Strong

Raging in the Dark

Save Me

Echo In The Holler

Nicholas J - Linda James

Picture Perfect

Dylan Smucker | OurVinyl LiveEP

Get Your Heart Broken (OurVinyl LiveEP)

I was thinking about all the gifts a person can give to the one they love, because of the unique journey they've taken with them - no one else has the same to offer. But when things go south, all those riches get squandered. This song lists them but then reads their waste in violated love.
Written 2003, recorded 2005 in Nashville.
CREDITS: arrangement by Chip Taylor, who played the piano.
LYRIC:
I can fly you like an eagle in the sky
Just to show you what it feels like to be high
And I can take you to the deepest canyon floor
But I just cannot love you anymore

I can find you when you’ve lost your candle flame
And bring you back to see a sunny day
And if you’re drowning, I can pull you in to shore
But I just cannot love you anymore.

If you ask me, I can stay on
For a week or a month or a year
But the part of me that matters
Isn’t here

I can listen while you cry yourself to sleep
Over someone that you wanted more than me
And I can hold you with a hunger, like before
But I just cannot love you anymore
No I just cannot love you anymore

I just cannot love you anymore

Texas and You

Bad Man (Remastered x2)

I Salute You, USA
timothymichaelmusic
26 MAY 2024

[Verse[
The red is for the valor
And courage to sacrifice
It represents the bloodshed
For those that paid the price
The white stripe stands for purity
And shows our independence
It also holds the ideals 
That this great country represents

[Chorus]
So wave it proudly
Over this land that we call home
And bravely show your freedom
And that we don’t stand alone
The stars and stripes 
Proudly on display
The red, white, and the blue
I salute you
U S A
U S A

[Verse]
Blue shows justice in our corner
Strong and watchful vigilance
A background for the stars
And the states they represent
Thirteen stripes for the colonies
That gave our land it’s start
Waving proudly over America
With our hands over our hearts

[Chorus]
So wave it proudly
Over this land that we call home
And bravely show your freedom
And that we don’t stand alone
The stars and stripes 
Proudly on display
The red, white, and the blue
I salute you
U S A
U S A

[Instrumental]

{Bridge]
Waving over the land of the free. Over the home of the brave
I salute you. The American Flag.

[Chorus]
So wave it proudly
Over this land that we call home
And bravely show your freedom
And that we don’t stand alone
The stars and stripes 
Proudly on display
The red, white, and the blue
I salute you
U S A

U S A



I Salute You, USA

08 Goodbye Kiss

My new album, "only the love songs", is now on Soundcloud. It's the latest in a series that began last year, as I set out to release online the best songs I have written over the last 50 years – none of them having got onto the radar screen of the public before. Some I already had good recordings of, but many needed to be recorded for the first time. The project continues...!

BIO:
In his mid-20’s, grad student J.M. Kearns was bitten by the songwriting virus, planted by the insidious influence of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and other reprobates. He wrote his first song after getting his heart broken on a canoe trip, and after that the songs just kept coming. So he ditched a future in academic philosophy, and thumbed his way to Los Angeles, where songwriting was hot.

In L.A. there were a couple of near-breakthroughs — an audition at Electra-Asylum Records, a song meeting with Warren Beatty — but then things got real. Kearns had to eat. He worked as a house painter, then a telegram-singing donkey, and then he really hunkered down, as a bureaucrat at a huge downtown law firm, exchanging molecules with tall office buildings. He did a lot of writing and recording, but not a lot of performing.

That changed when he moved to Nashville. After a thousand writers’ nights, he was given his first real gig, an 8:30 slot at a notorious club called the Gold Rush. Good things started to happen. Kearns found his mojo as a performer and a band formed around him, dubbed the Lonely Mammals. In 2007 he issued a CD with them called Death or Life, and Elmore magazine gave it a rave review. Also that year, his novel The Deep End was published (https://www.amazon.com/Deep-End-J-M-Kearns/dp/1500502707 ). And five of Kearns’ songs were recorded by independent artists. 

In 2010, pursued by a giant snowstorm with his cat in an old Ford hemorrhaging oil, Kearns made the move to Cape May, a sunny beach town at the southern tip of New Jersey, where he performs in a trio called The Squares with his partner Debra Donahue and their friend M.Q. Murphy. And of course, he keeps writing songs. Oddly, his life’s circle became unbroken when a musician friend got him a job teaching philosophy at a nearby university. In May 2024 Kearns released his first solo album, Before the coffee gets too cold.

I just cannot love you anymore

J.M. Kearns

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