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This song's going on 32 years old...
Some 12 years older than I was when I wrote it!!
I borrowed the title from one of my favourite madrigals, The Silver Swan by Orlando Gibbons:
"The silver swan who living hath no note, when death approached…
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Music: Vaisvil
Vocals/Lyrics: TheTwoRegs
Percussion: Norm
DEMOCRACY
If I could ask for some calm please!
Can everybody just settle down calm down please?
You must vote to separate the wheat from the chaff.
The wheat from the…
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Well, I'm almost on a roll now - this little love song was written, arranged, and recorded in just a week. I've been meaning to attempt something like this for years, just never got round to it.
I'd actually settled down to finally record a…
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With Big Time Operator, who originally uploaded his awesome music with the offer that anyone can add vocals...too good to miss! Love this music, and had loads of fun wailing. Thanks Chris!
Played on BBC Radio Introducing. :)
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There's a pretty good video for this song on YOUTUBE. We wrote this song years ago...90's in fact.
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Thinking about and inspired a lot by trees lately. That, and the excellent film Rivers and Tides.
Arboreal
Drink in the sun
Until the day is done
Dance with the wind
Circle of life has no end
Roots into the ground
Arms reach up to the…
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We’re closed now
Keep off
My land
The plains turn to sand
That’s what the wire said
I hear trains coming
Smoke in the sky
Lines in the sand
That’s what the wire said
Ghosts of voices
Chant numbers and code
Steel lines in the sand…
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This is a prayer of the Catholic tradition which I put to music. the guitar is in drop D tuning.
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Next in the little pile of songs from the shoe-box. This one has the date 27th January 1994 written on it, but it's describing an episode from many years earlier when I was, I'm guessing, something like 12 or 13 years old.
I had to go to a…
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Just little clips of a few recordings. Posted according to the U.S. Copyright Fair Use Act (title 17, U.S. Code.)For entertainment purposes and criticism only.
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Ah! My favorite Saint.
Tuned Congas, glass-beaded shekere and bass cajon.
4/4. BPM? Heaven knows. Had the headphones blissfully off for this one.
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In 2001 my most recent band, Hoss Williams, recorded a four-song demo, and each of the four bandmembers contributed one song to it. This was mine. It's loosely about growing up in the country and being a teenager ripping around in clapped-out…
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