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…

This is the song that got me the job of writing all the music for the 1985 George Sluizer movie, Red Desert Penitentiary and a free trip to Amsterdam to work on the music with the editor. Video at" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V23Be8kDiSs…

JONAH 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…

Her name was Rosemarie Jean and I have lost contact with her. She wrote the poem I turned into Beneath the August Moon. I SAW ROSE AGAIN TODAY I saw Rose again today And I recognized the way My heart reached out With unturned fingers…

My daughter, Wyn, sings a song I wrote in 1977 while I was doing a gig at the Ramada Inn in Laredo. Harmonies are by her mother, Barbara Anne Taylor and step mother, Peggy Ann Mitchell. The guitar solo and keys are by my son, Rabyn…

I wrote this one lonely afternoon in San Anselmo, California at my friend, Eric's house. Missing Peggy. NIGHT TIME DREAMS It's a long way to Texas. Further to Tennessee I'm out here in California with nobody but me So, I'm thinkin' about…

(C) 1990 Royal T Music

I wrote this after Brook drowned. WELCOME TO THE CLUB Well, you say that you're lonely. I see that you are. Why do you think I'm standing here at the bar Where have you been? Life ain't no play pen Call it a bar. Call it a pub. Welcome…

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…

THE CHILD WITH THE BEAUTIFUL NAME (The story is @ iburymydead.com) What remains of an eagle that's fallen The roots of an oak tree now claim To draw sap for the shade for the cattle O're the child with the beautiful name The law, it…

by Poirier, Moshier, Hamilton, Sanderson, Sundstrom conducted by Vaisvil bahm the far end of a forgotten street lectured script steps raw cymbal

by Samarkand, Hamilton, Oldani, Sundstrom conducted by Vaisvil bahm hymn d162011 sacred valley of the Inca five minutes for christopher

by Layton, Smith, Vaisvil, Samarkand edgy Ben Improv Dec 12 2011 fretless bass manger ----------

by Smith, Samarkand conducted by Vaisvil Ben Improv Dec 15 2011 totter

SIX OCLOCK SHADOWS At six p’clock the windmill throws it’s shadow on the grave The cattle chew their cud and lowly low above the one we didn’t save The broken body buried there beneath the sod we carried there that day And tho we hold each…

My most requested song. (c) 1990 Royal T Music

(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…

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…

Woody Guthrie cover.

A remix of Hentai Improvising Orchestra's live set at Doc's Records with Chris Vaisvil's fretless bass improv thrown in.

One Last Christmas 2011 – SKEEN So this is our festive holiday, A time for forgiveness, a time to pray… You say that our future’s all but gone, mmm Gone are the thoughts of our world as one You say it’s all over; forget everyone, yeh One…

This song is my parody to tres delinquents. Just a comedy track i made about liking mexican food

Stranger in paradise and stranger a lot of other places too.

Originally written and performed by Jon Brion

originally written and performed by Audioslave

originally written and performed by Radiohead

originally written and perfomed by Jeremy Messersmith

originally written and performed by Stone Temple Pilots

originally written and performed by Mason Jennings

originally written and performed by Fiona Apple

originally written and performed by Rural Alberta Advantage

originally written and performed by The Rolling Stones

originally written and recorded by the Foo Fighters

originally written and performed by John Frusciante

originally written by John Mercer and Henry Mancini