This is an extra-special release for two reasons; the song was written for my first granddaughter Lanie about the time this picture was taken(seven years old, she's now nineteen), and this marks my first collaboration with gifted pianist Debra Buesking.  When I approached her with this song, she immediately loved it and the ideas came very quickly to her.  It was emotionally moving to hear her additions giving the song a sense of completion I felt it lacked.  Thank you my friend for sharing your abundant talent that graces this song.  You can hear more of Debra's fine playing and original arrangements:  soundcloud.com/debra_buesking

Cantalanie (special guest Debra Buesking, piano)

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Samaritan

Electric Guitar: Tagima Mpl 100
12 String Electric Guitar: Gibson SG
DAW: Reaper
Backing Track: extracted using moises app

Cover_Traveling Riverside Blues

Promptwriting #SWITK 
https://www.songwriter-forum-kitchen.com/forum/songwriting-ingredients/26/prompt-writing-2021-and-2022-its-not-a-challenge/

Lift your eyes to the Hills

D					A
You got married in Reno, Nevada
G			Bm
On a hot August Day
D				A	
But a war came and went,
		G			D
and your love was torn away

chorus a
C
Finally free in Washoe county
Bm					G	A
from the Silver mine a dry wind blows,
C				  
When I travel through Nevada
Bm					Am
I will lift my eyes     to your hills, 
chorus b
G			A			F#m
God knows Maree, you’re   free

D						A
The soldier you pledged your life to
G					Bm
you kissed goodbye on the trail
D					   A
he had to march a madman’s mission
G					Bm
no chance to make it alive

chorus a+ b

3rd verse
The thunder that keeps on rolling
across this desert land
  watching and listening  from the cliffs above
trying to see if I can understand

Chorus a a b

Lift your eyes to the hills

Lift your eyes to the Hills

Death is still to me an unbearable ending to what life is.  But watching senseless death is even more unbearable to me.  To live for what?  To kill each other for territory, for conquest, for self satisfaction.  It is the antithesis to love and what it means to treasure time and the people that we encounter on this short but intense trip on this planet called earth.  No one will make it out of here alive...that is a given...but my heart will never understand how we can kill and turn our backs on fellow human beings.  

This music comes at a time where I sit in a great deal of discomfort.  On the other side of that discomfort is where I need to get to...this music expresses my state of being at the moment...tomorrow will be another day...

M.

To Die For What

Mixing it up again on Slippery Groove with some soulful gospel inspired funk fusion

Slippery Groove

Ice Castles

Stop time, travel with the imagination. Music overwhelms and transports you to magical places, to another dimension made of dreams.
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Itaca

Dove Sei

This is an experimental project...a work in progress. I've taken excerpts from Christine Anderson's point of view, about the vaccines and vaccine mandates, at a EU press conference. It was a challenge, on a songwriters forum, to write a song containing something about 22, so I choose this subject. I started it at the beginning of 2022.


2021! Unprecedented! Covid, pandemic, masks, lockdowns,
Fear, vaccines, variants, isolation, division, fear!

Mass hysteria! Collective psychosis!
Wake up! Some day, someway somehow, somewhere 
Someday, I’ll remember. Wakeup!

Obviously support, oppression of the people, claiming shamelessly to do it for the peoples own good. It’s not the goal that renders the system oppressive, it’s always the methods which the goal is pursued.

Good rid-ens 21, as unprecedented as you were 
I’m glad to say goodbye and hope you never, never recur  
Hello 22, I hope you bring on some cheer 
Cause we’re all so depressed, so you’d better be a good year.

Whenever a political elite, pushes an agenda this hard, and resorts to extortion and manipulation to get their way, you can almost always be sure, your benefit is definitely not what they had at heart. Never take anything any  government tell you at face value

Unprecedented times! Mandates, passports, oppression, 
Anxiety, suicides, depression, boosters, vax-ed, unvax-ed,
Conspiracies, fake news, misinformation, separation, isolation,
Fear! 

Mass formation! Mass hypnosis! 
Wake up! Some day, someway somehow, somewhere 
Someday, I’ll remember. Wakeup! 

Compulsory use of the digital green certificate, undermines 
Everything constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental rights. 
Let’s be clear about one thing! No one grants me freedom.
For I am a free person! 

You gotta tell the people the true! (freedom! freedom!)
You gotta tell the people the truth!

:Trucker’s are on the move, fighting for our freedom: 

Unfortunately we’ve had to invoke the emergency act to end this violent protest! We can't have bouncy castles and ot tubs in our streets! I don't care what they believe, this kind of behaviour is not appropriate and they will learn a lesson.
Bank accounts have been frozen, some will go to jail and they will have a criminal record, for protesting!
 
Good rid-ens 21, as unprecedented as you were 
I’m glad to say goodbye and hope you never, never recur  
Hello 22, I hope you bring on some cheer 
Cause we’re all so depressed, so you’d better be a good year.

What the F***! World war 3!

Unprecedented Times

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