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Music and Lyrics by Michael Weber (Christofferson Weber)

Acoustic Guitar & Vocals by Michael Weber
Congo Drums by Jeff Foster
Electric Guitar, Bass, Morroca, Backing Vocals by Michael Walker (Screach) 
Mixed and Mastered on a $99 Fostex 8 Track by The Screach Himself using mostly luck and imagination... 

We live in a very small world people. So small that I can hear the music coming from bedrooms and basements all over the world. It's familiar and friendly to me. I feel like we have all met before. I wonder if we met in previous lives...I hope so! 

I had the sincere pleasure of really feeling the Sound Cloud Gift come full circle. Michael Weber (Christofferson Weber) reached out to me via sound cloud to let me know he was going to be coming through Montana where I live and wanted to meet. Furthermore he was doing shows in Montana while he was here and asked me to play with him at a small art museum in Anaconda, MT not too far from my home - So, I did. We had a marvelous time at a marvelous venue. We played into the morning hours around a camp fire after and made great new friends. We ate and drank and enjoyed the alpine lakes of Montana together the next day. Our families met, our children met, we formed lasting friendships! What a SC Gift! It doesn't get any more rewarding! Money Cant buy Love! We just have to accept it and foster it and pour it on each other! 

This song is a Michael Weber original! Michael plays it and sings it with the relaxed confident feel I love so much. Jeff Foster lays down the Bongo tracks that keeps the song popping. It was a pleasure for me to put down some guitar licks, backing vocals, a little Moroccan Percussion and some Bass then mixing it on the Fostex to gain a live feel. I had to record Michael's base tracks into my cheap recorder by placing a mic near a cheap stereo I played the CD through off of SC - then build around that track. So, I apologize for the tint of sounds  - it cant be as warm as it could be but it does somewhat lend to the live feel - You don't have to have loads of really expensive equipment to record a decent song - just go for it and use the tools you have in your cave! 

We hope you enjoy!  
PS - The cover shot is from the show at The Anaconda Art Museum - All  Screached up...  

Find Our Way Home

Hey there little sleeping beauty
Know that you’ve been torn
When everything that
You’ve grown up with
Has grown so worn

A thousand hearts
Out on the open water
Have sailed upon these seas
When you’re feeling
The weight of the world, love
Just let go please

‘Cause it’s gonna get better
If we try
And you don’t need to worry
Your sweet eyes
Yeah it’s gonna get better
If we try
To find our way home

So where do we go from here
Well that we can’t know
There’s one thing
We can be sure of
That we control

We take care of one another
In all that we do
And one day
We’ll wake to find that
Our dreams do come true
                               

Find Our Way Home - Collab w/ Christofferson Weber &  Jeff Forrest

Jamming the Eastwood DLX 12 string through a Catalinbread Echorec

Surfthang

Basic Love

I'll Take You There

Gonna Do Nothing

Thanks Janelle! What a pleasure! :)

Lyrics, Vocals: @the-real-janelle from @juniperoband
Music, Mix & Mastering, Guitars (ES, JM), Bass (P), Drums (AD2) and Keys: @bonetender

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3r6bD5UUgfCc5tFVh0PqZe

========== Lyrics ==========

Out in the field, at night
I find myself twirling out of space
It’s like a dream, it seems...

There comes times where I don’t really care
About what goes on around 

All I hear is my boom box going hard
Out over here, nobody seems to notice us
At times I may have my own reasons
But never will I turn you my back 

We’re alright, we go our ways
We stumble down just to build up 
Taking hold of us again

Out in the field, we dance endlessly 
Out over here where you can see the city
We don’t dwell into tomorrow’s worries
We live for now and glorious memories 

We don’t mind, we don’t mind nothing 

We are at our rhythm 
We don’t care about your competition 
Nothing sane in soulless repetition 

We’re alright, we go our ways
We stumble down just to build up 
Taking hold of us again

©Janelle & Bonetender 2020 All Rights Reserved

Our Ways

Our Ways (ft. Janelle)

2020 brand new Boogie from Frank Farris & the Details

Boogie All Night

Life without Love

Sometimes the blues gets very blue....
(Painting - "Waiting" by Toulouse Lautrec 1887) wikicommons

Instrumental composition, lead guitar, backing - Tom Adams (Aka Tytlblues)
https://soundcloud.com/user-342548892
Lyrics, vocal melody, vocals, harp, slide guitar -  Chris Okunbor 

Come back soon 
Darlin' come back, oh don't you see?
The place is empty, oh empty without you.
They say that heart is where the home is.
Come back soon

Come on home, ah, just show me 'sorry',
Won't ever say those things, all those bad things no more.
I'm tired of tough love, so please think it over!
Yeh, come back soon.

I want you home darlin', ‘cos life's no fun, no fun any more.
Our place feels empty now that you’ve gone.
The grey needs lifting, the shadows shifting.
Come home soon.

Come Back Soon ~ a slow blues by Tom Adams and Chris O

I am not a musician but music plays a very important role in my creative life! I am an artist/designer and music is my companion and my muse in the long hours I spend working in my studio! 
I am immensely impressed and grateful for all the talented and inspiring musicians whose work graces this Cloud, and I will always re-post sounds that I love (and will listen to again) - knowing that others will enjoy them!
I feel slightly embarrassed and quite humbled when I receive such graceful messages of thanks from artists whose work I have re-posted - after-all, I am the one who is so inspired by the discovery of your brilliant music!!!
So thank YOU!!!
Jools :)
P.S. If you want to see where the music takes me there is a link to my Portfolio site on Behance below!!! 
NEW!! - Thanks for all the great feed-back on my work! I shall be re-launching with a website (shop & archive) ‘KULT-JE’ in the not too distant future! Meanwhile, examples of past and current work are featured on my Instagram (@joolselphick)
Since my heart op in Jan2021, I have had to deal with taking quite a lot of meds which have interrupted my design work - that and moving to Germany in 2020 - and back in 2021 (due to Covid my business plans stalled!) - SO, slowly getting it together…. hang tight!😊

I have an archive of my work to date on Instagram - @joolselphick

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Julie Elphick