Monday Playlist 7/6/20

SOFTEN MY HEART Demo Recording
Songwriter - Beth Williams
http://bethwilliamsmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/bethwilliamsgospelsongs
Lonnie Atkinson on 2nd guitar

Soften My Heart - Beth Williams Gospel Songs

If you came here looking for the Rolling Stones song of the same title, you're lost. Apologies. You can move on or stick around, have a listen to some bog music from Ireland. You may find something you like.............                                                                    

Living in a Ghost Town. Steve Killingbeck

Old Country Songs (Original Remix)

A short bit of Retro-Pop fun...thanks for listening!

'67 Coupe DeVille (She Likes Mick Jagger)

She Is On My Mind

This is the last sunday morning recording of the year. I have loved George Harrison since I was about 5 years old, and his music and also the Beatles were played all the time in our house by my older brother. George was a beautiful man in so many ways, and another taken from us too soon. My heart is full when I listen to his songs.
Hoping that this brings you a little warmth, and much love and peace for the new year to come.
Take care out there!

Here Comes The Sun ( George Harrison )

A Traditional Blues with hat tipping Skip James & Robert Petway.

Resonator/Slide & Vocals ~ Chris

Engineered by Eliot Reynolds at Songcave Studios Hazelbrook

http://youtu.be/3Q9TtngeTqc

Catfish Blues ~ Chris O Arr. (Traditional Blues)

Written and lead singing by Randy Arnold, who was our group leader.  
Old tracks from late 90s band Morry and I were members of - Ten Months Later. Morry played lead guitar and I played rhythm guitar and sang back up vocs. The main singer is our friend Randy Arnold who wrote this song. Other bandmates: Yandell Wood (Drums) and Matt Garlove (Bass), along with other friends. Recorded mainly in Matt's basement. Sadie Hawkins Dance was the name of the album.

Sadie Hawkins Dance

Don't Get To Deal (10ML)

Always a favorites from one of my heros, Mr. Buddy Guy..... Not doing it justice, but fun just the same!!


All Music; Tom Adams

Feels Like Rain

Written and Performed by Josh McAlexander



Tomorrow will come a Sunny Day

Tomorrow will come a Sunny Day (Original)

Remembering old friends and places with such great images.  This song
was written by Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen Jr,. while they attended
Texas A&M in the late 70's. It was released by Lyle in 1986.  What an American singer and songwriter.  A gem of a song

This Old Porch   (  cover - Lyle Lovett)

Strength, Rigidity, Virility - all Good Things, except when we Harden our Hearts! A timeless tune that's really all about 'Love', although the word Love is never mentioned in the lyrics. Good example for a Songwriting Workshop. This song was first featured in the Rock Stage  Musical - 'Hair' - in 1967. Although not written by Three Dog Night, it was a big hit for them in the time frame when "Eli's Coming" and "One" were also Chartbusters for that infamous Band in the late 60's, early-mid 70's timeframe. Instruments and recording feature most of my guitars and musical gear in one form or another. Intended only with respect. Created and captured in a Vintage, Lo-Fi, AcoustaTronic Analog style.

Sunny Beaches Abound All Around

Easy To Be Hard - Version

PDB : Music, lyrics, guitars, piano, organ.
PJ :  bass, drums, vocal & mix.

Trapped Inside W/ PdB Orchestra

Gene Jumper, Hello Mary Lou # 12. Ricky Nelson, ( cover)

Hello Mary Lou # 12, Gene Jumper, Ricky Nelson, ( cover)

If I know Me - George Strait (vocal cover)

A track from the album Time and Tide, available on Bandcamp
amandasanderson.bandcamp.com/album/time-and-tide

Lyrics, music, mixing, production: Verulium
https://verulium.bandcamp.com/releases
Vocals: Amanda Kim Sanderson

It started in Garstang
Heading out for the M55 it's a beautiful motorway
But in the wrong direction 

I first saw Jimi in 75
Stood on the cowling of a seaplane not alive
But more like a saviour

I sat by the lakeside
Checking up on the stove and the gear for a very long holiday
To where the spirit takes me

He landed like a star on Derwentwater
His face was drawn so I offered him a quarter
Of Kendal mint cake

Driving the ghost of a famous 60s rock star
Around and around ’til we've built the energy
Living in the back of a camper van
The lakes are great and we do the best we can
One day we'll make it

We're parked in a lay by
Filling up with some beans on toast and a very nice Chardonnay 
To mark the occasion

In a white silk shirt and skin tight pants
He can't sing a note and he's banned all instruments
You've got to respect it

