Warm and loving version of a most beautiful song. And that photograph... I remember that hat and hobo concept as if it were yesterday in Worcester.

Love this song and good to hear your arrangement- nice slow emotional feel !!!

Very nice Cover. Your vocals remind me in some parts on Cat Stevens...

Early Morning Rain

Cover, 7-8-21, Arranged and Performed by David Brandt

I have always been moved by this song since first hearing it 48 years ago… I was inspired by versions over the years by Gordon Lightfoot, Bob Dylan and Tony Rice. This is my take on the song.

Lead and Fingerpicking Guitars, Electric Piano, Casio Stand-Up Bass, Vocals, Percussion - David Brandt
Footage shot by Albert P. Antomattei and David Brandt
Production - Albert P. Antomattei

Song written by Gordon Lightfoot
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This video is made in the spirit of the 60’s and 70’s romanticization of free-spirited hobos; and with a full understanding of the irony of “me“ playing this “role“ in Upper Montclair, New Jersey! 

Thanks to De Novo Restaurant, Upper Montclair train station, City of Upper Montclair.

Early Morning Rain (Cover, 7-8-21, Arr. & Performed by David Brandt)

Introduction in English:
Sometimes there are situations in life to which there are no solutions at all. You may have already done and tried everything. Nothing has helped. 
The "doer" and "controller" in me goes to its knees in such moments. And out comes the part that surrenders completely to hope. Then in a kind of prayer to his inner God and in his inner church at least asks for an alleviation of suffering for all those where all rational or scientific techniques and methods have reached their limits.
This song is about such a kind of "hope prayer"

Introduction in German:
Manchmal gibt es Situationen im Leben, zu denen es keinerlei Problemlösungen gibt. Man hat vielleicht alles schon unternommen und versucht. Nichts hat geholfen. 
Der "Macher" und "Kontrolleur" in mir geht in solchen Momenten in die Knie. Und hervorkommt der Teil, der sich ganz der Hoffnung hingibt. Dann in einer Art Gebet an seinen inneren Gott und in seiner inneren Kirche zumindest um eine Linderung des Leids für all jene bittet, bei denen alle rationalen oder wissenschaftlichen Techniken und Methoden an ihre Grenzen gestoßen. 
Von so einer Art "Hoffnungsgebet" handelt dieses Lied

Lyrics

Prayer of hope

I can only pray for you
For you to my inner God

for you I go to my own church 
sit down in the back pew

hear the organ man playing above me
floods the room with his smooth-painful sound

sometime humbly sit on my knees
go inwardly along your life

and I pray that you survive this all
that you will return to the world
I pray for your deep soul peace

I speak, cry, whisper, sing
For you 
a prayer of hope

I light a candle for you
The glow shows me, you are still there
Walk wistfully through many cloisters 
feel the cross that you have to wear

hear the murmur of the unhappy dead, 
the wailing of the damned from the dark underworld
how can I snatch you away from being cursed
my beloved, wounded, tragic hero

A Prayer of Hope

A Prayer Of Hope

Introduction in English:
For me it was a big challenge in two ways to do the music to the lyrics of P-Ten, who lives in the Philippines:
First, he is the age of my son, who some of my SC friends know went through a serious crisis in the spring from which he has not really recovered yet. P-Ten obviously has something that my son still lacks at his young age: A belief in himself, in his own dreams and visions. While singing, I kept imagining that P-Ten was speaking to my son like a good friend of the same age, helping him to overcome his tormenting self-doubt. 
Secondly, P-Ten's lyrics also repeatedly mention the belief in God. I don't know P-Ten personally, so I don't know which God he is referring to in his text. 
I myself am not religious or feel to belong to a certain religious community. But, as I have already described it in my song "A Prayer of Hope", there exists for me a kind of "inner God" who goes far beyond me and holds the world together in the innermost; to whom I sometimes turn when my belief in myself falters and self-doubt plagues me. Then I can experience, among other things, in the dialogue with him, that I am not alone, that this inner God believes in me, carries me and holds me, no matter what happens.      

