Sloppy slide in F# Spanish tuning.  Instrumental only for the time being.  

The guitar in the photo is a 100 year old Dyer that has been refurbished to almost original condition.

I am not the owner but I have played it and it sounds incredible.

Freddy's Groove

Outrider - Written, performed, recorded and produced by steph sweet in England August 2015
This track is taken from the forthcoming album " Unseen Air " due for release on 23rd September 2015 here http://stephsweet.bandcamp.com/
This is the last in a triptych of songs dedicated to Kay Morley.... ride on, ride on

Outrider

Feral at seventeen, we'd stay up all night and listen to rock.
Motorbike speed queen, she rode hard and fast and tough.
The sun shines a certain way and I'm thinking 'bout you.
The shadows lie a certain way and I'm thinking 'bout you.
Rain falls a certain way and I'm thinking 'bout you.
The sun shines a certain way and I'm thinking 'bout you.
Feral at seventeen, wayward and crazy and wild.
Black and chrome dream machines, we'd leave the dirty city behind.
The sun shines a certain way and I'm thinking 'bout you
Shadows lie a certain way and I'm thinking 'bout you.
The rain falls a cerain way and I'm thinking about you.
The sun shines a certain way and I'm thinking 'bout you.
Feral at seventeen, we'd stay up all night and listen to rock.
She can't be hanging around
Outrider ride on.
She can't be hanging around
Outrider ride on, rider, ride on.....

Unseen Air

Outrider

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Yutaka composed an amazing instrumental a few months ago, and asked me to write and play on it. I was immediately captivated by the grandeur of his musical composition, and of course was delighted to collaborate. When I asked Yutaka what he was thinking of as he composed the music, he said "a holy tree". I then researched the beliefs and traditions and mythology of holy trees from both our cultural backgrounds - Japanese and Anglo-Celtic, and had a bash at a bit of haiku! 

Instrumental composition & instrumentation ~ Yutaka Hirai 
Lyrics, vocal composition & vocals ~ Chris Okunbor
Audio engineering ~  Yutaka and Chris
Copyright 2015
Listen to more of Yutaka's music https://soundcloud.com/yutaka-hirai

Photo taken last year - the woods in Scotland


Kodama

Lonely, alone, roams the land
Leaves only faint traces in the sand
Lovers and friends fade into grey
"One" can be such heavy company.

Listen Kodama!
The leaves rustle
I'm so lonely.

Gossip of the wrens
The icy boughs are ringing
brittle whispered rhymes.

Scribe earth circles with a hazel wand
Mountain spirits echo ancient songs.
Flute of alder calling up the wind,
Forgo all to take Kodama's hand.

O sorrowful heart
shimenawa rope will bind
the desolate ones.

Listen Kodama!
The leaves rustle.
A lonely human cries.

Lonely one, clinging to the ground.
Eyes shut tight, three times spin around.
Turn around, begin the journey home
A human spirit can't endure alone

Ah Kodama!
I'll bind you with a shimenawa rope
then I'll leave you.
I will not stay alone.

Listen Kodama!
I'm going to leave you now.

Listen Kodama!
I'm going to leave you now.
I don't want to stay alone.

ああ、木霊よ
あなたにしめ縄を巻いたら
私は行くわ
私は一人じゃない
(Oh , Kodama
Once you are wound with a shimenawa
I 'll go. I'm not alone)








Kodama (Holy Tree) ~ Yutaka Hirai & Chris O ...see description for lyrics.

Ernie on bass.
Thanks to @gersch-1 for letting me use his 12 string.

Secrets To Yourself

Pretty Girl Milking A Cow

Struttin' Rag

Hey Fellow SC artists,  Listeners, Rockers,  Movers and shakers..The Capistrano Birds are back with something upbeat ! if any of you Musicians have been part of the heady Rock n Roll scene, then this little song  will appeal to ya\(*^*)/ for the rest of us, lets get hyped up, ready to nod those heads, tap those feet and turn that volume up to 11\(*^*)/..anywayz..they say it's all about the sex, drugs and Rock n Roll..well we all love to Rock.. we Birds like to get boozed up and all those Groupies!!wow!!..as for the drugs?....lol......There's something beautifully cool about  playing music together and sharing it with SC. This wonderful little world we all exist in is really where all the real music is being played out !!...lets hope it stays that way.....we hope you enjoy listening..fly well people\(*^*)/..Special thanks as ever to jadester77rock A P\Yoda\Enigma the genius that is unknown to most but familiar to many.... If you would care to plug into The Mer-Mikki show,here's the link,  http://northernquarterradio.co.uk/ very entertaining girls with a great sense of humor playing the latest unsigned singer songwriters from around the world...why not send your song fellow SC artists to the M+M Show, please contact them right away !...new album coming out soon..with all 13 tracks fully mastered..

'I'm Alright, I'm Doing Ok' Featuring AP\Jadester77- out now on Bandcamp.

but soft
see she tends now
her basket of dreams
be they dead dark in mystery
buried in shade
see how she tends now – her basket of dreams

see how she breathes now, her basket of dreams
singing softly sing sweetly - caress ever deeply
see how she breathes now
her basket of dreams

see how she calls to her basket of dreams
at first soft in awakening – barriers breakenning
layer upon layer upon mistake upon stake again
calls to her basket of dreams…

[Picture by Amanda Cass]
Video by Emma:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_Rtf3mVfvA&t=14s
Drawn with charcoal and pastel, turned into song and then mixed all about. Made by Emma

basket of dreams...

"We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Me- Original music, Guitar & Bass

Archibald is awake

when i was younger and not in love, i wrote many love songs, but when i eventually did find love, the love songs stopped…
all that yearning was gone, and frankly i was more than happy to broaden out and write about other things….……………..
HOWEVER.....every now and then…..

i hope all you fellow maestros and music lovers are alright…
it’s summer, although the world feels a bit upside down these days doesn't it…
i wonder what will become of us…

hang on to your dreams
mary fairy liquid.

Big Fat Mouth

I'm Just an amateur noisemaker who enjoys playing and listening to all kinds of music. 

Freddy's Groove

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