I really love what you have done here, Ben!  You have a gift for opening yourself up and letting the spirit of music come out.  This is a fine example and is so refreshing.  Your delivery always manages to draw me in and make your improvised expressions seem sincere and important.

I like the talking bass counterpoint to vocals!

Yeah man! That's the way to do it. Let the words come from wherever they come from. I've been working on that a little more myself. The simplest things can end up being so good. You just got to go there. Great track man! Love the vocals.

@afitzsimmons: Good to hear from you Andrew! Thanks

How to describe this track? Organized play?

Ding

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
 Marcel Proust

Gratitude Daze

Leilani Kilgore is doing brilliant work. I play guitar and bass on this cover.

Diamond Shine (Leilani Kilgore Cover)

“Trudge” alludes to the weird disconnected-yet-superconnected reality that envelopes us all day, every day. We wade through a mire of strangely polished ‘normal’ on every social medium we consume, and then can’t work out why we feel so substandard all the time. We voraciously seek the positive feedback that is designed to suck us in and keep us coming back for more. We scroll, and scroll, and scroll, and scroll. What will it take for us to stop and look up? Or will we all slowly fall into the void?

Lyrics

This is the future baby
Trudge along ahead
Lead in my footsteps baby
Follow in my stead

Oh I’m a child of my time
I live out loud
And you call my name but I can’t hear you
I’m standing alone in the crowd

Friends on my left babe
Friends on my right
They like what I’m doing
But they can’t help me tonight

Oh I’m a child of my time
I live out loud
And you call my name but I can’t hear you
Standing alone

I feel like nobody today
Faceless, insignificant, in the way
In the way
In the way

Yeah I’m a child of my time
I live out loud
And you call my name but I can’t hear you
I’m standing alone in the crowd

We’re so together
But inside we’re so alone
Got all the answers babe
But still just don’t really know
We don’t really know, no

Yeah I’m a child of my time
I live out loud
And you call my name but I can’t hear you
Standing alone
I’m a child of my time
I live out loud
And you call my name but I can’t hear you
I’m standing alone in the crowd

Credits

Ben Singer (@bensingermusic) and Sarah Golding (@voiceofgolding)
Drums: Sam Carter

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Trudge

I play a Gibson SG, and a G&L bass on this cover.

Everything You Need (Doyle Bramhall II Cover)

Choices

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
   -Ralph Waldo Emerson

I started singing and did not preplan. So in a sense these are unfiltered thoughts straight from the subconscious. I did edit afterwards, but the continuous stream that starts the bridge ("Didn't know...") is unaltered and surprised me. I haven't used "mama" before. I think it is inspired by Queen.


Up, up above.
The place we’re all looking
and thinking of.
Down, down below.
We don’t want to look,
we don’t want to go.

You, on the road.
Nobody hitches a ride any more.
Me, in my place.
Living a life without
leaving  a trace.

You had
all that time.
It would be years
before the next hour chimed.
Me, facing down.
Reading a message
as the sky turns brown.

Me, on the road.
Nobody picks up a ride any more.
You, in your place.
Leaving a life without
living a trace.

Didn’t want to know
that it could be that way.
And the one time mama 
you could only say,
"I watched from the sky,
I fought from the wall,"
and I looked at your eyes
and I knew it all. 

Hey, hey

You, on the road,
nobody hitches a ride any more.
Me, in my place.
Living a life without
leaving  a trace.

Me, on the road,
nobody picks up a ride any more.
You, in your place.
Leaving a life without
living a trace.

Up, up above
the place we’re all looking
and thinking of.
Down, down below.
We don’t want to look,
we don’t want to go.

Hey, hey

Living Not Living

Trace

One of my favorite Beatles songs.  Epiphone Casino (2016) and Epiphone Viola Bass.  Virtual drums, but with a real tambourine.

"And Your Bird Can Sing"

I've always liked this song by Band of Skulls. Thank you Dali for adding your talent to this cover.
https://soundcloud.com/dalihi

Vocal- Dali Hi
Guitar & Bass- Jim

The Devil Takes Care of His Own
Band of Skulls

If you fed the rock then you reveal an ugly scene
But the strength of 10 000 will never weaken me
Witches like a razor blade you carve me halve and whole
Oh I'd better wait to kill the time

Didn't you read it in the detail?
That if you're idle in your welfare
Now you wanna know an answer
But if you're dancing you're a dancer
The devil takes care of his own

Do you dare to speak his name there's evil at the roof
Crueler plan it's on your mind, go on and give the dice a roll
Never did believe in saying fortunes are for souls
Easy come and easy they will go

Didn't you read it in the detail?
That if you're idle in your welfare
Now you wanna know an answer
But if you're dancing you're a dancer
Didn't you read about it?
The devil takes care of his own

Didn't you read it in the detail?
That if you're idle in your welfare
Now you wanna know an answer
But if you're dancing you're a dancer

Didn't you read it in the detail?
That if you're idle in your welfare
Now you wanna know an answer
But if you're dancing you're a dancer
The devil takes care of his own.

The Devil Takes Care of His Own- cover (with Dali Hi)

Dunno

I met Chris Duarte years ago; he's an amazing guitarist. He put on great show.

101 (Chris Duarte cover)

A guitar, a microphone, and a little bit of time to tell you the story.

... helped along by these amazers:

@dalihi
@denis-lt
@kenny_dyer
@saraphika
@senfschool
@telefan
Logic Pro X

Trace

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