@fordedotpaddy: Thanks so much for listening in....this is one of my favs....too romantic by half I know!!

I love the final result. And your voice reminds me of Annie Lennox at times! Excellent work!

This voice and the melody.. this song is just perfect. It hits me right inside!

Just getting back on sound cloud ..some great sounds from you Chris.

I found new set. Your sound gave comfortable morning. Thanks.

such a beautiful song, love your vocals... great instrumental !!

This is stunning, beautiful blend of instrument sounds, and I love the progressions, and timing.

Fbulous harmonies, great vocal performance all around Chris.....very, very moving!

Jonnie sent me another beautiful guitar-based instrumental a while ago, and this song emerged. It is a bit of a new genre for me......but the instrumental required a really epic ballad. 

Vocals, Lyrics & Vocal composition ~ Chris Okunbor
All instruments & instrumental composition/arrangement ~ Jonnie Cook
https://soundcloud.com/jonnie-cook


Recording and audio engineering by Eliot Reynolds, Song Cave Studios, Hazelbrook
https://soundcloud.com/reynoleb

Second vocal mixes & mastering by Iwan Gronert, Electric Sound Sculpture Studios, Rotterdam
https://soundcloud.com/iwan-gronert

Slight remix done by me at home, May 2015



The lyrics were created to compliment Jonnie's gorgeous composition, so here it is....!!!

 Just Only You Can ~ Lyrics Chris O, Instrumental Composition Jonnie Cook © 2013


A bird that lay grounded, with a bruised and broken wing,
taking shallow breaths, couldn’t feel a thing.
I stilled down my body, my soul, and my blood,
And steadily and slowly turned my face away from love.

Well its only you, only you can fix this fearful heart.
Only you, just only you, can pull me in your river, so the rhythm can restart.
Only you, only you.

Never thought I would ever find an honest man
Surround me with your loving, as only you can
Never thought I could ever open up this heart
Haaaah…………..let the healing start

Who was that lonely one, who turned her face from love?
Who was the broken one? 
Only you can know.

A heart that was sealed up, behind a wooden gate,
scarred and stranded, in a cold and empty place.
You pried away the timbers, that guard a battered soul,
pulled me in your river so I’ll never be alone.

Only you, only you, only you can fix this fearful heart.
Only you, just only you, can pull me in your river, make the beating start
Only you, only you, Haaaaah

Never thought that I would have a kind and a loving man,
You hold me in your drift-stream, just as only you can
Never thought I would ever fix this fearful heart
Surround me darlin, so the healing can start

Who was that broken one, who turned her face from love?
Who was the lonely one?
Just only you can know.

Just Only You Can ~  Chris O & Jonnie Cook

When I walk at dawn in spring through one of my usual birding areas, there is a moment when I am sorrounded by rainbow of colors and fluted trills. It is the neighborhood of the bee-eaters.
Real bee-eaters sound recorded by Patrik Aberg in Poland and Spain.

FLUTED TRILLS

Forest Road

Mark H. Davis - Percussion (@adamsrelic)
Cass Dvorak - Vocals (@user-501928298)
Rock Sinders - guitars and keys

Why do you always look so
sad about the future.
Why can't you forgive yourself
for things you did before?

Cause nobody promised you
this life would be that easy.
Someone so blue like you
will always ask for more.

But I... couldn't settle the score.
And I... couldn't follow, couldn't follow you anymore.

Well maybe the world around you
bent around you easy.
But baby you'll never learn to
bend along with things.

Someone so blue has never
been outside the city.
Someone like you has never
felt the way life stings.

But I... wouldn't settle the score
And I... couldn't follow, couldn't follow anymore.

Solo

So you can be blue like you
and leave without believing.
Wherever you go you'll never
be... here.

Never leaving, never believing
never could see your life that way.
Never leaving, never believing
never could see your life that way.
Never leaving, never believing
never could see your life that way.

And I'll be off livin' all my days...
believing...
Never thinkin' about those times again...


- V5.02

Someone So Blue

After Midnight. Still Playing.

Storia di una notte d'agosto

This is what happens when I listen to Louis Armstrong again: I pick up my clarinet and start playing !  I'm using an A clarinet on this one , tried to play as a trumpetist (whish I was also BTW...  I did have a little try with my old bother's trumpet...but not there yet ! ) .  Anyway, I hope you like this little swing cooked up Home in New Orleans-style with a little help from  Ireal Pro !!
Have a good WE 
Steph
PS Let me know if these vibes make you feel like playing along, i'd be more than happy to send you a base track and come up with another even more fun track !!

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Chris, hailing  from North West  Tasmania in Australia, is a singer-songwriter who pens originals, and  plays vintage music the way it used to be.  Her mashup of  Folk, Blues,  &  Americana  draws on a lifetime of  encounters with places, people, and the magic of nature;  echoing  a multitude of  global grassroots traditions. 
Traveling around carrying her “band” like a pack pony ~ lap-slide, banjo, uke, as well as a few plain ole guitars, she  regularly performs in Australia and Europe.
Growing up in Merseyside, England, Chris was exposed to the vibrant music scene of the late 60’s and 70’s,  and her music is has been influenced by  traditional folk, country blues, and  world music .
In 2016 she represented her State at the International Blues Challenge & National Women in Blues Showcase in Memphis,  and her second album,  “Wailin’ & Raggin’ the Blues” was  a   finalist for “Best Self-produced CD with the Blues Foundation , USA.  Her third album, “Twisted Roots & Twisted Highways” was  a finalist for Blues & Roots Radio Album of the Year in 2018.
www.chrisokunbor.net

Just Only You Can ~ Chris O & Jonnie Cook

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