I love this song and your thoughts that led you to write it. For me, my instruments are like friends and I was always touched when they allowed me to immediately elicit beautiful sounds from them. That enriched my life and in between there was often a joy and wisdom that touched me deeply. So well done! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for you and your beautiful, profound songs. Always a pleasure to listen to you!

Le Courage
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A quel âge ferons-nous face
Absent adoniste de beaux discours trop 
Ruisselants
Par quel courage, oh sans belle grimace
Chacun notre tour, y va autour
Donnant l’offrant
Hum Hum Hum Hum
Hum Hum Hum Hum  
Héros devant

Quel honneur d’un bras forcé
S’en mêle se cape y laisse choir 
Démasque branlant
Du ventre la rage serre un poing caché
Transpire au front âme en devoir 
Trop bon battant
Hum Hum Hum Hum
Hum Hum Hum Hum  
Héros dans l’vent

Par quelles valeurs soufflent l’élan la grâce
A taire nos peurs à nous dire 
Mais comment
Quel bonheur ouvre au fond d’l’impasse
De nos erreurs coulées de sens 
A nos errements
Hum Hum Hum Hum
Hum Hum Hum Hum  
Héros devant

Hum Hum Hum Hum
Hum Hum Hum Hum  
Héros dans l’vent

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Paroles/Musique: aDom
Mixage: Fabrice

Video: https://youtu.be/xfM-jyYj3h4

Le Courage

Collab Zzzzerbot

Lyrics and vocal by Tatyana Zotova.
Music by Tatyana Zotova and Oleg Andreev.
Piano, arrange and mixing by Oleg Andreev.
Photo by Alexey Zotov.

Топи (Bogs)

It Washes Over

大橋 敏明 のアルバム

make an excuse

The Bottom Drawer

"Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (Everything can change)", music and lyrics © 2021 John David Lawson. All rights reserved.

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Credits:
John David Lawson (Canada) - Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Accordion, Vocals, String Arrangement 
Mario Ibarra (Mexico) - Drums
Andres Linares (Argentina) - Percussion
Valery Foyniak (Ukraine) - Violin


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Lyrics:
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Talk to me about loss
I'm all ears
I'm up to them in tears
Everything can change
In the blinking of an eye
I don't know how to say 
Good-bye

Yesterday 
She looked at me the way
That made me feel known 
But today she's gone
Now I sit alone
Stricken to the bone
Lord knows I don't know
How to move on

Morning, full of life
Noon, half paralyzed
Evening, all the light 
Had drained out of her eyes
I held her until morning 
Then she died

Then I picked up the phone 
To ask you why

Elisabeth Kübler
Kübler-Ross
Kübler-Ross

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The song journey:

It's an absurd, short ditty, but significant to me for the progress it represents in advancing my production skills.

As one approaches 60, one starts to think about death, trying to become accustomed to the idea as an inevitability. To muster up one's courage against an unknown future. I guess I have been stuck in that phase for a while, turning the idea over in song after song.

Here, the main character's wife dies in his arms and he dials the phone to ask the famous author for help. It is 2 minutes long to dramatize the swift passage of time.

In the tradition of the Everly Brothers' Bye Bye Love, this is a happy song with sad words. The stupendously brilliant Jacob Collier suggests such pairings ironically amplify the emotion of a work. 

A podcaster on death and dying had a call out for unusual music that "would not be played at a funeral", upon which I immediately wrote this, thinking it rather silly. I had a gig writing blog articles for a mental health agency, so EKR's 5 stages of grief had been on my mind. The idea was absurdly to codify them into song form. Later I recorded all the vocals into Audacity, which I outgrew, where they languished. 

Recently I imported them all into my new DAW, Reaper, added (I think) a killer bass line and started building out and finessing the track over a period of weeks as time permitted, using it as an exercise to bring all my newly acquired skills together into one project. 

I tried some interesting experiments. Hired a musician on fiverr.com to supply a violin line, which I multiplied five times then pitch shifted to create a string section. I kept the main vocal very dry then doubled it and placed the doubled part way back in the mix while soaking it in reverb. I feel like that made the vocals both lush and crisp at the same time. I received some cow bells and bongos and nudged their tuning into the same neighborhood as the song's. 

I have difficulty hearing some frequency bands associated with drums and percussion, so I mixed those much lower than I would prefer, thinking if I can hear them, they will be too loud for everyone else.

There is a third verse I may incorporate later. I performed all the parts (on natural instruments) except the drums, percussion and violin (credits as noted). I am proud of this result which feels like a significant leap forward for me. In the end it is just a short, quirky pop song, but it means a lot to me as it gives me a sense of what I can achieve going forward.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

This track was made with Prophet V, Pigment 4, Synthmaster One, Cube CMI V & Spatk 2 (Perc/Toms/Congas,FX)
Graphics made by ai.

Spirit

Gifted Failures

Hey, Banjo
Words and music by John David Lawson

Hey banjo
Can you give me a happy tune
Isn't that what you do
If I could learn to play you
Would you tell truth?

I could whistle
Toot on a pennyflute
Strum two chords on a uke
Maybe those things would sound cute
If they weren't so cruel

My piano 
Gathers dust in the studio
Harmonica just blows
Cello is far too mellow
Accordion bellows

Hey banjo 
Can you help me with my head
To write again, at least try
To forget what a friend had said
Hoping it was a lie

'Cause someone's in the kitchen with Dinah
Someone's in the kitchen ohh
Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah
The rest you know

Hey banjo 
Guess I got played by you
Got taken in by your tune
And if I never hear five strings again
That would be too soon

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Credits:
Vocals, piano, guitar, banjo, harmonica, accordion - John David Lawson
Photo by Morgan Lane on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/wlY66otjq28

"Hey, Banjo", music and lyrics © 2023 John David Lawson. All rights reserved.

Hey, Banjo

When I was 20 years old, I composed this piano tune.
This is my first creation.
This is Lo-Fi mp3 file, I cannot find Wav file, but I hope you enjoy my old but young(this fresh feeling i have lost)one with me.
This is full of my personal memories.🍁🍂🍃🍁🍂🤎

Autumn

I love to make new songs with smooth organic sounds and vocal harmonies that remind me of favourite bands from the 1970's. If you like Paul Simon, Cat Stevens, America, Neil Young, and Nilsson, you might enjoy this music too.

These songs are fictional vignettes and stories. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

I facilitated worship in congregations for many years, and some songs here were written for that purpose. If you find a one you'd like to use, I would be happy to provide a chart.

Hey, Banjo

John David Lawson

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