Quicksand Girl

Trigger Finger

A true story from Virginia’s Eastern Shore

The Ballad of Charlie and Tonya

This is just a garage of spare parts, ongoing projects, songs with good bodies but no motors, and rusted-out bombers with strong engines.

Originals

Everyone's Your Best Friend (When You're Dead)

Geoff Bennett Speer's Album

070315 You Don't Know

Sad Idea 070415

Guitar and Irish Harp

This Island (Paradise of the Damned)

Neither Here Nor There HIGH QUALITY 012917

Make Them Think 020417

November 12, 2016 9:37:08 PM

Original compositions

AG idea in C#m7 030515

112016 rough

Possible QSG 041115

These are rough bounces of the a home recording project that I've been eternally working on, a collection of the türküler (Turkish folk songs) that have most inspired me over the years as I've learned how to play bağlama saz, cümbüş, kaval, darbuka and davul. I never intended that these pieces be instruments ... but just try finding someone who can sing in Turkish in Richmond, Virginia.

Yoğurt Koydum Dolaba

Ankara Zeybeği

Deniz Üstü Köpürü

I started working on this song the weekend of the Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, sickened and horrified by both the craven murder of Heather Heyer by a white supremacist, and by the cowardly beating of a Channel 6 cameraman by antiracist counter-protesters on West Broad Street in Richmond.

Barbarians At The Gate

Dig Down Deep

original lyrics, music & arrangement, except for the Arthur Miller quote at the end of the song

This one uses acoustic six- and twelve-string guitars, acoustic mandola, MIDI keyboards and Apple drum loops.

Lost Combinations

Vocals by Pauline Mykell
Many personal songwriting firsts packed into this one quick composition:
First original song in a major key
First original song in 3/4 time
First original song with a key modulation
First original song with a refrain instead of full chorus
First original song under three minutes in length

instrumentation includes acoustic guitar, octave mandolin, and bodhran
First original song that only took a week to write.

This Life Is A Cruel Blue Ocean [Existentialist Sea Chantey #1]

Reluctant singer, amateur songwriter, late bloomer, early riser.

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