Viewing the sunset while sitting near the waterfront with a relaxed piano melody in your head...it's just an imagination of a feeling 🎶

Shores Of Serenity

A new composition with a theme of meeting up with old friends after years gone by....

Lyrics

After all these years
We meet and talk again
Catching up on a distant past
That seemed like only yesterday


We chose our different paths
The future unknown
Life's twists and turns
Leaving us on our own


Seems like only yesterday
Regrets of what could have been
Paths diverged, memories stay
But maybe we'll meet again


Time may have changed us
But the memories remain
In the corners of our minds
A connection that will never wane



As we part ways once more
Let's hold on to these memories
For in those moments, we shared
Our friendship will forever last.

Music and Lyrics by Len Bennati FM Folk Copyright 2024
Tom Hanson Mastering and Production

After All These Years (Remaster)

Cueva de Valparaiso

Coming back from Spain in early January my memories were full of the great sites and flamenco musicians I had seen. So I picked up my Flamenco guitar again and recorded this track. A blend of Granaína, a flamenco style from Granada, and Bolero. The opening is a solo improvisation after which the track begins with two guitars trading off. Hope you'll enjoy!

Original music written and arrangement for two acoustic guitars by Daniël van den Berg, January 2025.

Guitar: Joan Cashimira, modelo 145, spruce top w/ cocobolo sides and back, Gata de Gorgos (Alicante), 2015 
Recorded using an Apogee MiC. 
Mixed in Auria, masterered in Auria and Final Touch
Cover Art made using Midjourney AI

Cueva De Valparaiso | Granaína y Bolero | Dan van den Berg

I found this ratchet handle does a decent job on slide so used it for this tune.
Bass from my Kona dreadnought and 1928 Gibson A2 mandolin, 
slide on 1945 Martin 0-18, with first string missing, small E, Too lazy to put new one on so tried slide with only 5 strings, interesting doing it that way.

The Ratchet handle blues

My Purpose

A new composition.....

Lyrics:

Woke up to a dream where the sun met the dawn
But the shadows linger on, like memories that are drawn
We are walking on this edge, where the silence meets the sound
Lost in a lost world will we ever be found

I trace the lines of stories that are written in the sand
With hearts that are searching for the guiding hand
Storms rage above us, but we will take the gentle rain
Every teardrop teaches us to accept the pain

Drifting through the blue and gray
Once upon, and every day
Gray the clouds that follow us
Blue the skies that set us free
Drifting, drifting, like feathers in the air
Caught in a world of blue and gray

At this moment, we hope to find our way
Through the shades of color which are blue and gray
Let the wind carry us, so our dreams may align
In the blue and in the gray, will we have the time
                                                            
So here we wander, through the gray
In this endless dance of blue, through each and every day
Drifting in the colors, where our souls can play
In these shades of blue and gray may we find our way
Mastered Track: Distrokid Mixea
Music and Lyrics by Len Bennati FM Folk 2025

Drifting in Blue and Gray

"You and Me Will Have Peace of Mind"
Copyright Erin Wolf 2025
Fearless Songwriter Challenge (7in7)
April-May 2025 - Day 7
Prompt: You and Me

they say this love is for you and me, 
my dear
guess that would be all good and well if 
i knew who you were here
are you a fragment of someone's imagination
just to poke fun
and this life i've been living 
all alone

are you real, or are you 
some fantasy lore
will i find you in the heavens or
or six feet 'neath the floor
and i don't know if you're real
or some ghost of love that's past
i don't know what to say
or am i just being crass

all i said is i'm doubting it
now i suppose, i should be waiting on it
waiting on you

all the psychics and 
tarot readers
they've told i'd find you again
but their predictions 
have been wrong
for over seven years and 
they're still going strong

i don't know who 
i'm supposed to be
searching for
don't think i 
can find you 
somebody 
someone
the blind's leading the blind

and i don't know if i... i am past my time
and i'm tired of people saying,
"it'll happen when you don't expect it, right?"
just leave me in peace
i've had enough of the
unsolicited encouragement
i'm doing just fine 
i'm content

oh, i,
i am fine
oh, i
have peace of mind

You and Me Will Have Peace of Mind

Ahn Hyoseop - “Free” (Cover) | Kpop Demon Hunters

Scream Out Loud (Spacey Version*)
2025 The Nashville-Wisco 24 - 3
Copyright Erin Wolf 2025
*Contains a more distinctly spacey vibe to it - peep "Scream Out Loud (Erin's Version) for a more mellow experience)

caught in the quiet sounds fading
voices weaker as the day goes longer
caught in unknown space

how do we reckon when we fall from grace
when we fall from all we know
and land square on our face

how
how

fade away into the ether
no one knows and nor i do either
'cuz i couldn't find the words escaped me

silenced by my body 
riddled with antibodies
trying to fight infection away

stress and cortisol 
pumping like adrenaline
trying to keep you at bay

hey
keeping you at bay

couldn't find the words
to tell you that
it's time to disappear

and i didn't know how
without unleashing the beast
feral and wild

how do you push away a nightmare that 
won't just take a hint
and let you have peace in your waking hours

and how, when the voice keeps fading out
to next to nothing
how do you scream out loud

scream
out 
loud

scream
out
loud

3 - Scream Out Loud - 25TNWI24 (Spacey Version)

The Song Anyone Could Write
2025 The Nashville-Wisco 24 - 20
Copyright Erin Wolf 2025

so you want to write a song
that anyone can sing
one that will get their toes tapping
well, all you need are three chords
at least, that's what John Prine said before
just make sure you've got the I (1), the V (5),
and the IV (4)

don't do what i just did and have a double-line
but don't worry, i made sure that they didn't look the same spelling-wise 
now i just have what we call, "an imperfect rhyme"
now i'll make it sound even better and better
all the time
(see what i did there?!)

oh, this is gonna be one of the most meta songs i write
oh, this level of self-awareness will give us a fright
but when you're doing The Nashville 24 from Wisconsin
sometimes gotta get a little creative
and this here is the song anyone could write
and i'm writing it tonight

well if you gotta capo
and you don't have the hand-width
to go up all and down the neck of
your instrument
capo will help make those strings a lil' shorter
and then the pitch will sound like this 
nice higher order

but this is the song
that anyone, oh anyone, could write
and i guarantee this is gonna be the worst,
most self-aware song of the night
and this song, it won't get me anywhere
in the limelight
oh this is the song that anyone, anyone, 
could write

here we go
we're playing weird dissonant notes
'cuz everyone loves a bridge
or a little tag or a hook
but no one could hook this in (pause)
except me tonight

oh this is the song that anyone, oh anyone, could write
'cept you've gotta sweet little jackass like me for the night
we're at song number 20 of The Nashville-Wisco 24
and maybe if i'm lucky,
i'll have better songs left in store

oh woah oh
*cackles*

20 - The Song Anyone Could Write - 25TNWI24

Yes I'm Changing (Cover)

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