Name: Crazy Man Michael (cover) by James_Gale
Duration: 5 min 4 s
Description: A cover - the classic Fairport Convention song 'Crazy Man Michael', written by Richard Thompson & Dave Swarbrick and performed here by JG (vox/gtr) with backing vocals and a little added instrumentation by Sara Kanyinda.

VALVOTUN YON VALSSI

Νανούρισμα

Hey Jealousy

session drums: Vlad Ivanov
additional choir voices: Felix Brüske, Yuki Dowsett
Mixed by Christoph Langer, Mastered by Felix Brüske at mor-tonstudio
there is also a lyric video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI2a95WOcNA
Lyrics:
They say it started with the virus
I say it started long before
A wind of distrust went on sweeping through the streets
Erasing every glimpse of faith
The daily news were showing chaos
A chaos grown in our heads
Religion never disappeared, it just had changed
Believe in numbers on the screen

All acts of freedom would be punished
As freedom had become the plague
Now sit and work and leave your house just to consume
Arrested souls for evermore
Sign of the animal was traded
As useless vaccinations on and on
You had to choose if you`re against or you are for
Will you be an outcast, will you not?

They say it started with the virus
Thus conjured up conspiracy
Denunciators, parasites would soon appear
Will we survive this mental war?
The daily news were showing chaos
Humanity would become rare
I saw, and behold, a red horse went out to earth
The iron age had been revealed.

Revelation

Before covid there was another plague entering this country and it still rages on.
Also the the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYrStU9NcX0
Session drums and drumloops: Vlad Ivanov
Production and Mixing by Christoph Langer, Mastering by Felix Brüske at MOR-Tonstudio
Lyrics:
Voices that have never silenced
Now the choir will swell again
Never thought that it could happen
But it seems we make the same mistakes again.

Don't wanna se they're just liars
Don't wanna see what is to come
Don't wanna see the misery that came on us back 80 years ago.

All falls down, the time is nigh
All falls down, a time to cry
All falls down, but we are rising
Standing tall until we die.

We'll never sit and watch
Never let them grow again
We don't fear that shaved-head scum
Nor the police that is always on their side.

They want you to be a slave
Even more than you are now
They will set the land on fire
When you burn down, noone cares you never learn.

All Falls Down

Actually these are two songs from our first EP we put into one. Session drums by Vlad Ivanov, Mastering by Felix Brüske @mor-tonstudio.de
There is also a video for this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-5SSxTO50

Heathens (re-recorded, extended version)

A cover - the classic Fairport Convention song 'Crazy Man Michael', written by Richard Thompson & Dave Swarbrick and performed here by JG (vox/gtr) with backing vocals and a little added instrumentation by Sara Kanyinda.

Crazy Man Michael (cover)

This is a crude recording of a song I wrote entitled Old Man What You Do 
By Oscar Villarreal


Lyrics
Old Man sleeping by the shoreline sand
and he dreams the dreams of being young again

Going down deep within his dreamlike world
and he's a boy living in his time again

Old Man What You Do

Old Man dreams about his wife to be
and he wakes up with a tear in his eye

Looks into the sky which is so clear
and says I'll be seen with you soon my dear

Old Man What You Do

Old Man thinks of how things are now
and he's amazed by the way things workout

Looks upon a wave which has come and gone
and he wonders it's the same everywhere

Old Man...Man...Old Man What You Do

Repeat 3rd Verse




Old Man What You Do

This is a tune that came to me in bits and pieces
lyrics
I'm surprised
you fell in love with me
Oh, you're so fine
hard to believe

And I'm amazed
you said you'd marry me
Oh, I'm no prize
hard to believe

The road is long with many veiled curves
through high sunny mountains
and low dark valleys
And  if we go astray and find that we are lost
we have each other to pave the path, home

The day is anew here we go
yet another adventure
a brand-new chapter
Someday it'll all make perfect sense
everything happens for a, reason

And I'm in awe
we made a baby
Oh, what a wonderful gift
hard to believe

HARD TO BELIEVE

From the selftitled album of Madderwort. Get the complete album at: madderwort.bandcamp.com

Madderwort-But We Remain

Sonatina No.1

I was born at the age of 0 some years ago...

But seriously (here commenceth the expected bullsh!t...) - James Gale, born and bred in Bristol, England, with roots going deep into the West of England (Somerset, Devon and Cornwall - except Cornwall's not REALLY England, of course...) and South Wales, is now based near Göteborg/Gothenburg on the Swedish west coast. He is (so they say) a writer of original, sensitive and thought-provoking songs as well as a talented and charismatic singer and guitarist.

James's songs, numbering at the latest count well over 100, are for the most part solo efforts but include the fruits of several collaborations with other talented lyricists. He also has a repertoire of not far short of 1000 covers ranging from jazz-tinged standards to English traditional and touching most points in between - country, soft rock, blues, ballads...

Crazy Man Michael (cover)

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