you're definitely channeling Mose Alison on this song!

Smooth and sassy, and awesome songwriting, lyrics extraordinaire. And the sax/organ intermission is super! Durge

Jazz'n up the Cloud!

Gypsy

I lent my double bass to a good friend and it was returned in pieces. Somewhat shaken by the experience I borrowed another  bass to complete this song. 

The aggression in the delivery was infinitely preferable to venting it on such a good friend. Accidents happen.

It didn’t look good, you know what I mean?
A man in a hat in a black limousine
Window was down, asked for a light
What are the chances of things going right?

I reach for my zippo, games as close as I dare
My hand was shaking, sure I was scared
He drew on his doobie, he gave a rye smile
Jacksons or Franklins I’ll let you decide

I empty my pockets onto hat’s hood
I only had chump change, so it didn’t look good
Short on payola, lacking the guac
He pulled out his piece and I sat in the back

The girl in the front seat, she didn’t say much
And neither would you if he had his hand on your crouch
I looked out the window you wanna know why?
That’s what you do if you don’t want to die

He was so hard boiled
He was so hard boiled
So hard boiled tough as a nut
Hard in the middle

I had premonitions, not good I confess
Me full of lead, her cut up in her dress
I dialled from my pocket, cops picked up quick
Hat said that’a so rude, she thought what a dick!
 
He was so hard boiled
He was so hard boiled
So hard boiled tough as a nut
Hard in the middle
But what’s that oozing out?

So Hard Boiled

Jumped at suggestion from $ad for some vocal flow lines through my lost in space guitar. Thanks so much for yr inspired musings, $ad : )

Check out his amazing work here: https://soundcloud.com/avercoffee

music & mix - learningtoplay
lyrics and vocals - $ad

out there . . somewhere (ltp + $ad)

I present for you my cover of the beautiful , tender and heart breaking..
Young & Foolish.
Written by Albert Hague, Arnold B. Horwitt and performed by Bill Evans for many years before he finally recorded it on his second album " Everbody Digs Bill Evans " in 1959

ENJOY XX

Young & Foolish

Sure I may miss you sometimes
But I ain’t lost my mind
I’m exactly where I should be
Baby don’t make any plans for me

Maybe you twinkled my toes
When you wrinkled your nose 
Those are memories I’ll always keep

Take a little trip to paradise 
Somewhere with palm trees that sway
Coconut rum wouldn’t that be nice
Learn to love yourself for a change   

I know that’s it’s hard to believe 
But we ain’t meant to be
We see that which we wish to see
Tea leaves don’t mean all that much to me

Feelings are chemical delusions
Ephemeral illusions   
Confusing reality
Leave me be, it’s clear to me
I’m exactly where I should be  

I have come to my conclusion
Despite your confusion
Your losing your grip I see
This fantasy is killing me
I’m exactly where I should be

Exactly Where I Should Be

The wonderful Irina joins me on our original, Taking It Easy.  Her beautiful voice and searching lyrics bring this to life. Always a joy to hear Irina sing and interpret music. Listen especially to the harmony lines she creates, dancing and with such a light authority and sensitivity.  And follow her award-winning career and her music: https://soundcloud.com/irina-951237464.

For a playlist of the tunes Irina and I have recorded together:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/irina-and-jamie

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.

Taking it Easy Lyrics:  Irina

What can I do?

Can I count me plus you?
What do you see?
Can you count you plus me?

Does it make any sense?
Tacit romance...

We are taking it easy
Taking it easy...

What can I do?
What if it is me minus you?
What do you see?
Is it you minus me?

Does it make any sense?
Tacit romance...

We are taking it easy
Taking it easy...

