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Mega Mix Tape 11

Monday Playlist week of 9/18/2023

More recent 'Hits' from the parallel universe of SoundCloud!

Songs For You

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Easy Life

This song was written by Chuck Berry while in prison and was recorded
in 1964.  This " poor boy" traveled across dozen states by bus, train and
plane to get to his promise land (California).  It was also recorded by
Elvis Presley .  Remember, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Freddy Weller,
had a hit with it also.  Louisiana's own Johnny Allen also had a hit with
it here in cajun land.  Having a little fun with this one.

Promise Land ( Cover of Chuck Berry )

Decided to revise the original lyrics a bit after Merle Haggard died.

Wish I Could Go Back In Time - (Raw Original by Tony Harris)

My own derivative AcoustaTronic version of a Gatlin Brothers creative interpretative of a Trad Gospel tune predicated upon the story of The Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32).
Prodigal Son 
(Referencing The Gatlin Brothers-Gaither 'Come Home' Version - 1997)
There was a young man who had the best of everything
(Oh Yeah) He was the first born of a wealthy man
But he was not satisfied with the best of everything
So he took his possessions in his hand
He traveled far and wide and he tasted worldly pleasure
Deep inside he was lonely without measure
And he wound up in a pig pen when he was nearly left for dead
Then he raised his eyes toward Heaven as he said
(Chorus)
I will arise and I will go back to my Father's house
I will beg him to forgive me for the fool that I've been
I will arise and I will go back to my Father's house
I will gladly be a servant if he'll take me back again?
I was a young man who had the best of everything
I was the first born of a hard-working man
But I was not satisfied with the best of everything
So I took my possessions in my hand
I traveled far and wide and I tasted worldly pleasure
Deep inside I was lonely without measure
Wound up in California where I nearly died
Then I raised my eyes toward Heaven as I cried
(Repeat Chorus)

Sunny Beaches

Prodigal Son - AcoustaTronic Version

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

Evangelina

Lyrics by Tony that inspired Riff are listed below.
Vocals, Music & Production by Riff Beach. (Revised 11/8/22)

WHEN WE'RE GROWIN' UP
WE ALL NEED SOMETHIN'
TO KEEP US ON THE RIGHT TRACK
HIS SOMETHIN' WAS THE CHURCH NEXT DOOR

ONLY A HUNDRED YARDS AWAY
IT WAS THE FIRST THING THAT HE SAW
WHEN HE WOKE UP IN THE MORNIN'
IT WAS ON HIS MIND EVERY DAY

(CHORUS)
EVERYONE NEEDS A SYMBOL
OF RIGHT AND WRONG
TO KEEP THEM HUMBLE
EVERYONE NEEDS A SYMBOL
OF RIGHT AND WRONG
TO KEEP THEM OUT OF TROUBLE
HIS SYMBOL WAS THAT CHURCH

EVERY SUNDAY MORNIN'
AS HE WALKED TO CHURCH
HE COULD HEAR THEM SINGIN'
PRAISES TO THE LORD

DURING HIS TIME IN THE ARMY
HE COULD FEEL HIS MAMA PRAYIN'
IN THAT CHURCH NEXT DOOR
EVERY SUNDAY MORNIN'

(REPEAT CHORUS)

(GUITAR SOLO OPTIONAL)

HE WAS BAPTIZED IN THAT CHURCH
MANY YEARS AGO AND IT'S IS STILL
HIS SYMBOL OF RIGHT AND WRONG

(REPEAT CHORUS OPTIONAL)

2022 © Lyrics by Tony Harris

Symbol Of Right And Wrong - NEW VERSION - Collab by Tony Harris & Riff Beach - Original

Just a little Free-Flow Sketching with my Acoustic-Electric. Re-recorded and ReMixed with Martin GPC-11e.   :D)))) Like this version much more than previous. Martin Acoustic Guitars just make me very, very Happy!

Early Fall Wake Up ©

Early Fall Wake Up © - Original Instrumental

Pivotal

Temple Fugit

Back to my song revival project.  Here is one of those songs I wrote back then where the song title was not mentioned in the lyrics.  I think probably in the end I was unsure what I really wanted to convey and the whole plot seemed a bit obscure.  So I gave it the title “Mist”.  Just see what you think.

Thanks a lot for stopping by.

