Monday Playlist 6/21/2021

Birdsong - My wonderful garden friend the merl (blackbird)Recorded February 2021
Also introducing the new gal Clara (Yamaha CG122MC)
Music, Lyrics, Guitar, vocals/harmonies - Taypen
Cover picture - Lizzie Pentland
Hope you all have wintered well!

BEGINNINGS

Lyrics;
Your eyes light up my world
Bright, the time we've shared
But your absence leaves a shadow
And darkness fills the air

The sun is on the rise
And shines upon the town
But I can't find the light
When you're not around

Another lost morning
Another lost day
The sun has gone to hide
The sky is turning gray

It does no good to search
For what cannot be found
And I can't find the light
When you are not around

My world shined like a star
When I had you here
The future looked so bright
Whenever your were near

Now my days and nights blend into one
Like a clock that has unwound
And I can't find the light
When you're not around

I Can't Find The Light

So am I a butterfly dreaming I am an old man, or am I an old man dreaming I am a butterfly? Maybe neither? Maybe both? The simultaneity of suffering and happiness becomes a lucid dreamscape where there are no lines drawn in the sands of my life. (And if there were they seem to have been obliterated by the weather.) As the summer sun beats down on me, it is nothing more than a star that has its day, then recedes. But the lupine shares my woes as its flowers wilt in the unseasonable heat. I have put more water out for the birds and wildlife. Two yearling rabbits are no longer wary of me, as they rest in the shade. It took me laughing at them several times, for them to realize I was one of them. In that relative sense of sharing a greenspace with them haha. Glad you dropped by. It has been a quiet summer in the fray of the busyness of the world. So far anyway. Oh yes, the song…. Well I decided to explore some new rhythm vibes this summer, making up chords if need be. I had gotten away from that during the pandemic, and then lost motivation to play music at all. Such is the life of an old gardener. I needed to work outside and tend to things otherwise forgotten. Now that the garden is planted, my gardening planting chores are behind me. I returned to my old guitar. This is the second summer song to come from our reunion. A poem actually, to celebrate being alive. Is she a woman dreaming she is a bird or a bird dreaming she is a woman? I’ll never tell. Hope all is well with you, wherever the moment finds you, Mark

Lammbone's Album

Old Man Who Still Cries...

Right Out Of The Blue

8 Billion

Many people believe that there is that one soulmate in the world. The one, out of the whole world that is just right for you. Your soulmate. This is about one of those people. Who somehow finds that special someone,  in a world of Eight Billion people. 

Lyrics;
I was looking everywhere
High and low and in between
For a face I'd only dreamed of
A face I knew but had never seen

Eight billion people in the race
I'm in the middle of the pack
And though I'd search, might never find you
With eight billion people on the track

I would search the whole wide world
The odds against me hard to beat
Amongst eight billion other people
But I could not accept defeat

You could say I was optimistic
You might think that I was going mad
But I was gonna give it everything I had

There's billions of stars up in the heavens
So far away the naked eye can't see
Cold and dark the space between
But like you, somewhere out there, they just have to be

There you stood before my eyes
Just when my search was looking bleak
The one out of eight billion people
The one I'd sought so hard to seek

Eight billion people stood between us
And I'm so glad I saw it through
For me there's only one true love
Eight billion people but for me there's only you.

I was looking everywhere
High and low and in between
For the one that I had dreamed of
And here you are, I'm living with a dream

8 Billion

LYRICS BY TONY
MELODY, GUITARS AND MIX BY BOB WARNER
LYRICS BELOW:

CHORUS
	WELL IT'S COTTON PICKING TIME IN DIXIE				
	THEM BIG OLD FIELDS ARE WHITE				
	IT'S COTTON PICKING TIME IN DIXIE				
	EVERYTHING GONNA BE ALRIGHT				
	IT'S COTTON PICKING TIME IN DIXIE				
	WE'LL BE TAKING COTTON TO THE GIN TONIGHT				
	IT'S COTTON PICKING TIME IN DIXIE				
	YEA, IT'S COTTON PICKING TIME IN DIXIE				
					
	WHEN I WAS JUST A CHILD				
	COTTON WAS STILL KING				
	THE PICK SACKS WERE LONG				
	AND THE ROWS WERE LONG TO				
					
	A SO CALLED GOOD PICKER				
	COULD PICK TWO HUNDRED POUNDS PER DAY				
	I CALLED IT SNOW IN THE SOUTH				
	WHEN THEM COTTON BOLLS WERE WHITE				
					
	(REPEAT CHORUS)				
					
	WELL THEY DON'T PICK BY HAND ANYMORE				
	THEM PICK SACKS ARE LONG GONE				
	FIVE ACRE FARMS ARE GONE TO				
	REPLACED BY THOUSAND ACRE FARMS				
					
