superb guitar work as usual. the lyrics were hard to hear but i caught the sentiment ,the reflection and the memories of your brother. The song was short , a mixture of beauty with a sad undertone my memories of my brother aren't quite the same, we weren't close . he was older like yours but didn't treat me like a little brother. we were 4 years apart and didn't treat me very well but it is what it is .
Written by Greg Connor
Lyrics:
River run away with me
I got my paddle in my hand
Take me far away from here
Take me to the sea
Take me somewhere I don’t know
Take me where the water goes
Start out fast, then go slow
Closer to the…
Sweet, you always had a nice touch. Your flute playing is sounding good, better then I remember, but I don't recall a lot of songs with you playing it. What are you using for the percussions. I got a bamboo guiro and one that I think is made from some kind a of food that is hollow inside and no openings. Your sound similar to the bamboo guiro.
After reading the book: The Immortal Life of Henryetta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Google HeLa cells and you'll get the whole story. The most famous cell line EVER.
RUN HeLa RUN
Her name was Henryetta Lacks but she never knew
Her family finally…
Haven't read the book so I don't get it but it sounds good. Your production is very good. I hear a little David Bowie in the singing, but it's still your voice. there were just a couple of lines in there that made me flash on that
One night after three month of no rain, as we were driving home from singing at Gringos in Grapevine a splash of water hit the windshield.
I said to myself, "Sweet Rain."
I went home and wrote the song. It's on the soundtrack of a movie called…
So in 1951 you lived in the desert just around the corner from where I grew up , except I wasn't there until 1953 at the ripe and smelly age of 1.I think I was considering buying a house out in the same patch of desert you grew up in. Your Dad might of known a Bob Dollins, he worked at Northrop for a short while . What year did you depart?
In 1951 I was eight years old but it's all like yesterday. The tumbleweeds and the horny toads. Flying kites so far into the desert air that I couldn't see them.
Palmdale, California, 1951
Pretty yellow chickens hating in the sun
Fertilizer…
Small world indeed. In 1953 I was 1 and we lived on the base. In old pics the housing were those Quansot Huts. Hell, if you lived out there at 8 years no wonder you got that dreamy like recollection. It be like living on the Moon, had barren can it get, and the bright sun beating down cooking that desert, sonic booms rattleing windows. I know, I don't know when they stop doing it but I remember as far back as 1964 of our classrooms windows rattling and that 's in Palmdale. They test artilliary as well out at EAB. Fortunately I was only 1 year old back then and i was shielded from the sun by my moma's breast and taken out there before I could develope a memory.Funny thing in early '54 my folks moved just off the south end of 15th. I still live close to it. There is no hope for Peace on Earth as long as militaries stand armed and ready.
You captured the mood! Good integration of song voice and guitar. It was warm & tender despite the hard cold reality the song spoke of. Imaginitive lyrics that mixed well with the sweet simplicity of the music.
In 1951 I was eight years old but it's all like yesterday. The tumbleweeds and the horny toads. Flying kites so far into the desert air that I couldn't see them.
Palmdale, California, 1951
Pretty yellow chickens hating in the sun
Fertilizer…
Another Palmdale resident. The horny toads you don't see to much anymore but he tumbleweeds and the wind are still here so kite flying is still around. Hey ,you forgot the rattlesnakes. I don't remember it being so dreamy though. Your song is different and somewhat interesting but I wouldn't vote for it to be the official Palmdale song. I arrived in Palmdale in 1953, maybe that's what it is.
Uploaded just in time for the American Thanksgiving holiday, this is a kids song that can also be appreciated by the grownup crowd.
Written by my brother David who has a real knack for this sort of songwriting. It's our first long-distance…
how bout a Russian living in Mexico playing a balalaika in a mariachi band drinking tequila & married to Joesph Macarthy's daughter. That would be weirder. Before I read your profile I thought this Russian sounds more American then Hank Williams Jr. Fun song. Do you ever wonder why you hardly see any brothers playing the blues on the banjo. That would be interesting don't you think ?
wrong again you are from England I thought you lived in Florida cause I thought you were on a boat tied to a garden shed. Does that sound right. I'm trying to make light here for me being such a goof.
