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Thanks to Derek for getting me in on this one! Always enjoy collaborating with this guy - he makes it all look so easy and effortless!

Here's his page - https://soundcloud.com/fossil60

Banty Rooster (Collaboration with Fossil60)

Abrial - Owned And Controlled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wjM_mwIHYQ
I know the song was originally recorded by Sheryl Crow, but my cover is based on the version of Cash. I'm using my Blueridge BR180. Guitar and vocals are recorded in one take with one microphone.
Please hit like if you enjoy my covers:)
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Redemption Day - Johnny Cash Cover

Here Comes Your Man - The Pixies - David McWilliams

Here Comes Your Man - The Pixies - Acoustic Jazz

This is my first upload, hopefully of many,  to start sharing my music with friends and family.  This blue is incomplete,  words and rearrangement to follow in the next few months.
Hopefully you will enjoy! 
Best,  Ted   

BluesMaster Prelim

A happy and prosperous Year of the Ram to you.

This was inspired by my father-in-law's new saxophone and composed while the near year meal's preparations were in full swing - in between marathon washing up sessions.

Year Of The Ram

Billy Preston has always been an important figure in music for me, and I asked the very fine vocalist Martin Jones to join me with his soulful singing on this 70s classic.  Billy was always one of the funkiest keyboard players out there, and was often called the 5th Beatle.   Because of Billy's superb piano, synth and organ skills, he was a top session player and toured with many musicians including Eric Clapton, Ray Charles, The Beatles, Little Richard and Sam Cooke.  Here's our tribute to the late great Billy Preston, who wrote hits such as Space Race, Will it Go Round in Circles, Outa Space, That's the Way God Planned it and co-wrote You are So Beautiful, which Joe Cocker then made famous.    Thanks so much for joining me on this Martin!  Check out Martin's fine gallery at https://soundcloud.com/ver2xif

Thanks as always for your time listening, your comments and your shares.

Nothing From Nothing - with Martin Jones

A year ago Bas and I did Third World Town https://soundcloud.com/johnny-minstrel/third-world-town-with-heb-ik.
Here's the mastered version.
Thank you so much Bas for the time and effort you put in to master this!

Please check out Bas's great music here: https://soundcloud.com/bastiaan-kooman

Credits:

Third World Town: Mastered by Bastiaan Kooman

Acoustic Guitar and Vocals: Pravinand Maharaj aka Johnny Minstrel

Acoustic and Acoustic Lead, Bass and Backing Vocals: Bastiaan Kooman

Cover pic: Kudakwashe Gavi

Third World Town – Words & Music by Pravinand Maharaj aka Johnny Minstrel

Gone to his Father
Up in a cloud
Come back dear brother
And walk with this crowd
Show us your kingdom
Where soldiers don’t fight
Where children of freedom
Are children of the light

Chorus:
Did he walk in a third world town
Did he stop and spit on the ground 
Did he touch the blind and make them see

The rich man he wastes his time
Tonight he’ll be gone 
The poor will drink his wine
And feast past the dawn
The earth is the Keeper’s choice
The prince makes his ploy
The sheep hear the shepherd’s voice
They won’t be destroyed

Chorus:
Did he walk in a third world town
Didn’t they know that all things are found
By the hands that blessed the bread and fish

Bade by the rulers
Who conquer and steal
Judged by the wicked
Your wounds will not heal
The abuse of power
Keep peasants in chains
But God knows the hour
When you’ll come back again

Chorus:
Did he walk in a third world town


Third World Town by Johnny Minstrel and Bastiaan Kooman - The Mastered Version

From 1" analogue open reel tape

new version is at https://soundcloud.com/vincepaul/dont-let-me-mixdown-2015-v-iii

Don't Let Me Mixdown

let me point out that I'm living in Tokyo,
to give this some added context...

godzilla


“LET HIM GO BOYS”



1. Got broke in Duluth (boys)
Snow fall ,…..late afternoon
Quarter past four against a red splintered door
Sky fell like a lead balloon

2.Set upon by hunger, 
Wind with a blade cold as ice
Nothing but the sound of coffin nails going down
Then my luck turned, I got beat up twice

3. 61 held its hand out
Paid my Arbuckle Cemetery dews
Vicksburg and Clarksdale failed options 
While truck tyres and cars left me blue

4.The side of the road ain’t for sleeping
The rain knows your every move
The darker it gets, the louder your regrets
Crave the warmth of that last lonely room

Ch1. Let e’m go boys, Let e’m go
There’s nothing worth chasing here now
Let e’m go boys, Let e’m go
The devil is driving this plough 


5.A blanket of snow just don’t warm you
When its 9 below zero and going down
The life that I’ve lead
Through this bone in my head
It’s a strange wasted dream to me now


6.Cross roads too many options
I had only one soul for sale
The more I tried for successful
The more I succeeded to fail



7.How can this be my luggage?
Is this the road I’m really (meant to be) on?
Can there be such a place as New Orleans
This cant be Highway 61



8.Lost my heart in Duluth boys
A switchblade ends a philosophical rough 
Then they trashed the whole joint to prove a pointless point
There’s nothing left to go back to now


9.There’s farms and towns all down this highway
Lot a people I don’t need to know
What it is Im looking for I just cant say
Every thing I ever held onto 
I found I just had to let go


10.Broke my heart in Duluth 
Snow fall ,…..late afternoon
Quarter past four against a red splintered door
Sky fell like a lead balloon


Let him go boys Let him go 
There’s nothing to hold him here now
Let him go boys Let him go 
Let the heavens opened up and pour down

Good by Billy T   24. 12. 14


LET HIM GO BOYS  ( LYRICS)

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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