The Lone Star Texas Blues is a song about being a rough and tumble musician more concerned with my music than my appearance.

LONESTAR W BASS.WAV

Resurrected recently from a 1984 recording that saw the master tape gone missing and surviving only by virtue of a rough mix on cassette tape, this is a hard driving song written about hard practice. The original never had a bass line, but I added bass on my Fender 'Rarities' Jazz Bass. Another song brought back from the brink on my Tascam DP32SD.

Photo: Wild Bird Tour 1999 at KMUD Redwood Community Radio, Redway, Calif.

SLAVE 84.WAV

Traveling jam recorded in 1994, digitally remastered in 2023 Joe Racano on all instruments and vocals

SPIRIT 94.WAV

RAINBOW 94.WAV

Instrumental recorded 9/2o23 @ Lupinesong Recording Studio, Los Osos California, by Joe Racano on all instruments and Akai sequencer MPCone

BLUEPURPLA.WAV

Original good-time rock and roll about me and my dog in nature, played on an old gut string acoustic lent to me by a friend!

Mary Weatherbee's Gut String (w/drum sequencer)

This is the theme song for Justin Thyme, the hero of my sci fi novel Chronopolis. Art by Radosveta Zhelyazkova. For the novel: https://www.ebl.com/book/chronopolis  Subscribe to the monthly mag: joeysingstheblues@yahoo.com

Theme for Justin Thyme

Who is the man
Time at his command
The future never knows exactly when
He'll be right beside you once again
Who is the man
He's Justin Thyme

Who is the man
Lightning in his hand
Justin understands
That it's all a grain of sand

Who's Justin Thyme
Just in time to save
the timeline if he can

all rights reserved, Joseph John Racano 2024

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JUSTIN THYME.WAV

Rainchile

V-1
Don’t cry for your mama
Don’t need all the drama
Exile w/o a reason
Lost child w/o a season

Ch-1
And when you roam
The roads lead home
Embrace the world and you will
Never have to be alone

V-2
Rainchile  where you goin
Out where the leaves are blowin
One boy’s imagination
One man’s emancipation

CH-2
Another one horse town
To lay your burden down
Set up the stage and play the 
Show one time around

V-3
Rainchile you wanna party
Alright let’s get it started
All night we’ll leave the light on
What you need is something you can write on

* You have to believe in yourself
When you’re standing out in the rain
It's hard to make peace with yourself 
When you’re in a dungeon in chain






V-4
Rainchile will you remember
Dog days of September
Lost soul out on the highway
This time let’s do it my way

*You want to be break free from the world
When all that you’re feeling is pain
But choosing to be in the world 
Is double the love that you gain

bridge

V-5
One man against tomorrow
Without a plan beyond the sorrow
One child’s imagination
One man soaring like a Raven


Ch-3 
And we can change 
We can change our ways
Embrace the strange and we can
We can break the chains

V-6
Rainchile do you remember
Dog days of September
Lost child to the marrow
Draw back (back!) your poison arrow

CH-4
The world that we leave will go on
Regardless of fortune or fame
You still have to live with yourself
When no one remembers your name
Lead & Rhythm Guitars, Lead & BK Vocs, Drum Sequencer, Marraccas, Bass, Words and Music by: ©@joeracano3/26/2024

RAINCHILE

Countryfide southern bluesrock recorded at Lupinesong studio by Joe Racano with Terry Lawless

HOEDOWN

THUNDER  .WAV

River Blue on Harmonica Joey Racano, guitar & vocals Brad Cummins on Bass written by Joey Racano 

Produced by Reynaldo Macias Junior

Train Song

Joey Racano plays guitar and sings two original songs with the Tigersharks at 5 Points Bar & Grill, Huntington Beach, California, 
Joey Racano: Guitar & Vocals

Lyrics to 'Time' written by joey racano:

'Time goes by like a river rolls to sea
can't imagine why it should mean a thing to me
You can't hold it, it's so hard to see
but it builds mountains, turns a seed to a tree 
they call it Time, Time, Time
tells no lie

Time rolls by and those mountains tumble down
All things die and melt into the ground
but while down there, there's no time to play
Something sends 'em back a whole 'nother way
they call it time time time 
Forever on it goes

Strands of Time, they float from up above
The great clock chimes, find someone to love
It could be yellow and maybe it's green
Pushed around by something I've never seen
they call it Time, Time, Time
like a never ending road

Lyrics to 'Playin' it from the Heart' by joey racano:

Played a lot of blues in the ghetto
for kooks crooks quarters and dimes
livin' with the pandhandlin' paupers
drug dealers and crimes
I slept out in the rain, but 
you won't hear me complain
I just done my time

Singin' with the boys on the corner
and the police would break us apart
We'd find another corner to begin 
and then again we'd start

Slept out in the street
Didn't always get enough to eat
but I Played it from the Heart

Played it from the Heart, yeah...

Well I'm hopin' and I'm prayin' 
everything is gonna be alright
But I don't know if I'm stayin' in
the same place I did last night

I ain't about a house and lot's of money
no, I ain't about no big fine car
but I'm gonna get discovered by somebody
maybe here, in this bar!

I'm gonna tear this place apart
Gonna put one on the chart
'cause I Play it from the Heart!

Play it from the Heart, yeah...

Well I'm hopin' and I'm prayin' 
everything is gonna be alright
But I don't know if I'm stayin' in
the same place I did last night

Well here I am in Southern California
I brought that look in my eye
Swearin' that I'm either gonna make it
or that I'm gonna die

I'm gonna tear this place apart
Gonna put one on the chart
'Cause I Play it from the Heart

Play it from the Heart, yeah...

Well I'm hopin' and I'm prayin' 
everything is gonna be alright
But I don't know if I'm stayin' in
the same place I did last night

guitar solo

end

Joe Racano

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