Singing with my daughter Ava fills my heart with love!

We traded places this time, that’s me on electric and Ava on acoustic :-) I was going to try to save this one for last but I just couldn’t ❤️😍

Silent Night with Ava Callery

What is Christmas without the Ramones!? Thanks so much to my dear friend & Cosirecords label-mate Ryan Lee Crosby￼ for bringing the rock!!

One of the sweetest guys in the world, he sure plays a mean guitar .
Check out his music at https://ryanleecrosby.com/

Merry Christmas I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight-with Ryan Lee Crosby

“The first take, the fairies, imps, and elves carry you. After that, you’re on your own.”- Peter Riccio (The Sawtelles, Lys Guillorn & The Void Kittens)

Another first take magic take, & Lys told me the quote from her band mate which is absolutely how I feel.

I drove to Connecticut to record with Lys on a beautiful Sunday , road trips are fun for me , especially when you get to play music & eat some of Lys’s homemade bread & stew.

Lys had given me a whole playlist of songs to choose from, but I heard Holy Ghost from Low & fell in love.
I hope Mimi can hear , wherever she is ❤️

Holy Ghost -(Low cover) with Lys Guillorn

Day 11 of 12 Covers for Christmas is another close friend, the incredible Heather Rose .
She’s been the front woman over half her life, forming The Stereobirds /later called The Mockingbirds as a teen & winning all kinds of awards when I was just starting out! Late as usual ;)

Heather believed in me & connected me with Myles Baer, both without whom I’d probably still be playing songs alone in my bedroom that only my cats would hear ❤️

Heather learned painful new chords for this tune , I’m very grateful to her for so much , but also doing all the heavy lifting learning this song!
Heather Rose in Clover is her current band, with her wife on bass she is living the dream ❤️

Blue- with Heather Rose

PRECIPICE (by Lazerbeak)

Merry Krampus

The Cherry Tree Carol , requested by my good friend & patron member Jacob H is number 9 of my 12 Covers for Christmas.

I learned this song by listening to Shirley Collins's version, but my friends Arborea also did a very nice moody version , worth checking out.
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I will be singing this song live online this Saturday at my friend Jacob's holiday twitch live stream, and there's a very good chance I will ugly cry because this song really destroys me  ❤️❤️ it took me several times to get through it for this version!
A very beautiful song filled with the Holy Spirit.

The Cherry Tree Carol

This track, with lyrics by Ariel Weinberg, was recorded on January 4 2005 as part of the Interröbang Cartel online music project. It depicts the legendary struggle between the Mac OS text editor BBEdit, and another text editor named emacs.

It is probably virtually incomprehensible to about 99.9% of the population, but it has a nice, folky vibe, and I have seen people dance to it.

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One of my favorite traditions for Halloween is to watch  Over the Garden Wall 🎃

It's super charming and sweet, with just the right amount of creepy. My favorite song is this one so I wanted to sing it for you !

Allysen Callery's Album

The Highway Man ( Over the Garden Wall)

This was written and recorded in 2005 for the Interrobang Cartel online musical collaborative, and remastered in 2015 by Machines with Magnets. It is one of a vanishingly small number of attempts at a spoken word song and was vaguely inspired by the Brooklyn Funk Essentials. It is, naturally, recorded in the key of B flat. 

There's also a radio safe version of this song called 'Swat The Bees' which will be on my album 'Cabin Fever', which should be out in a couple of weeks.

Recording this taught me that, given the opportunity, I will pretty much want to always use a cowbell in a song, so I pretty much gave up using that instrument after that, for my own good.

I think the whistled solo is pretty good.

F*** The Bees

This Rhode Island-based singer/songwriter keeps audiences entertained, be it at an intimate coffee shop or a 200-seat venue. His eclectic original songs cover topics ranging from robots to knitting to substance abuse to kittens and resulted in him getting nominated for best singer/songwriter in 2010 in the Providence Phoenix.


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Jacob Haller