Featuring the sound of Third Man a London based trio faeturing Scot Vicarey ( Drums) Neil Jones ( Bass) & Jake Rodrigues (Guitars & Vocals)

I Open My Eyes

Symphony Of One Man Band

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Give Us A Cuddle

A song written for Nick and Margaret's wedding about them and their incredible loveliness. Hurrah ! Nothing like a wedding song and this one features all the island muso's I used to hang with as well as the loving couple.

We Went for Supper

A song written about close friends who had split up. I Like to think it has a French feel of rain on a boulevard and an empty coffee cup. The pic is a collage made by my youngest son.

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Fallen Leaves

It was a great surprise finding this song agin ! I can't even remember recording it ! Blimey ! I never really performed this song because I was worried people would say your just doing Mungo Jerry's 'In the Summertime' . I like the line about the stemed up car windows ;  "Not from lust but the vacuum flask" Eat your hear out Tina Turner !

A Scruffy Seahorse Town

Americana instrumental with more than a whiff of Morricone. Who can resist slide guitar and harmonica. i can't pretend there's a very prominent sample in this track from my top three albums of all time Quinteto Contrapunto from Venezuela.

Cowboy In Transit

This song was written about Hackney Marshes car boot sale now long departed. I can never decide whether it was the happiest of saddest place in the world. I now know it was both. This Sunday morning vibe has now moved to Vauxhall and The New Covent Garden market .

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Mrs Robinson has always been a pick up in the private classified's for the mature lady who likes toy boys. In this narrative our Mrs Robinson plays the game but her lovers always disappear. another track recorded by The Third Man features myself and Scott Vicari sharing vocals and Neil Jones playing bass, Scott is also on drums and I'm playing guitar and harmonica.

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Like She's Got Nowhere to Go

A song recorded between Hackney & the Isle of Wight . The track is hugely adventurous bearing in mind it was recorded on a Tascam 8 track cassette recorder. It features drum legend Rupert Brown and bass player Mike battiscombe and the remaining dozen layered vocals, guitars, pianos, harmonicas are myself. using the Lord's words in vain I have extensively used a LP of Billy Graham I believe in the 4th dimension

Crying Shame

Recorded in Hackney & the Isle of Wight . Featuring drum legend Rupert Brown & Sim Jones on medieval fiddle. I managed to get Rupert to lay down two tracks for me and then found myself writing 2 additional tracks based on the drum parts as they were so good. This song is then a neat dovetail to Crying Shame and has the same groove but an entirely different vibe !

Now The World's Square Not Round

Jesus, you come down here from heaven on electric guitar and took my girl. What you playing God ? If Mrs God had been involved we'd have had none of this business !

All We Got Was Jesus & Rock'n Roll

Hi I'm Jake a musician, composer/songwriter, performer and teacher and this is aselection of my own songs . It's quite a crazy mix of songs I've written and recorded over the last 20 years ! Yikes ! After many years tied up with neccesaries of family I'm revisiting much of this and have been writing and recording alot again recently. I've made two Cd's /LP's whatever you want to call them 'Dead Man's Trousers' and 'Major Chicken' I'm currently working on a third 'Lucky Spoon' so hold the fireworks till then. One project I'm working on at the moment is 'The Cream of Tartar Show' where you get to play my songs. So any here that take your fancy let me know ! See you around x

For more on jake visit him at jakerodrigues.com

Jake Rodrigues

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