"He will bring life to the dead, hope to the living, and for him, the gate will open."

Track art by Reverence.

Deathgate

Bandcamp

Original song by Dred Fouglas. 

Enjoy them extra loud fornicating cicadas in the background.

Lyrics:

Bet you’ll see my swollen half-dead carcass
on a highway side 
thumbing for a ride
Buzzards circling overhead 
just biding time 
‘til I go belly-up in the red sunshine

I swear by the devil and the moon
When I die, I’ll leave a mess for you
Just for you

Been a white-trash-dirt-poor 
bastard all of my damn life
I’ve got a tongue like a knife
Ain’t no blood pumping through my veins, 
it’s hard liquor and grease 
and hate that fuels this beast

I swear by the devil and the moon
I will not die ‘fore I’ve sang my roadkill blues

My trailer-park heart’s nicotine stained
Batter and abuse
It’s all I know, it’s all I do
Don’t you waste no ill will on me
They’re waitin’ for me in hell 
to claim my fiery jail cell 

I swear by the devil and the moon
When I die, I’ll leave a mess for you
I swear by the devil and the moon
I will not die ‘fore I’ve sang my roadkill blues

Roadkill Blues

Elephants Walk

Friday, I'm In Love (Cover)

As soon as @stabhappy reached out to me for a collaboration, i was all in! 
He based it on potions of my tune DreamStream @ https://soundcloud.com/gary-courtland-miles/stream-dreams  

Here's a taste of what emerged!

May you InJOY! :-D



© Gary Courtland-Miles and StabHappy 2021
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2021

DreamStream @StabHappy  Re-MiX

This is a great ambient type track that my friend @nic_nic_nic nic had written and asked me to lay down some guitar on.   Here's what we came up with.

Now hear this one on Spotify if you so choose :) 

https://open.spotify.com/album/1h6xZtNUHL7AylXnxCMLKh?si=G3zz8ohbS9eGie4Hq-R8uQ&dl_branch=1

a dreamy summer serenade to the vast fields in our minds or out in the wide open

dream on

bass, rhythm guitar, rhythm section and vocals: nic
lead guitars and bell: TexMex Shaman

Vast Fields - [ nic ]

wild-sea shanties 6 : till we disappear again

A folkie take on Del Amitri’s “Tell Her This” written by Justin Currie & Iain Harvie. I wasn’t aware of this Scottish band during their initial popularity but even their pop hits have some impressive writing behind them and I came to really admire this globally successful band. This song especially touched me with its insightful words which I’ve taken here and done in stripped down folk fashion.
Cover art is a painting by my friend, Mark Omasta circa 1987.

Tell Her This (cover)

Words and Music by Roger Whittlesey. 2021. All sounds by Roger Whittlesey except for some background vocals by Christy Bluhm. Click here to watch the music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnZnDYx6LzI

Roiling Calm

Black Diamond Strings, Gene Jumper, vocal, Tonys lyrics, PJ. Projects, music.

Black Diamond Strings, Gene Jumper, Vocal, Tonys Lyrics, PJ ,Projects, music.

For the promptwriting it's not a challenge thread https://www.songwriter-forum-kitchen.com/forum/post/topic=7279.0

Breakfast at noon

Sprinkling the breakfast
with bubbles, sparklingly fresh.
Bread & butter & what not,
am I coldreading you,
Or loosing the plot?
Baking bread, grinding beans,
slowly rising
From confusing dreams
Don't squeeze that orange
  all over the place!

Breakfast at noon
(Cereals, Continental, Vegan toast)

Pretty soon
we will be back in the room
but now's the moment
to chase away the gloom

Tea, my dear?
There is still time
For now and all tomorrows
This should be the line
That we don't want to cross
before breakfast is done.

Making bread, taking time

Gotta get back
to the breakfast
as soon as I can!

Zoom ba be day bye doom dai
dum a dum da boobe di bay

Picture https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-T-1950-165 Rijksmuseum publiek domein     Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's-Gravesande
1915.

Breakfast at noon

Inexplicably the man know as Dred Fouglas was born in the year 1913 to two women. In some strange way, they both gave birth to each half of his body. He was rightfully left in the woods at birth. In 1917 he was first documented crafting a stringed instrument from bailing twine and shovels. Feared by the town, he was persecuted and declared a "sheehogue" and a "vargulf" despite having 1 confirmed kill against a werewolf.  He fled the town to become an extra in the Roman Polanski film "Rosemary's Baby". Several years later he read from the Naturom Demonto in East Tennessee and began writing songs that are responsible for at least 13 killings. He now resides with his wife and children in the suburbs of Port Banguss, Maine, writing short stories, smoking his pipe and continuing to weave depressive sounds in his dank and dismal garage.