Taking It Easy - Irina / Jamie Rhind

Music, lyrics and vocals by Irina
Artwork by Tatyana Markovtsev - http://feeltheline.com/

One more day
One more night with you
We'll make it beautiful

One more rhyme
One more song for you
I'll make it beautiful

I love you
I never felt like this before
I love you
I wish I could but give you more

One more smile
Lights your charming face
I think it's beautiful

One more kiss
One more last embrace
We'll make it beautiful

I love you
There's nothing wrong to feel like this
I love you
A chance that we don't want to miss

Beautiful

For a broken relationship, some slowly sinking ship or what we hope will only be a deadly, deathly blip.

Full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdMOlBXfZhk

As Slow As You Go

For a broken relationship, some slowly sinking ship or what we hope will only be a deadly, deathly blip.

Ice Cave

A little town in northeastern California used to be a mill town with a prison.  Today, the mill stands still. The towers remain a reminder of a much different time. 
Thanks To Logan Blackard for drums
Lyrics;
There's visions of ghosts 
at the old mill tower
In the old saw mill
The blades of the saws
Once hot from the cut
sit cold and still

mountains surround
A small valley town 
At the foot of the hills
A small lonely place
With the never sweat pace
of Susanville 


The cold winter days pass 
into warm summer nights 
The Old town shines on the Main Street 
in bold neon light
The  bitter brush covers a dry desert land 
to the tree covered hills
An old lumber town that's hardly renowned called Susanville 

Roll the lumber
We're cutting for grade
Logs rolling in set for the cut
Is how our money is made

Roll the lumber
We're cutting for grade
Logs rolling in set for the cut
Is how our money is made

New Industry grows 
time served for crime
Jobs to be filled
The cops and the cons 
Face off behind walls 
The state pays the bill

The old mill still stands
holding it's ground 
In hope of living again
Lost spirits are found
in this High Desert town
Called Susanville

Roll the lumber
We're cutting for grade
Logs rolling in set for the cut
Is how our money is made

Roll the lumber
We're cutting for grade
Logs rolling in set for the cut
Is how our money was made

Susanville

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Jeep Sleepover

A Brightly Coloured Smile

avatar art is by Agnes Cecile

https://agnescecile.com

as memory fades, 
passion dissolves... 
into regrets...
and often clearer understandings.

The Forgetting Of You

Track 8 from the album "However Measured or Far Away", available at https://hanklebury.bandcamp.com/album/however-measured-or-far-away

She Walks On The Wind, But She Is Not Afraid

2020: depression personified.

Lyrics:
Fear stokes the pyre
Black smoke and ire
preordained, a cacophonic stain
Long heavy rain
Wont clear this away (make this abstain)
Feeling this decay, always
(its) suffocating, intoxicating

Deep smoke and ire 
Cursed is (be) this fire
Preordained, a cold coffin remains
Long heavy rain
Won't change a thing(nothing)
Emptiness, betrayal, always
It's suffocating
Please erase me

Pyre

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Baby of the 80s, teen of the 90s, obsessed with the 60s and 70s; an FM wannabe in a Youtube world. I guess I just wasn't made for these times. I like songwriting in the Gershwin, Tin Pan Alley, Lennon/McCartney tradition. I prefer records to singles. I prefer three minutes to ten.

According to my mama, I was whistling before I learned to talk. I played organ in the Memphis garage rock scene between 2000 and 2016. I've done a lot of studio work, adding keys to records by songwriters that I really admire.

I'm now focused on recording my own songs. I have a minimal home recording set up with a laptop, microphones, cheap guitars, drums, piano, and a grab bag of other toys. All my lyrics rhyme with the truth, or at least I think they do. 

Life is short and there are more good songs then there are raindrops. Which is to say: thank you very much for lending me your ears.