Driving the ghost of a famous 60s rock star
Around and around ’til we've built the energy
Living in the back of a camper van
The lakes are great and we do the best we can
One day we'll make it

We pin our hopes upon
The comeback show of the chosen one
At the Woodstock of the north
In Deeply Vale with Sandie Shaw and The Doors 

Driving the ghost of a famous 60s rock star
Around and around ’til we've built the energy
Living in the back of a camper van
The lakes are great and we do the best we can
One day we'll make it

But the times have changed
The stars have left?
We keep on chasing happiness none the less
One day we’ll find it

Time and Tide

The Storm I Used To Be

A special song about my Dad. (a tribute to John Prine's style of music)
Lyrics by Tony Harris that inspired Lizzie 
Vocal & Music by my friend Lizzie Taypen

I WOKE UP EVERY MORNIN'
TO THE SOUND OF HIM PLAYIN'
HIS OLD HARP IN THE KEY OF "C"
A GREAT MEMORY FOR ME

THEN HE WAS READY TO START HIS DAY
GRABBED HIS LUNCH...WAS ON HIS WAY
ALWAYS ARIVING EARLY AT THE JOB SITE
CAUSE BEIN' LATE WOULD NOT BE RIGHT

(CHORUS)
MY DADDY WAS A CARPENTER
HE LOVED DRIVIN' THEM NAILS
A SMALL TIME CONTRACTOR
ALWAYS FOCUSED ON DETAILS
NO AIR TOOLS BACK THEN
TO HIM…IT WAS A SIN
IF YOU DIDN'T USE A HAMMER

HIS WORK DAY'S...THEY WERE LONG
FILLED WITH HARD WORK AND SWEAT
NOW DON'T GET ME WRONG
MY DAD HAD NO REGRETS

HE LEARNED HIS TRADE
IN THE ARMY DURING THE WAR
WORE OUT MANY A SAW BLADE
AND HUNG MANY A DOOR

(REPEAT CHORUS)

ON SUNDAY WE WERE ALWAYS GOIN'
TO THE COUNTRY CHURCH NEXT DOOR
HIS BIBLE, HE WAS ALWAYS READIN'
DIDN'T WANT TO BE THE MAN HE WAS BEFORE

(REPEAT CHORUS)

2020 © Lyrics by Tony Harris (BMI)

My Daddy Was A Carpenter - Lyrics by Tony Harris - Featuring Lizzie Taypen - Original

A few years ago, my Mom asked if would make a poem she wrote  into a song. So I asked my daughter Emily to sing it.  This is your song Mom. I hope you can hear it up in heaven. 🙂
Lyrics;
Or So It seems
Down by the moors, in dreams I wander. The mists swirl 'round me as I go.
Was that his voice I heard just yonder, or just the wind, I do not know.
My love had hair as black as midnight. His eyes were bright and emerald green.
And when he smiled my heart smiled with him. I feel his touch or so it seems.
At night I see him as I'm sleeping. He wanders through my dreams alone.
My heart is breaking as I seek him. My love is never coming home.

His laughter filled my heart with gladness, the world shine bright filled with our dreams.
His absence fills my life with sadness. I too must die, or so it seems.
My love does call as night surrounds me. I hear his voice deep in my dreams.
Though he is gone, his spirit's found me. I feel his warmth or so it seems.
My love had hair as black as midnight. His eyes were bright and emerald green.
And when he smiled my heart smiled with him.  Feel his kiss or so it seems.
As days go by. I wait for nightfall. I hasten tony bed alone. And welcome dreams of my one true love. For in my dream he's still my own.
His laughter filled my heart with laughter. Our world shone bright filled with our dreams.
His absence fills my life with sadness. I too must die, or so it seems.
I too must die, or so it seems.

Susanville

Or So It Seems (Featuring Emily Blackard)

Skin and Bones  Words and Music: Pravinand Maharaj

Skin and bones
Heat and snow
Dark and white
Rest and flow
It’s the wider truth
A big fat wider truth

Leave and run
Be my guest
All the guns
Haven’t fired yet
It’s the wider truth
A big fat wider truth

There’s a hole on the mountain
There’s a tower in the fountain
There’s a bridge over Hades
By the Quarry-side
It’s the wider truth
A big fat wider truth

Meet the damned
Damn the beast
Half the man
I’ll always be
It’s the wider truth
A big fat wider truth

Cover pic by Julia Rohwedder on deviantART. 

Skin and Bones

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 7/6/20

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