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A tune about one of my favorite activities. This is one of the songs form my soon to be completed RPM Challenge 2012 submission. Special guest Steve Litras providing the blazing guitar solo.
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a riff idea for the title track to "Standing Machine"
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Usually I like songs less when they are finished. This one I think I like more. I had planned on dropping this one but now I'm not sure.
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The chance encounter of traveling men as happens along the road. string up the town folks dog
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a pleasant song about being hopelessly in denial
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My failed attempt at a pop song that turned into an acoustic funfest.
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I've never felt such a need to apologize for a track as this one. Take that as a warning.
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I could have sworn I uploaded this here before but... I sure can't find it.
4 track cassette
fender mustang
MXR distortion+
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tell no one a story or describe this music for this is the inner depths of a wormhole in a sleep pyramid
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Fears and tears
collate your life
Memories
bleed your mind
No much time
to loose in lie
(1995)
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Ahh, drone. Funny how extremely slow, repetitive, yet heavy phased guitars drown out the world and still make a melodious impact. Technically not much I would agree, but after listening to Xela's recitation, man, it just moves me.
There is a done…
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About making love to your cell phone. Audio is a little strong in the mix. But Hay. I made this song in 2 hours.
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from the album "Uniform"
she hides her heart under the pillow
waiting for the good fairy to come
replace this worn and broken thing
with a heart that can feel again
she's never sure which night will be her lucky one
but she anticipates…
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from the album "Uniform"
she hides her heart under the pillow
waiting for the good fairy to come
replace this worn and broken thing
with a heart that can feel again
she's never sure which night will be her lucky one
but she anticipates…
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Live recording at Coffee At The Point with myself and Paul Mimlitsch playing electric guitars Paul is playing an ES-175 and myself playing a Fender Stratocaster.
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An RPM demo that sounds like it's slowly breaking down...
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A song of love, loss, and unrelenting hatred for those pin-striped S.O.B.'s.
WARNING: You might hear an occasional F-bomb.
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a little play on words with it being written/improv'd on the spot lyrically about starting out with a lovey dubby love song and turned out well like this!
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I like this version better than the studio version. Casey Scott's voice is like whiskey in this track.
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At one point, I had a version recorded with much better guitar -- at least I thought I did -- but I can't find it now...
Another one of those tunes that kept growing after the demo was laid down, this song now has twice as many verses as you…
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Scientists say that solid things
are mostly empty space
Tiny motes vibrating
Distant and held in place
They don't really know how it works
They've watched things break apart
Fundamental forces, strange quarks
Fuse or remain inert
Isn't that…
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Blue the light that shines on me
Watching you on the screen
Blue your eyes and blue the scenes
Replay, rewind, recurring dream
Blue the nights I sit at home
Scanning, surfing all alone
Blue the color of the bruise
Thinking of my time with you…
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I pinch myself but I don't wake up
I cut myself but I still feel numb
The drugs
The drinks
It's later than you think
I starve myself but the weight won't lift
I beat myself up and I can't stop it
Then you appear
Tell me what I need to…
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Japanese Ghost House Boat was my contribution to the ImprovFriday “For Japan” earthquake relief CD release with proceeds donated to the Red Cross. It is in 17 notes per octave. Since its been about a year I thought I could release it now as…
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Frank Miller (phantasm777) added excellent vocals and drums - I like it much better this way - hope you do too! (still 17 equal tuning)
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Song #2 for the RPMC. My goal is to have 12 short tunes (1-3 minutes long), so I need to pick up the pace.
Again, quartal tuning on the top 3 unison pairs of the 12 string. I've been listening to Ralph Towner's Blue Sun, hence the title.
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My RPM challenge this year: acoustic guitar instrumental album with no more than three tracks on each tune (ok, maybe four!)
This one is a single track with no overdubs. On the 12 string, the 4th,5th and 6th string pairs are tuned a fourth apart.
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She wore blue velvet
Bluer than velvet was the night
Softer than satin was the light
From the stars
She wore blue velvet
Bluer than velvet were her eyes
Warmer than May her tender sighs
Love was ours
Ours a love I held tightly
Feeling the rapture…
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This song pokes fun at doctors because we all know how difficult it is to get to speak to a doctor after working hours.
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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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Nice harmony with my wife Pauline. If I remember I wrote this in 1975 during the monsoon season in Okinawa, Japan
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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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Forgot, the scream in this song is my finger being sliced open by the guitar string.
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A song about unemployment that I did a bad job of recording, then i had another go and it didn't come out how i wanted so i said OH FORGET IT and so here is the rough version.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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