Monday Playlist week of 9/25/2023

A big thank you to Gabriel Vanore (http://soundcloud.com/van-gabriel) for his magnificent work in mixing and producing this song. He took my humble offering and made it really grand! And a big thank you as well to Michael Charney for his wonderful work on the synths. I really appreciate it Michael!

Guitars and vocals: Johnny Minstrel
Synths: Michael Charney
Mixing, creativity and production: Gabriel Vanore
Cover art: Gabriel Vanore

 Is This You
Words & Music: Pravinand Maharaj (Johnny Minstrel)

You made the waters flow from the mountain to the sea
You made the flowers grow from tiny wind blown seeds
Yet hungry mouths are kept unfed for centuries
You made the stars appear, you made the fiery sun
You made the orbits clear how smoothly all things run
Yet people clash in pain with swords and bombs and guns

*And is it true...is it true
Is this you?
Sometimes when I hear thunder I hear a mournful sound
Sometimes when I feel rain I see a crying God
I wonder when it all began
I wonder when it all began

You made the birds that fly you made the fish that swim
From every tribe and clime you made her me and him
Yet we can’t live together we have no common kin
*
You set the day from night on the wings of dawn and dusk
You gave the breath of life you made us out of dust
Yet still the Wicked thrive to triumph over the Just


Is This You - feat Michael Charney (A VanGabriel Production)

Still here, dancing at the end of time.  Here is a ditty. Love..Love...Love.

Halloween in the Suburbs.  ( Steve Killingbeck )

#16 (Number 16)
Written, Performed, Produced & Mastered
by Andrew Borderick Copyright 2022 AB Music
A rock soundtrack inspired by a favorite Melbourne Band 'ROCKET SCIENCE'

#16 (Number 16)

I've known Chuck Aaron for as long as I've been on Sound Cloud and have always admired his songwriting and fine guitar work, so I was delighted when he invited me to add a few bits to this Merle classic penned by Sonny Throckmorton. Thanks for including me on it Chuck, it was a pleasure!

The Way I Am (Cover Collab w/ Chuck Aaron)

One of my very first recording projects ever posted on SoundCloud in 2008. ReMixed and tweaked. Hope it's enjoyed? As always...Thanks for Listening! :D)))
Memory in the Wind  ©
Riff Beach - RiffWerx, circa 2008
(Original AcoustaTronic Music)
Lyrics, Music, Vocals, Guitars, Production - Riff Beach
Pour a cup and wash me up
Take me to that place
Cleanse my soul and make me whole
Lord, Bathe me in your Grace
Dry your eyes and don’t despise
All the pain you hold inside
Life’s too short to break a Heart
Can’t believe it’s real
Say a prayer 
Let me know you care
And show me how you feel
Turn away from The Longing
That you feel within
Oooh, It’s just My Memory
Floating in the Wind
No time to feel alone
We’re all where we belong 
So let’s be strong and carry on
Soon we’ll be headed home
Turn away from The Longing
That you feel within
It’s just my Memory
Floating in the Wind
It’s just My Memory
Floating in the Wind
It’s just My Memory 
Floating in the Wind

Sunny Beaches

Memory in the Wind ©

Memory In The Wind  © - Retro Riff'n Original Music

Written by: Hoyt Axton, Kenneth Elvin JR. Higginbotham
Produced by: Josh McAlexander

Evangelina

I have allways loved this song. there are many versions of it but this is my take on it ,I hope ypo guys like it ,,,

01 - Jerry Baker - Reubins Train

I ran across this old Merle Haggard tune that was written in the 70's
Boy did it hit home and sure fits with things today.  This is another song
that Mike (Lefty Mike) did a little magic and added bass, harp and his
vocals.  He really made the song.  Thanks again Mike and thanks SC
members for the listen.

Jesus Take A Hold ( cover- Lefty Mike and Chuck Aaron)

This is a song that we co-wrote, a simple love ballad that includes a brief piano/electric guitar duet between verses. The subject is self-explanatory. A belated Happy Valentines wish before February melts into the Saint Patrick’s season!

