Homer has paid his debt to the female mystery and is tired

for ImprovFriday 12/15-17/2011 improv in 11tet, then mixed with 10tet, then spectrally tweaked

This one seems very apt for today's financial climate..........

Celebrate your own limits!!

FANNIN COUNTY FAIR Fannin county fair. Red River rhymes and riddles And the Bois d' arc spread beneath the harvest moon There I found her, and I crowned her Queen of the Fannin County Fair I told her I'd be rich. I told her I'd be famous…

From the Texas Water album TEXAS RAIN Peggy sings this one. OKLAHOMA NIGHTS - Capo @ 2 G F G Carefully, the boats are tied up to the shore C G F C D And the fish are jumping in the night, in the night B D G And the wind has found…

EASY ANSWERS Easy answers, foggin' up my mind Easy answers, takin' up my time You tell me what I feel What is right and what is real What do you know? You say, like all the rest What is worst is what is best What do you know? Easy answers…

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…

COWTOWN In a court yard down the alley There's a grave yard, weeds and litter Memories, undisturbed, await their doom Beneath the glitter of COWTOWN You take a building, old and crooked Long ago the life forsook it Paint it up and name…

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…

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…

I was trying to write a Willie Nelson/Buddy Holly song. RaByn was 12 when he did the drums and bass on this. I think we did it on a Teac Porta Studio. 4 track cassette. TEXAS SKIES Key A Well, there was a time in Texas when the bars were…

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…

(c) 1990 Royal T Music

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

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

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

A little something for my ma - actually a (super) late mother's day present!!!

Slightly sinister take on the popular playground favourite. :) Never did catch 'er..

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…

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

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…

No im not happy and no im not sad, no im not good but i know im not bad. No i wont go there, but no i wont stay, no im not straight but no im not gay, no need to tell me i know im not right, no happy endings and no end in sight. I got no way of…

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.

I remastered it for better sound quality. it was a bit rough on its own, so I decided to fix that with a new limiter and to tone down the high frequencies. Overall, it's easier listening.

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