Gram Parsons / Flying Burrito Brothers Cover

High Fashion Queen (Gram Parsons / Flying Burrito Brothers Cover)

Instrumental E-Gitarren Solosong Richtung Ween

Heavy Q 42

I had the idea for a translation of this text for a long time. Now I finaly worked out the arrangement / sound / mix  and like it with the original text as well  :-)

$1000 Wedding (Gram Parsons Cover - English original text)

I had the Idea for the german translation of this test for a long time. Now I worked it out - see also the version with the original text, if you like - german translations are always a little problematic, but in this case it works, I guess.

$1000 Wedding (Gram Parsons Cover - German translation / deutsche Übersetzung)

Robert Plant / Alison Kraus Cover (Song written by Rowland Salley)

Killing The Blues (Cover - Original written by Rowland Salley )

Country Rock Song about a loved cat that died last week :-(

Dead Cats Soul

Country Rock Blues Rock Hard Rock - whatever :-)

Instrumental - exzessive Guitar Solo !

Love´s Burning Wild

Experimentalmusil über Geräusche bei Nacht

Noises At Night

 Song über einen deprimierenden verregneten Sonntag

Song about a depressing rainy sunday

Trüber Sonntag

Grundthema : 	

e (Auftakt) 		
a	H7	e 	e
a	H7	e	e
a	a  D7	e	e
H7	(C7)	e	e

© Hans Henning Thomas  

Text (deutsch)

Ein trüber Sonntag
voll Regen und Depression
Am trüben Sonntag		
lebe ich nur von Illusion
die langsam verblassen,
denn der Regen wäscht dauernd
den Staub von den Gassen
und das Licht von den Mauern.

Ein trüber Sonntag
voll Frust und Lethargie
Ein trüber Sonntag
Verlust von Sympathie
für ´nen Kater der jammert
und ein Baby, das weint.
In den Pfützen gesammelt
sind die Regentropfen wieder vereint.

(SOLO)

Ein trüber Sonntag
voll Regen und Depression
An so ´nem trüben Sonntag	
kenn´ ich keine Konvention
Ich trink noch ´nen Whisky
und denke daran,
dass das Leben auch manchmal
viel schöner sein kann...

(SOLO)
 
© Hans Henning Thomas  



English Translation (lyrics)

Muddy Sunday

A muddy sunday
full of rain and depression
At a muddy sunday
I live just for an illusion
that´s slow growing fade
like the rain washing out (deathless)
dirt out of the alley
and the light from the stones (brickwalls)

A muddy sunday
filled with frustration and lethargy
a muddy sunday 
lost of sympathy
for a tomcat that´s moaning
and a baby, that cries
pounded in paddles
that old raindrops unites (again)

A muddy sunday
full of rain and depression
on a rainy sunday
I´m objecting any convention
I drink some more Whiskey
thinking about
that life sometimes 
might be much nicer than now


© Hans Henning Thomas  


Trüber Sonntag

Dies ist erst einmal nur eine akustische "Vorabversion" - der eigentliche Song in der endgültigen musikalischen Ausarbeitung kommt noch  

Goldener Oktober 2014 - in advance acoustic version rough

Goldener Oktober - first mix

Goldener Oktober - Remixed / remastert - Final Version

SPIRITS (Lyrics)

A small boy's all allone at home is playing with his toys
aware of distant callings with some strange sounding voice(s)
They call his name and ask him for reaching out his hand
And never tell his parents, cause they won ́t understand

We will always be there to protect you
We are always standing by your side
We will always lead you and direct you
Lead you from the darkness to the light“

Three men once took a trip, driving a big black shiny car
A buisnessman, a biker, and a country boy so far
They had to work deep on the ground on a farm outside the town
But just the boy is still around, the other two are gone

Much later as a young man (I) climbed with friends a viaduct.
We heard the roaring train approach - and run with lady luck.
At Night we ́re sitting under stars – talking true and free
I played guitar and felt it was like someone playes trough me



Watching you, when you ́re walking through the door
See you from above, standing in the corridor
All around yourself, when you turn to look behind
Spirits (a)round your soul – Spirits (a)round your mind



An old man's sitting in his room, writes down his memoirs
Completes the paintings of his life, apruptly comes so far:
„When voices (are) calling from beyond then take things as they are.
Accept them an respect them - they might make you a Star.