[CREDITS]
Music / Lyrics / Vocals / Programming – Michael C. Lynn
Acoustic Guitar Solo – Brent Mason @Band_in_a_Box
Tenor Sax – Tom Keenlyside @Band_in_a_Box
Strings – Avery Bright @Band_in_a_Box

[LYRICS]
Moving somewhere along down the line
Try to make up for the lost time
In headaches and worries, vaguely life leaks away

Moving somewhere along down the line
Living on borrowed time
Sublimary world I once knew, remains a nightmare in my mind
Rambling on unfamiliar roads
Passionless lights swarthy snow
Join the chorus of discontent, feelings enfold'd

Now from my window sill I watch the night
Church clock's yellow face and the dim peer light
Dead silence buzzles in my ears
This world chokes me under roots of night
Hammer us between the mirrored lights
Implanted the fear in my mind
Da da da

There were prizes we could never compete
Rigid promises fractured in our conceit
Perhaps just some of life's ironies

Instrumental break --

Moving somewhere along down the line
Try to make up for the lost time
In headaches and worries
Vaguely life leaks away

Mist

Don't Bother Me None - Lyrics

Don't Bother Me None
What people do or say
I'm getting too old
Anyway, so I say

Don't Bother Me None

Don't Bother Me None
If you choose to leave or stay
i've seen all now
your games I wont play

Don't Bother Me None

There once was a time
For me the world stop
I'd be getting all crazy
Over the top, but now I say

Don't Bother Me None

Don't Bother Me None
The style of music that I play
If it sounds good to me
Then hey thats ok
Don't Bother Me None

Don't Bother Me None
The time it is of day
I've no place to be
wether I leave or stay

Don't Bother Me None

Don't Bother Me None
What you do or say
I'm gonna do my thing, anyway
Don't Bother Me None

Don't Bother Me None
What the time it is of day
I've no place to be
Wether I leave or stay, I say

Don't Bother Me None

There once was a time
For me the world stop
I'd be getting all crazy
All over the top, but now I say

Don't Bother Me None

Don't Bother Me None
If you leave or stay
Seen all now
Your games I wont play

Don't Bother Me None

credits:
Released July 21, 2023
Written by: Michael Duffy
Vocals and Guitar: Michael Duffy
Brass: David Oliver
Lead Guitar: Adam Hannigan
Produced, Recorded, and Mastered at Valley Music Studio with Terry McGinty.

Available for download on all digital platforms via link provided below:
https://michaelduffymusic.hearnow.com/

Video for song now available via link provided below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbqlyFzyISo

All rights reserved

Don't Bother Me None - Original Song

UPDATED Aug 25 2023
MIX/MASTER - Woods Studio

NOTE: This melody came to me soon after the tune for "That's the Dream #1" and somehow the same "dummy" lyric idea fit. I was hesitant to use a song title twice but...why not? Who cares? The songs are very different otherwise....

LYRIC
Over the years
And there’ve been quite a few
I’d often think of you
And wonder how
How it would be
If this or that had been
If I had the chance again
I wonder even now

Holding you through the night
That’s the dream
That’s the dream
Seeing you come in sight
In the glow of a lone moonbeam
That’s the dream

No wise old man
I’m still fool enough
To dwell on a lost love
And without fail
With my eyes closed
My arms reach out to you
My heart beats faster too
To no avail

Holding you oh so tight
That’s the dream
That’s the dream
Just as on that last night
The way I remember
To this day I remember
Or is it all just my dream?

There’s someone here
Someone warm and real
Someone who lets me feel
The way I feel

Holding you through the night
That’s the dream
That’s the dream
Keeping you in my sight
As we share a lone moonbeam
That’s the dream

That's The Dream #2

As if in a dream.
We walked our summer days out.
Through the trees. 
The dapples danced around our shoulders brown.
We're hanging out in brine.
Still, we shine.

As if in a dream.
We went our separate ways one Saturday. 
The shadows lurked and fairly bounced behind. 
We've got no time, you know. 
Say it ain't so.

Hold me, slowly. 
I'll chase them all away.
Say no more. 
I'm going.
Never planned to stay.
In the way.

As if in a dream.
We never took our chances.
Slim, though we, could never see.
Through a dream of trees. 
Just out of reach.
A potent preacher spake.

As if in a dream.
We never learned the dances. 
We coulda danced.
A happenstance or happenchance.
Took it away.
A miserable day.
For a cold embrace.

That's it... I'm folding,
Not holding anyway.
This alters nothing.
It's going that way.
I meant to stay.

As if in a dream.
There's just an endless stream of handing out.
Acquiring clout, roundabout.
A nervous man has the loudest shout.

As if in a dream.
We walked our summer days out.
Through the trees. 
The dapples danced around our shoulders brown.
We're hanging out in brine.
Still, we shine.

Hold me, slowly. 
I'll chase them all away.
Say no more. I'm going.
Never planned to stay.
In the way.



