Oh very nice key change and feeling in the heart.

Blankets a cool cover/made the day/just duet//love it.

an absolutely beautiful duet, you two. 💖

just beautiful. You both sound so wonderful together.

Hypnotist

Happy Valentine's All you Hardcore believers in Love! 

A beautiful bluegrass/country song recorded by J.D. Crowe, written by Steven F. Brines and James B. Smoak, interpreted here with a simple acoustic guitar, piano, vocals and mandolin complements. A long time favorite that we think was wonderfully suited to Nat’s gentle voice in lead.

Vocal Copyright 2022 Daniels & Durgy
Vocals, Piano, Acoustic guitar, Stand Up Bass, and Production - Nat Daniels
Vocals, Mandolin, - Craig Durgy
Mechanical Copyright Brines/Smoak

Lyrics:

When you say you love me I don’t know what you mean
But it seems like I should
So if I say I’m bruised and torn and other loves have warned me
You won’t mind if this one is for good

I don’t know if I can take it if we can really make it
I’ve never known a love without an end
But if you really think we can then you can share my blanket
And we’ll see what happens then

When your coat falls from your shoulders in a heap upon the floor
And the door behind is closed
I don’t know if I can stand it it’s an awful lot to handle
Taking count of all the things I know

When you say you love me I don’t know what to say
I’m afraid to go along
Afraid that you might hurt me unable to be certain 
Afraid that I might turn and you’ll be gone

So I don’t know if I can take it ..if we can really make it
I’ve never known a love without an end
But if you really think we can then you can share my blanket
And we’ll see what happens then
You are more than a friend...
I guess... we'll see what happens then....

You Can Share My Blanket

Money Beats Soul

Felicity

Scotty: guitars, lyrics, vocals
Franko Malley: slide, percussion
Tommy: bass

Eye Candy Feat. Franko Malley And The Mud Butts

(Free WAV Download available here under '••• More'; and eventually as part of my BandCamp Vox Populi album)

[REVISED] Happy Sunday, my dear SC friends. I have an exciting new song to share with you. But first, a little reality check (brought to you by the makers of Common Sense; the fragrance we all crave right now). :) 

As you may have read in my previous liner notes, a huge part of my musical slow-down has nothing to do with music. I love creating this stuff, and I love interacting with this community. This is a very happy place for me. 

The problem lies in how I’m using my brain when I’m not involved in my musical life. And I need to take responsibility for that. 

But here’s the issue. I can’t seem to shut off the conduit between how much suffering I perceive in the world, and how heavily that weighs on my own emotional state. I hear stories of other people’s misery, and I adopt it as my own; as if living through some of that lightens the load for the other person. It only takes writing that out, to see the flaws in my thinking.

I’ve been told more than a few times that I’m thin skinned; that I'm too sensitive to other people’s emotions, and the overall energy I pick up from the space I’m in. Truth be told, if being an empath exists, I’m probably one of them… at least to a minor degree. I’m starting to entertain a lot of these more esoteric ideas. I also love the idea of human interaction being as much telepathic as verbal; and I feel like I experience that directly when I approach a conversation with love and gratitude, and I witness the other person adopt that energy during the conversation. It’s as if the words don’t matter as much as the energy I’m projecting. So yea, I’m definitely enjoying playing with these reality bending ideas.

Here’s what I now realize. Whether it's empathy (which I still think is very important), sympathy (also important), or even pity (very unimportant); it’s probably a misuse of my energy. For example, if someone feels sorry for you, does that make you feel empowered? Or does it make you feel weak or incapable? Alternately, if someone expresses confidence in you, how does that effect your resolve? I definitely know which tanks my mood, and which bolsters me.

Clearly, I need a shift in focus. And I’m going to commit to practicing that new focus daily. For starters, I reactivated a cute little app I discovered, called Habitica. It’s a daily activities check-list, cleverly disguised as an 8-bit video game. And it motivates me to stay focused, In a very playful way. For example, my dailies include (at a minimum): 1 hour making music, 1 hour listening to other SC musicians, 20 minutes exercise (including 20 minutes reading), and the one I’m really excited about… 30 minutes piano practice.