Copyright 2023 Daniels & Durgy / Gentle Rain Records
Written, Produced and Performed by Nat Daniels & Craig Durgy
Lyrics:

Of all the things I ever held
Of all that's wrong and right
Nothing makes me smile like you
Or hold onto so tight
Of all the time that filled my eyes
The days I’ve sifted through
What could make me more alive
Than time I spent with you
And nothing hurts as much as missing you

If heaven was a place to find
It’s always been in you
Like a secret key you turned
I opened up to you 
And like an angel bathed me in your light, you made me whole..
Of all the places I have been 
I’ve never felt more home 
I miss your laughter and your hand in mine, 
And I will love you far beyond our time

Nothing Like You

I certainly don't need to tell you that there is, of course, a limit to human ingenuity.  Interplanetary travel, the eradication of smallpox, room temperature fusion are all very well, but as a species we will most likely always shake our heads in wonderment at the two unfathomable mysteries of the universe:  does the light really go out in the fridge when you close the door?  And how come leaves only ever blow into the garage and not back out again?

Now if I've understood the science pages right, I believe those clever folk at CERN and NASA have been working hard on the fridge door paradox (give up guys – can't be done) but even they recognise the futility of trying to crack the garage leaf blues.

I'll admit I haven't actually done this, but it is an absolute certainty that if you went to the very centre of the Nullarbor Plain, built a little garage, opened the door and looked the other way for just a second – there'd be a ruddy leaf in there.

Can't be solved.  Something to do with corridors in the space / time continuum.  

Or God, the bugger.

Drives me nuts.
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Leaf in My Garage Blues

Woke me up this mornin'
Blues on my mind
Lord knows I got my troubles
Of the foliage kind.
Another leaf in my garage
I ain't got room for any cars
There's a one way traffic fluid dynamic
Tell me baby, what that all about?
Them leaves a-blowin' in, 
But they don't never blowin' out.

My baby done gone left me
My blues is slidin' lower
Found herself a better guy
With a huge leaf blower.
Tragedy in my garage,
It's Autumn in my broken heart,
A one way traffic love dynamic.
Lord is this the penance, for the evil of my sin?
Leaves ain't never blowin' out, 
But forever blowin' in.
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Photo by Tommaso Pecchioli on Unsplash

Leaf In My Garage Blues

(Written by Terry Reeves)
Terry Reeves: Vocals
Gary Reeves: Drums/Vocals
Hans-Michael Albers: All other instruments, Arrangement, Production

Video: https://youtu.be/kg9qOAl6KNM 

Although we all may want to continue with our creative pursuits for ever, age has a way of catching up with you in ways that you hadn’t envisaged.  Our 3-piece garage band still enjoy creating and recording new tracks but as time goes on, we’re all  becoming acutely aware that each song is taking a little longer than it did previously, the input required a bit more energy than the last.  Factor in all of the daily ‘looking after yourself’ stuff and you start to realise there's less and less time to do everything that needs doing.

Gal does pretty much all of the admin. work on our page (listening, commenting, re-posting and the like) and for various reasons, fitting all of this in has become a somewhat impossible task for him.  That is not to say he doesn't still enjoy interacting with all of you but is finding that he no longer has the time nor stamina to carry on.

For myself, as the one who generates the material, songs are taking longer to write and develop.  For Hans, who so brilliantly arranges and produces them, fitting the process in with his real life responsibilities certainly doesn’t get any easier.  

Consequently, we are announcing our retirement from active involvement here on SC.  As the song explains, we don’t really want to stop. It’s more a case of having to.  For family archive purposes, we still plan to record and upload songs from time to time but since we won’t be around to provide any return support, know it is wholly unreasonable to expect any listens or comments.  You have all given so much already.    

We never expected the last 10 years to happen the way they have and want you to know that it's been a journey the entire Reeves’ family have enjoyed so very much.  None of this would have been possible without the support of our many friends here on SoundCloud, whose encouragement has buoyed us through the difficult personal times. We’ve had an absolutely wonderful ten years and we wouldn’t have missed it for the world.  We wish all of you the best of luck in your future endeavours.  From the heart, to one and all, thanks so much for everything.  
(Terry Reeves)

Tens years passing, with many distant lands
Unexpected friends, using voice and hands
Sharing music with freedom of thought
Expression of kindness, always giving support 

Chorus:
I had the best time
No regrets to call
Look back to look forward 
Only sideways to fall

Fame has a limit to a number of choice 
Happy to share, no need for Rolls-Royce 
Talent not in question, music to give
Opinions from many, helping each other to live

Chorus

SoundCloud a vehicle, movement of skills
A decision of finance, no room for old thrills
Changing future, believe a much younger need
Stopping communication, no longer to feed

Chorus

I want to thank you for calling 
I don’t wanna say goodbye
I apologise for high notes falling 
I don’t wanna say goodbye 
I will try to keep music installing 
I don’t wanna say goodbye
I don’t wanna say goodbye                  

Time for a smile, to all the friends passing by
No need to regret the chancing look of an eye
Many comments exchanged, a feeling of strength 
No regret of creation, our garage band of length

Chorus

I DON’T WANT TO SAY GOODBYE     - CRIPPLE CLUB

The eternal quest for inspiration,starring the inevitable setbacks. 

