Classical

Autumn

my contribution to the open collaboration "lucid dream" of 
@StanLeonard.
Hear the original here: https://soundcloud.com/stanleonard/lucid-dream
Photo: Burano Island, Venice, Italy
Hope you enjoy this dreamy music.


lucid dream    -    stanleonard/jensfelger

Written and self-recorded in 2014 by Brad Wilson (Guitarist).
Denver, CO. Art credit: Charmaine Gurule

La Serpiente

Truenjos Lejanos

Written and self-recorded in 2014 by Brad Wilson (Guitarist).
Denver, CO. Art credit: Charmaine Gurule


Sin Miedo

I cannot believe that this track was written in the sixties, a great time for pop but a barren time for jazz. This was half a decade before jazz went electric and Joe founded Weather Report with Wayne Shorter. To really date it look at the Youtube video, it's in black and white! Joe you were a genius man!
Mercy has got to rate as one of the best ever Fender Rhodes parts ever. On a par with Joe Sample's part on 'put it where you want it'. Maybe even Stevie Wonder's 'Livin' for the city'
It was written by Joe Zawinul in 1966 for Julian "Cannonball" Adderley and his album Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club'. The song is the title track of the album and became a surprise hit. "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" went to #2 on the Soul chart and #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 a feat that Joe would repeat with the track Birdland.


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Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (downloadable)

This was one of the MTV breakout tracks for MJ, one of the first to combine R&B with rock and pop. Previously conventional wisdom kept the two apart and made MTV a dull rock channel. MJ changed all that for good!

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Smooth Criminal - by Michael Jackson

I haven't done an original track for a while. This one is the result of jamming along on bass.

Funk in da House!

I released this one two years ago (2014) as an instrumental. I did do the vocal back then but for some reason didn't feel it was strong enough at the time. I'm not keen on my own voice, it's hard to be objective, but I came across it recently and thought it wasn't that bad!
Considering Mark and I are both Brit's it's a strong Americana feel throughout - right down to the spelling of the title!

Collaborations

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Nite Cruiser Feat. Mark Dorricott

Allan Holdsworth, whom I considered to be the greatest modern jazz guitarist, died on April 15, 2017 at the age of 70.  If an "ordinary" genius is someone like you and me, except much, much stronger, at least we can trace back their ideas, understand how they did it and why we couldn't.  Allan was the other kind: The magician, whose ideas seemed to drop from the sky without a return address and no return trail to follow. Co-composed by Aleck Rand and James Rivas.

Holdsworth (in Memoriam)

I am honored to collaborate with one of my favorite artist on SC. We have done many projects together, but this is our first for 2017. 
We present to you "ORGANIC."

Music & music production - Paploviante... https://soundcloud.com/paul-racle
Lyrics - NayJ.
Lead & all other vocals - NayJ.
Project production - Ver2xif... https://soundcloud.com/ver2xif


Lyrics:

Sitting by the fireplace 
Gazing in each other's eyes 
Sippin on our sparkling grape juice

Your lips say you love me
My eyes say I really care
If someone else entered the room 
We don't know that you're there

You had a little cocktail
Waiting on me 
I think I'll let you feed me a grape or two 
(laugh)

Chours:
We don't need no alcohol
We don't need no drugs at all
We can get high off each other

We don't need no diamond rings
We don't need no blings & Things
God gave us love Fit For A King

So we got 
Fresh love
No additives
We don't need man-made preserves
(repeat)

Everything is natural 
Made from the ground 
Sprinkled with love from above
(repeat)

Repeat chours 3X

Spoken words:
Help us sing it y'all
Sound mighty good y'all yeah
Everybody to my left and to my right
Let me hear you sing
Y'all up there in the balcony
Can't hear you yeah
Yeah put your hands together
Sound mighty good y'all

Everything is natural 
Made from the ground 
Sprinkled with love from above

Natural made from the ground 
Sprinkled with love from above
(repeat 2X)

(Repeat chours to end)

Organic - Paploviante & NayJ.

Same Skies (for a friend)

Another original off my new Groove album - download it free now! http://bennysutton.com/?id=352

Grooves

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Miles Higher

Another original track off the Grooves album. Download it now! http://bennysutton.com/?id=352

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Naima

Another original track off the Grooves album. Download it now! bennysutton.com/?id=352

Smiley Face ☺

I love the blues and became determined to learn to play when I found my beautiful Eastman archtop guitar up for sale, second hand for a bargain price, in Jan 2012. As soon as I touched it I fell in love.

I first tried playing guitar several decades ago: with unrealistic teenaged enthusiasm I fully expected to sound like Hendrix within a month or two while practising just thirty minutes a week. I gave up when I still struggled to tune my guitar and the cowboy chords I'd learnt sounded really rough when I literally banged on them. Girls were much more interesting.

In my late thirties I had a mid-life crisis(!), so I  bought a US Strat and a Gibson LP Pro, determined to learn to be an ageing 'bedroom rock star'. I was working long and hard hours so only practised on odd weekends, always wondering why following tab and listening to CD lessons was not working. I decided I was tone deaf and incompetent, so yet again, I gave up, still unable to master bar chords, convinced I would never be able to play.

As an early retiree, I decided to give it a final attempt when I found my black beauty: the first few years were a journey of discovery, discipline and sore fingers. I practised most days (except when arthritis in my joints and a trapped nerve in my shoulder 'froze' my fretting pinkie and sent my thumb totally numb). Back then, I trawled YouTube and bought a DVD course of lessons, and plugged away. It was worth it as I really enjoyed the fairly limited range of things I could play.

When I first arrived on Soundcloud, I was not expecting to find such a talented and helpful community. I just wanted to upload a jam track for my friends to hear, then I found the amazing wealth of creativity here. 

Sadly, my frozen shoulder, trapped nerve and related problems have pretty much stopped my guitar ambitions since 2016.

However, I still have a blast exploring all the fabulous originals and covers so many relatively unknown, but hugely talented, musicians have conjured up for the SC community. In my first five weeks on here I downloaded c100 tracks and 'liked' hundreds more, and since then I have created many playlists that I regularly listen to depending on my mood...

Simon Cowell and his ilk (overpaid gatekeepers/brand creators/ubercapitalists) have, until now, throttled mass talent for the sake of creating a relative handful of extremely wealthy 'cash cow' celebs.

Who needs these supposedly 'professional talent spotters' and their artificially enhanced 'celebrities'? The internet rocks!

NB If you too suffer from joint pain, RSI or trapped nerves I highly recommend this free DIY pain relief site: it is not just for guitar related injuries but pain anywhere in the body pretty much, and the techniques used really do work - although for me, they provide just temporary relief. Good luck!

Autumn

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