dedicated to a pretty girl I know... :P also note there is a meager attempt at video for this song! Lyrics: ====== smile for me, pretty girl smile for me, please i'd do anything you want to get you to acknowledge me but i breathe…

A new feel for the classic hymn.

The Forest at Night

One of my early collaborations with Norm. Down by the riverside Where all of the fish had died I threw my faith right in When I saw it, it was sinking Oh don’t you go Don’t you even dare Don’t run away until you’ve heard…

i think its evolutionary. let the listener decide. the orignal title was 'idont want a relationship, i just want to make music with you'

A favorite style of my wife... like Kris Kristofferson, in a way. Maybe more folk than Outlaw Country...? The song has great meaning for me. Hope you like it! Doug

SIX OCLOCK SHADOWS At six o'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…

Wish it was just something i MADE UP... (c) 2008 Royal T Music

The intro here is a fuzzed up guitar harmonic and a harmonica. I'd like to take that idea to another level. Enjoy!

From my RPM Challenge 2011 effort. Originally this wasn't an instrumental, but the time pressures of RPM changed that.

I plugged my Fender Mustang directly into the Zoom H2 and monitored with head phones while sitting on my bed and played around. This is a compressed version of one of the things I did. I've been pretty sick the past few days but I needed to…

New version of the song from "RPM 0207"

This is a musical setting of Bruce Andrew’s poem “jjj” from his book “Moebius” thanks to PennSound archive. To create the music I hijacked Norm Harris’ Y Class Steam Locomotive Bell sample and his percussion piece Ilesa and added…

Flinch I'm guilty I took the bait again And here I am again Always with the same stupid grin And I didn't go as planned Few things do I've learned From the top I pulled it but I didn't see how far you'd go didn't I see you flinch…

A collection of four improvisations on 19 note per octave electric guitar. Sucralose Aspartame Cyclamate Saccharin The title is a play on artificial sweeteners and a collection of songs being a suite. Per wikipedia "In music, a suite…

The story of how I did this is here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=871 goodnight.

This is a song in two perspectives. It opens with a twinkling theme which moves throughout space. The first perspective is a man who is lost in a world of worry and has delusions of grandeur. He can't possibly get over the death of his father…

playing some guitar to my favorite e.e. cummings poem.

An Italian pop ballad. Mimmo sent me the lyric years ago, and I had almost forgotten the music I wrote for it. :) Still needs a real sax. =============================================== Lyrics: Domenico Mercurio Violin: Enrico Nichelatti…

Ferryman - Vocals (slightly re-imagined lyrics), bass, rhythm guitar Dave Berry - guitar fills (r&l), lead solo, harmonica.

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written to calm myself after getting frustrated with my girlfriend, lyrics kinda work on different levels as well : I am not a machine god make make me a perfect machine so I can please those from above who forget about love I am not a glove…

SongCrafter's website is running a Psych-Fest, and well it has been too long since anyone has covered Napoleon XIV anyway, so why not? Why not, I ask? You drove me outta my stinkin' mind, you mangy mutt!!!! So, ...... well, have a listen LG

Another one from the collaboration of Chris Vaisvil, Norm and thetworegs from the album Women and Whisky together ain't no good. We hope you enjoy...................... Reg created the lyrics, vocal melody, and sang Norm composed and played…

Mama MAMA My Mama taught me to make my bed. My Mama taught me to iron my shirt. My Mama taught me how to put a pillow in a pillow case, to wash and dry the dishese and that orange doesn't go with red. She said, "That is busy." (C…

spitfire Cover

Marian is my favorite fiddle player after Itzhak Perlman. She and I wrote this song about her feeling of her Dad's presence when she plays and people listen. MARION'S SONG A puff of smoke when her violin broke A look that just said, "I…

Song from mid ninties, for the Trawler tapes collection. I do plan to make a new version of this when I get around to it. The YouTube vid is rudimentary

Extended dub