Yo man I really Love this Nina Simone song. U did a good job on it! Well Done Mate!🎶🦻🔥

This is a poem I wrote, sitting in my garden, drinking a beer, being lazy, which became the words "Texas Heat" for the tracks for a song that David Hughey originally called "Made."  

Lyrics and vocals by Jonathan Allen Michael.  Music, lyrics, electric guitar, bass guitar, production, mastering, and engineering by David Hughey.  Drums by Jake Vaught.

Texas Heat

Texas Heat #2 came about after playing this song live a bunch of times, and a new evolution and feel for the groove of it necessitated a new recording of it. I rerecorded myself on electric guitar, new vocals, and new remastering of all tracks.

Lyrics, music, production, mastering, and engineering by Jonathan Allen Michael and David Hughey.  Vocals and electric guitar by Jonathan Allen Michael.  Lead electric guitar and bass by David Hughey.  Drums by Sean Beavers.

Texas Heat #2

This poem is heavily influenced by personal experiences, both near and dear and far removed, places I've been such as Big Bend and Guadalupe National Parks, as well as many desert off-beats in between, such as Pecos, Tx, where I saved a mallard duck from a fishing line; and the most none-less-mentioned novel by Cormack McCarthy, called All the Pretty Horses, all conjured in the mind of this poem, Dry Like the Pecos River.

Lyrics, music, vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion, production, mastering, and engineering by Jonathan Allen Michael.

Dry Like The Pecos River

Original lyrics, music, composition, and arrangement by Nina Simone.  Arrangement, vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, percussion, production, mastering, and engineering by Jonathan Allen Michael.

Feeling Good

Lyrics, music, vocals, piano, acoustic guitar, production, mastering, and engineering by Jonathan Allen Michael. Electric guitar, production, mastering, and engineering by David Hughey.  Drums/percussion by Jake Vaught.

In Dreams

A love song.  Lyrics, music, and original guitar recordings and production by Jake Vaught.

Music, production, mastering, engineering, vocals, piano, Meinl Trejon, and shaker by Jonathan Allen Michael.

You Without Me

Lyrics, vocals, production, and mastering by Jonathan Allen Michael.  Music, composition, production, mastering, engineering, electric guitars, bass, and drum sampling by David Hughey.

I Get Knives Out (Rough Take)

This is a praise and worship song of no particular religion or denomination, just an outpouring of love and adoration for the Creator of all things.

Lyrics, music, vocals, acoustic guitar, production, mastering, and engineering by Jonathan Allen Michael.

Kindergarten

This is an adaptation of an original track written and produced by David Hughey. Music, arrangement, vocals, acoustic guitar, and harmonica by Jonathan Allen Michael. Copyright 2017 by Jonathan Allen Michael and Black Maize Red Gumbo Production Company, LLC.

Desert Rider

At our core, we are all primitive savages and survivors.

Lyrics, music, vocals, acoustic guitar, Meinl Trejon, production, mastering, and engineering by Jonathan Allen Michael.

Fishing Hole

Written by Jonathan Allen Michael and David Hughey, with a red crayon on the back of our Santa Fe, New Mexico tour map, hot-blooded, whiskey drunk..

Words by Jonathan Allen Michael and David Hughey. Music, vocals, acoustic guitar, Meinl Trejon, production, mastering, and engineering by Jonathan Allen Michael.

Commemorate this Moment

I am a singer / songwriter from North Texas, with my heart and soul somewhere in the mountains and the desert.  I hope you enjoy my tunes.

Feeling Good

Jonathan Allen Michael

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