	SONG, SONG OF THE SOUTH				
	SWEET PATATO PIE AND SHUT MY MOUTH				
	GONE, GONE WITH THE WIND				
	AIN'T NOBODY LOKING BACK AGAIN				
					
	(REPEAT CHORUS 1 or 2 times)				
					




Cotton Pickin' Time in Dixie (Lyrics by Tony - Featuring Bob Warner) Original

Old Country Songs (Original Remix)

https://soundcloud.com/mrsrhymes
https://soundcloud.com/mrinal-desai
Mrinal put this cool backtrack together for Mrs Rhymes and she added he magic vocal work to it then we been talking about a collab for sometime so she kindly passed it on to me to see if I could work with it....well this was the out come and they both seemed happy with my efforts so here it is....This is out of my league but sure had fun trying!!! Thanks for having me along on this Mrinal & Charlene.....Your a awesome teacher!!! :)))

Stand Up/ w Mrs Rhymes & TCM Underground

My grandson is showing some interest in music now.  I have taught him a few chords and buying him his first guitar.  Just a simple, short tune to let him participate and sing a bit.  So much fun with my boy!

Kiss Me Goodbye ( Original)

I've been listening to some guitar blues .   Keitonie 
  https://soundcloud.com/keitonie  caught my attention.  he was born to this stuff.       I tried to sing along to some tracks he had up and it wasn't so easy.  I either sounded like an elvis impersonator, or someone trying to take a dump.  After dozens of tries i began to feel my way into the music... 

The Girl in the Mirror......say's I'm a fool
for being so careless....for losing you.
I think I'll go out fishing....catch myself a trout
might get lucky, get lucky catch a rainbow trout.

The river's running .......wide and clear
fish are jumping.....just below the weir
damson flies have settled..... on the rim of my hat
sometimes I'm lucky,....sometimes i'm lucky like that.

Living without you....is getting strange
there's something about you....that was always out of range
even the flowers in our garden...are missing you
i'm not fishing for forgiveness,....i would not expect that from you.

the girl in the mrror etc.

The Girl in the Mirror........Keitonie...Steve Killingbeck Collab.

This is more of a feel than a song. The trail is a medifore for life that we all go threw good or bad. I hope you like it .

Dust

Written by Josh McAlexander
Produced and Performed by Josh McAlexander

Watching over me

Watching Over Me (Original)

Lyrics by Tony Harris 
Vocals, Music and Mix by Glen Granthem
The lyrics listed below inspired Glen to create this track.

SHE LEFT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
ON A WARM SUNDAY MORNIN'
HAD NO REASON TO STAY 
THAT'S WHY SHE WAS LEAVIN'

TRYED HER HAND AT ACTIN'
IT DIDN'T WORK OUT
WOUND UP WORKIN'
LEARNIN' TO DO WITHOUT

MET A HANSOME YOUNG MAN
GONNA SHOW HER THE ROPES
HIS PLAN WAS THE WRONG PLAN
LEAVIN' HER WITH NO HOPE

WITH LA IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROW
SHE WAS HEADED BACK HOME
LEAVIN' NOTHING BUT SORROW
WHY'D SHE WAIT SO LONG

(CHORUS)
HEADIN' FOR THAT MISSISSIPPI LINE
WITH BILOXI ON HER MIND
TWO THOUSAND MILES AWAY
HEADED HOME TO STAY
THAT MISSISSIPPI LINE
WITH BILOXI ON HER MIND
YEA, BILOXI ON HER MIND
BILOXI ON HER MIND…........

DRIVIN' ACROSS SEVERAL STATES
MEMORIES CAME TO MIND
PRAYIN' IT'S NOT TOO LATE
AS SHE CROSSED THE MISSISSIPPI LINE

ARRIVIN' IN THE NIGHTTIME
WOULD SHE BE WELCOMED
SHE'D BEEN GONE A LONG TIME
WHAT WOULD BE THE OUTCOME

PULLIN' INTO THE DRIVEWAY
THE PORCH LIGHTS CAME ON
SAID MAMA I'M HERE TO STAY
BILOXI'S ON MY HOME

SHE WAS GLAD TO SEE HER
GREETED HER WITH OPEN ARMS
STARTIN' A NEW CHAPTER
A SHELTER IN THE STORM

(REPEAT CHORUS)

2019 © Lyrics by Tony Harris (BMI)

Biloxi (on her mind) - Lyrics by Tony Harris - Featuring Glenny G's "One Man Band" - Original

The City - Words & Music by Pravinand Maharaj

Once it was a city
Now it’s just a street
With every mile another dream lays crushed
And the sun shows no pity
Pouring out its heat
As mighty towers crumble into dust

One by one they followed
One by one they left without a trace

There were signs on the water
Portents in the sky
The Watchers blind by sleep didn’t see a thing
Six crows at the altar
A bargain for the price
Half less worth an eagle’s broken wing

