For the love of Tom Petty. Not the most quality of recordings, but I'm in the process of improving that. It's just a taste as I dip my toes slowly back into the waters of the musical realm. 

Mary Jane's Last Dance

Lawrence on Audiotree Live

Do You Want to Do Nothing with Me? (Audiotree Live Version)

Total summertime tune.  Playing around with my new condenser mic and midi piano.

Stand By Me

The first single from Steph Casey's second studio album "The Seats In My Car", recorded at The Surgery Studio, Wellington, New Zealand, February 2019

AT A BAR DOWNTOWN
Last night you played at a bar downtown
paper said don’t miss this so I headed on down
anticipating as you tuned your guitar
I paid my money took a seat at the bar

but your accent spanned the globe from east to west
in the first ten minutes of your set
uncertain mumbles every second word
seemed someone you’re not was all we heard
(and I was thinking...)

I hope you find your own voice one day
I hope we find out what it is you’ve got to say
don’t wait too long ‘cause life is short
before you live it, it can slip away

battled your way here from a small southern town
when you gonna put your armour down
that mask you’re wearing blocks your light
just let it fall and you would shine so bright

would’ve walked out but I saw why you pretend
I felt for you and stayed till the end
my heart went out for your brilliance your fear
and I hoped you’d sing something we could all hear

I hope you find your own voice one day
I hope we find out what it is you’ve got to say
don’t wait too long ‘cause life is short
before you live it, it can slip away

At a Bar Downtown

Here's track one from my latest album CONGERIES, featuring Jeff Martin on bass, drums, and backing vocals.

Mixed and mastered by Jon Huxtable (smallfishrecordings).

Lightning-bolts and Hurricanes 
(last verse includes words from “Barbara Allen” Trad. and 
Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” and "Romeo and Juliet") 

Little Darling, 
Who is it wears the ball and chain? 
Take these shackles from my neck 
That I might breathe again 

A storm is raging, 
The ceiling drips with rain 
But summer breaks through 
With lightning bolts and hurricanes 

Now, on the pastures, 
The prairies, and the plains 
Sunlight bathes the lowing cows 
And dries the window panes 

"It's one or the other," 
Old man leans upon his sugar cane 
He says, "Pour us another round 
Of lightning bolts and hurricanes" 

The green buds swellin' 
In the merry month of May 
Rough winds shake my darling, true 
But life teems from decay 

These violent delights 
Must end with violent pangs 
For summer breaks too 
With lightning bolts and hurricanes

www.josephhouckmusic.com

Congeries

Lightning Bolts And Hurricanes

Album Credits:

Original Tracks by: Santi & Tuğçe, @soundcloud.com/santiandtugce
Cover Art by: Scott Partridge, www.jevaart.com

Album Description:

Terminal Caribe is the newest album of Santi & Tuğçe who weave timeless, borderless melodies with global, dance floor rhythms. Similar to their previous releases which take listeners on a sonic adventure all the way from the coasts of the Black Sea to the Parana River, Terminal Caribe presents a peculiarly personal, yet undoubtedly universal odyssey exploring the deep interrelations between music, movement, and memory. Named after a bus stop where the duo had the initial inkling for this album, Terminal Caribe serves as the point of departure for an entrancing journey through a wildly varied world of sound. Soulful melodies, captivating harmonies, colorful orchestration, polyrhyhmic percussions and marimbas, and deep bass lines combine with heartwarming vocals and the sounds of sea to tell a tale that is at once epic, melancholic, spacy and irresistibly groovy.

Santi (from Asunción, Paraguay) and Tuğçe (from Istanbul, Turkey) left their homes to follow their dreams of music and have been road companions and musical partners for more than a decade. They collaborated on two full length-albums, four EPs and numerous singles which captivated listeners worldwide. With their 2016 EP El Regreso del Gallito, “Santi & Tuğçe rewrote Paraguayan folklore” (Thump Vice, Brazil) and with their Songs for My Grandmother, selected as one of the best albums from Turkey in 2017 by Beehype, they remade Turkish classics for contemporary audiences. Drawing on their eclectic background and constant pulse for innovation, Santi & Tuğçe once again reinvent an unpredictable and enticing soundscape of the Caribbean and beyond.

Terminal Caribe - Lyrics:

In every new beginning is the dawn of a new end 
And in every new ending is the brink of a descent 
Into that hazy hollow where dreams and demons meld 
Weaving and winding their ways back to sunlit highlands 

And so begins this story, like so many before 
Two young, starry-eyed souls meet and set out to explore 
A new world they have long been seeking and yearning for 
Off they sail into the sea with a song or two and more

Terminal Caribe

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Santi & Tuğçe - Terminal Caribe

Live at The HalfTime Rec 10/26/2012
Originally Recorded by The Spencer Davis Group, Written by Steve Winwood, Spencer Davis, & Muff Winwood

Gimme Some Lovin'

Buy at: https://rhysmcintosh.bandcamp.com/track/dancing-with-the-sun

Optimistic piano jazz track backed by saxophone and drums. Inspired by surfing.

Dancing With The Sun

The last track on the album "Congeries."

Lyric video:
https://youtu.be/GbinZ3TVGi0


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The Shrine

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Graduated with a degree in music, specifially Classical Guitar Performance.  Used to write quite a bit and am just now getting back into creating my own music.  My music ranges from more modern piano pieces to singer songwriter type tunes.  Take a listen and let me know what you think.

Stand By Me

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