    Originally from Neil Young's 1996 album 'Broken Arrow', my version is more acoustic, upbeat and shorter. The harmonica was my first attempt, as was its vocoder effect applied at the end and my wife Susi's voice throughout. All instruments self-recorded and mastered closer, more intimate.
lyrics
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    I built a house of cards, built a house of rain, built a house of love; I'd build ‘em all again. Built a road to reason, built a road to hate, built a road to the promised land, right up to the gate.

    Loose change in my pocket, future in my hand. Too many distractions for me to understand. Loose change.

    Too many distractions, got to get back home. Get into something solid, get out of the zone. Some roads bring renewal, some roads hide and wait. Some roads promise everything, and steal your fuel away.

    Some roads I been flyin', some roads I crashed, some roads I been sleepin' on, some roads I got back on. Some roads I been runnin', some roads I been stopped, some roads I been walkin’ down, some roads I was lost.
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credits
    from Neil Young, released 15 October 2010
    1996 Neil Young (Broken Arrow): songwriting, lyrics
    © 2010 T. Nathan Roane: arranging, audio engineering, mastering, voice, acoustic guitar, harmonica, bass, tambourines, pocket money, vocoder effect
    Susi Roane: voice 

http://tnathanroane.bandcamp.com/album/neil-young

T. Nathan Roane - Loose Change (Neil Young guitar vocoder harmonica folk cover)

    The third track of my <a href="http://tnathanroane.bandcamp.com/album/composer">13-song Composer album</a>. Raised protestant Christian, I grew up assuming the faith and beliefs of my family, including the directives of what was not allowed, sin. Looking back, most seem ridiculous, so much pettiness betraying a vapid and violent religion. 'The Passion of the Christ' movie was referred to as pornography for the faithful, a snuff film for the religious thrilled by blood and sacrifice.

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    Jesus Christ was right to wish the worst upon the soldier, for he alone had picked this sordid path to self-destruction. Never mind the apples haven fallen from the tree. Leave them rot to feed and better sweeten our beliefs.

    Sacrifice was shown to us, absolving all our sins, but sacrificing how or what left only clear to him. Alone, we panic, fear and doubt, creating rules amongst ourselves and give up on all sorts of things none else could care about.

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    from <a href="http://tnathanroane.bandcamp.com/album/composer">Composer</a>, released 15 October 2008
    <a href="http://tnathanroane.com/biography.html">T. Nathan Roane</a>: composition, engineering, mixing, artwork, mastering, production, voice, guitar, pump organ, bass, bass drums, tambourines

    Jaime McGill: clarinet, contralto
    Jessi Klein: soprano
    Jana Straeter: contralto 

T. Nathan Roane - Composer - 03 - Sacrifice

    The eleventh track of my 13-song Composer album, also second of a three-part set: Springen, Tanzen, Let's Go out Dancing. Along with the incredible bass clarinet is doubled a phonofiddle, one of the few modern recordings featuring this instrument. Also my first inclusion of tabla drums.
http://tnathanroane.bandcamp.com/album/composer

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    from <a href="http://tnathanroane.bandcamp.com/album/composer">Composer</a>, released 15 October 2008
    <a href="http://tnathanroane.com/biography.html">T. Nathan Roane</a>: composition, engineering, mixing, artwork, mastering, tabla, djembe, doumbek, bass drum, tambourine

    Jaime McGill: bass clarinet
    Hannah Boley: phonofiddle 

http://tnathanroane.com

T. Nathan Roane - Composer - 11 - Tanzen (Arabic Indian phonofiddle clarinet folk dance)

    T. Nathan Roane - SongStealer - 07 - Rasposchol
http://tnathanroane.bandcamp.com/album/songstealer

    One of the more famous Russian gypsy airs, violinist Erik Redford made me proud.

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    from SongStealer, released 15 October 2005
    Traditional Russian Gypsy
    Erik Redford: violin
    <a href="http://tnathanroane.com/biography.html">T. Nathan Roane</a>: guitar

    Matt Wenninger: audio engineering 

http://tnathanroane.com

T. Nathan Roane - 07 - Rasposchol (Russian Gypsy acoustic folk violin Air)

    T. Nathan Roane - SongStealer - 08 - Dark Eyes
http://tnathanroane.bandcamp.com/album/songstealer

    Probably the most famous Russian gypsy romances, perhaps their anthem, featuring violinist Erik Redford.

