From upcoming 2013 Brian Kramer release; Full Circle. 
Response to the endless inhumanities in Syria
(c) 2013 BKB Music

Let there be peace tonight (B. Kramer)

Let there be peace tonight
Lets put a stop to this fight
Lets set aside our differing minds
And come together we know it’s right
Let there be rest tonight
Let fear and sorrow finally subside
Lets set aside out doubtful minds
And come together the time is right
Lets look ahead, we keep falling behind
The world is watchin’ just open your eyes
Let there be peace tonight
Let there be a solution
Lets come to some kind of resolution
Lets set aside this great divide
Put an end to the revolution


Track 5; Let There Be Peace Tonight (B. Kramer)

From my 2013 release full Circle
(C) BKB Music 2013

Mama You Been On My Mind; Brian Kramer feat. Kitto

Brian Kramer; vocal & acoustic guitar
Fanny Holm; vocal
Mats Qwarfordt; harp
Bert Deivert; mandolin

Goin' Back To Brooklyn (c) BKB Music (from album Full Circle)

From the 2002 release Larry Johnson with Brian Kramer & The Couch Lizards, Two Gun Green...
Larry Johnson; vocals, guitar
Brian Kramer; acoustic Dobro guitar
Mats Qwarfordt; harp
PA Ulander; double bass
Jim O'Leary; drums

Larry Johnson with Brian Kramer & the CL's; I Used to Be Down

This is a rare recording from a cassette tape of the first time I played on stage with the great Bluesman Larry Johnson in 1990.
This was Larry's first show back in NYC that I invited him to be on the bill with me at Tramps after he spent a number of years living and touring in Italy.
Larry Johnson; vocal, acoustic guitar
Brian Kramer; metal bodied Dobro
Adam Gussow; harp


Larry Johnson, Brian Kramer, Adam Gussow; Wee Midnight Hours (1990)

From the Brian Kramer & The Couch Lizard's album Everybody's Story (2001 out of print/stock).
About life growin' up in Brooklyn...

Music & text (c) BKB music

Everybody's Story

Brian Kramer; Double Dare Ya' (2001)

From Brian Kramer's release Full Circle
Words & music Brian Kramer/BKB Music 2013

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In These Troubled Times (B. Kramer/Full Circle)

From the 2006 Brian Kramer release under the same title...

I Want My Illusion

I Want My Illusion (Brian Kramer Blues 2006)

Brian Kramer and the Blues Masters feat. Junior Wells, Win or Lose -1989
*Got Me On Down—Former Rolling Stone Mick Taylor on lead guitar, Dan Hickey drums 
Brian Kramer; main vocals, electric guitar
written by B. Kramer

04 Got Me On Down

Brian Kramer and the Blues Masters feat. Junior Wells, Win or Lose -1989
Child Come To Me—
The great Chris Botti on trumpet, Dianne Garisto, Nicky Gregoroff on back up vocals 
Brian Kramer; main vocals, electric guitar
written by M. Roston

05 Child Come To Me

Brian Kramer and the Blues Masters feat. Junior Wells, Win or Lose -1989
What My Mamma Told Me—Junior lead voc & harp 

Brian Kramer; electric guitar


06 What My Mamma Told Me

Brian Kramer and the Blues Masters feat. Junior Wells, Win or Lose -1989
*Don't Take It Out On Me—
Jazz master Robin Eubanks on Trombone, Howie Wyeth drums, Steve Burgh, mandolin David Santos on Bass (David is on all band tracks) 
Brian Kramer; main vocals, acoustic guitar
written by B. Kramer

07 Don't Take It Out On Me

Brian Kramer and the Blues Masters feat. Junior Wells, Win or Lose -1989
*Win Or Lose
—Robin Eubanks again, David Cohen & his second line piano, Miles Roston shared vocal 
Brian Kramer; main vocals, electric, acoustic & National guitars
Brian Kramer; main vocals, electric guitar
written by B. Kramer

08 Win Or Lose

Brian Kramer and the Blues Masters feat. Junior Wells, Win or Lose -1989
Pleading the Blues—Junior, Mick Taylor on stunning electric slide 
Brian Kramer; electric guitar

09 Pleading The Blues

Brian Kramer and the Blues Masters feat. Junior Wells, Win or Lose -1989
*Lover and Friend
—Just me on an old National duolian & Junior on harp. The sweetest memory of this whole dang production 
written by B. Kramer

10 Lover And Friend

Over the years Jon Ben Berger would send me things he'd be working on in his studio. Around the time we were making the Life Is Beautiful album together he played for me an arrangement he just excitedly worked out for this classic tune...
Here's his beautiful, heartfelt solo version...
He claimed this song as an autobiographical footnote at this time in his life in 2014.
To hear this now, It feels very fitting of Jon's timeless wisdom fused with recreating an old, classic song done his own way.

Photo; Magnus Wegler

OLD MAN RIVER Jon Ben Berger Demo (solo)

2016 demo of Jon Ben Berger song Somewhere

"Just a spectacular piece of work. When I first met Jon, as Toby Ben, this was one of the songs he would pull out as a group of people sat around an apartment in the Village. I was stunned by the art of it. Some time ago I told him I woke up singing that old song and that I hoped he would create a new recording of it. I'm so pleased he did, and that the song exists as a document of his talent." -Mark Sebastian

Photo; Magnus Wegler

Somewhere -Jon Ben Berger Demo (solo)

A little rare ditty of Izzy Young singing what he says is one of his favorite old songs...
I recorded this at his Folklore Centrum in Stockholm after a live show I performed there.

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