@cameronkirkland: Thank you so much. Really glad you like it

Very powerful in all ways, George!!! Thunderous.

BIG SOUND HERE - I'm digging it - sounds very cool!

I am joined by a couple of brothers, Frank on Bass and Joe on Sax (of http://soundcloud.com/1st50/torch fame)
Hope to be getting together on a regular basis with these guys... was a first fun effort!


Hiding (originally written in 2011 by 1st50, but revived here in Feb 2014)


You could be writing the rest of your life on your own
Or you could hiding beneath ground and shelter of home
Or well you could fight and struggle along, 
or bring someone in and finish the song.

Maybe your tired, and can’t think to play it again
Or maybe your burned out, the candle is spent at both ends
Pick up the phone, some text and hit send,
Time to reach out and bring in a friend

Next thing you know the words and the melody flow
The rhythm is down, the horns are really starting to blow,
Like magic the right riff is found, the boys are jamming as your mixing it down

Hiding

The Greek Goddess Gaia is the mother of all things, she is the earth, the sea, and the sky. It is time once again to revere our natural surroundings, the earth, nature, for what it is; the giver of life to all of us here who inhabit this place. 

Gaia

YES WE ARE
Written by Rocky Mountain, April 1973   Recorded 24/10/1973

Despite ending it's final incarnation as a folk club duo, The Norman Chop Trio (well we obviously thought it was hilarious…) began life as a pop band, mainly to play Bri's new songs.  Somehow, he managed to swing a contract with a company called 'Compass Music', who just happened to also be publishing Leo Sayer's early hits.  Course, in the fullness of time, we managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of success, something at which we did become rather good.  They were very nice to us, considering... 
However, on the plus side, it was a time when Bri wrote some of his best songs.  'Yes We Are' was a 'Compass' favourite and the song, I like to think, still stands up really well.  But you'll be the judge of that.  (Gary Reeves)

In a moment we are here
In a moment we are gone
Drops of mercury moon air
Silver shimmers in your hair
Take this second from a night
Be a story in your dreams
Be a lover, be a queen

(CHORUS)
Are we lonely in the night?
Yes we are, oh yes we are
And are we fearful, are we tight?
Yes we are, oh yes we are

In a casket in your heart
Lies the treasure, lies the love
Lightly locked a part of me
Find the answer, find the key
Draw the joker from the pack
For a gamble, for a fling
Joker’s wild to be a king

Repeat chorus

Katy Heath: Vocals
Brian Reeves: Guitars / Backing Vocals
Steve Jinks: Bass / Backing Vocals
Gary Reeves: Percussion / Backing Vocals

Yes We Are (1973) Norman Chop Trio)

From the lost scrolls of God’s word ‘Commandments of Future Present’: So Sayeth God, “Yo all you believers and non believers this time you better come together if you want to keep living on the third stone from the sun.  You have to do more than wail and pray. This time YOU have to Find A Way.

Shalom


Find A Way

Johnny: lyrics, life experience, musical advice, smoke cloud, eye of newt, philosophical underpinnings
edro: some of the above and musical timbres sent flying through the ether

Got home from work one day
My baby met me at the door
She had that look on in her eyes
No man can’t ask for more

When my baby feels it
I get lost in all her lovin’
Don’t want no street jivin’
Don’t want no dice with the boys

Baby loves me when the sun goes down
Baby needs me, when the sun goes down
She’s got big laigs and knows how to squeeze
Gonna leave my hat on the rack and stay in bed
Baby’s feeling the love, got some whiskey for the head

I work all day just so I can pay
Baby waits for daddy all day
Just get me through some way
Get me back to my baby today

Don’t want no fuss from my boys
Don’t need no pool hall blues
Just kick off my workin’ boots
Her lovin’ I can’t refuse

Baby loves me when the sun goes down
Baby needs me, when the sun goes down
She’s got big laigs and knows how to squeeze
Gonna leave my hat on the rack and stay in bed
Baby’s feeling the love, got some whiskey for the head

Baby’s feeling the love, I’m gonna stay in bed
Baby’s feeling the lovin’, I’m gonna stay in bed


Baby Loves Me (lyrics: j.eagle)

Taken from 'the Ruby sun EP' AVAILABLE ON ALL ONLINE STORES NOW !!!https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-ruby-sun-ep-ep/id857853810

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Ant Savage-The Starlings, Taken from 'the Ruby sun EP'

Electric guitar: Frank DeBretti; acoustic guitar: Jana Pochop; keyboards and percussion: Troy Warren, Jr.;  banjo: Susan Gibson; harmony vocals: Torri Baker, Kira Small, Solveig Whittle; cello: Max Dyer; stand-up bass: Andrew Gordon; words and music, lead vocals: Elizabeth Butler

Love Over Logic

This is a collaboration with Gratton, a wonderfully talented fingerpicking guitarist from the USA. Blackwaterside is a very old traditional song, sung in Ireland, England and Scotland, and I learned to sing this "sean nos" style when I was 16. The version here is a bit more jazzy than my usual rendition, inspired by the up tempo Bert Jansch track (which in turn inspired Jimmy Page's Black Mountainside). Thank you Kurt, your amazing guitarwork totally captivated and inspired me!
https://soundcloud.com/gratton

Lately I've been interested in adding dobro sounds to some traditional tunes, and here you'll hear this happening!

Gratton - Guitar
Chris O - Vocals, John Copley Dobro
Eliot Reynolds - Engineer, Songcave Studios
Eric Plahna - Photo

Here's the lyrics:

Blackwaterside (Trad)


One evening fair, I took the air
Down by Blackwaterside.
When in gazing all around me
Was the Irish lad I spied.

All through the dark part of the night
We rolled in sport and play.
Then this young man arose
and put on his clothes
Saying fare thee well a-day.

Well that's not the promise
You made to me
When you lay on my breast.
Ah you made me believe
With your lying tongue
That the sun rose in the West.

Go home go home
To your Father's garden
Go home and cry your fill
And think of the sad misfortune
You've brought on with your wanton will.

Now there isn't a flower
In this whole world
More easily led than I
And when the fishes they do fly
And the seas they do run dry
Ah tis then he'll marry I.

Blackwaterside ~ Chris O collab with Gratton    (Traditional)

Mad Love

Quiet Friday

Songwriter/lyricist/musician. Not so diluted to think I am a great singer, but give it my best. All instruments and vocals on my recordings, including all mistakes, are my doing. Just love the process and the message. Hope you enjoy something here. 

Find A Way

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