Each demo is getting me closer to where I will eventually be to record the album. Drums are really coming together. The next demo will focus more on the rhythm tones. New cab mic coming... Verse I Morning light, spills on the floor Shadows…

Trying out a whole lot of new gear. (Even though it is all really old gear) This demo was mostly for the guitars and drums. All outboard gear and no outside samples where used for the first time for me. Guitars are a greenback style speaker…

Melody was too fresh to have down properly but hey, it's another demo. I think I hate this one. Just idea after idea morphing daily. The ending was more of a joke but I guess it is staying... Verse One I feel like, I’m lying awake But I…

so much depends on a little red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the white chickens these days a man dies you can't leave him be gotta get his body offa your property mm-hmm so much depends on a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater…

Song about my mother instead of my father for once... Another demo, things are choppy, but it is just to get the idea down and to test the set up, spent maybe four hours on it tops. Chorus You never listen when I’m drowning
 I’m breaking…

pay a man to: -walk through his field of corn -pick an apple off of his apple tree -pick a pumpkin out of his pumpkin patch -carve a face into that pumpkin for me I sing a song a song about living in small-town Tennessee my best…

EMPTINESS It seems to be very difficult for people to be critical of the culture in which they are enmeshed within. There are all sorts of mechanisms that dominant cultures use to further socialize and entrench us: patriotism /// nationalism…

Solo wurli piece from early 2020.

I took a wav file of a UDIO creation and uploaded it into ChatGPT and used the following prompts please rearrange this wav file with 3 second length markov chains and provide the output. In addition randomly reverse the 3 second sections…

The seats are all filled on the zeppelin The Tower of Babel is raised - I’m amazed! And the hope springs eternal Their fears stay nocturnal for now The plastics hold shape in the soil The farmer’s daughter goes blind - so shall I The rooster…

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Country blues version of my song, ai generated demo. Lyrics: Starting Over Again 2025©JohnSchofield That summer night when fireflies flickered Like secrets playing on your lips I knew from your faraway expression…

Just getting the demos uploaded somewhere - These will act as the refrence tracks for when I go to record the cnext album Ash from the fireplace, driftin' like ghosts in the air Smoke on the ceiling, still clings to the cold in my hair Flickers…

The sound of the wheels That the gravel driveway reveals I am home for a while Where I keep my things and desires Tennessee / Carolina Tie the loose ends and leave it behind You know me, I’m unwinding Soaked in gin subatomic dividing…

Recorded Live (Field recording) and in Studio for the June 2025 REM (Record every Month) .. Mixed and edited in Logic Pro

What do you call guys like us, who are from the USA? USA-guys? Why, we’re USAnian of course.

I was wondering About the crops If we skipped the harvest In the fall Let the cornfield Die and brought Sell the farm And cast our lot Would be be OK I hope that it won’t be a while Till I get to see the smile The Dawn shines on the…

Brian's songs are so unique, he really is on another level.... They're deep, soulful and fun to jam to. We have a cycle, each time we get together we do a different member's song...I can't wait until it's Brian's turn next.

Who will break this ice sleepwalking through the pines Said I won’t tell you twice 100 million times You can’t pay the price We’ll never get the bill You don’t need to atone And though it’s such a thrill To heave the first stone…

My May 2025 REM (record every month Submission ... toying/Experimenting with different drum and Percussion Sounds/Modules with a bit Ambient Sounds in for good taste

This song is about one of the Prood girls, who is a school teacher ….special THANK YOU to Colleen Dillon for her endless support and encouragement. Lyrics… As the shadows stretch across your dark and lonely room and your record player fails…

We're getting political with this one.

My wicked little brother Is on his way back He’s squandered his fortune To spite our old dad The filthy little wanderer I can see down the road Now he’ll get his penance For the bad life he chose Oh my brother likes to gamble But now…

Ok, I know that it appears that The Proods have been posting so grim music of late, but this song started out as an homage to one of the Lady-Proods, and just kinda got away from us. More stuff following….bright, chipper love songs.

Michael Hurley Birds sing songs that Wake the dreamers From their sorrowful soirée Cryin', bye bye, sweet fried chicken And the platter Glides away In the moonlight In the moonlight We don't hear, but Water running Down the stream…

frozen trip around the lakes We were passing through six states But we couldn’t get Detroit Out of our rear view The trip that sealed our fate Were both children out of place Stormy Lake Michigan Threw us for a loop Family makes…

I noticed when I woke up I was half gone I’ve known this having broken Promises I’ve sworn I just want some sunlight I just want a good time One day, this will make sense One day, I will want less What recourse can I manage? That…

Day two of the Daily Two! I feel like I flubbed these drums. But I did the thing and that's what matters...