I've had the biggest damn grin listening to this song.  I'm so damn glad you did this.

Bastion

Tell Me How You Died

Lonesome Road (Snippet) by Gorilla Rodeo!
taken from "The Long Way Home" (2011)
Words and music by Gorilla Rodeo!
Available at www.gorilla-rodeo.de

Gorilla Rodeo! - Lonesome Road (Snippet)

This is an idea for a community project that involves video game soundtrack remixes/reimaginings. I'm not super skilled at composition or arrangement, so finding a song that I could reasonably cover proved tricky. A good friend came through in a pinch with the idea to try and work with something from the Bastion soundtrack...leave it to him to give me an idea that's been staring me right in the face this whole time. >_<

I decided to try and cover the track "Spike in a Rail". I removed the electronic trip-hop percussion, changed the key slightly (guitar's tuned to BF#BF#BB), wrote some lyrics and vocals inspired by the game, and gave it an acoustic backwoods stomp. I didn't transcribe the guitar lines note for note, since I felt kind of impatient and didn't want to just burn time tracing the original. But I did try and carry over at least the simple, base feeling of the main riffs.

Lyrics:

Sitting in the ruins what's left of the city
Sitting in the ruins of an age gone by
Sitting in the ruins what's left of the city
No one left to say goodbye

No use to hold up the gates
the Rapture's come and it's far too late
No use to pick up the bricks
the world's all gone and it's past the end
No use putting spikes in the rails
the trains are all one-way rides to hell
No use it's gone to black
and what's the use of bringing it back

Spike In A Rail (Bastion Soundtrack Cover)

Bastion Soundtrack - In Case Of Trouble

Bastion Soundtrack - The Pantheon (Ain't Gonna Catch You)

Bastion Soundtrack - Spike In A Rail

Executive Producer: Barry Ray 
Band Members: Jesse Strasbaugh (guitar), Sandy Rowe (bass), James Squires (drums), C-Leb (vocals,harp) 
Backup Vocals: Christa Wells, Philana Goodrich, Piper Olson, Darci Carlson 
Hammond/Keys: Joe Doria 
Recorded at Studio Litho, Co-Producer/Engineer: Floyd Reitsma 
RFI Mastering: Ed Brooks 
Album art: Casey Brookbush 
Photography: Michael Profitt 
Spark & Shine Records
Special credits: Eric Vaughn 
Special thanks: Zak Lee, Eric Bryant, Elisabeth Dale, Randy Squires, Eloise & William Dickerson, Rob Steinle, Stacy Gadd, Daphne Broadway, Tara Louise, Lisa Wendelev, Dano Piano, Sarah Loritz, Joe Hill, Don Snyder, Charlie Chipman, Lauren Barbarena, Kyle Curnett, Annette Fallon, Jason Carrey, Daniel Howell, Steve Collins, Allaxia Davison, Steve Wasley, Mark Smith, Ali Rulz, Karl Neue-Lawson, Mike Rucier, Cheung Vong, Matt Loar, Jason Lightfoot, Karen Brentnall, Tom Blodgett, Mike & Tracy Huntley, Chelsey Martin, Travis Dougherty, Chris Harkey, Jeremy Pilgrim

Flat Black

Heavy Hands

The Brothers Bright - Awake O Sleeper

Green Book is a folk-gospel journey through the lives whose names are written in the Book of Life, sung as though the redeemed themselves now stand beyond the veil—whole, healed, and joyfully remembering the moments where grace found them. Each track is rooted in Scripture, but the tone is never somber; even the stories of loss or hardship carry a lively confidence, because every soul in these songs already knows the ending: everlasting life, everlasting joy, and everlasting belonging.

The album opens with four acoustic guitars breathing through The Breath Before the Song, a quiet dawn that mirrors the first stirrings of creation. From there, the music moves through the wilderness, through storms stilled, second chances given, wells of mercy uncovered, eyes opened, chains shattered, and roads walked in the glow of revelation. Across the entire record, the sound evolves organically from late-60s folk revival warmth into bright late-70s folk-rock, mirroring the way each story unfolds from uncertainty into light.

Four instrumentals—The Breath Before the Song, When the Desert Bloomed, The Stillness Between Miracles, and Fields of the Everlasting Hills—serve as chapter breaks, reflecting quiet moments where heaven breathes between miracles. The remaining songs celebrate the transforming touch of Christ on ordinary lives: a woman restored at a well, a man lowered through a roof, a widow giving everything she had, a prodigal running home, and a leper returning in gratitude.

The finale, The Gates of the City of Light, brings the journey to its eternal horizon—piano-driven, humble, sunrise-like—welcoming the listener into the same everlasting day that shines through the whole album. Green Book is a celebration of life after life, hope after sorrow, and the unbroken road that leads every redeemed heart home.

Broken Chains

Glory Days - EP

Get Up and Go

208 The Regulator   Clutch

Kenneth Sorenson - God Damn Better

Welshly Arms Hold On I'm Coming

Rise Again

Bastion Soundtrack - A Proper Story

D. Frady is an eccentric, idiosyncratic musician that refuses to pigeonhole himself into any singular genre. He strives to push himself creatively with every new project. 

A humble artist at heart, he believes that if you're taking your precious time to check out his art, then that art should be something rewarding and worth engaging with.

Spike In A Rail (Bastion Soundtrack Cover)

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