From "The Fruits Of Their Labours" (2014). Copyright © 2014 by The Apple Zed. All rights reserved. - The last of the truly great explorers I’ve seen all that the world has to show me But now, the dream grows cold My life needs a new…

by Joshua Tillman (aka Father John Misty)

adapted parlor acoustic to slide guitar. An improvisation reflecting on awaking to a roof leak in my recording room from an overnight snow.

another improvisation after raising the strings via found objects about the same height to make a slide guitar out of my parlor guitar. Tuning is fairly low tension though the string raise nut and saddle are raising pitch. Shot glass for slide.

This song makes it's third appearance on alonetone. Once from a cassette tape of the band playing it back in 1997, once from my first crack at an album in a month back in 2007, and now this. This song was so simple and basic and nothing but…

No way could I ever sing this.

Surprised I recorded a song by The Cure, it just happened out of nowhere.

Sudden insight into a transcendental truth.

Sorry about the bum lick around 1:41, maybe some of the licks after that will make up for it.

from the album "ZERO" featuring Meg Radley on vocals wait a day might as well stay, awhile here with me where the breeze, blows just say now time grows shorter then we dream awake a scream, out loud leaving leaves a hole kicks around…

ADOBE & BLOOD Thanks to David Kneller for bringing up the subject and creating that phrase: ADOBE & BLOOD I read a lotta stories about a lotta stuff But I tell ya folks, I'll never read enough To block out the memories what…

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from the album "ZERO" with Alex Moody on vocals if you believe in the miracle of trust and that karma's hands always touch everything, whether near or out of touch gotta keep on reaching, cause it never hurts to try, it's not so hard…

Major variation of this fusion tune.

Silly cover of a silly song.

From the Jan 2015 issue of Guitar World magazine, arrangement by Jimmy Brown. I didn't do his ending, but I did add a couple solos in the middle.

from the album 'ZERO' with Alex Moody on Vocals lover cease and desist what you say cause there's a ton of trouble coming your way lover be strong it's gonna be a crazy ride but when it all hits the fan i'll be the one with the plan…

Rework of this song for the album- I'm currently recording everything I wrote in the last year. There's electric cello and melodica in there- this is the first multitrack recording I've done in well over a year. Enjoy!