12.07.2015

John sent me these lyrics a while ago and with his permission I started playing around with a melody and today I decided it was now or never... and I just recorded it... wanting to have something really simple - lofi... something magical happened...

check out John's profile
https://soundcloud.com/johnny_eagle

Lyrics: John Eagle 
Music and Vox: Marie Fontaine

Let’s Be Together

From the first day we met
It was you
Just as you said goodbye
I knew
It was you

When I heard the ship’s blast
I knew it was bon voyage
But I do hope you come back

When we are together
Let’s be together
However painful it may be
When we part

Now you have your pictures
Tied up in lace
I have my memories
Of your smiling face

The beach had a mystery
An Arab moon at night
Hung from gun-barrel sky
As we bathed in its light

And now, when we're together
Let’s be together
However painful it may be
When we part

The beginning is only that
A place to start 
And love is not a handkerchief
Waved from a rail above

We each have a sky
To gaze upon at night
The Dog Star waits for us
Our beacon in the light

So let’s be together
When we’re together
Even though we part
Let’s be together
If only in our hearts
If only in our hearts….



XCWG

Let's be together (lyrics by John Eagle)

Growing up in Darlington Pennsylvania, David Louthan started out developing his music skills by picking up a guitar at age 13, and this self produced singer songwriter has never looked back.

It seems it took a while for the music production bug to bite fully, but in 2006 David set about stepping up his musical goals, and focused himself on seriously producing and recording the catalogue of songs he had started building up through his formative years.

David cites a diverse range of influences on his life, from the retro sounds of Tom petty, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and The Doors, to the slightly later sound of bands like The Red Hot Chili Peppers. When you listen to David's music the influences are evident, and he handles straight ahead acoustic guitar based tracks such as the Bob Dylanesque 'Just a Kid’ as skillfully as more psychedelic influenced tracks such as 'Misguided Fear'

The term singer songwriter is often used to define a genre of its own, but most artists who classify themselves as such generally want to impart the fact that the songs are telling the story.

Running through David's playlist of songs on his SoundCloud page, he tells a story of humble determination in pursuit of your dreams, with tracks such as 'Family' reminding the listener of the age old adage that if they follow their heart, they wont go far wrong in life.

Something I'm sure we can all relate to is the tale of growing up too quickly and succumbing to the pressures of adult life. Sometimes we'd all like a day off and spend the day in the proverbial candy shop, reliving those carefree days of our childhood. David's message in the song 'Just A Kid' reminds us that there's a higher power helping us out in life, which should give us permission that quitting our worries, and taking time out to get in touch with our childlike side wouldn't do us any harm now and again.

A similar theme runs through the laid back piano and acoustic guitar melodies of ‘There’s A Place’ which arouses a very 60’s influenced feeling, encouraging us to find that part of our psyche that gives us the freedom and serenity to create and visualize our dreams. Going by the creativity contained in his catalogue of sad songs, I’d say that in his music David Lee Louthan has definitely found ‘his place’.   
Review by Simon Adams

First of all, we want to collaborate with many of the good and talented folks we have encountered here on Sound Cloud.

Ed (edro) and I (John Eagle) met online back in about 2008 at another website that supported artists. I was posting poetry and stories and Ed was posting music and his own writing.

We started writing songs together, most of those early ones are a bit quirky and on our individual clouds, as well as many new ones. We have written a bunch of songs together.

The thing that makes us click is that we both get each other. After hours upon hours of phone conversations and a recent face-to-face meeting, you could say we are very good friends. Put it this way, if I were getting married, Ed would merit strong consideration as best man. I imagine he feels the same.

Thankfully, neither of us is dumb enough to get married at our ages. Set in our ways, you betcha!!!

My goal in creating this space is to hear much more of Ed playing violin. (I am lying!)

Anyway, we hope to build our brand (we have a brand???) through this page and we hope you tag along.

Ed can add what he wants to this...I am done...

Ed: I'm with ya brother! You know the first song I repost will have a violin part!!!!!   :-) Check out the Little Eddie and the Eagle blog....
http://littleeddieandtheeagle.com



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I am, therefore I think....
I think I am, therefore, am I?

Singer/Songwriter

Hi, I'm Commonwealthgirrl

LIFE IS IMPROV!

My love of music began, as a small child, growing up in Canada. My DJ dad introduced me to music, recording studios, spinning records, and shiny silver microphones; a place I have wanted to live in ever since. His memory will live on with me forever! 

As a kid, I played the flute. I sang in the school choir and made my own secret radio shows late at night. 

As a young adult, I was drawn to the world of theater, started doing improv, and later I directed plays, and ran an amateur theater group. I also write poetry, short stories and fiction. 

My songs are influenced by a mixture of Country, Jazz, Pop and Swing.

Some of my favorite artists include Daniel Lanois, Robyn, Johnny Cash, Tracey Chapman, K.D Lang, Roy Orbison, Mando Diao, Zachary Richard and Rickie Lee Jones, and of course many of you soundclouders who have been supporting me over the past few years :-)


I hope you enjoy my simple yet heartfelt compositions - all are produced in my home studio using a keyboard, my concert and tenor ukelele, a mic, and some low-tech recording equipment. 

I hope you enjoy my first EP entitled The Real Commonwealthgirrl,  recorded in July 2021 at Two Bodies of Water.

Our music can be found by visiting our main page here (https://soundcloud.com/mountain-songs)