Nice - has an early Neil Young flavor to it. Good post man!

Great lyrics, vocal and guitar work Joe....great track

Love that verse Joe. Cool chorus and meaningful heartfelt lyrics.

Good job for a microphone hanging from the ceiling.  In an odd way the unsophisticated recording suits the song,m Joe! Lucky though the fan was not spinning!

This is very cool, Joe. Recording is good, in spite of rumble. I hung a mic from a ceiling to record my kids, once.

was wondering where you were going with that slip it line haha! Love it :D

wonderful track Joe! Love your performance and playing

Eileen Rose. From the album "At Our Tables" (Evangeline, 2008)

$20 Shoes

This one's off our latest album, Sun Tower IV. Pretty self explanatory - our happiest song to date! Enjoy...

Summertime

A couple of songs we're working on for our next EP. David wrote "Carry my heart" and David and Kenny wrote "In time". 

Did I mention you can still get our EP? Well, now I have - head to www.westavenuemusic.co.uk and pay a measly £3 for six wonderful songs.

Carry my heart

the netherlands - on a breeze

Hide Away

No new recordings but this is kind of old and I don't think that I posted it because it was a thrown together tune I was showing a friend. It was recorded in his living room on a voice activated recorder hanging off some duct tape from the blades on a paddle fan. ( Not spinning ! ) Not my usual style but I had to get it out of me because it was driving me crazy. I hope to be back recording some real stuff soon !! 

Sometimes good times end (click here for excuses)

a new song which I've tried various ways before settling for this way - not necessarily because it's the right one but because I don't have the energy to go backwards or forwards with it any more. suspect it needs another instrument, one which I don't know how to play. anyway I started writing this before Dylan's Tempest album came out and finished it after. hearing that record changed its direction, I'm sure. this is about the daily grind, what we do to try to escape it and why, ultimately, it's all doomed. Ha!

Oh, and rebel's a verb, not a noun, in this song. It's a crap rhyming word as a noun. After pebble you're pretty much screwed ;-)

Open D tuning

Rebel

Pretty quiet kid in class
But when they ran their tests he passed
Not a lot of wild nights out for him
He started work in the early morning
He bought a bubble car and shirts and ties
His boss looked favourably on his pay rise
 
I was a junior suit in personnel
I was just using you to rebel
 
Pretty drifter girl from the south
Straightens his tie, kisses his mouth
Two drinks later they were making love
Light bulb swinging naked above
Smoking stuff, sticking it to the man
She could so the most magical things with her hands
 
But I knew I'd never escape from myself
I was just using you to rebel
 
The learning curve was levelling off
A shot at promotion got rebuffed
He wonders what the hell he's toiling for
Kicks back with the rebel chick some more
She says ‘scaredy cat, lily livered mind,
Gimme a year I'll make your inner visionary shine’

The bullshit, babe, was beginning to smell
I was just using you to rebel
 
But you don’t do careers, of course
Or care to join the labour force
You never had to earn a living wage
Or carry yourself at any stage
Yeah, the job's for shit, couldn't you tell?
I was just taking a moment 
To rebel 
 
It’s a lonely bed now where he’s laying
He was sorry but it needed saying
Little worker ant in a big company
Killing him slowly, legally
It’s a vicious world, a corporate game
Go ask any worker, they’ll tell you the same
 
You used me babe, I used you as well
I was just using you to rebel



 

Rebel

From Sun Tower VI. The end of the world is coming! Or is it? So many have predicted the end of the world in so many different ways and so many times that we'd all be dead several times over by now had they been true. This track explores that thinking using references from Christian, Muslim and Buddhist writings and acknowledges the fact that no one really has an answer. There are only questions.

Solstice

WRITTEN BY
William P. Smith/ BMI
Norman Mapp/ BMI

The Harptones- Foolish Me (100% MASTER/1957)

I work, sleep sometimes and I'm compelled to write songs. Whether I want to or not my brain won't let me stop.With that said here they are. The good,the bad and the ugly.

Sometimes good times end (click here for excuses)

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