Here's where I'm confused. I recognize the voice and your out of Florida on the boat moored next to your garden shed who I thought lived in England . Roger dodger or is that wrong too. Who is your singing partner? Sounds good
Had to really push the good wife sing this one. After a couple of years of serious health scares she had lost all confidence in herself. Glad I did my 'Phil Spector' trick on her. ( No gun involved !! )
now i remember the name but just don't remember much else. I always liked this song It usually has more of a kick but this is cool. I don't know who's on vocals but it works. Well done.
Lyrics:
Crazy people, wander round all night
Looking toward the Heavens
At little specs of light
Dragging round their telescopes
And Binoculars
All the tools they need to gaze among the stars
Crazy people, look at what they do…
When you look up at the night sky from where you live does the milky way burn bright. Clusters of stars glowing from time that passed us by. Are there certain crisp, clear, windless nights, the moon hanging on the dark side and every star seemed just a little brighter then before. As far as you could see there was shimmering light flickering from the faintest and most distant stars. I try to imagine what the night sky would have looked like 30,000 years ago or a million years. How much more did stars shine before we were here. Before electricity people probably paid more attention to the night skies
The more iI listen the more brilliant it shines. There must be a bag full of songs coming out about the bottom 99 but ur lyrics are ahead of anything I've heard . this time their reloading and dancing around the golden calf, gotta love it. Great song
Not really Irish ... a Scottish ballad ...
An earthly nourris sits and sings
And aye she sings, "Ba lilly wean
(and) no ken I, my bairns father
Far less the land that he dwells in."
And up come he to her bed fit
A grumly guest I'm sure…
Love this stuff, another EZ member found their way to the alonetone , I think it will be fine but after a while the extreme numbers of songs to listen to become overwhelming. I think it would have been better to load a few songs up in intervals to keep your name out there. I'm not being pesstimistic it's just I look at it like we're on this musical conveyor and ther u are right on the front and I suppose there are some that make it a point to listen and encourage new faces but eventually we move past the front and the second and after awhile their's our songs some where in this mass collection of digital uploads.what a dark and dreary place for such lovely and enlighting music, so pure ,unlike the electronic monster creations synth and tweaked and distorted which seems to be a lot of what's here. Maybe I'm wrong, there so much here it would take more then a lifetime to listen to it all. There's a lot of real good stuff too but whose got time, I try and give people off EZ some hits I got a life to live and it's not sitting around listening to music 24/7. I don't know if your on the EZ Facebook page but Mike McLaren has come across a folk music website that looks interesting check it out. Love ur music
Comments on G-no's stuff
Back to listen, A great piece of history,This story. power guitar work and very cool thinking
Hey Gene, good tune, sweet thoughts with bitter tears
Like this one Gene.
Tortured Love .... It will get you every time. Great expression of true emotion.
Great songwriting!
Right on! LG
Nice acoustic guitar work, and great narrative!
It's a mighty fine piece of work G,
A wonderful song and a kick on the backside for all of us. God doesn't take sides does she! Oooo, niiice finger picking.
Really focused and excellent original song you are really getting this performance down Ill be in the audience its sweet
Comments made by G-no
I miss you brother
Love this song. RIP my friend.
superb guitar work as usual. the lyrics were hard to hear but i caught the sentiment ,the reflection and the memories of your brother. The song was short , a mixture of beauty with a sad undertone my memories of my brother aren't quite the same, we weren't close . he was older like yours but didn't treat me like a little brother. we were 4 years apart and didn't treat me very well but it is what it is .
Sweet, you always had a nice touch. Your flute playing is sounding good, better then I remember, but I don't recall a lot of songs with you playing it. What are you using for the percussions. I got a bamboo guiro and one that I think is made from some kind a of food that is hollow inside and no openings. Your sound similar to the bamboo guiro.
that's different. reindeer must have struggled with all them different bells
Haven't read the book so I don't get it but it sounds good. Your production is very good. I hear a little David Bowie in the singing, but it's still your voice. there were just a couple of lines in there that made me flash on that
So in 1951 you lived in the desert just around the corner from where I grew up , except I wasn't there until 1953 at the ripe and smelly age of 1.I think I was considering buying a house out in the same patch of desert you grew up in. Your Dad might of known a Bob Dollins, he worked at Northrop for a short while . What year did you depart?