Rock 'n' roll is dead, long live rock 'n' roll.
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A few of my influences, in no particular order, are:

Sly and the Family Stone 
The Mamas and Papas
Beck
Big Star
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
Smokey Robinson 
Bob Dylan
Buddy Holly
Jack Oblivian
James Brown
Beaulah
Elliot Smith
Hank Williams
Otis Redding
Steve Martin
10CC
Joe Jackson
Frank Ocean
Billie Holiday
Dave Fridman
Joni Mitchell
Tyler, The Creator
The Dirt Bombs
The Cocteau Twins
George Gershwin
Ben Folds
Cornelius
Bjork
Donny Hathaway
The Drifters
Ennio Morricone
Moby Grape
Prince
The Breeders
The Monkees 
Caetano Veloso
Kendrick Lamar
Nina Simone
Pink Floyd
Waylon Jennings
Del Shannon
Booker T and the MG's 
Mott the Hoople
Grandaddy
The Hombres
Philip Glass
Huey Lewis
My Bloody Valentine
David Bowie
David Byrne 
The Pixies
Thin Lizzy
The Clash
Broadcast
Willie Mitchell
Billy Joel
Wilco
Cat Power
Pusha T
Blonde Redhead
Os Mutantes
Al Green
The Kinks
The Animals
Spiritualized
The Zombies
Carol Kaye
Them
Led Zeppelin
The Beta Band
Loudon Wainwright
Leadbelly
Lou Reed
Tom Petty
Tom Waits
Shuggie Otis
The Impressions
Weird Al
Van Dyke Parks
Roy Orbison
Nino Rota
Jack White
Don Covay
Sir Douglas Quintet
Chet Baker
Chicago
Buffy Sainte Marie
Miles Davis
Elvis Costello
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Harlan T Bobo
Nick Lowe
Earth Wind and Fire
Chopin
William S Burroughs
Nina Simone
Ray Charles
Ravel
Electric Light Orchestra
M.O.T.O.
Steely Dan
Willie Nelson
Phish
Charles Mingus
The Grateful Dead
The Cars
Lee Hazelwood
REM
The Replacements
Pavement
Kurt Cobain
Isaac Hayes
Jerry Lee Lewis
Ike & Tina
The Vaselines
Lenoard Cohen
Gilberto Gil 
Air
Alejandro Escovedo
Fats Domino
Little Richard
Buddy Holly
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Groovies
Janis Jolpin
Scott Joplin
John Coltrane
Willie Nelson
Todd Rundgren
They MIght Be Giants 
The Drifters
The Coasters 
Django
Marvin Gaye
Belle and Sebastian
The Delgados
Animal Collective
Curtis Mayfiled
Harry Nilsson
Warren Zevon
Steve Miller
Randy Newman
Carole King
The Isley Brothers
JJ Cale
Nat King Cole
Frank Zappa
The Rolling Stones
The Compulsive Gamblers
Greg Cartwright
The Reigning Sound
Jeff Pope
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Dr. John
Ray Manzarek
Paul Simon
Dan Penn
The Byrds
Badfinger
The Band
Stephen Sondheim
Andrew Lloyd Weber
Stephen Schwartz
The Police
Richard Thompson
Dean Martin
Chuck Berry
Syd Barrett
Rita Lee
Gal Costa
The Specials
2 Pac
Weezer
Squeeze
The Violent Femmes
Wanda Jackson
The Andrew Sisters
The Memphis Horns
The Memphis Jug Band
The Oblivians 
Cole Porter 
Johnny Mercer
Black Sheep
Harold Arlen
The Everly Borthers
The Faces
Neil Young
Charlie Rich
Oscar Peterson
Stevie Wonder
Phineas Newborn
M. Ward
The Lyres
The Troggs
The Velvet Underground
Funkadelic
Donovan
The Doors
Meat Puppets
Brian Eno
The Hollies
Radiohead
Frank Sinatra
? and the Mysterians
Tommy James
Madness
The Seeds 
The Lovin' Spoonful
Carl Perkins
Howlin' Wolf
The 13th Floor Elevators
Yo La Tengo
Love
A Giant Dog
Sparks
Courtney Barnett
Kate Tempest
T. Rex
Outkast
Irving Berlin
The Who
The Searchers
Fleetwood Mac
Allen Toussaint

…and a few others

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