We will always be there to protect you
We are always standing by your side
We will always lead you and direct you
Lead you from the Darkness to the Light

SPIRITS  (Feat. Llord Dsagun)

Songprojekt Spirit (Vorab Idee)

might become an intro of an concept "Album" ;-)

I wanted to make something in the style of the old Pink Floyed era ...

so i recorded the sound of wild ducks flying over my house and feeded it into the synthesizer ...

Wild Ducks Flying  -  Intro from the song "Flieg mit dem Wind"

SPIRITS Karaokeversion

now, one year after the dramatic dead of our loved cat "Mausi", I start to play this song really, I once composed  about the dead of the loved pet. 

Here a nearly live recorded version, just overdubbed with bass and sologuitar

Dead Cats Soul - Acoustic Version

Ths should be the final mix !

Cooperation with Mrs. Lyn Kalley Ingram who wrote the lyrics - I wonder what someone else would make out of it - I just can imagine this version right now ;-)

Hey Mr Sheriff  -  (Lyrics by Lyn Kalley Ingram)

Experimenteller Song über Zugvögel - experimental song about migration birds

Flieg mit dem Wind     - Wildentenflug		 - 	wild ducks flying
(Swing / Triolisch / Shuffle)


Goes the wind here
wet and cold
we´re leaving our homeland soon

and are flying hopeful
into an unknown land

when you leave 
everything you love
and move and (then you) just hope
that there is still a small place
for us too

fly with the wind
fly with the wind
fly with the wind
to the land of your dreams

fly with the wind
fly with the wind
fly with the wind
to the land of your dreams

fly with the wind
fly with the wind
fly with the wind
to the land of your dreams

1. Intro 

dm  G
dm G
dm G
F  G

Intro (Gitarre) C7    C7    H7  H7
			A#7  A#7  F7	G	    * 2 

C7			H7	
weht der Wind hier   nass und kalt,

       A7	   	F7   	
ver-lassen wir     die Heimat bald

        G		      A#7	          F7	       G
und fliegen voller Hoffnung in ein  unbekanntes Land
		
     C7		        H7	
verlässt man alles,  was man liebt,

A#7                       F7
wenn man wieder weiter zieht,

       G			 A#7
und hofft, dass es dort auch für uns 

      F7			G
ein kleines Plätzchen gibt.

... Flieg mit dem Wind ...  

...

Flieg Mit Dem Wind

Good experience : I deleted alle the other tracks - overproducing is disturbing the idea ...

Ich wollte mal wieder einen "traditionellen" 12-Takte-Blues mit vielen verschiedenen Gitarrensounds machen ;-)

Dieses Schema spiele ich schon lange auf der Westerngitarre, ein paar Textphrasen hatte ich auch schon dazu im Kopf.

Vielleicht überarbeite ich es nochmal - weiß noch nicht genau. Mal sehen, wie´s gefällt ;-)

THE GAMBLER - Blues

Endlich mal wieder ein (zumindest halbes) "Protestlied" ;-)

http://contest2018.songoftheyear.com/hanshenningthomas.html

What´s going on (...in this land)

What´s Going On (...in this land) -  Rough Mix

I just realized, that its possible in Soundcloud now, to replace a mix with a newer one. 

So I did tis at 11.06.2020 with my actual final mix-version, I publish also on streaming portals like Spottify and the like !


http://contest2018.songoftheyear.com/hanshenningthomas.html

Whats Going On (...in This Land) -  FINAL Mix

I just wanted to make a simple Pop song; this is the result ;-)


This Version is for sounding nice - Maybe I´ll make a louder once later. If you want to listen loud now, simply turn your loudnis controll upwards ;-)

Flower in a Rain

This is the "loud" version, by a new and much stronger Mastering.