I began this last week. And it was the best week I’ve had in a long time!!

Now… the really exciting part. This song contains some of what I learned from my piano practice; the minor pentatonic scales. And my piano practice was inspired by one of the nicest people I’ve met on Soundcloud; our dear friend Carlos Vivanco (https://soundcloud.com/carlosvivanco-1). 

Carlos has offered me a few music lessons, as well as some wonderful practice routines and suggestions (my favorite so far… don’t practice to a metronome. Practice to a drum loop. A serious game changer for me. Now I feel like I’m playing along with another musician, which is a blast). 

There is an old saying I truly believe; when the student is ready, the teacher appears. I’m grateful to call Carlos one of my teachers. I’m confident your teachers (person or otherwise) are out there too. You just need to be open to possibilities; and embrace them with all your heart, when they arrive. I hope you enjoy ‘Renewing My Artistic License’ as much as I enjoyed creating it. And I hope these words inspire you to more deeply pursue something you really love. :)

Credits: The cover art evolved from a piece first created in the amazing iPad app, WOMBO Dream.

Vox Populi

Renewing My Artistic License

Got to work with Marc Freak @marcfreak on this one after he foolishly offered to, in a comment on a track of mine. I spent a bit of time in London in the late eighties. Boy George was king, the food was still mostly bland and there were a million different rules for dress depending on where you went. Funny how sometimes things can be so foreign and familiar at the same time. I have lots of thoughts but I won't bore you. Oh and the music. I knew most of the bands but it did change my perception a bit to hear them in context. Thanks so much Marc for the singing, melody, lyrics and maybe some context. ;)
Lyrics:

PERFECT DREAM
Jumping out of the frying pan into the fire
Like a drug bust with a visible wire
But its worth it for the time that we spend
And I pray they don't end

All I crawled through has the skin busy itching
And my internet is permanently glitching
But I cannot bare the time we're apart
Its a trial of the heart

CHORUS
Is this just a perfect dream that's coming true?
I want to spend the whole of my brief life with you

When you're standing in darkness and a glimpse of light shines through
When you're lit up like a beacon
And although you are freaking I'm loving this dream come true
With you

And the time I have left grows ever shorter
I am drowning in invisible water
Its a failure on my part I can't swim
And the prospects look grim

There's a torch that ever shines in the distance
Hold my hands up - show no signs of resistance
I'm a prisoner of love 
I don't mind in fact I'm pleased to do time

CHORUS

When you're standing in darkness and a glimpse of light shines through
When you're lit up like a beacon
And everyone's peeking 
I'm loving this dream come true

Perfect Dream (A Marc Freak Collaboration)

an older track from the vaults of 2014 when winkandwoo was a duet with me and my dear old friend steve who is now no longer with us . 
We got Laura V in to give us more clout on this powerful song .
Lyrics : Stephen Humphreys
Music ; Clive Fuller

Losing My Grip (House Mix Ft. Laura V)

Love Is Just Love Jumping At Distance

Piano and Strings musical original composition : https://soundcloud.com/syntaleta
Lyrics&Vocal melody, Mix : G. Alberto (V@M)
Add. synth Korg Kronos & temporary voice waiting for final voice :  G. Alberto 
Original : Syntaleta No more


Verse 1
One more time 
I feel surprised
When the sun's still shining again.

Close to you
I feel so pride
And the rain can fall down on me.

Chorus
I don't want to hear the sound
Of the voice who tell me loud
Anyway we have no time and that's all.
 
Verse 2
One more way
To chase it all away
Try to catch the flame one day.

One more time 
I feel surprised
When the sun's still shining again

Chorus
I don't want to hear the sound
Of the voice who tell me loud
Anyway we have no time and that's all.

One More Time (Collab w Syntaleta)

1023 FM - Flanged Souls

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

You Can Share My Blanket

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