One by one they followed
One by one they left without a trace

What walks the moon at midnight
Through the narrow lanes 
Lurking in the shadows that it cast
A pestilence upon us, a blight
A spreading stain
Taking everything out on its path

One by one they followed
One by one they left without a trace

So, sing the last love song written
Drink up the vineyard grape
Rouse the ghosts of tomorrow from their slumber
If I break out of this prison
And the hour’s not too late
I’ll be down the road without a name or number

One by one they followed
One by one they left without a trace

Pravinand: Vocals and Acoustic
Bas: Backing Vocals and Electric
Mix and Mastered by Bas Kooman

The City - Johnny Minstrel and Bas Kooman

I couldn’t resist putting this song on my cover album.
When I saw Elvis perform in 1956 on a black and white TV I was 12 years old. Needless to say, that experience left an indelible mark on my soul, my mind, my heart and my love of music.  Elvis was truly the first performer to challenge social mores and bring on the Rock ’n Roll Revolution.
The King Is Dead - Long Live The King.
I hope you enjoy my version of this classic

JJ(Johnny) Vienneau:
Drums
Bass
Lead & Rhythm Guitars

Peter Wheeler:
Vocals

Produced by; JJ Vienneau & Peter Wheeler
Recorded at: Rawkin' Productions - Montreal

Blue Suede Shoes - Cover

Seein' My Father in Me - Paul Overstreet (vocal cover)

Tom was kind enough to post up this open collaboration and I couldn't resist a chance to add some harp.  Check out more of Tom's extraordinary blues guitar at his Tom Adams Aka Tytlblues page.  
https://soundcloud.com/user-342548892
Hope you enjoy! Stay Safe and Stay Well!

The Thrill Will Return with Tom Adams (Guitar) and David Skellenger (Blues Harp)

Martin and I are back with our rendition of an R&B classic....These Arms of Mine.
These Arms of Mine" is a song written by soul musician Otis Redding. 
Released:October 1962.    If you have not heard Martins songs, check him out:
https://soundcloud.com/ver2xif


All music: Tom Adams
Vocals: Martin Jones
Mixing/mastering: Martin & Tom

These Arms of Mine .......... Martin Jones (Ver2xif)/Tom Adams

MIDNIGHT HOUR
Written, Performed, Produced & Mastered
by Andrew Borderick Copyright 1988/2015/2020 AB Music

MIDNIGHT HOUR, YOU SAY THERE'S NO LAW
IN THIS HOUR, YOU GO ALONE

CHANGING YOUR NAME, IT'S NOT REALY YOU
AND IN THIS HOUR, YOU'LL MAKE, YOU'LL PAY
(chorus)
WATCH ME THERE NOW
SO........... REMEMBER SO
SO........... REMEMBER SO CLOSE
SO........... REMEMBER SO CLOSE
AND NOW YOU ARE TORN

THE KIDS ARE ALL SHOUTING, PLAYGROUNDS A SONG
CATCHING THE COLDNESS, I'M ALL ALONE

MIDNIGHT HOUR, YOU'RE UNDER THE LAW
IT'S IN THIS HOUR, YOU ARE ALONE
(chorus)
WATCH ME THERE NOW
SO........... REMEMBER SO
SO........... REMEMBER SO CLOSE
SO........... REMEMBER SO CLOSE
AND NOW YOU ARE TORN
(break)
(chorus)
WATCH ME THERE NOW
SO........... REMEMBER SO
SO........... REMEMBER SO CLOSE
SO........... REMEMBER SO CLOSE
SO........... REMEMBER SO
SO........... REMEMBER SO CLOSE

Another  World

MIDNIGHT HOUR

New AcoustaTronic Tune. All Original Song Lyrics, Instruments, Vocals, Production, etc. by Riff Beach via RiffWerx Records & Production. 
A Taste of Wonder ©
Riff Beach - RiffWerx - 2020
When you Wander in The Wonder
You push beyond the plain
You can hold onto all you love
And still embrace the change 
(Chorus)
Don’t you lose your Sense of Wonder
Don’t be afraid to feel the pain
And don’t fear the distant thunder
Turn your face and taste the rain
(Bridge)
When you choose to find happy
You begin to lose the sad
Sometimes grabbin’ all the good
Means blasting past the bad
Inspire me with your smile
Make me love the journey’s end
Let me wipe a tear of joy away
Because we’re together here again

Sunny Beaches Prevail

Love country, folk, rock, gospel, blues and 60's style rock/pop music. I also post a Monday Playlist each week. My main page is Tony's Lyrics https://soundcloud.com/tonyslyrics

Monday Playlist 6/21/2021

Country/Folk/Rock/Blues/Gospel - Monday Playlist