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    from SongStealer, released 15 October 2005
    Traditional Russian Gypsy
    Erik Redford: violin
    <a href="http://tnathanroane.com/biography.html">T. Nathan Roane</a>: guitar

    Matt Wenninger: audio engineering 


http://tnathanroane.com

T. Nathan Roane - 08 - Dark Eyes (Russian Gypsy acoustic folk violin Romance)

    T. Nathan Roane - SongStealer - 09 - Black
http://tnathanroane.bandcamp.com/album/songstealer

    Pearl Jam

    This arrangement was written specifically for Erik Redford on violin, and is probably my favorite of the SongStealer (2005) album. I humbly consider it better than Pearl Jam's 1991 original. Note the slyly syncopated guitar.

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    from SongStealer, released 15 October 2005
    Pearl Jam: songwriting
    <a href="http://tnathanroane.com/biography.html">T. Nathan Roane</a>: arranging, voice, guitar
    Erik Redford: violin

    Matt Wenninger: audio engineering 

http://tnathanroane.com

T. Nathan Roane - 09 - Black (Pearl Jam acoustic folk violin cover)

    T. Nathan Roane - SongStealer - 10 - Song to the Siren
http://tnathanroane.bandcamp.com/album/songstealer

    Tim Buckley

    Amy Wenninger's haunting backing vocals allows my arrangement to stand proudly beside Tim Buckley's, adding a lovely touch of class to the SongStealer (2005) album. The bass effect during each bridge is the only non-acoustic instrument for this collection of cover songs.
    Studio released on Tim Buckley's 1970 album Starsailor, I first heard Song to the Siren covered by This Mortal Coil during my darkwave years.
credits
    from SongStealer, released 15 October 2005
    Tim Buckley: songwriting
    <a href="http://tnathanroane.com/biography.html">T. Nathan Roane</a>: arranging, voice, guitar, bass
    Amy Wenninger: backing vocals

    Matt Wenninger: audio engineering 

http://tnathanroane.com

T. Nathan Roane - 10 - Song to the Siren (Tim Buckley acoustic folk cover)

    T. Nathan Roane - SongStealer - 11 - Perfect Day
http://tnathanroane.bandcamp.com/album/songstealer

    Lou Reed

    When Erik Redford and I performed out, this seemed our nicest closer, so my arrangement closes this SongStealer (2005) album.
    Originally released on Lou Reed's "Transformer" album (1972), again on the Trainspotting soundtrack (1996) before being re-recorded for The Raven album, Perfect Day has become something of a classic, probably the only of Lou Reed's work I like beyond that with colleagues The Dirty Three. When recorded, I assumed this was written straight forward to a lady love, discovering later likely written for heroin.
credits
    from SongStealer, released 15 October 2005
    Lou Reed: songwriting
     <a href="http://tnathanroane.com/biography.html">T. Nathan Roane</a>: arranging, voice, guitar
    Erik Redford: violin

    Matt Wenninger: audio engineering 

http://tnathanroane.com

T. Nathan Roane - 11 - Perfect Day (Lou Reed acoustic violin folk cover)

T. Nathan Roane - Tori Amos - God

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Cover recorded for my niece, her favorite song. Bird whistles!

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T. Nathan Roane - SongStealer Demo 04 - Don't Think Twice, It's Alright (Bob Dylan)

Djembe, pump organ, and voices cover of Neil Young's song Comes a Time.

T. Nathan Roane - Comes a Time (Neil Young cover)

    T. Nathan Roane is a composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist, voiceover artist and audio engineer in Berlin, Germany.
    Available for independent projects. 

    While earning a Music Composition BMU from Virginia Commonwealth University (USA), T. Nathan Roane received classical and jazz training as well as professional experience in choral composition, choir/band direction and performance with voice, guitar, trumpet, flugelhorn, mandolin, clarinet, djembe, congas, piano, organ, etc. Successful band genres have included ska with The Suitables, gothic darkwave with Vehemence Realized, lush Arabic neo-folk in Tanakh, and now recordings under his own name and evolving style.

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