A long meditation/wank. This weeks guitar lesson we started looking at melodic minor modes. I went home and started practicing scales. Wasn't long before I got stuck on Dorian flat 2. So I fired up the looper and recorded a session. Funny…

On The Road Again by Willie Nelson - Recorded as a demo to be presented to night club owners to score gigs. Generally, a verse and chorus with maybe a short instrumental, just to give the overall flavor of the song. All 3 vocals are by Mike Woosley…

Today I gave a quickie demo of Live to my guitar instructor. I started with an empty set and threw some crap at the wall just to show him one of the work flows. Later, when I brought the thing home I couldn't leave well enough alone and started…

From Green Tea

A weird experiment in polyrhythm. I think it could still use work but I've lost perspective...

Memories of walking a coonhound in the small hours around the empty structures of Baltimore's Artscape festival before dawn- silent ferris wheel standing behind the rows of booths, vacant carnival installations on the Charles St Bridge. In this…

This simple little ballad was originally recorded in the late sixties by Rick's Continentals. With today's engineering, it sounds just a bit more up to date. Please enjoy this new version and then check out the old one at www.RicksContinentals.com

A song written for my dear old friend, Kirk Lynch, who I've known for almost 20 years. For those who don't know, Kirk and I live less than an hour apart, but I swear it's been five years since we've seen each other in person, which just ain't…

Left over junk from RPM 2009

Another guitar loop from 2008. Proof I can write "happy" music :)

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NOT FINISHED. another draft. just putting it up here so that i kick myself in the pants to flesh it out and write verses and whatnot and redo everything. great! this draft is continuously replaced with newer versions. check back, please! (oh yeah…

This is my second experiment with "song form". In this case I tried out probably the simplest form: "IABABCABE" where I - intro, A - verse, B - chorus, C - break, E - end. Although I'm not sure if the verse is supposed to build into the…

I recently bought a monstrous old Emu keyboard sampler, and this is the result.

Some friends throw other friends going away parties. Songwriting friends say "hey, what a great idea for a song." Tech notes: I've been losing my voice today and ended up having to go back and do retakes to try to get as close to on-pitch as…

Embrace the truth in life.