As If in a Dream

This is the first track off the album "There to here (Part 1)" It opens the door to the journey a young man takes from his home in Ireland.
Music: Phil Bowen 
Keyboards and guitars: Phil Bowen
Produced and mixed: Phil Bowen

There to here  Pt. 1

Door jam (Instrumental)

Door Jam (instrumental)

My own Folked-Up version of this Beatle's Classic featuring the Sonic Strummed Rumble of a Breedlove Nylon Acoustic-Electric and a Vocal track.

Let It Be - Version

Let It Be - Unplugged AcoustaTronic

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can. (John Wesley)

Just Do The Best You Can

Soulvacation

Don't Take It Away

It’s difficult for people to escape doubt. No matter how good things may seem at any point in our lives, there are always moments of concern, of counter-thought and worry that lurk in the shadows of our imagination. Few things are without blemish and most of us can be unforgiving in the presence of imperfection. Thus, the shadows and the darkness that seeks to stifle the light.

Copyright Daniels & Durgy 2023
Gentle Rain Records 
Available to Buy: danielsdurgy.bandcamp.com/
Written Performed & Produced by Nat Daniels & Craig Durgy
Nat Daniels: vocals, piano, organ, bass & percussion
Craig Durgy: vocals and guitar

Lyrics:
Shadows of Doubt by Daniels & Durgy

Love can come, through the wind and rain
But too much sun, burns it all away
What I thought was fun,
What I thought would stay
Is up and gone like a Christmas Day

You appeared and your lips were true
Through the fear, I was lost in you
It was all so clear, but the moments flew
Then it slipped away with the slightest clue

But I still want you, but do I dream
Is my judgment, too extreme
Am I searching for an excuse
Could I ever, really cut you loose

As love grows, time reveals
Everything it knows, coming off its wheels
Dealing blows, does it blow the deal
Does it show what my heart should feel

Just a couple words, did I read ‘em wrong
Cause the way I heard, hit me pretty strong
The doubt occurred, like a half-wrote song
Throw it all away and just move along.  

But I still want you, but do I dream
Is my judgment, too extreme
Am I searching for an excuse
Could I ever really cut you loose
No, I just can’t let you loose.

Shadows Of Doubt

A little smooth jazz in the style of Peter White, but your comments have revealed something deeper; a fragility and vulnerability in the music and the playing. 
To love anyone, even a pet, is to make oneself vulnerable, and in any love relationship, how fragile our feelings can become.  This is dedicated to all who choose to make themselves vulnerable by choosing to love.

Intimate Interlude

Written by Ian Tyson
Performed by Josh McAlexander

This song always reminds me of my visits to Canada and all the great friends and hospitality...

Four Strong Winds

夏日絕句		李清照									
生當作人傑
死亦為鬼雄
至今思項羽
不肯渡江東


A Quatrain on Summer Days		Li Qing Zhao

Live to be eminent 
he should.

Die a hero as well 
he could.

My thoughts are always 
with Ziangyu.

Go home, all lost,
he never would.

A Quatrain

method: adding voice and vst to a preexisting song
narration: One of the greatest creative artist on soundcloud, stonerjazz https://soundcloud.com/user-911083679/tracks, my friend Jeff, has composed a song shock full of paranoia, existential threat and hope for redemption and salvation - a truthful portrayal of the human condition. It is a mesmerizing work of art as it stands. When I approached him concerning a possible collab for my upcoming soundcloud-only album 'songs to pacify extraterrestrials' (out by the end of November 2023), he offered this to me. I was in a fix: How can you work on something that is already perfect, complete in itself?  Eventually, I decided to take a cynical approach and turn it into an intergalactic commercial for tooth --- no, fangpaste. There was a challenge in bringing about the non-music so typical for the advertising industry. Virtual midi-operated synthesizers helped. During gestation, I called those interludes and overlays PCBs, short for 'psychotic commercial break' or 'paranoid commercial breakdown'. They are of somewhat juvenile humor and also have some Douglas Adams vibes, I hope, Marvin-style. None of my recontextualization does the existential thrill (and especially the hope for liberation) of the original any justice at all - quite in the contrary. It was a morbid kind of fun to create, though ... and, to my utter astonishment, Jeff liked it and edged me on during the process. Well, here you are. It's (be)coming for you!
image: dada alien, copyright jo richter

If you prefer to listen on Jeff's page and also read the lyrics in the description, please go here; https://soundcloud.com/user-911083679/2023-09-29-sos-final-iii-1

SoS - with stonerjazz

A 4-Star Commended Entry in the 'Singer-Songwriter' category of the UK Songwriting Contest 2023.

How to write a song:
STEP 1  Buy an instrument  STEP 2  Write some words  STEP 3 .... how about just listening to the lyrics

I bought a guitar just the other day, a nice acoustic that was easy to play.
I think I'll write a simple song, I've got all the words so it shouldn't take long
That's all I need to do, to write a song for you.

