great emotive singing and lyrics and lovely hissy beautiful sound to your instruments and recording.

Beautifully sparse in arrangement and rich in feeling.

Like this kind of raw and true performance

love this tune...lyrics vocals and guitar...very very cool.

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Recorded in Modesto, Ca.  Featuring Alto Saxophone solo. Gibson 335 Electric Guitar solo. Horn Section, Baritone Saxophone, Alto & Tenor Saxophones, Trumpet,  Acoustic Piano. Fender Rhodes Electric Piano. Fender Electric Bass. Roland Synthesizer Bass. Trap Drum set. Percussion, Ago Go Bells, Cowbell, Timbales, Crash Cymbals.

Getting it

Ear Candy

Watch the live performance of this song here: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY4BWb-D4b8

Nobody’s hanging around
Been looking all over town, for you
Nothing’s popped up on my phone
Should not have left you alone
How could I have known
That you would run away
Oh I listen to my Playlist seems so dark today wish I could make it brighter 
gonna write a happy song
Everyone’s contagious nobody can save us I can make it brighter gonna write a
happy song
Just then a knock at my door
We still haven’t found a cure, you know
But if you where one of these
You can go out to the store
This has become such a bore
I’d rather die than waste away
Oh I listen to my Playlist seems so dark today wish I could make it brighter
 gonna write a happy song
Everyone’s contagious nobody can save us I can make it brighter gonna write a happy song
And you know, it’s not as bad as what they sell us on TV
It’s big business making lies reality
They make it hard to be the best that we can be
a roller coaster fiction ride we’ve got to always question why            
spoon fed soon dead get the fuck out of my head
This has become such a bore
We can no longer ignore
Healthily wasting away
Oh I listen to my Playlist seems so dark today wish
News says everyone’s contagious nobody can save us 
Oh I listen to my Playlist seems so dark today wish I could make it brighter
 gonna write a happy song
News says everyone’s contagious nobody can save us I can make it brighter gonna write a happy song
Music & Lyrics by Mike Molino; Guitar Dominick Torregrossa check him out here on SC https://soundcloud.com/d-torregrossa-373706580      
Mastered by Woods Studio Free Mixing and Mastering. Check them out here on Soundcloud - @woods_studio

Happy Song

happy song

you can  also listen on YouTube 

https://youtu.be/yPYilvMyINk

Just a reminder that you are wonderful just as you are

Chorus

Be yourself
Don't hide
Don't pretend
And ride
Down that road
That's old
Try new
Don't hide
Be you



Be Yourself

if you’ve come too far to
carry your tears
too far from me
I might fall too far between your feet
if you ask me to leave

and the difference 
is I cant just stop
I’ve tried 
and deliverance 
is a game 
I cannot play

but they keep on tellin me
it’s worthwhile 
and kettle lies in wait 
and smiles

I could weight my time on yours till we
get a chance
if I hadn’t 
done the crime

I got bit just once
enslaved for life 
no you couldn’t understand 

and the chance won’t wait
In this silent parade 
and the fire that you had
wasn’t kind 
on my head

the difference is I can’t just stop
I’ve tried 
and deliverance is a game I fail
everyday

won’t you pray for me
to have one last try
just one last try

Last call

not one for the audiophiles :-))
another swing-y sketch for this slowly written song
older version from first soundcloud stuff....https://soundcloud.com/user-649412648/white?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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'i love the way you think
i love the way you feel
got my brains in chains
got my laces in a knot
you got the sun in my eyes'
i seen the planet waves
and then she took me home
to a place that i forgot

she’s everywhere
she’s all over the place
she's a star that sings
white diamond ring
she’s a fucked up clock
she’s a crescent moon
she’s an airoplane
phantom in the blue

in a raw red light
gonna make you mine
in between the hands of time
in between the lines
i was underneath but
now it’s time to move
in her figures of eight
life is shotgun smooth

when the stars are milk
she opens up the night
takes me far away
makes it clear
as

white














i love the way you think
i love the way you feel
there is a star called dream
so come on dream it real

you’re a black sea pearl
i am just
bathing
in the light

 the day the stars turned black

and the world
turned

white















i love the way you think
i love the way you feel
i love the star called dream
so come on dream it real

you’re a black sea pearl
i was just
bathing
in the light

 the day the stars turned black

and the world
turned

white

w h i t e

My friend Louie died recently. We played together in a band called The Loose Diamonds. He was a lovely man and a living work of art.

