Oh, my friend, how does our song end?
Somehow with both of us singing solo....

Friendship Sailed

....A once mighty mountain.....
.....saunters to the sea........


I could picture Paolo Conte, Leonard Cohen or Tom Waits singing this!

Saunter To The Sea

...Lord knows why I wanna be somebody else...

Kudos to the ipad Garageband designers for their excellent basses and organ! 

Somebody Else

My Bushman Jenny tenor uke underwent surgery----I added an extra string, so now she has 5 total (both a low and high g). Sounds like a different instrument. She provides the main chords.

Picture more percussion and an entire chorus of vocals....I quickly ran out of tracks!

America may eat its young
After lunch, she drinks her old
No wonder we're rotund
Silver hair glitters gold

A Warmer Place Beneath the Sun

Just got a beautiful Godin Radiator guitar---love its sounds!
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Back before words
Long before lies
All that was heard 
Under the skies
All of creation
In one big flock
There used to be music
But now we're all talk....

There Used to be Music

For years I've listened to the magic of Ali Farka Toure....I wondered: what if I recombined his blues (one of the roots) back with the American "branch"...made up a needed word in the process ("unsinging").

Guitar: Godin Radiator going through an iRig.


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What'd he give to me?
What'd he give to me?
What'd he give to me?
What's my legacy?
Unsinging reeds...

Unsinging Reeds

Too many lyrics? With too many high concepts? With too many syllables? Seal-barked in a sing-songy, catchy melody? With loud drums? Starts and stops? Angular, slashing guitars? Yup. All my favorite new wave qualities rolled into one song. 'If they could they would bottle up your essence....'

Different stages of life through the lens of one day...

Saturday Morning

The flipside of 'Saturday Morning': A punky, new wave march towards a future that never happened....ended up sounding like Morrissey singing with Xtc, which of course never happened either! Killing the hypothetial one verse at a time....

To live the dream...
You must be sleeping...
To be a grown up...
You must be kidding...

The Future Never Happened

A mongrel offspring of 'Scarborough Fair' and 'My Favorite Things'....mmm....luxuriate in the decay...



All of these leaves which fell off the trees
Resemble my personal memories
Once flying high, so alive and robust
Returning to Earth and crushed into dust
For dozens of years I've felt like a 'me'
An immeasurable unit which will cease to be
In the near future, I won't remember
Every year has a November


Every Year Has a November

Merry punk Christmas! 

This one tells the story of the rise of Santa's franchise from humble beginnings. Sounds like an early R.E.M. outtake. 

*a·poth·e·o·sis
əˌpäTHēˈōsis,ˌapəˈTHēəsis/ noun
1. the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax.
"his appearance as Hamlet was the apotheosis of his career"



Santa's Franchise

This one would probably make more sense being sung by a female voice....in the spirit of a Kd Lang/Ben Mink collaboration....


Parts of a flower
A six-gun pistil
The source of our power
Armed and dangerous angel

Circles of petals
A bike built for two
A stigma is still attached 
To what we are through and through
Sister everything




Sister Everything

All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental....




Recovering Selfish Bastard (R.S.B.)

Salamanca....a bit of the place in spain....more of the guitar of the same name....

I was given a cheap, unremarkable, parlor-sized, plywood classical guitar from west germany...it has soul and sounds way better than it should! The brand? Salamanca....

Salamanca (solo guitar)

I am an independent songwriter/multi-instrumentalist....welcome to my channel! Please peruse....

At this point I record everything on my iPad 3 through the iRig and a big Blue Yeti microphone and/or Thumbjam + Audiobus + Garageband. 

I am open to collaboration, commission, etc.

Adequatio

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