Fingerpicking Acoustic / Guitar-centred Indie Folk

Folktastic songs from classic artists & undsicovered ones! Some new, some old. Cover: Hozier. : Glen Bollard

Folk Yeah! Stomp & Holler • Singer Songwriter • Acoustic

010722 DW

confused cowboy

Gardening Music

apparently this is the genre stomp & holler

Acoustic Folk - 3

Mood Spirals

Moochin' About

Track credits: 

Melody and Lyrics: Elena Loper (2019)
Guitar: Elena Loper (2019)
Recorded and Mixed by: Johnny Bregar, Brickyard Studio (2020)
Mastered by: Ed Brooks, Resonant Mastering (2021)

Album art photo: Tiffany Tomkinson of Center Point Photography (2021)

Album cover design by Bridget Beorse (2021)

Music & Lyrics: Elena Loper © 2019

Lyrics: 

Warm winds and curling oak trees
Scattered in a golden field
Lakes and creeks and colored clouds
Housed a truth I’d concealed 

I heard it in the sanctuary
I sang it in secret to the eaves
Strength came to tell you
On a summer Paso breeze
 To love, to love with ease


There’s a blue canyon of syntax separating you and me
Your spirit spins up and out and around in apogee 

I heard it in the sanctuary
I sang it in secret to the eaves
Strength came to tell you
On a summer Paso breeze
 To love, to love with ease


Fear my oldest friend
Told me to wait and wait and wait
And anticipate every disaster
But our friendship’s at an end
Since feeling and fate they heal us faster 

About this track: 

“Blue Canyon” is my attempt to capture, in song, a magical afternoon: I was driving through the hills of the California Coast during the ‘golden hour,’ while on a summertime tour with my Dravus House bandmate. I was nostalgic for this day before it even ended, and set out to write a song about it. 

On this day, even though the grass in the hills was dry and dead, just before sunset, the hills took on a glowing aura. After the sun went down, we drove through the hills near the coast at dusk until we reached the canyons that lead down to towns along the Pacific Ocean. There’s something about that post-sunset time anywhere along the West Coast, where mountains and the ocean seem to take on hundreds of shades of the most magnificent blues.  

(Earlier that day, we had visited a relative of my bandmates who was not well. I loved connecting with him, and it gave me a poignant gratitude for the ability to pursue playing music and doing what we love.) 

“Blue Canyon” is about feeling incredibly lucky for companionship and friendship- the kind of friendship that sparks admiration, speaks to your soul, and kindles bravery inside yourself you never knew you had. 

“Blue Canyon” has a reference to a line from an e. e. cummings poem: “since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things”. To me, this line and poem are about pursuing sensation, the spiritual, the intuition, the intangible... as a way to propel you forward in life. 

I generally feel so much more comfortable operating in ‘left-brain’ mode - as an analytical writer, working at a library, making spreadsheets, etc. “Blue Canyon” is a reminder to myself to be bold enough to create, and to pursue feeling through my experiences, rather than intellectualizing them. It’s about looking at life holistically, rather than getting bogged down by the details. 

It’s also a song of gratitude, of friendship, for my musical partner in my duo project...for all of the wonderful moments we’ve spent together playing shows and taking our music on the road around the PNW and the west coast. 

I wanted this song to be the first single I put out under my own name, to honor my bandmate in Dravus House as we pursue solo musical projects for the time being.

Blue Canyon

Carthage

Take Me to Church EP

Like Real People Do

Dust

sunday morning singalongs :)

"Dream In Blue" by The Stray Birds as performed by Gillian Grogan on lead guitar and vocals and Grace Taylor on mandolin and harmonies

DREAM IN BLUE - THE STRAY BIRDS // Gillian Grogan & Grace Taylor

Love Is Tall

This track is from the album Lessons Learned and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/alexguthrie

Colorado

Northern Attitude

Seven + Mary

All That And More (Sailboat)

Time Spent In Between

There Will Be A Time

Wait It Out

Little Talks (feat. Julia Sheer)

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Cecilia

Our Endless Numbered Days

Naked as We Came

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

Little Neon Limelight

Sedona

Susto

Friends, Lovers, Ex-Lovers: Whatever

Rainbow

Finding You

First track from the Twain album "Rare Feeling" coming October 20, 2017 via Keeled Scales on LP, CD, cassette, and digital release.

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Tracklist:
1. Solar Pilgrim
2. The Sorcerer
3. Little Dog Mind
4. Hank & Georgia
5. Freed From Doubt
6. Rare Feeling Pt. 2
7. Black Chair
8. Dear Mexico (Thank You for Joyce)
9. Good Old Friend

Rare Feeling

Twain "Solar Pilgrim"

Mt. Joy - Jenny Jenkins

Dispatch - The General

A song about love. 

Lyrics:
We don’t even need a reason for dreamin’.
You and I can act it out.
Life when I’m with you just loses all its meaning.
There’s nothing else than what is now.

Sure we’re gonna go where no one will know what
What we do is all about.
Cause they just don’t see that we’ve got something special
Though they won’t say that out loud.

So if you wanna say we’re something;
If we’re too plain to be unique;
Then I swear to God that no one is you
And nobody else here is me.

So if you want a different story
With blazing bombs and silver seas
Then I will pray to God that no one is you
And nobody else here is me.

Concentrate

Reason for Dreaming

The second single off of Amos Lee's upcoming album 'My New Moon' out August 31st.

Amos Lee - Hang On, Hang On

The Wild Reeds - Lose My Mind

been meaning to cover this for a while

would probably sound better with a piano, but oh well

Table Song (Katie Kuffel Cover)

'Pony' (Release date: March 22, 2019)

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Orville Peck - Dead of Night

Honeybee

Cleopatra

Mountains Beaches Cities

Morocco

Top To Toe, by Fenne Lily

Cowboy

How Lucky

How Lucky (feat. John Prine)

Holllllogram

Grapes

The Paper Kites - Bloom (Bonus Track)

Singer/songwriter Joe Kaplow lives in a four-acre mansion in the hills of Santa Cruz. Of course, he shares the space with a group of hippies, some rats, and some very dilapidated floors and walls... but it does have a swimming pool.

For Kaplow, becoming a full-time musician - and adopting the lifestyle that often accompanies it - didn’t happen by accident. Having moved from farm life and family in New Jersey to the rich Santa Cruz music community, Kaplow has often found himself living paycheck to paycheck as he departs on three-month U.S. solo tours, records music in various bedrooms of the house where he lives, rehearses with his new band and writes constantly, dedicating himself fully and lovingly to the craft of songwriting.

Kaplow’s debut album Time Spent In Between is  simultaneously grounded and exploratory; the music is equal parts  intimate and expansive.  With raw instrumentation and earthy vocal melodies, Time Spent In Between is rich with folk songwriting brilliance.