Long story... or, What the hell is a cajon anyway? I listen to a podcast about cover bands. One of the hosts is a drummer and he plays in an acoustic group. He said he played his cajon at the acoustic gigs. I thought, what the hell is…

Written by Seb James. Originally by the Callow Saints, who sadly split up last year. https://soundcloud.com/callowsaints/ For ages I've wanted to do my own version of this song, hope I've done it justice.

This one is a coffee shoppe arrangement but as soon as I had the guitar parts down I thought it would sound good with drums and bass. As soon as I had that thought I decided to do two versions of each acoustic song. Verse 1 There’s got to…

A true life story Good bless our hustle .

Written for the March Songwriting Challenge "Fast Food" offered by Carl Unbehaun, Minnesota Homebrew Radio Show. "Let's Dine In" features myself and my sweetheart Rita Beth Connor who has been putting up with my crap, often positioned has…

Can't remember if I ever uploaded this, it's an old song. A simple video here. https://youtu.be/qyqBUXIpDno

This was the first idea I had for RPM this year. It was the first song to have guitars, the first to have lyrics, the first to have pretty much everything. Why then wasn't it the first to get mixed? I don't know. I kinda like this but maybe…

The plan for the RPM Challenge this year is to do an album with two distinct parts. Side One (if you'll indulge the ancient way of thinking) will be a straight up bar band. The instrumentation will be my normal guitar/bass/drums/vocals. Side…

This is the band mix of this guy: https://alonetone.com/robertjames1971/tracks/time's-up-(coffee-shoppe-mix) The acoustic guitar and the vocals are the same on both mixes. Everything else is different. Today’s the day the end of days…

Oddly insistent dissonant ostinato versus guitar leads that end in a scream.

Interactive looping in Pure Data, baritone ukulele.

Thumbjam and Esoteric synth apps

I'd intended to try some different things with playing my dizi (Chinese bamboo flute) at very low volume with little breath pressure but listening back to the result it sounds like a series of old-style whistling kettles sequentially coming to…

My usual generic mid-tempo rock tune. This was written on the guitar rather than on a midi instrument in GarageBand, so I like it a little for that alone. Really though, the whole thing is worth it for the four bar disco break toward the end…

a very easy and low-fi synthesizer and electronic drum session with vst- synthesizer plug- in.

Lap steel and Pure Data. Testing setup for live event tomorrow. One of the results here. 7 10 sec loop tables interactive and mixed.