Introduction in German:

Für mich war es in zweierlei Hinsicht eine große Herausforderung, zu dem Text von P-Ten, der auf den Philippinen lebt, die Musik zu machen:
Erstens ist er im Alter meines Sohnes, von dem einige meiner SC-Freunde wissen, dass er im Frühjahr eine schwere Krise durchmachte, von der er sich bis jetzt noch nicht wirklich erholt hat. P-Ten hat offensichtlich etwas, was meinem Sohn in seinem jungen Alter noch fehlt: Der Glaube an sich, an die eigenen Träume und Visionen. Beim Singen habe ich immer wieder vorgestellt, das P-Ten wie ein guter, gleichaltriger Freund zu meinem Sohn spricht und ihm hilft, seine quälenden Selbstzweifel zu überwinden. 
Zweitens kommt in dem Text von P-Ten auch immer wieder der Glaube an Gott vor. Ich kenn P-Ten nicht persönlich und ich weiß entsprechend auch nicht, welchen Gott er in seinem Text meint. 
Ich selbst bin nicht religiös oder fühle mich einer bestimmten Glaubensgemeinschaft zugehörig. Aber, wie ich es schon bei meinem Song "A Prayer of Hope" beschrieben habe, existiert für mich eine Art "innerer Gott", der weit über mich hinausgeht und die Welt im innersten zusammenhält; an den ich mich manchmal wende, wenn mein Glauben an mich ins Wanken gerät und mich Selbstzweifel plagen. Dann kann ich unter anderem in der Zwiesprache mit ihm erfahren, das ich nicht allein bin, dass dieser innere Gott an mich glaubt, mich trägt und hält, egal was passiert.

Dream (P-Ten & Karlit-O-Kay)

Dream (P-Ten & Karlit - O-Kay)

Track 4 from the album 'Malevolent Energy.'

Full album:
https://outstation.bandcamp.com

Malevolent Energy

Lord Of Ages

The song written by the late New Orleans saxophonist Eric Traub originally from Buffalo  and it first  appeared on the  Banks Street cd by Johnny Vidocovich

Glass House- Sunny Greg & Kento 1999

A more child friendly version of Lil Daddy's hit song Popping NyQuils



Lyrics:

Ooh
Brr
Lil Daddy on the playground
Skrt
Yuh yuh 
Y'all ain't ready for this
this is proof young people can rap
*Child noise*

Get home from school
Walk into my house
Crawl under my blankie
lookin like a mouse

Been waiting all day 
My whole life actually (9 years)
To get my hands on that plate
of healthy vegetables

They say it aint real food
save that for grown ups
But candy aint got nothing
On these turnips

Yeah ever since I am a kid I
Would eat entire vegetables until I'm full
There just ain't anything like the taste
Healthy food makes me feel great

I don't even need the rice
All these carrots tasting nice
Eat some spinach, that's advice
Cuz eating healthy is worth the price

Here we go
yuh yuh yuh

Eat a vegetable
Eat a eat a vegetable
Let's get the playdate started and start eating vegetables

I eat vegetables every night and everyday
From the airplane spoon
and on a tray

Oh oh

I eat more vegetables than you
because I'm more healthy than you
and you're less healthy than me
Yeah I'm the favorite child

I eat my vegetables everyday everyday
Sometimes I eat fruities in them with them too
And I also eat the fruities by themselves without the vegetables
But if you eat a fruity and a vegetable at the same time, that gon taste extra good

Oh yeah

I eat more vegetables than I listen to my teachers
Which is saying a lot because I always listen to my teachers
But the point that I'm trying to get across to   you is that
I consume a lot of big green vegetables

The other day someone tried to make me eat a candy
And I was like what kind of stupidface eats candy
And I tattle taled on him to the teacher
as hard as these nutrients support the function of my liver (yuh)

People try to bully
They're candy  getting really sticky
They're just jealous of my healthy diet
I eat more vegetables than they own pokemon cards

One time I ate a vegetable so hard that the vegetable starting eating vegetables too
and then it went around the world and convinced more people to eat their vegetables

And sometimes my imaginary friend eats vegetables too

yuh yuh yuh yuh

Eat a vegetable
Eat a eat a vegetable
Let's get the playdate started and start eating vegetables

I eat vegetables every night and everyday
From the airplane spoon
and on a tray 

I eat more vegetables than you
because I'm more healthy than you
and you're less healthy than me
Yeah I'm the favorite child

Ooh vegetables, eating eating vegetables everyday everyday
and the fruits and the vegetables mix that stuff altogether
and I got the fruities coming out of one sippy cup
and the vegetables coming out of the other sippy cup
Both sippy cups get so awesome that they combine to form a- third sippy cup
that got both vegatables and the fruities in it at the same time
and the eating eating vegetables eating eating vegetables
              
eat a vegetable, eat a vegetable

yeah I eat way more vegetables than you, eat vegetables than me, eat vegetables than you
From my sippy cup

Yeah I sung this song so good that teacher gave me a gold star!

