more great guitar on this keep it up just (brilliant)

another great one ,i love it, beautiful harmony.

Really nice delivery with the vocals for the two of you.  The synergy is nicely evident and a really enjoyable listen.

Good song and performance you guys, enjoyed it!

This sounds like a country classic.  So well written and performed!

Country Gems & Gents

Original Song  - Lyrics 
A long ago beautiful ordinary day 
Captured perfectly in a photo of your smile
It’s the same sweet smile I still treasure today

Your smile your sweet sweet smile
Still brightens up my ordinary days
Your smile your sweet sweet smile
Still reminds me of how lucky I am

When the world leaves me feeling cold and used 
Your smiles calls back the real me
And I feel restored in the time I spend with you

Your smile your sweet sweet smile
Still brightens up my ordinary days
Your smile your sweet sweet smile
Still reminds me of how lucky I am

So many things grow old from seeing
But I still see you anew

Your smile your sweet sweet smile
Still brightens up my ordinary days
Your smile your sweet sweet smile
Still reminds me of how lucky I am

Luck

Hey, what can I say? Sometimes it gets rough. But it's still good.

------------------------------------------------------------------

on a summer blanket
in the moonlight
with the beach stones stirring
after midnight

i am ready
and i dare

god you know you’re tired
may you rest now
many ways to try it
lay the load down

i am ready (good to go)
i am there (going)

hey hey hey who
checkout avenue

on tomorrow’s bastion
once immortal
now you sense the ending
as a portal

i am ready
honeybear
i’m not waiting 
i am there

i am ready (here’s my ride)
and i dare (good night)
we’re not waiting (good to go)
we are there

------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks to Jacques DiCroce, Janine Levinson, Cheesemont Paisely-Paisely, Wheelwright, and David Weiss for early listening, consultation and support.

image from Linus Nylund via Unsplash

Checkout Avenue

The Scorpio

comin’ over
to my place tonight
dressed in clover
whets my appetite

i want to know
the afterglow

slide on over
i’ll take it at the light
black bulldozer
tailin’ us tonight

i feel the flow
the undertow

cold turkey
no way
i’ll get there
someday

now it’s over
turnin’ out the light
bruised all over
exiting stage right

i feel the flow
the vertigo
and now you know
the scorpio

--------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks to Janine Levinson, Cheesemont Paisley-Paisley, and Wheelwright for consultations various.

Image by Hassan Sherif via Unsplash

The Scorpio

Mark Duffield: voice, vocal melody, lyrics https://soundcloud.com/markduffieldcollaboration
Jonathan Beckenstein: initial music, instruments, mixing
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Across the bay
Many many many miles away
See a crescent moon
Reflected in a field of poppies bloomed

Take a step into this vision, soon
Grab a flower and throw it at the moon

(YOU)
Don’t ask me how you’re gonna get there soon
(Don’t ask me, don’t ask me, do)
(YOU)
You might as well throw a flower at the moon

Throw a flower, a flower, at the moon
Throw a flower, a flower, at the moon

Save our wrecks
Oh then, say the best
Get it off your chest
Just another shipwreck

Another shipwreck
Get it off your chest
Another shipwreck
Get it off your chest
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
image: Bart Ros via Unsplash

Poppies (with Mark Duffield)

BPM120
Would anyone like to sing?
I'll leave the lyrics and melody up to you.
This song can be downloaded
You can change the configuration
If you are interested, please email me😻

No title.

A song about a close family member who really needs to understand that his relationship is over. 
And she as been letting him down gently without ever officially ending it. 
He continued to constantly offer his thoughts and opinions of which he considered it to be helpful but she did not appreciate or even understand it. 
He was casting his pearls before the final swine. 

