Melancholy runs deep here Doug. Nice work.

I like the stripped down arrangement here. interesting situation and I love that picking

Nice write Dough, love the play on words. Johnny

Love the title and words Doug...very nice vocal and guitar also!

You got a way with words man.  This one needs to roll off the phone into the studio.

Paul put this revved up open collab out there under the title "Rock a Car"...well I took it for a reckless joyride.  I was using it to get those ripping, rockin' runs under my fingers. Yes, I may have hit the guardrails a few times with Paul's badass muscle car. But it was a helluva ride! ;0

Stolen Car (Paploviante "Rock a Car" Collab)

Moe Hoe

123 Soleil

this track is about when someone dies and passes over to the spirit world.
where they are welcomed by all the friends and family that passed over before them.    back where they belong amongst their loved ones.

"welcome back my dear friend, back where you belong"
"paradise is here for you, hear the angels song"

"Back where you belong"

The Illusions Of Light And Silence

In The Field Of The Sun/ From A Different Angle/ Synthesis

This song came about because I thought I'd try my hand at making my very own real-instrument percussion track, just for fun and to see if Mark could flesh it out... I think he may have had a go, bless him, but, even if my tapping and shaking didn't make the cut, we got this reggae-style thing as the end result.

I'm just trying you must see
To fit the pattern
Your routines
I'm just trying as I ever do
To fall into step
Inside out you oh oh oh

Watching stitches
Shades of green
Making time move rhythmically
It's been two hours 
An inch apiece
And thank god good love
Coming back to me

This is the roar of the roller coaster
Living breathing
I'd rather be riding than us flat-lining
This is the heady
Fall arrested
Sooner or later 
You come to the rescue
You're the rescue

Make with mind 
As with my hands 
The coffee scene
The waterfront
Walks along while dreaming of
Comfort days with you

Every Conversation in June

The Rollercoaster

Buy me if you love me

The Rescue

Too late two-lane road
You know the one I mean
One of those can't wait
to get around em kind of streets

Gotta See my baby cause I made her cry
Got a slammin' phone goodbye
I'm just a little too late
on this two-lane road tonight

Ten trucks deep in traffic
all goin' to the morgue
Mary's texting Johnny
Johnny's texting George
It's a sad, sad situation
10 miles and hour I crawl
too late on a two-lane road
half a world from home

words and music Doug Roossien

Too Late on a Two Lane Road (Half a world from home)

February 2023 DIAMC prompt was to write a song inspired by a name, which was to be included within the title. 

Yesterday I sat down, wrote and recorded, this song about - and for - my beautiful almost, almost always friend. We met when I was 9 and she was 10. 


Gwendoline

Northern lights watched late, from garage roof
Swung on swings with Walkmans, in our youth
Oh my darlin’, times were simpler then

There’ve been darker days, tears amongst laughter
Can’t stay kids for ever, and after
Oh my darlin’, growing up can hurt bad
 
I just hope that I always had your back

Wish I still took time and wrote more letters
To have and hold, with love from sender
Cos my darlin’, you know I’m really glad

All  these years you’ve been there for me too
The  lovely  things you say,  and that you do
Oh my darlin’, you’re the friend I’ve almost, almost, always had

Through all the good and bad
The happy and the sad
Lucky to have Gwendoline

If you need me darlin’, you just call
You know I’ll catch you if you fall
If you need me darlin’, you just call
You know I’ll catch you if you’re falling

© S Barr 2023

Gwendoline - Demo

with the congregation on acoustic bass
Recorded at fredrick street studios and bowling alley

Them’s the breaks 

Without a doubt I understand 
I figured out what life intends
Would hope seem sweeter 
Would fate feel fair
To rob Peter
With no Paul to care

Without a doubt I understand 
I figured out what life demands 
It ain’t money 
And class is lame
What it is
You get to name

Them’s the breaks
The horse you saddle
Like a snake without a rattle
Dropping down from the sky
Like an anvil
You’re up yer life
Without a paddle 

Take what we want 
Not what we need
Steal a glacier for just a drink
Sell them rope when they sink
Screw the others
We’re taught to think

them's the breaks w/ the congregation

Brylcreem

Ce morceau de musique a été composé comme une variation stylistique sur un même thème musical afin d'illustrer cette petite histoire:
(0:00) Plein soleil dans un grand ciel bleu;
(0:10) Des dunes à perte de vue;
(0:21) Le désert du Rub al-Khali;
(0:47) Une caravane à l'horizon;
(0:58) Les Bédouins voyagent depuis des jours;
(1:08) La chaleur est écrasante;
(1:19) La routine s'est installée;
(1:29) La lassitude aussi;
(1:40) Des flèches tombent!;
(1:50) C'est une attaque de brigands;
(2:01) La caravane tente de fuir;
(2:11) Ils approchent;
(2:22) Les Bédouins sont encerclés;
(2:30) Ils doivent éviter les flèches;
(2:44) Corps-à-corps;
(2:51) Le combat est féroce;
(3:02) Les brigands sont mis en déroute;
(3:09) Ils battent en retraite;
(3:16) Retour au calme;
(3:54) La caravane reprend la route.

Caravane

YOUTUBE VIDEO......"FIELDS OF QUIET SOIL"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyYHjxPPBgc 
YOUTUBE VIDEO(NEW) ... "POCKETFUL OF LIES "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay9vAZQgmN4

SOMEDAY THE WEIGHT OF THIS YEAR ON MY LIFE WILL BE AN ALBUM FULL OF PAIN,... BUT, RIGHT NOW IT SEEMS LIKE I'M CENTRALLY LOCATED IN HELL

1987 WENT TO Nashville for a “short week” Music row to make the big time … wow … nobody listens in lawsuit land in those days. 1988 WENT TO NASHVILLE for 3 days (surely, I would crack this puzzle and become famous …) so many on benches in front of churches. Frustrated, didn’t sing publicly again basically for 25 years. (after all, where would a singer/song writer, make a name for himself in Karaoke land).
2010 discovered open mics (new world begins). WRITING SINCE …a lot! Had someone to produce me in limited acoustic style for a couple years…I think a few were damn good “Fields of Quiet Soil”. Had a lot of offers to write lyrics and/or sing for a lot of other artists here. (but no recording capability …let alone a decent computer for my own. TODAY, THINGS CHANGE …I’m here to make an impact (got 4 new ones under my belt recently) …plus some old ones you will not be disappointed listening to. Welcome old music fans and artists., potential serious collabs.
I’m locked and loaded this time!
FB Doug Roossien

Too Late on a Two Lane Road (Half a world from home)

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