Personally I liked the old one better for its transparency, but this mastered version sounds much stronger - and works musicaly also allright in my sight

Please tell me your honest opinion about.
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Das hier ist die "laute" Version.  Soundmäßig finde ich das vertretbar, aber die alte Version gefiel mit selbst trotzdem irgendwie besser - ist eben nur nicht so laut, aber transparenter.  Wie ist Eure ehrliche Meinung dazu? 
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Flower in a Rain (mastered version)

Wanna Know

Recorded in Berlin and pr. Ströhen Rahden

Der Gesang und die Westerngitarre wurde von einem alten Tontechnik-Kollegen in Berlin aufgenommen, weil ich keine Zeit hatte, dort hinzufahren, um einen anderen alten Freund dort aufzunehmen.

Aufgrund der Zeitknappheit war die Aufnahme noch nicht ganz perfekt:

Die Stimme war von der Intonation her eigentlich schon garnicht schlecht, aber einige Stellen brachen etwas ab, Übergänge, bei der ein Ton in den anderen gezogen wurde oder de Stimme leiser wurde waren nicht perfekt. Außerdem war das Timing nicht gleichmäßig (kein Klick).

Mit Melodyne wurde der Gesang an vielen Stellen etws nachbearbeitet, wodurch er noch etwas perfektioniert werden konnte. Einige passagen, bei denen ein Tonübergang missglückt war, wurden gerettet. 

Weiterhin war Melodyne durch seine  bedienungsfreundliche Timingfunktion eine Hilfe bei der Anpassung der Timingspur für die weiteren hinzugefügten Instrumente (Bass, Schlagzeug und Sologitarre).

Wanna Know (Chords, Lyrics & Vocals Aidan Heaney)

Weite Reise

Song about buying myself a new Tube Guitar Amplifier

Song über meinen neune Röhren-Gitarrenverstärker

Tube Guitar Amplifier

Earl Green / Carl Montgomery / Dave Dudley  -  Cover

Written by Earl Green and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio songwriter Carl Montgomery, made famous originally by country music singer Dave Dudley

Six Days On The Road (Earl Green/Carl Montgomery-Cover)

Hello! My name is Hans Henning Thomas. I think, I´m more a soundengineer than a songwriter and more a songwriter than really a singer/musician. I started to play guitar  late, i.e. on the age of sixteen and had never learned an instrument before. So my first musical influences have been by songwriters, because I firstly payed most of my attention to the lyrics. My musical understanding developed at this time, moving away from home and hanging around with some friends. At this time I did my first steps by grounding a band. But we were influenced more by the era of such as the Doors, Rory Gallagher, Neil Young, Jimmy Hendrix,  Pink Floyd or the first Deep Purple cast, - while the actual successful music at this time sadly was New German Wave and the like.

Later, after becoming an firstly unemployed physics, I followed my intention and turned my passion to trade, becoming a sound engineer. After all I got a well paid job in an public supported analog sound studio for a decade, recording and teaching some people in sound engineering. Some of my songs, published here, are a result from this era.

Now I´m working again as a physics / engineer, and music became my fervour again. In my life I lived in many different towns, in East and West Germany -  i.e. Düsseldorf, Braunschweig, Paderborn, Berlin, (1/2 year Tropea, Calabria, Italy), Hagen Westf, Siegburg, Dresden (Neustadt) and now I turned to Rahden, Westf., again, where I live deep in the country in an integral nature reserve. The experiences, I got and the people I met, might be an insperation for my philosophy and my music.

Thanks to the new computer technologies, I was able to build myself a modern home recording studio again, to produce my own and my friends music in a good quality.

My intention for the next time is, to listen to the theme and sound of the nature and turn it to music. The Intro of my song "Wild Ducks Flying" ("Flieg mit dem Wind") is a good example for this project. It came up to me, when I recorded some wild ducks trough my open window, flying over my house. I loaded the samples into a software synthesizer and started to made music to it, leaning on the style of some early Pink Floyd projects. This song should be regarded to migrant birds in analogy to the human society, nowadays.

I plan to go on this way in my next holiday, at least for a month, recording and using the sounds of a forest at night and the like. 

I hope you like and enjoy at least some of my songs :-) 


Hans Henning Thomas

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