Name: Tupelo Honey (written by Van Morrison) by Benjamin Coy in Ben's Gig Demos
Duration: 5 min 42 s
Description: So I've put together a list of 75 + songs. I think I'm going to throw my hat into the ring of restaurant musicians in Myrtle Beach/Murrells Inlet. If you know any managers, put in a good word!

Currently looking for restaurant gigs throughout Myrtle Beach, Surfside Beach, Garden City, Murrells Inlet, Litchfield, and Pawleys. Playing music by the likes of Tom Petty, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Gin Blossoms, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Amos Lee, Jack Johnson, and quite a few others...Check out my SoundCloud page for more info - or let some managers/owners know if you know anyone!

Ben's Gig Demos

cover of "feliz navidad" performed by sigur rós in a pub in reykjavík in 1999.

ég fæ jólagjöf (live 1999)

CAROLINA IN MY MIND By Allison Krauss & Jerry Douglas

    Newt Carter and I worked off and on with some Artist Development/ Management/Consulting projects. There was a adolescent female country singer someone put on his radar. He approached one of the parents and started a dialogue. Before signing a contract, she wanted a taste of what he had to offer.  
    Newt penned this song in a few days and emailed me (and the parent) this file of him playing and singing it.  The parent loved it and wanted to immediately record it.  She said it sounded just like Taylor Swift and that every radio station in the country would be playing it.  Newt stayed the course and told her that after signing the contract, he would start co-writing a full album with the singer, and tried to explain what foundation was needed for her child to have a shot at success. 
     After a few days the parent cut contact.  A few weeks later, a producer/engineer from another part of the state called Newt.  The child had just cut "County Fair," and told him that it was written by her grandfather.  The producer knew it wasn't written by some random person and called Newt to see if he had heard of them, since they were from outside Athens.  Newt let them know it was his song, but didn't mind them taking it.  He just mused that he had timestamps on his server from emailing the song, and that he could always go back and prove where it came from.  
   So this is Newt's attempt at a tongue-in-cheek Country-Pop song for a pre-teen female singer;

County Fair…
At the County Fair…
Loud screams,  beauty queens.
Puking teens in tight jeans.
Ribbons of blue, and clown shoes.
Petting zoo and tattoos.
Bright lights, school nights, scary eyes, bug bites.
O, lord here we go, one big freak show.
You can smell it in the air, funnel cakes are everywhere.
I don’t know, I don’t care, ‘cause I’m at the county fair.  The County Fair.
Time for fall, having a ball with a boy  sweet and tall.
A country man, farmer’s tan, even let him hold my hand.
Ferris wheel, wanna squeal, my first kiss he will steal.
O, Lord here we go, just like a T.V. show.
My first love over there, just won me a teddy bear.
I don’t know, I don’t care, ‘cause I’m at the county fair.  The County  Fair.
Meet me at the County Fair.  See you at the County Fair.

copyright Newt Carter 2010

County Fair (Newt Carter (c) 2010)

God Don't Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson

Order from Alligator

Tom Waits - The Soul Of A Man

The, probably, final version of my greatest song yet, & I think the person I made it for will be very pleased with the final result.

Dream On - Denouement Version

  So I've put together a list of 75 + songs. I think I'm going to throw my hat into the ring of restaurant musicians in Myrtle Beach/Murrells Inlet. If you know any managers, put in a good word! 

Southern Girl - written by Amos Lee

Running on Faith - written by Eric Clapton

Romeo and Juliet (written by Dire Straits)

Tupelo Honey  (written by Van Morrison)

Tom Waits (on Jim Wilson): "Wilson, he's always playing with time. I heard a recording recently of crickets slowed way down. It sounds like a choir, it sounds like angel music. Something sparkling, celestial with full harmony and bass parts - you wouldn't believe it. It's like a sweeping chorus of heaven, and it's just slowed down, they didn't manipulate the tape at all. So I think when Wilson slows people down, it gives you a chance to watch them moving through space. And there's something to be said for slowing down the world."

Source: "Woyzeck to run at Freud Playhouse". Daily Bruin (USA), by Andrew Lee. December 3, 2002

Find more on the recording on this link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023815586

Tom Waits on Tom waits talking about this recording - http://gloriousnoise.com/2008/tom_waits_interviews_tom_waits

More on the recording - http://hearingvoices.com/transcript.php?fID=142

You can buy original recording here - http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Chorus-Crickets-Jim-Wilson/dp/1932192077?tag=viglink124132-20

Original recording from the author - http://www.constancedemby.com/godscricketchorus_f.html

And more: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/10/13/weekend-diversion-is-this-an-amazing-chorus-of-slowed-down-crickets/

Jim Wilson | God's Chorus of Crickets | crickets audio recording slowed way down

Currently looking for restaurant gigs throughout Myrtle Beach, Surfside Beach, Garden City, Murrells Inlet, Litchfield, and Pawleys. Playing music by the likes of Tom Petty, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Gin Blossoms, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Amos Lee, Jack Johnson, and quite a few others...Check out my SoundCloud page for more info - or let some managers/owners know if you know anyone!


Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohn

This is a little ditty we came up with during the sessions for the first Kerosene Halo album that has yet to be developed.  If we never do, it's perfect as is.

Derri's Jam

Solo acoustic guitar/singing for wedding, events, Belin UMC's Harbor Service, and playing here and there around the Grand Strand in SC.

Tupelo Honey (written by Van Morrison)

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