending voices of fear and madness…
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This is a sample of whats to come of our up comning Album "Kings And Queens" like us on facebook to stay up to date on shows and releases.
https://www.facebook.com/luxdivon
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Puddleglum and the Queen of the Underworld
Imagine that there is no sun but only candlelight
Imagine that there are no stars to see when it is dark
Show me what you mean by that
I think your lion is just a cat
A great big cat
Imagine that
Mesmerized…
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Some acoustic stuff i recorded for Samantha Leslie.
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Some acoustic stuff i recorded for Samantha Leslie.
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This is a classical finger picked blues / classical guitar solo hybrid with lexicon reverberation and freeze pedal. There is some sloppiness. The idea was to push myself in playing and what I was playing melodically and harmonically.
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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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Russian folk song, arranged for a trio. Zelko Krakan - violin, Kira Van Dausen - cello, and me - guitar.
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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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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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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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Forgot, the scream in this song is my finger being sliced open by the guitar string.
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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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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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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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The other Reg has got the Blues too the Folsom kind......
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Version 2 of Cable Tie frets.
details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2008
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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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Reg has been practising the Am Blues scale and thinking of politicians this evening...........
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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 little piece of whats left of the other Reg.......
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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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Well....the lead in the background and the main is done by a vocal Fx ......no guitars were harmed ......the rest of the music was my trusty M-audio Pro keys ......i sent it over to the other Reg as an example of what i wanted him to do with…
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This is a reading of one of my favourite books, that I read for my children, they are always totally absorbed not only is the story superb but the artistry by Axel Scheffler is also fantastic. During the telling of the story i must cover every…
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This is a live cut from an NPR radio broadcast back in 1988 while my Irish Trad group Scartaglen was on one of its first east coast tours. Found recently on a cassette tape. Musically this was one of my favorite periods in the history of the band…
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2011 according to Regs research was pretty shit for most apart from the couple from England......it thought i would use a Chinese theme to the music being that they own it and it was the year they were able to buy most of it cheap.....note to…
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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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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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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 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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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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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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This is a 19 note per octave solo electric guitar improvisation played in classical guitar format recorded in Sonar X1 with Guitar rig and Lexicon reverberation. Makes it hard to classify for what audience would want to listen to it I guess. The…
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Written in the depths of the Bush Administration.
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A fun little tune. Made all the synths from scratch.
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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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Details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1913
(see the 2nd entry)
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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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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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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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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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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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CHOICES
"After my house burn down I was confuse.
Why are they burning down my house? My neighbor house..."
"We called it The American War."
My friend, John, said this about this bit of audio drama:
I had forgotten how painful I find…
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OUT THERE SOMEWHERE
Her eyes were blurry. Her face was painted
Her hair was dyed black. Her purse was heavy
She said something. I asked her to repeat it
She said, “Stop the car. I thot I could trust you.”
I pulled it over and I waited…
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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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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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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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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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I never sing this song the same two times in a row.
The lyric below is pretty close to how I sing it now.
Listening again, this is an awful version of this song...
I have my recording machine working again...I must redo this.
I PLAY C…
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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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The lyrics of this song,
as they pertain to plot,
are my exact memory of the event.
I had spoken to the kid maybe a minute before the "action" started about how the pressure of the water was very strong. He was nestled down with his back…
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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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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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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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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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Written one morning at OLD Number NINE weekend with Eliza Gilkyson.
SNAPSHOTS
Life's a million snapshots, all lined and flashing
It seem like a movie but it's the persistence of our vision
It all goes in circles, hashing and rehashing…
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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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Rythm guitar, meaningless lyrics and a guy playing drums
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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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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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This is a remix of an improvised track I did for our first RPM album. For this new mix, I got rid of the vocals & added a most excellent electric guitar part by our good friend, Chris Mitchell. He listened to the track just once and proceeded…
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“There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery.”
—Enrico Fermi
Details
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1869
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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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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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