These songs with the choir are cool. Are these friends , sounds like you got a regular choir doing back up
Small world indeed. In 1953 I was 1 and we lived on the base. In old pics the housing were those Quansot Huts. Hell, if you lived out there at 8 years no wonder you got that dreamy like recollection. It be like living on the Moon, had barren can it get, and the bright sun beating down cooking that desert, sonic booms rattleing windows. I know, I don't know when they stop doing it but I remember as far back as 1964 of our classrooms windows rattling and that 's in Palmdale. They test artilliary as well out at EAB. Fortunately I was only 1 year old back then and i was shielded from the sun by my moma's breast and taken out there before I could develope a memory.Funny thing in early '54 my folks moved just off the south end of 15th. I still live close to it. There is no hope for Peace on Earth as long as militaries stand armed and ready.
You captured the mood! Good integration of song voice and guitar. It was warm & tender despite the hard cold reality the song spoke of. Imaginitive lyrics that mixed well with the sweet simplicity of the music.
Another Palmdale resident. The horny toads you don't see to much anymore but he tumbleweeds and the wind are still here so kite flying is still around. Hey ,you forgot the rattlesnakes. I don't remember it being so dreamy though. Your song is different and somewhat interesting but I wouldn't vote for it to be the official Palmdale song. I arrived in Palmdale in 1953, maybe that's what it is.
how bout a Russian living in Mexico playing a balalaika in a mariachi band drinking tequila & married to Joesph Macarthy's daughter. That would be weirder. Before I read your profile I thought this Russian sounds more American then Hank Williams Jr. Fun song. Do you ever wonder why you hardly see any brothers playing the blues on the banjo. That would be interesting don't you think ?
how's it going friend ? I've been thinking about the future, the past, and dealing with the present.. Right now I'm just enjoying your tunes
wrong again you are from England I thought you lived in Florida cause I thought you were on a boat tied to a garden shed. Does that sound right. I'm trying to make light here for me being such a goof.
Here's where I'm confused. I recognize the voice and your out of Florida on the boat moored next to your garden shed who I thought lived in England . Roger dodger or is that wrong too. Who is your singing partner? Sounds good
now i remember the name but just don't remember much else. I always liked this song It usually has more of a kick but this is cool. I don't know who's on vocals but it works. Well done.
When you look up at the night sky from where you live does the milky way burn bright. Clusters of stars glowing from time that passed us by. Are there certain crisp, clear, windless nights, the moon hanging on the dark side and every star seemed just a little brighter then before. As far as you could see there was shimmering light flickering from the faintest and most distant stars. I try to imagine what the night sky would have looked like 30,000 years ago or a million years. How much more did stars shine before we were here. Before electricity people probably paid more attention to the night skies
The more iI listen the more brilliant it shines. There must be a bag full of songs coming out about the bottom 99 but ur lyrics are ahead of anything I've heard . this time their reloading and dancing around the golden calf, gotta love it. Great song
Love this stuff, another EZ member found their way to the alonetone , I think it will be fine but after a while the extreme numbers of songs to listen to become overwhelming. I think it would have been better to load a few songs up in intervals to keep your name out there. I'm not being pesstimistic it's just I look at it like we're on this musical conveyor and ther u are right on the front and I suppose there are some that make it a point to listen and encourage new faces but eventually we move past the front and the second and after awhile their's our songs some where in this mass collection of digital uploads.what a dark and dreary place for such lovely and enlighting music, so pure ,unlike the electronic monster creations synth and tweaked and distorted which seems to be a lot of what's here. Maybe I'm wrong, there so much here it would take more then a lifetime to listen to it all. There's a lot of real good stuff too but whose got time, I try and give people off EZ some hits I got a life to live and it's not sitting around listening to music 24/7. I don't know if your on the EZ Facebook page but Mike McLaren has come across a folk music website that looks interesting check it out. Love ur music
When's the next single due out