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I had to work with a musican that had a huge ego problem. I finally had to express my frustration with that musician in song. This is a James Brown funk feel with a pop hook.
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I really feel that love and compassion are much more important than physical beauty and this song is about that belief. It has a Stevie Wonder R&B feel to it.
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Living in Milwaukee and driving throught the ghetto and working with kids from the hood, I felt compelled to tell their story in song. This song is funk like Sly and the Family Stone.
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I became fed up with all the half truths and lies that the nationw was told by Bush Jr. and had to put my frustrations to music. The feel of this is New Orleans Blues.
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This is a jump blues feel that's fun to listen to.
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This is a John Lee Hooker feel that is fun to dance to.
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This is a heavy, dirty shuffle that I wrote after reading some pretty heavy stuff about the poor in the US.
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I had a falling out with a long time friend when I wrote this song. It has a Ray Charles/Aretha Franklin gospel/blues feel.
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This song is has an old school blues medium shuffle feel.
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I wrote this song for a singer that used to be with the band. After you listen to it, you'll get a good feel for her. This is a Delta Blues feel.
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This is a gospel blues feel that evokes the emotion of the title.
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This has a Delta/Muddy Waters feel to it and it was fun to record. The E stands for my daughter's name Ehlona and the A for my wife's name Amy and both the song and my home feel a bit like a train.
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My bass player at the time really loved thick women and so I wrote him a song. It's him singing on this one.
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This is the first version of the song we recorded with our original singer.
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This song was written by the bass player and is a massage for the ears. This has a jazz/blues feel.
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This is a John Lee Hooker feel that we just jammed on in the studio. I don't really like Gritz that much but the name seemed to fit.
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This is the title track of this album. I wrote it about a girlfriend my friend had at the time. She was a bit of a gold digger. This is a shuffle with a Luther Allison feel.
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This is a live recording from a club that had a studio built into it. Unfortuntately, the club shut down.
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This is a live recording from a club that had a studio built into it. Unfortuntately, the club shut down.
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This is a live recording from a club that had a studio built into it. Unfortuntately, the club shut down.
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This is a live recording from a club that had a studio built into it. Unfortuntately, the club shut down.
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This is a live recording from a club that had a studio built into it. Unfortuntately, the club shut down. After performing this one, there was a chill up my spine. It's a haunting one.
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This is a live recording from a club that had a studio built into it. Unfortuntately, the club shut down.
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This is a live recording from a club that had a studio built into it. Unfortuntately, the club shut down.
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This was my last rpm2010 piece. i had recorded the rhythm track in early feb, and put the triple mandolin harmonies on at the very end of feb. i really love mandolin harmonies...this has more of a mediterranean vibe...
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To me is very difficult to describe this song, but I like it.
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From the Himitsu jam sessions. Electronic punk jazz or almost anything else. A group of 3 to 5 musicians meeting weekly to just play. All improvisation, no planning or themes, just what you bring.
Kaos Pad twisted vocals run beneath this heavilly…
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From the Himitsu jam sessions. Electronic punk jazz or almost anything else. A group of 3 to 5 musicians meeting weekly to just play. All improvisation, no planning or themes, just what you bring.
This one's a three piece set, after the keyboard…
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Inspired by a series of springs in the Hill Country, that are said to be so full of life that you can even see the ghosts. Or if you know the right time, the hummingbirds. A recent composition using samples and FS1R.
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I know, I know, this one is so unlike all my other stuff. It's hard to believe a raggedy road warrior has this kind of thing in him, but, it's true. I used to wander the wild lands of the west, the red buttes and the lonesome peaks. In my dreams…
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This was inspired by my fight (and eventual loss) with the city
building department.
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A song about roads not taken, regrets, and a girl I knew in junior high school.
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A tribute to the man, inspired by a line in Bob Seger's Rock and Roll Never Forgets.
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This is for the couple that sat behind me while i was eating and were referring to everyone going into the Target next door as "sheeple".
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Written after reading an article about Robert Oppenheimer.
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Written while watching a good friend going through the run-up to a divorce. This song isn't a whole lot of fun, and for that I apologize... But when all you have is twenty-eight days, you have to go with what you've got.
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"You gotta put your pencil to the paper. Don't bother with the intricate chords. Hell it doesn't matter if the damned thing doesn't rhyme. Write it down. Run it through. Make some noise." These were actually the first words I wrote when…
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A blasphemously reverent prayer to the Goddess of Sacred Uproar. The lyrics can be found at bit.ly/PrayerforUs
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Power outages, deadlines, and needing to leave home. A Girl Named Sam lends some beautiful vocal harmonies.
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I was in a very dark place when I wrote this tune. Now I'm back in the light it sounds very self-pitying, but hey. From 2006 album Too many magpies
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Just an old-timey thing I wrote. From 2006 album Too Many Magpies
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Another song from the dark period. Don't get involved in messy affairs is my advice! From 2006 album Too Many Magpies
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Written for my best mate's first son. From 2006 album Too Many Magpies
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Yet another tune from the dark period. To be honest I'm never fond of my slower tunes. From 2006 album Too Many Magpies
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Playing with reverberation and stretching, part of a larger ambient piece for the RPM2010 challenge. It uses heavilly effected and modified samples and VST Synplant.
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Late night, last piece from a Himitsu session. Very laid back. All electronic. Recorded on minidisc and rescued later from a random hard drive.
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A pop song without the 'ular' about the struggle of the addict and the feeling of obsession.
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I figure if I keep trying long enough, I'll start channeling the great Django Reinhardt. Perhaps it's like squeezing blood from a stone but if I get a drop or two, I'm happy with that!
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But don't answer yet, we will DOUBLE the offer if you call right now...
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We play even number of games of backgammon and sometimes it ends in a...
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Inspiration for this quick fun one came from Uncommon Ritual and other works by Edgar Meyer: I wanted to take a run of notes across multiple instruments just to have fun!
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it is a strange fetus isnt it doctor?
slide guitar and maraca-bongo play in duet on same track.
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of dog whisperers and dcktttkrs
slow jam with a sexy lead jimmy buffet acid house music.
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i dont know why this song is so racist. At least it doesn't have lyrics. The guitar will break your neck if the synth babble doesn
t tear you head off first
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so,so vision and quests/choices made/ artillery set/accessories found off a dead mans chest/ nature in pixels/ sight without smells and fingertips felt/ only plastic and components/ binary binds you/binary it blinds you/ the world it waits/ outside…
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lyrics by juniper arrangemnt by juniper, vocals by hot wheels.
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this song is a take on classicism and neo fascism, and not sounding like everyone else.
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Hold On- Ok, this one is really hard. Not in a rock sense, but other ways. Musically, this song really dances on the line of schmaltz, and a few times, trips over it. I had a hard time singing some of the lines, since I don’t have a pretty voice…
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Sweet Tomorrow- Well, after the previous downer of a lyrical journey, how about a song of hope? Except, after a big downer, you may bit a bit leery, a bit closed off and nervous about taking a chance. So this song is a conversation between two…
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Love’s Standing- A good change up for the flow of the album, this one is vaguely, very vaguely, country-esque. That’s mainly because of the heavily reverbed slide underneath the acoustic in the verses. I love pounding the strings on the acoustic…
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During my Animal Collective phase. One of the weirder ones...
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Don't believe the title. Ok, you probably should.
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Also known as "Sequence 6 & 7" in the "Watercolors" project which was my entry to the RPM Challenge 2010.
It is all about that overwhelmingly happy feeling that makes you weak in your knees and you just feel like sitting down and enjoy the…
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A problem we all have at some time, right guys?
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