Some Things Old, Some Things New

Joe Peters and Frederick Michaels

With Amanda Fletcher
and Michael Kelsey

Joe Peters: acoustic guitar & vocals
Amanda Fletcher: Disc 2 vocals
Michael Kelsey: additional instrumentation
The JoeDai Warriors: Disc 1 vocals & additional instrumentation

Words by Frederick Michaels & music by Joe Peters
Recorded and sound engineered by Michael Kelsey
at Kelsey’s Playground, Indianapolis, Indiana
CD front cover design by Penny Lynn © 2023
All songs by Joe Peters & Frederick Michaels © 2023

Special thanks to Amanda Fletcher for her marvelous vocals
on Disc 2, to Michael Kelsey for his creative and sound
engineering genius, and to the numerous JoeDai Warriors
who contributed their talents to these songs over the years.

- Frederick Michaels & Joe Peters
credits
released December 15, 2023

One-Way Ticket to the End of Time

These Days

Childhood Things

The Never Ending Tour 3.0                 J.Peters/ M.Lipuma   4/2024

The last time I saw Dylan back in 2005
On the never ending tour to keep those songs alive 
Like he always told us the times are gonna change
Seems the winds of change are blowin
On the kid from the iron range

Like many I still follow him most religiously
To hear ballads from this thin man
This ghost of electricity
Of the many times I’ve seen him 
I can still be brought to tears 
Over the beauty of his poetry
Through the passing of the years

Chorus.   ----                     c. Joe Peters
He played some songs I thought I knew
But they didn’t sound at all 
Like the ones on AM radio or the records I recall
There was no more Nashville Skyline no more Blonde On Blonde
Tonight it’s only gospel from the rust belt vagabond

The show was almost over and I was just about to leave
When he brought it home with a nasal tone
About a joker and a thief
Then he introduced the band and quietly left the stage
For the never ending tour this kid from the iron range

Chorus II
When the road becomes your life line
That’s a fever you can’t cure
Now he’s gone the rust belt vagabond
On the never ending tour

Repeat Chorus II.    end

The Never Ending Tour 3.0

From the magical mind of the wizard also known as Mike Byers, The Raven.

Thing 1

Zombie Basketball

Inspired by a photograph of the space between clouds

The Space Between Clouds

Lame Jones					By Joe Peters ©March 8-27, 2020

Jones headed west, to strike his claim, in 1869
Pistol in his vest, fortune and fame, lay buried in the mine

This rolling valley, is where he made his home
He dug its riches, where the antelope do roam
A wild man inside, no one could ever tame
And here’s the story, of what this Mr. Jones became

Jones on his horse, rode out one day, hunting elk out on the range
At a water source, a stallion’s neigh, he roped it home and his world began to change

His friends and neighbors said, “you’re the damndest man alive
A horse so wild and free, a fair match for your pride.”
Next time he went a-hunting, he rode that big ole bay
But the stallion threw him against a rock, and left him there where he lay

Jones crawled on back, with a shattered leg, the life he knew would never be the same
His world grew black, heaven he begged, “what good am I now that I am lame?”

The Army came to gain, recruits for the Indian Wars
They left Lame Jones alone, he could ride a horse no more
They drafted all the healthy men, who were never seen again
Jones (he) took a lovely wife who settled in the glen, with him

Jones gave his name, to a thriving town, he raised his kids and cattle on the plain
By the time I came, it was all tore down, only the names and graves remained

Jones headed west, to stake his claim, nothing left there now except his bones
Jones headed west, fortune and fame, this is the story of Lame Jones

Lame Jones

Sparks

Written in real time on 1-6-21 while watching the mob storm the Capitol in DC on TV.

1-6-21

I wrote I Found Myself for my students at Grand Valley State University when I was a visiting professor of natural resources management. I had recorded a version of with Michael Kelsey back then, but never really liked the music I came up with then. It sat around about two decades, when I reached out to Liz Brooks, who set my lyrics to her exquisite guitar-cello composition. Originally on her superb CD Come Summer, she graciously allowed me to include it with the other 26 songs on the double CD Collaboration.

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