Beat: Kush n Money instrumental - BROWSKIMUSIC

Kidz Bopping Nyquils

Aaaaaaaliens

Lyrics:

Aliens x32
(Yuh Lil Daddy)
(Medium Sized Mommy)
(Wholesome Richard Moment)
ALIENS x32

Yeah… I fuck around with the aliens
Let me make it clear, let me make my point salient
Passed the vibe check, oh yeah I never failient
I’m an animal, bitch, call me mammalian

Knock knock bitch yuh who the fuck is there?
Lil Daddy’s come again like a yearly county fair
This track makes the other ones look so fucking bare
That they’re bald they don’t have aloysuis o’hair

Every fucking song makes me even more stronger
All my enemies get proved even more wronger (and I really need you to internalize this)
Bitches jealous of my talent when I’m writing songers
And I might be lil daddy but I have a big donger 

yy boys we out here on the streets tonight
Sippin on a choam underneath the gaslight
Shmitt shmitt shmiggidy shlock shining so bright
My intellectualism level is pretty ard

Slinging mad NyQuils every single day
Sending the spider economy into dissaray
My songs enter your ears like a big juicy rat
And not long afterwards your squealing [Lil Ratio] “Ooh I needed that”

Oooohhhh aliens
Big big big juicy aliens aliens
Oooohhhh aliens
Big big big juicy aliens aliens

Turn this shit up yeah let the bars ripple
I’m a well dressed tunnel you can call me a drip hole
If you try to cross me, hold on to your nipples
Cuz just like the two beavers you’ll get porn addicted crippled

I win every game of beat the shit out of each other
I’m harder than a really hard piece of butter
I’ll glizzy gladiate every one of you weiners
Basically what that means is look out for selener
I’m the Jules to your Rue and the Ogger to your Giken
I’m the cornstarch to your water yeah that shit will thicken
My songs have twists and turns, shit be pretty mazy
I’m grabbing cop guns and I’m poisoning your daisy

Fuckle with me and your fucking with the shlomies
Meg, Megan, some Davids and all the other homies
Melissa Tiana and Wayland will push you to the snow
And Jacob doesn’t text much but he’ll deal the final blow

Oooohhhh aliens
Big big big juicy aliens aliens
Oooohhhh aliens
Big big big juicy aliens aliens

This songs getting grammies like I get all y’alls grannies
I gave Keith for Christmas a dvd of handy manny’s
Maciej was blessed with some isopropyl beer
And he asked why we always end up back here

So many snakes and so much drama
Gatekeeping girlbosses and dirty fucking llamas
But there’s one little fucker that’s the main drama breeder
And he just happens to be a certain little beaver

Yuh yuh yuh
Little beaver Johnny wanna fuckle with me? Huh
Little beaver Johnny wanna fuckle with me? Yuh
Little beaver Johnny wanna fuckle with me? Yuh
Little little little little little little little little

Little beaver Johnny wanna fuckle with me? Huh?
Little beaver Johnny wanna fuckle with me? Yuh
Little beaver Johnny wanna fuckle with me? Yuh
Little little little little good fucking luck

Oooohhhh aliens
Big big big juicy aliens aliens
Oooohhhh aliens
Big big big juicy ratio

+ L
+ You Fell Off
+ You’re Gay
+ You’re Straight
+ You’re Bisexual
+ Yikes Sweety
+ Cancelled
+ Ooh I needed that

Beat: DARK SPOOKY TYPE BEAT "SCARY" (PROD. GIMMETHEAUX)

Lil Daddy ft. Lil Ratio - Aliens

Hello. Hope you’re all relatively okay, especially now in the world. I see I am in a winter lull musically. My focus is drawn away by bitter cold weather from a recent polar vortex and also, by what is happening in the world right now. Earlier in the week, it was -22F (-30C) one night. That’s fairly cold for the end of February. With the cold, there came a fair amount of snow and strong winds. I found myself outside shoveling snow and enjoying the balmy -10 temps. As I was shoveling, I noticed 3 deer beds in the fresh snow by the aspens, a short distance from the compost pile. When I finally shoveled back to the compost pile, I saw the deer had feasted on some old garden squash I had recently composted. Apparently deer like squash. Good to know, as there is only so much squash an old man like me can eat. Last night I tossed some smaller garden carrots back there for the deer and rabbits. By the time I got back inside my beard had already frozen. Anyway, this song is my way to work through some shit about my family, and by extension the world right now. Guess I am not a happy camper at the moment. For the most part all of the lyrics are ‘true’, but they are also painted by a Zeitgeist of how I saw things go down. The song is also a vehicle of catharsis, as I work to render out the last vestiges of resentment I may still have toward all this happy horseshit. (I laughed while recording this.) I can only hope the world finds its sanity, as I have given up hope for my family ever finding theirs… Thank you for dropping by. Take care, Mark … oh I apologize for dumping the last 5 months of songs off my page… they needed to go away. Haha.

