Bob's 83rd birthday is coming up this Friday, so I thought I better post this song I wrote about his life. Check out the video too, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe4-DDqDq0o

Track 20 on the album — Dear Consciousness by Meadow Jones

Home

Atmospheric and reflective, this track takes you on a contemplative sonic journey. Ethereal melodies and emotive vocals explore the search for truth and the beauty hidden within. Let yourself be swept away.

Let the real you shine

Chega uma hora que viver não é só estar vivo
Responder mensagem só por educação
Sentir o vento, mandar sorrisos pelo caminho
Importa mais do que chegar a alguma revelaçã

E quando ela chegar
Fechar os olhos e estar pronto para partir

Ser bem sucedido não é só estar bem vestido
Deixando a cama cedo só por obrigação
Sentir vontade, sentir o gosto pelo caminho
Importa mais do que chegar a alguma revelação

E quando ela chegar
Fechar os olhos e estar pronto para partir

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There comes a time when living is not just about being alive
Replying messages just out of politeness
Feeling the wind, sending smiles along the way
It matters more than arriving at some revelation

And when she arrives
Close your eyes and be ready to go

Being successful is not just about being well dressed
Leaving bed early just out of obligation
Feeling like it, feeling the taste along the way
It matters more than arriving at some revelation

And when she arrives
Close your eyes and be ready to go

Versões

Revelação

Beautiful Song, just wanted to do a piano version of it. Hope you like it.

Iris by Goo Goo Dolls (Cover)

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...minha linda esposa...

...my lovely wife...

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O fio de cabelo branco que escorre/enfeita na sua testa agora
Me faz lembrar da primeira vez que eu te vi sorrindo

Meu amor, você mudou pra melhor

Meu amor, meu amor, sem você não posso ser eu mesmo

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The strand of white hair that runs/decorates your forehead now
It reminds me of the first time I saw you smiling

My love, you have changed for the better

My love, my love, without you I can't be myself

Você

I was considering the maniacal monkey minions from the Wizard of Oz, plus King Louis from The Jungle Book. This inspired a new satirical song. Of course! So here is a new brew from the distillers at Vintage Bamboozle! Enjoy the brew, but avoid all feudal lords. None are any smarter than you dumbest distant relatives. And I'm not really referring to beloved non-human primates. Preserve your democratic republic while you can.

Monkey Kingdom Come

Imagine live (piano, voice Ypsilon) (guitar, voice Luckas Moens)

What Now?

Visceral

Visceral (demo)

This original song is intended as a tribute and an homage to the man who has changed so many of our lives. I know he changed mine, and I'm thinking he changed yours too. I left out lots of other verses that I wrote. Seven minutes seemed about right... Check out the video too, at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe4-DDqDq0o 

J.M. Kearns

The Ballad Of Bob Dylan

Vocals by Mojo Dave. On a stormy seacoast dreaming about a lost love. Track Producer Matthew May.

When I Had You (Work Tape)

"It's still one of my favourite songs I’ve ever written in my life" proclaims writer, Billie Eilish and we are only able concur. 
 It's one of the most sentimental songs on the entire album WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? by Billie Eilish; and it's also one of her favourites; as she said on Radio Energy. Enjoy this faithful translation by London based Neo-Emos, Mournerz. Drop us a like x

05/05/24

I Love You (by Mournerz)

Hi, friends. My new album is now in preview on Bandcamp (just go there and search on Before the coffee and you'll find it). Please enjoy it there!

"Always, no matter what else was going on, I wrote songs." - JMK
BIO:
April 1977. At age 30, driving cab in Toronto with a PhD in hand, J.M. Kearns was at a crossroads. He’d been writing songs for five years, and it felt like a mission. He yearned to head for California where his kind of music was now in full bloom. On the other hand, a career in academic philosophy was the “expected” move. What to do? The songs won: he skipped town, thumbed all the way to Los Angeles. At the outset there were startling near-breakthroughs — an audition for Electra-Asylum Records, a song meeting with Warren Beatty — but then life got real. A person has to eat. After a stint as a telegram-singing donkey, Kearns bit the bullet and became a bureaucrat ... exchanging molecules with huge office buildings. 

Meanwhile the songs just kept coming, folk-rock in the footsteps of Dylan, Prine, and Leonard Cohen. Some of them were about the secret thoughts of cubicle dwellers, some were about love and fear and time. And he was now recording them in his home studio. All very well, but there was something missing. Up to that point he had done a few open mics, but he had a bad case of stage fright, and Kearns the songwriter was not adequately represented by Kearns the performer. In fact the performer was nowhere. 

That changed when he moved to Nashville. After a thousand open mics, he was given his first real gig ever, at the tender age of 55 — an 8:30 slot that paid $27.50 on Friday nights, at a notorious club called the Gold Rush. There, a band spontaneously formed around him, starting with ace percussionist Kathy Burkly (on an overturned water jug). Other members joined, the band was dubbed the Lonely Mammals. They built a cult following, mostly at Brown’s Diner, and Kearns finally found his natural, playful self as a performer.   

His first CD came at the tender age of 61. It was called Death or Life. It was recorded live in one afternoon in 2007, down and dirty, let it bleed. Elmore magazine gave it a rave review. Also that year, he landed his first book deal. His novel The Deep End was well received (you can find it here on Amazon). But Kearns had sunk too deep in debt, and soon he experienced his own financial crash along with the country. 

After angelic intervention, he landed in Cape May, NJ, a small, historic beach town at the southern tip of New Jersey. What did he do there? He formed a band called The Squares with his partner Debra Donahue and their friend M.Q. Murphy. Recorded a CD for them. And of course, kept writing songs. 

Now in the prime of his 70’s, J.M. Kearns figures it is about time to release his first studio album. It drops on May 17th, 2024. It’s called Before the coffee gets too cold. Its 12 cuts include his latest songs, as well as some that he wrote during the eras mentioned above. Most of the recordings are new — done in the last year. You can preview the album on our Music page, and from it you can access the full album on Bandcamp, with liner notes, credits, lyrics, and photos. 

This album is the tip of an iceberg. In the next two years Kearns will release four more albums of songs that no one has heard. Songs of a lifetime, you could say.

The Ballad Of Bob Dylan

J.M. Kearns

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