Searching for inspiration
Sweating blood and tears
Sometimes all information
Just disappears

Easy times in days of youth
I knew the way
Time to face the hard truth
I've nothing left to say

It's all gone away

Nothing left to say

Running down a dead end street
Chasing the muse
Finding more chaff than wheat
Nothing to use

Nothing left but tired old tat
Done the same old way
Pick the lyrics from a hat
No one listens,anyway

It's all gone away

Nothing left to say

Chasing The Muse

It always amazes me how the simple sharing of a guitar idea can become a full-fledged song in the hands of master-producer Seagull @farout-music-studio.  He enlisted the help of Madame Snowflake for the vocal and lyric theme of the song "Don't Be Afraid" adding his own special touches to the mix.  But it first started out as a love song from Godin, a guitar with a unique and beautiful nylon-string voice.
"Don't Be Afraid" (for Lauren)
by Snowflake
2014 - Licensed under
Creative Commons
Attribution Noncommercial (3.0)

Standing close to your bedside
Hoping, watching your breath rise
Stay here hold to your
Faith dear
Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid
Your room flooded with white light
You’ve one foot in and one taking flight
Stay here hold to your
Faith dear
Don’t be afraid dear
Don’t be afraid
Don’t be afraid
Strong yet fragile
Like an angel
Waiting gracefully
For her wings
Now, ah
Holding your hand, praying to understand
A higher plan
Stay here hold to your
Faith dear
Don’t be afraid dear
Don’t be afraid
Don’t be afraid

Love From Godin, Don't Be Afraid (Seagull, David, and featuring Snowflake)

Get Back

Original by The Band 1968
PdB Orchestra : Lead vocal, piano & Guitars

The Weight W/ PdB Orchestra

Lyrics by Tony Harris & Glen Granthem
Vocals, Music & Mix by Glen Granthem

In times of old the men would travel west
Searching for silver and gold with little sleep or rest
The lack of housing, It was back breaking work
Living underground digging in the dirt

(Chorus)
Searching for silver and gold
Few got rich in those days of old
Searching for silver and gold
To end up dead and buried in a hole

The lack of law and order The mini camps took lots of lives
From the East and the South They gambled with their life
In all the wrong places they searched for silver and gold
Covered wagons on horse back clipper ships strong and bold.

(Repeat Chorus)

(Guitar Solo)

(Repeat Chorus)

2023 (c) BMI Lyrics by Tony Harris & Glen Granthem

Silver and Gold - Collab by Tony and Glenny G's One Man Band - Original

Paul Grunill plays Outstation's cover version of Hawkwind's Assault and Battery/The Golden Void on his 200th show of The Last Outpost, Harborough FM

Assault and Battery/The Golden Void

Outstation's Hawkwind cover on Paul Grunill's 200th radio show, The Last Outpost, on Harborough FM

Mexican Love Song - Instrumental Version

Original Song – What You Mean To Me
Written and Performed by: Michael Duffy

Lyrics: What You Mean To Me

When times were bad for me
You where the one that helped me to see
On those cold and lonely nights
You are the one that I hold tight

What you mean to me

When your standing by my side 
Gives me such a good feeling inside 
And I can’t get enough
Of the way that you give me your sweet love

What you mean to me

Want to grow grey and grow old with you
Ain't no other woman is ever gonna do
Set up our home together 
I tell you now its gonna last forever

What you mean to me

Always be here by your side
Give you all my loving from morning to night
You never gonna have to worry or fear
I’m always gonna be right here

What you mean to me

By Michael Duffy
Singer/Songwriter
Co.Donegal Ireland

What You Mean To Me

What You Mean To Me - (Original Song)(c)

Demo of a song I wrote May 16, 2016.  
Lyric Video: https://youtu.be/hxb4OeAWqVg
Live Version: https://youtu.be/t74r3QC4IG4

https://www.facebook.com/BethWilliamMusic/
http://bethwilliamsmusic.com/

©Beth Williams Music  May 16, 2016
Tater

From a Distant Land - Beth Williams

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 week of 9/25/2023

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