Music by @samdow
Vocals, lyrics, bach trumpet, Wurlitzer piano, maracas, production, mix and master by Conover
© 2020 Conover/Samdow

Gather and hold all your groceries
as tight as you can in your arms
the mask pulls your ears in a funny little way
and your glasses are steamed up
so you can't find your way
Cancel your trip your going nowhere today
don't even think about yourself.. in times like these
Cancel your trip with the plight of bare essentials
Ive been lost in the store and I can't find essential things that I need

Ive been locked behind doors and I can’t find the things that I wanted to have
Are they the things that I really needed at all

Time to Re-evaluate and Distill.
BC

The Plight Of Bare Essentials (Conover/Samdow )

Jaded, Faded
Altogether Blue
You’ve been searching for me
and I’ve been looking for you
Venus and Mars babe
it’s all in the stars
We’re panning for gold
Mining the seams
Gathering the nuggets before 
we get old....

Venus and Mars

Drink Of Water

This is a song off of Volume 2 of That Old Time Americana which you can listen to in its entirety on Spotify at: https://open.spotify.com/artist/170Dmo9QlaMn62XbwR7Q5s?si=jrKd5mR8QWOU8_aiY-o9lg

This song is about people that hold extreme biases against the lifestyles of other groups of people. The lyrics delve into the isolation and hypocrisy that breeds these biases generationally. There are detrimental costs associated with this thinking.

Lyrics:
Reasoned away the prodigy lying about responsibility breathing down my sweaty neck loading aces in the deck
day light was never there
patience was never shared
bone dry like a lonely dawn
sparking life within in a yawn
time out to hesitate
pleasure to ride and fluctuate
Don't you know the prairie life breeds fear and loathing and lack of spice
scared of your shadow some ghostly matter
voting to deny others human rights
Daddy's a liar but Grandpa's dead
They hated each other for the anger they fed
Breaking away is what the young all do
But eventually they will come back to you.
day light was never there
patience was never shared
bone dry like a lonely dawn
sparking life within in a yawn
time out to hesitate
pleasure to ride and fluctuate
Should we rise or sit back and wait
while the dumbass teacher demonstrates
Moving off to another state
never able to self-deprecate
seriously though you have to stop
before we have to call the cops
Many have said you aren't our kind
staying up late and mixing wine
Been all day wasn't kind
Waiting for the call to say it's fine.

The Prarie Life

https://youtu.be/zXBgRJiP-_0

I thought I’d write a song about high diving coz I'm not good with heights and that was the closest I was going to get to standing on the top board. Hope ya like it!   

Lyrics

Gonna start with a pike
Do a twist, a jack-knife
A quick tuck, if there I have the time
To get everything right      
You need so much height
The last guy scored a straight nine

Roll the fulcrum right back
Give that board a big thwack
Launch yourself up in the air
When someone shouts ‘whoa!’
That’s when you know
You are off on a tear

Roll the fulcrum right back
Give the board a big thwack
Launch yourself up in the air
When someone shouts ‘whoa?’
Well that’s when you know
It’s not going too well from here

The entry a flop
Your belly red hot
Under the water you hear
Crowd ridicule
You feel such a fool
But you have to…
Surface …
For air …

The High Diver's Lament

Flowers of Steel and Crystal

Mark Devries - Guitars 
Paul Janszen - Bass, Drums, Arrangements and Productions
Mike Walker - Words & Vox

Calm Before The Storm - Half Blind Lucy

I made this song during summer! I was thinking about my life!
Calm life with some bad surprises sometimes. This year is one of my worst! No money and a lot of work. But I'm grateful to still have a job.
Our world is in bad shape, and we don't know when and if we will recover!

My boring life is nothing compared to all this sadeness I feel in the air.
This is not a super hyper great song but there is part of my heart in it.
I started with a synth bass pattern and added the drums.
All other parts are improvised with virtual instruments. I reworked the drums after all the other parts.

Thank you all for your listening!

I wish you the best. I really hope all of you are safe.
Love 💖💖💖 and kisses😘😘😘

My Boring Life

Fallen Angel

Cri created this wonderful track for me to play over :)))) Many thanks!!
Cri's SC page is https://soundcloud.com/christianmoll
Distorted guitar is Les Paul and echoed guitar is Fender Strat

7th Ocean - Llanpsych and Christian Moll

Changes

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

Venus and Mars

Julie Elphick