CASTING PEARLS 

V1
How many times can you lay yourself bare 
make it the last as she now doesn’t care 
It’s face down in the water doesn’t wanna share 
Herself her children & this love affair 

Chorus 
I can see you were casting pearls 
Before the final swine 
It doesn’t seem to matter now
This girls made up her mind 
For the final  time

V2
Here we are yet again and again 
Riding two wheels to just to heal the pain 
Inspiring the life that feels mundane 
Ride your sunset from your hurricane

Chorus 
I can see you were casting pearls 
Before the final swine 
It doesn’t seem to matter now
This girls made up her mind 
For the final  time

Casting Pearls ~ Conscience Of Kings

Baby, here I am
I'm the man on the scene
I can give you what you want
But you got to come home with me
I've got some good old lovin'
And I got some more in store
When I get through throwin' it on you
You gotta come back for more
Boys and things that come by the dozen
That ain't nothin' but drugstore lovin'
Hey little thing, let me light your candle
'Cause, mama, I'm sure hard to handle now, gets around

Action speaks louder than words
And I'm a man of great experience
I know you got another man
But I can love you better than him
Take my hand, don't be afraid
I'm gonna prove every word I say
I'm advertising love for free
So you can place your ad with me
Boys will come along, a dime by the dozen
That ain't nothing but ten cent lovin'
Hey little thing, let me light your candle
'Cause, mama, I'm sure hard to handle now, gets around

Yeah
Hard to handle now
Oh, baby

Baby, here I am
I'm the man on your scene
I can give you what you want
But you gotta come home with me
I've got some good old lovin'
And I got some more in store
When I get through throwin' it on you
You gotta come runnin' back for more
Boys will run along, a dime by the dozen
That ain't nothin' but drugstore lovin'
Hey little thing, let me light your candle
'Cause, mama, I'm sure hard to handle now, gets around

Ya, so hard to handle now

Boys will run along, a dime by the dozen
That ain't nothing but ten cent lovin'
Hey little babe, let me light your candle
'Cause, mama, I'm sure hard to handle now, gets around
Aww
So hard to handle now
Oh, yeah
Baby, Baby, Baby, Baby

I got to have, oh yeah
So hard to handle, now, yeah

-v4.01

Hard To Handle

A song about holding on
Some moving pictures (and words) here - https://youtu.be/YfaXXG3ScHQ

Lyrics Part 1
Don’t go holding on to all of your failure
Not if you wanna reach for success
And don’t bite down on regret too soon
Because you might never get to forget
All the times when we were flailing 
And the lives when we were flawed
And all the chances that we gave up so willingly
Just so we could run away from those doors

Meanwhile losers keep on losing their time 
Yet still always they’ll find it to waste
Stuck holding onto that hopeless hope
Just to give themselves a kick in the face
So for the times when we were flailing 
And the lives when we were flawed
To all the chances that we gave up so willingly
Just so we could run away from those doors
Back then
We never thought about before
Wishing we could swap for before

We ran to choices that we chose to choose from
In indecision we were always so sure
But you can’t keep on fighting circles
Cos nobody wins a victimless war

We know we gotta make ourselves our own saviours
And go find new ways to believe
Yeah let’s stand up to always being stood up
By all of life’s cruel fate histories 
So bye to times when we were flailing
Au revoir to lives when we were floored
Ciao to Chances that we gave up so willingly
Just so we could run away from those doors
We ran to
Choices that we chose to choose from
In indecision we were always so sure
But you can’t keep on fighting circles
Cos nobody wins a victimless war
The answers not to go on just live out our lives
We must forgive not forget about before
Let’s step up to the plate and feed on love
Not gonna let us die on this floor
Cos if we don’t make love our law
We’ll never learn not to fall
We’re gonna die on this floor
Yeah if we don’t make love our law
We’ll never learn not to crawl
We’re gonna die on this floor
We’re gonna die on this floor
We’re gonna die on this floor
Gonna die on this floor
We’re gonna die on
We’re gonna die on
Gonna die on
Not gonna die on

Lyrics Part 2
Let love be our law
Let love be our law 
We’ll never forget before
But we must let love be our law
From empty ashes we burn
All life’s lessons we learned
We’ll never heal that hole
Always part of our soul
Let love be our law (never forget) 
Let love be our law
Let love be our law (never forget)
Let love be our law

The Floor (holding on)

in a garden
she is gazing
at an apple

she is naked
doesn’t realize
and she wonders

in the sun
asking:

“Listen honey,
would you like some
just between us?”

perilous
picnic

she don’t worry 
she can take the heat
Mother Courage
ends up in the street

east of eden
she is toiling
for her children

fearless love
wisdom
mama’s love
wisdom

fearless love
wisdom
mama’s love
wisdom

-------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks to Janine Levinson, Cheesemont Paisely-Paisely, and Wheelwright for early listening, support, and ace suggestions.

image by Ray Shrewsberry via Unsplash

I'am Crazy

This is the story of Junior, a hard drinking young man without a plan, following the lead of his lush of a father. Junior fancied himself a bit of a millennial cowboy and rode off quickly into the sunset, proverbial spurs a-flashing...