All I need is a paper and pen, to write down the words so I can check them again,
A couple of verses and a chorus should do, to say all the things I need to say to you,
That's all I need to do, to write my song for you.

And the bridge or middle eight, I'll write it now before it's too late,
And fit the words to the beats in the bar, I'm not doing so bad, I've got this far,
That's all I need to do, to write a song for you.

I got a guitar just the other day, a nice acoustic that's easy to play
I thought I'd write a simple song, I had all the words so it didn't take long.

A Song For You

A Song For You (Graham Williams)

Here's a collab with the exceptionally gifted https://soundcloud.com/ladyofire

You can find her original vocal here;

https://soundcloud.com/ladyofire/like-rain-another-open-collab


cover art created here;

https://www.canva.com/

Lady Of Fire Poetry X RiZLiX - Like Rain

With wonderful lyrics by Andrea Brennan , superb music by Axel Menningen and guitar/vocals by myself this should tug at your heart strings , we love it , we hope you do ! If you watch the video , don't have auto on , it makes words up  https://youtu.be/q0EfYJIEEdA?si=NytAS8CT3O2qi2we
Next up on the 11th is a proper rocker by Dave Cooper and myself closely followed by Charlotte and me with a belter of a song , then me and Tony Harris with a super track ! Lots in the pipeline , stay tuned , thank you so much !
V1
When you saw her face
You couldn't look away
And knew right then and there
(That) One day you would meet

From living room to Kathmandu
Trekking ever closer
Day to day and week by week
Now you're standing at her feet

Chorus
Mount Everest Divine
Goddess of the sky
Cloaked in ice diamonds and white gold
She's magnificent but stone cold
Don't drop your guard, don't be fooled
She's magnificent but stone cold

V2
Nothing with her comes easy
She gives no guarantees
She is the roof of the world
And the ice falls at Khumbu

You give her all you've got
Because nothing less will do
In the end you still may lose
Or watch your dreams come true
Chorus
Mount Everest Divine
Goddess of the sky
Cloaked in ice diamonds and white gold
She's magnificent but stone cold
Don't drop your guard, don't be fooled
She's magnificent but stone cold

Mount Everest Divine

Mount Everest Divine ( with video link )

This is the 2nd outing by Kim and myself , I wrote this and offered it to her , the lead vocals are outstanding , fair play to her !
Next up on the 1st is a belter written by Axel Menningen , a tongue in cheek rock duet that even features our wives ! Then on the
7th is an Indie classic written by Gaz Brownie , you'll love it ! After that I'm not sure , but me and Kim have a few to put out , so
maybe one of them .
Thank you for continuing to support me in my bid to be the oldest swinger in town  ha ha !
Here's the links to the album Hopes and Dreams by Charlotte and myself
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nWWNcrIRv08J_eEbL7MJ_1UTdMo0MjJLM
https://open.spotify.com/album/78ewrWZjS41XvHT9mFWd6O?si=yDMcRADSSrOdWlanz6UPMw

Journey of Discovery

I did this song a few years ago before Merle died on my Godin nylon string guitar.  A bit different with a little influence from other artist like Jerry Reed and others.  Forgive me Merle and Merle Haggard fans.  I love this man's work

Working Man Blues

Jerry Reed- I have his autograph on my old Takemine that is just about faded out.  Jerry was just inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame this year.  Love this man and his music.  I have tried to play his claw type of fingerpicking, but it is so difficult and so many types of tuning.   I dropped my guitar down 1/2 step and played in drop D tuning.  The best I can do is to try and capture a little of his style

500 Miles (Cover of Jerry Reed)

Written by Lead belly
Guitar, Mandolin, Banjo, Bass- Josh McAlexander

Cotton Fields

Love John Prine's music! This is a quick raw cover of one of his songs.
Check out John's music on YouTube.

Knocking On Your Screen Door (Very raw John Prine cover by Tony)

Taken from I Stumble And Then I Fall, the first release in a new series of Intimations by A Colourful Storm. Out now on digital formats and December 30, 2020 on cassette.

Purchase: https://acolourfulstorm.bandcamp.com/album/i-stumble-and-then-i-fall

I Stumble And Then I Fall

Princess Diana of Wales - Cut

I am a finger-style guitarist living on the Texas high plains.  At the core of my music is melody that is inspired and informed by my Christian faith, family, friends, and countless influences through the years from the great composers, to jazz, folk, rock, Latin, Celtic, and the many fine musicians I have come to love on the Cloud, some I have been privileged to collaborate with.  Thanks for stopping by to have a listen. Comments are always welcome. Feel free to click on the picture of any track to learn more about it.

Intimate Interlude

David Dunham