Lammbone's Album

Thicker Than Water

Pleased to present track 4 from our new album, 'Squaring The Circle,' the fourth solo album by Amanda, music by Verulium, full album now available on Bandcamp, we hope you’ll enjoy

https://amandasanderson.bandcamp.com/album/squaring-the-circle

Heaven Help Me

those in need have to step forward…
They have to sing, if they didn’t sing, everyone
would walk past, as if they were fences or trees.
That’s where you can hear good singing.
…god himself comes and stays a long time
—Rainer Maria Rilke

In order to win membership in the human race, we are asked to pay a "small" price: everything. 
—Morris Berman


The Blessing Kiss

For the hopeless and the hated
All the broken hearted
The doomed and the fated
The bound and the parted
For all the sick and twisted
Defamed and deformed
The burned and the blistered
The shunned and the scorned

There's not much I can do,
But I promise you this
There is such a thing in this world
As the blessing kiss

On the town with my woman
Ambushed by a curse
Men hit on her ask'n: 
"You his sister or his nurse?"
Underestimated,
As if I don't exist,
So humiliated
My spirit is at risk

And there's not much I can do,
But I'll promise you this
There is such a thing in this world
As the blessing kiss

I need you to see me
As Beauty saw the Beast
I'll keep on through the famine
Dreaming of the feast
The blessing kiss received or given
In and of the soul
Is a sacred confirmation
Whatever shape you appear to be in
You are whole

The blessing kiss received or given
Each and every one
Confirms the soul's condition 
And when the Gods wanna hear real song
This is where they come

To the hopeless and the hated
All the broken hearted
The doomed and the fated
The bound and the parted
To all the sick and twisted
Defamed and deformed
The burned and the blistered
The shunned and the scorned

It's a rookery of outcast
A choir of misfits
The only cost of entry:
Everything there is.
There's nothing else to do,
But I'll promise you this
There is such a thing in this world
As the blessing kiss

Recorded on an iPad Air 1 iOS 9.x using Apogee MiC and Jam. The acoustic guitar "Little Honey" is a Santa Cruz Firefly. The electric Guitar "The Durango Dude" is a customized Durango Guitarworks Contender. The harmonica is a Hohner Thunderbird low C diatonic harmonica played in 4th position.
Everything was recorded in Auria and then Auria Pro. Other apps used were
iFretless Bass
Drumperfect Pro (beta)
Bias FX / Bias Amps

The Blessing Kiss

Current: The Analgesic Arthritics; Youth Is Wasted; Also, solo projects alone and w others. History: Ivan, Ian & Averil (70's);  Reeves Nevo & The Cinch (80's - this was an original LA band - we also got the prom band part in the 1982 movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High);  David & Annie (to date).  Eclectic; Original and Cover Tunes, some Shorts. We did our first collaboration overseas with Amanda and Pete Sanderson and hope to add Youth Is Wasted to many more with them and others.  Lately, also in a weekend casual cover band, for lack of a better name, Dudes are Dads ...

On YouTube, at my Barnesivan8 channel, you can see QUITE primitive homemade videos of these songs; I am about the music as a singer, songwriter, guitarist plus ... still, I am trying to grow my totally raw iMovie video skills as I go. However, that is NOT where I live.  So, if you go there, close your eyes and listen, lol, view at your own risk! 

It has been a real joy to have music return these last years. I co-raised a family in the interim, so this channel started as a place to put my kids' talent shows etc., -- they still remain on the YouTube channel. We have all grown! Thank you for checking us out and please do Enjoy! and Subscribe/Follow!  SoundCloud is such an awesome space!!  Thank you all!

Early Morning Rain (Cover, 7-8-21, Arr. & Performed by David Brandt)

David Brandt/Reeves Nevo/Youth Is Wasted

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