SideTracks is my collection of musical detours – riffs, ideas, and stories that stepped off the main road but refused to be forgotten. Recorded in my home studio in Santa Cruz, these tracks blend rootsy rock, funk, jam-band explorations, and a touch of prog and psychedelia, with plenty of room for groove and improvisation.

Most of the instruments and vocals are me, stitched together from late-night inspirations, old notebook scribbles, and half-remembered voice memos that finally found their way into full songs. SideTracks is for anyone who’s ever taken the long way home on purpose – a soundtrack for the side roads, back alleys, and quiet in-between moments where the real stories live.

If you want a super-short version for the top line, you could use:
“A collection of grooves, jams, and late-night song ideas that took the scenic route from my Santa Cruz studio to your ears.”

Confrontations

The Xmas Tree

Jingo

I've Grown Everywhere

Fortune Cookie Wisdom

Lost My Best Friend

Cruelty Greed & Gluttony

Everything Is Really As It Appears

Beloved Infidel

One Of Us

"Nature, in providing us with combustibles on all sides, has given us the power to produce, at all times and in all places, heat and the impelling power which is the result of it."

-Nicolas Carnot, 1824

"Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire" is a collection of instrumental demos assembled and recorded by Lucas Brown between 2017 and 2018.
credits
released August 24, 2018

All parts written, performed, and recorded by Lucas Brown on Logic Pro X. Audio samples used are all public domain.

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This is home to the music of Greg Brown; The Village Green and to the Pur'p'l Tur't'lz Archive.  This is the place to hear the Music/Bands of Greg Brown and Stephen Bryant's original and covered music.  Live and in the STUDiO. 33,600 plays in 2024 and 108,000  in total.  2,100+ tracks so far...  

An Archive.  Old and New.  A Treasure Trove.  A Vault.  Enjoy!

This is the home of the Pur'p'l Tur't'lz Archives (free to listen and to download).  You're Welcome! *Steve passed in 2018.  Much of Steve's spirit is preserved in this archive.  His writing/rambling is on every song/show he uploaded.  He lives on through this archive.  In the cloud; as his mother would describe it.

Greg Brown - Keyboard, Guitar, Bass, Vocals and Production.  https://www.facebook.com/greg.brown.888

Stephen Bryant (RIP) - Bass, Vocals, Music Production https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004250059050&fref=ts

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Greg Brown (Santa Cruz)