https://pitchfork.com/news/king-louie-bankston-louisiana-garage-rock-mainstay-of-the-exploding-hearts-dies-at-49/

There’s a whole lot less cocaine in heaven tonight
The Milky Way ain’t looking half as wide
Loose diamonds in the sky
Fall like teardrops from my eyes
As the rising sun burns it’s ugly light
There’s a whole lot less cocaine in heaven tonight 

There was a man from Harahan who like an angel did sing
And he sure knew just how to pop a guitar string 
And though he often played the clown 
When the crowds would gather ‘round
Those in the know know that Louie was a king

It was reputed that he’d written the perfect song
A crystal blue confection coming in at 2 minutes and 27 seconds long
But the world heeded not
Rock n roll was an afterthought 
The king had left long before his kingdom had come

There’s a whole lot less cocaine in heaven tonight
The Milky Way ain’t shining half as bright
Loose diamonds in the sky
Like teardrops from my eyes
As the rising sun burns it’s ugly light
There’s a whole lot less cocaine in heaven tonight 

He once went to Whole Foods because he was not feeling well
He returned with five jars of pickles and a story to tell
The hippie cashier it seems 
Had seen his death in her dreams 
So we all laughed and raised five jars of pickle juice to his health

Sure, maybe he all wasn’t saintly and perfect 
But I tend to think the rock n roll was worth it
He had some dirty parts
He left some haunted hearts
But who amongst us isn’t tainted in this circus?

Like a feeling never felt
Like the King of Diamonds never dealt
Like a legend that may never be
Louie Bankston RIP

There’s a whole lot less cocaine in heaven tonight
Now the angel’s share ain’t enough to fly a kite
Stardust in the sky
Diamonds in my eyes
The rising sun burns it’s ugly light
There’s a whole lot less cocaine in heaven tonight 

Now that you have forsaken this fallow land 
Our hopes are dashed that you ever will reunite your one man band
And though my tongue may be planted in my cheek 
It is with great reverence that I do speak 
Of the King of Diamonds

Love, 
Your biggest fan

There’s a whole lot less cocaine in heaven tonight
The Milky Way ain’t looking half as wide
Loose diamonds in the sky
Like teardrops in my eyes
The rising sun burns it’s ugly light
There’s a whole lot less cocaine in heaven tonight 
There’s a whole lot less cocaine in heaven tonight 

A pariah, a piranha, a superstar
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Like a diamond in the sky
Like a diamond in the sky

Like a diamond

King Of Diamonds

Vocals, guitar, and foot operated drums all performed live by Franko Malley

wasted away again
now i'm coming home my friend
this is not the way i envisioned it
it's all my fault

its not the time to mend and heal
its time to make repairs
all my loves and my relationships
and to all the things i broke

the air... still feels...
the same... round here...
and i'm all there is to blame
and its all my fault

the faces when i close my eyes
remind me of my shame.
and take me to a place i can't let go
and it's all my fault

just let me go home
i can do better
i can do better

all these tears can't wash away all that wretched pain
just let me do better
lord let me do better

there's that line in the dirt
made of soil and decay
let me do better
let me do better

theres that long dark road
where i been down before
let me do better
let me do better

Dark Roads

bring it on...springtime that is...only sounds good loud
this will be heavily edited soon, in another now...

book of ee, chapter 1 : 'spring(time'

A song of hope for light to shine through the darkness. 

Written and performed : Johnny Mc Farlane

A song of hope

umbrella couples
walking together 
through the storm

plastic coverings
and their loving
keeps them warm

take it one step at a time
as long as i’ve got you by my side
my feet may be wet but i stay dry
take it one step at a time


featuring bass and electric guitar from the legend cgmaness

inspiration and cover art taken from “klara and the sun” by kazuo ishiguro

<3 theta

umbrella couples (feat. cgmaness)

Gritty blues rock from Louisville Ohio, USA.
All songs written, recorded and performed by Stephen Malson, solo artist from The Beards and The Bees and frontman and co writer of Bandana Dogs, Stephen has been a SoundCloud artist since 2015.

All songs are free to download.

Dark Roads

Franko Malley and the Mud Butts

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