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“Nor’easta” is an album of fiddle driven dance tunes and songs in the tradition of the Northeast New England Region and upper Appalachian region of New York State that reaches into the Canadian provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, the migration path of my ancestors and family.
The music on this is album is a mix of American Roots, Acadian/Celt in the style that emanates from the dance, concert and town halls, granges, parks and bars that I have performed in throughout this region for most of my professional music career.
The songs on “Nor’easta” tell the stories of traveling throughout the region bringing fiddle and song joy to venues in the Northeast to the Underground Railroad in Portland, Maine’s “Munjoy Hill”.
It can get cold up here in the Nor’east for 6 months of the year as sung in the songs “No Way Out” and “Lament for the hopeful”. Playing and dancing with the fiddle creates much warmth in these months. These Acadian/Celt/ American Roots are in my blood and my family history.
See you on the dance floor! EJO

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Falling Back

Falling Back Guy Renardeau & Yanna Fabian

One Hand, One Heart

We've all been there.  

It's about leaving the bad stuff behind...sadness...abuse...unhappiness... loneliness...loss...and taking that next big and difficult step towards happiness, and to where you truly belong.

"Home" written by Eric Alexandrakis.

Produced by Eric Alexandrakis and Mark Scandariato.

Mixed by Paul David Hager [Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Jonas Brothers, Devo]

Performed by:

Eric Alexandrakis
Ryan Hoyle [Collective Soul, The Pet Shop Boys, Anna Vissi]
Akis Amprazis [Pyx Lax]
Mike Surratt
Mark Scandariato [Maypo Deluxe]

Mastered by Zach Ziskin.

Inspired by Melanie Safka, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, John Taylor, and Noel Gallagher.

Available only on Apple Music.

©℗ 2024 Minoan Music

ERIC ALEXANDRAKIS BIO:  

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www.ItsABeautifulDayToday.com

"2 x Grammy® Nominated, discovered by Duran Duran's John Taylor, collabs with Dolores O'Riordan, Ric Ocasek, John Malkovich, David Lynch, Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon…he can't be ignored, and clearly won't be..." - Madame X

"HOME"

I've had enough, of all this stuff,			
That brings me down, I'm all but drowned.	
I don't need much, for my life's clutch.
I have no crutch as such, no loving touch.	

I'll call my bluff, and pretend to be oh so tough.
Pack a bag and take a drag, pacing in a restless zig zag.
Too many sunsets wasted on this scene.
Too many pockets emptied over burning kerosene.

I see the train passing every day from my front porch.
Burn down this house of pain with a blazing torch.

I'm leaving this town.  I'm leaving this frown.  I'm coming home. 

Sleeping with snakes and fakes, the venom, it's all high stakes.
Those razor blades of lies, hidden in freshly baked pies.
Stuck in the mud and always, swallowing blood.
No voice to talk or lamp to rub.  No path to walk, or heart to flash flood.

Gotta leave this place fast, I always knew it would never last.
I'm still alive, my time's not at all passed.
My hands are tied and my, love has lied,
To them, to you, and to me myself and I.

I hear the train's whistle calling my name to hike,
Beyond the prickly thistle, just itching to strike.

I'm leaving this town.  I'm leaving this frown.  I'm coming home. 
I've lost and I've found.  I won't turn around.  I'm coming home.

Life is like the gift that keeps on taking,
Not the gift that keeps on giving, or forgiving.

Life is like the gift that keeps on aching,
And the gift that you keep on making. 

I've packed my bags, and left behind my rags.
I've shaved face, and combed my hair, neatly in place.
I took a breath that's deep, behind the door that I used to weep,
Suitcase firmly in hand, flying away to land. 

Day after day the door's shadow shapes, a wedge upon the floor,
As I open slowly it gets bigger, from the sunset's roar.
I take my steps a new, into the sunset's orange hue.
Across the field the train, has on their list my last and first name

It's not so easy using decision's sharp knife.
Better to slowly breathe than risk cutting the cord to life.
I hear the train's whistle calling my nerves to strike,
Like a call to action for a suffocating pike.

I'm leaving this town.  I'm leaving this frown.  I'm coming home. 
I've lost and I've found.  I won't turn around.  I'm coming home.

I'm leaving this town.  I'm leaving this frown.  I'm coming home. 
I've lost and I've found.  I won't turn around.  I'm coming home.

I'm coming home.

Home

my second mix 10-20-2024 :)

Here and Now  (Rob Carlson 2024)

What a time it was when love was all that mattered.
Sunny days and all those roads ahead.
And just as long as we could be together
We could go wherever they led.

But life has ways of making its own changes.
You can read it in the shoreline of the sea.
Now you’re not you and I’m not me.
We’re not the people we set out to be, that’s for sure.

	But we’re right here and it’s right now
	And the roads have brought us home somehow,
	And the only place we really need to be
	Is right here and now.

And we will always be here together,
Lives entwined forever and a day.
And speaking just for me you know I
Wouldn’t have it any other way.

	‘Cause we’re right here and it’s right now
	And the roads have brought us home somehow,
	And the only place we really need to be
	Is right here and now.


© 2024 Rob Carlson

Here and Now

I'm Better Than Them

One Of The Elves

The is a song written in 1988 by a couple guys from New England who were experiencing California fires for the first time. Written by Peter A. Barker and Dan Wholley. Performed by Steven Loki Howell. Produced by PB and SLH.

I Can Hear The Thunder

SHADDUP

Shut up! I'm Better Than Them

Desperate Singer

Voting Member Grammys/NARAS, Grammy® Nominated Song Producer, Featured Artist, Engineer and Mixer. A singer-songwriter, performer, multi-instrumentalist and studio musician, arranger, engineer, studio owner, filmmaker, teacher and more. #AmericanRootsMusic  #Worldmusic #Singer #Songwriter #Fiddle #Mandolin #Banjo #Guitar #GrammyVoter

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