Junior

Lyrics from myself and David Graham (mctownmusic)
Music is an old track from Gary Carter
--------------
Must of Been Luck
JD/DG/GC 2018
She grew up down in Texas in a little one horse town
Her daddy was a cowboy Never did come back around

Her momma didn't trust her So she drove off by herself
I saw her on the side of the road An I asked if I could help

(pre chorus)
She climbed up on my Harley We rode off into the wind
For years and years we were lovers Now we can’t even be friends

Chorus
We needed something more But I was never sure what of
I thought it was love It must of been luck
Must of been luck....Must of been luck

(music only then verse)
I loved being with her under that big Texas sky
One day my luck run out an she…told me goodbye

I climbed up on my Harley I rode off into the wind
For years and years we were lovers Now we can’t even be friends

We needed something more But I was never sure what of
I thought it was love ….It must of been luck (short)

bridge
I was lucky to learn from her   what it means to be free

I was lucky to be the man …that she  ..Use to need

I climbed up on my Harley I rode off into the wind
For years and years we were lovers Now we can’t even be friends

We needed something more But I was never sure what of
I thought it was love It must of been luck
Must of been luck....Must of been luck

Must of been luck....Must of been luck

Must of Been Luck

I wrote this song to describe a man that recalls love in the form of his nightly visions. The images come back to him in quiet moments much like photos hung on a wall that line a hallway in your home. The photos are of "her", the hall is his heart, and he takes that walk late at night when his inner most thoughts overcome his dreams, down the hallway with his memory wall. I want to thank Nat Daniels for her continued collaborations, which on this tune is her beautiful piano playing.

The Memory Wall (accompanied by Nat Daniels) by Craig Durgy

Copyright Daniels & Durgy 2019
Written, Performed and Produced by Craig Durgy & Nat Daniels
https://youtu.be/E-P7HXw4ZoA
Come visit us! www.facebook.com/DanielsDurgy/
Twiter: twitter.com/DanielsDurgy
iTunes: itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/daniel…durgy/1412085754

Lyrics:

I see the dashboard in your eyes
We’re low on gas and losing speed
Reflecting all that underlies
That empty look you’re giving me

You said you needed time to think
But honey I just think it’s time
Our ride is driving me to drink
We’re on the rocks and driving blind

I know that when these headlights
Shine on your door
I won’t be back here anymore. 

You meant exactly what you said
Saying you could never leave
Cause you can’t leave where you ain’t been
You never really needed me

Oh girl you came on loud and strong
And in the dark you sure did please
But girl the dashboard lights ain’t wrong
End of the road for you and me

I know that when these headlights
Shine on your door
I won’t be back here anymore. 

I see that dashboard in your eyes
I guess it’s been there from the start
Like bird shit, June bugs, cracks and flies
Stuck to the windshield of my heart

Ain’t it funny, ain’t it rich
That no matter where ya are
The road to love is such a bitch
Now honey get out of my car

I know that when these headlights
Shine on your door
I won’t be back here anymore.

The Dashboard In Your Eyes

The Dashboard In Your Eyes (Live)

Two song writers, two kindred spirits... that found each other by pure happenstance and great fortune, to collaborate and create music together.
To see our separate artist pages, please click on the following links:
Nat Daniels   https://soundcloud.com/natdaniels
Craig Durgy  https://soundcloud.com/durge

The Dashboard In Your Eyes (Live)

Daniels & Durgy

Recent comments

Gene Jumper

Sonny Kaye

Sonny Kaye

Jonny Hummingbird

Related tracks