" unforgiving like weighted dice "  nice !

Creative images, and really love the build in the middle.  Also, super memorable melody.

The different intensities of the guitar are wicked here. This song sneaks up on you and hangs with you, demanding your attention. I likes it.

This song is a whole damn mood. I'm here for it. Way to tap into all the senses with your lyrics - really vivid and palpable for the listener. Really well done, James!

wow this guitar technique is awesome! like a dulcimer hammer kinda? (I'm probably way off). I really like the feel of this one in the alternative genre direction.

Last line really drives home the temperature, eh? And that guitar just don't quit... Awesome, James!

Wow. The lyrics, the vocals, the riffs, the build up, the delivery. I'm a big fan. I wanna write an original with you again, my friend.

James, you have this remarkable talent to take a very simple arrangement and mostly using dynamics keep you glued to the headphones. Of course, the lyrics making you wait until the very last line to get to the point also helps. :)

Ooh this is so strong, great work James. You're so good at making brilliant rhymes that effortlessly pleasantly sneak up on the listener. Love the build and fade of the whole piece too.

Untill we meet again…

"Look 0ut World" (#426, 201220)

L o o k out world I'm gonna' try
See this new determination in my eyes
I know my steps have wandered far
But here and now I've gotta' make a brand new start

L o o k out world I'm gonna' jump
And find out all the things I can become
No giving up now no turning back
Just these two soles that make their way along the tracks

L o o k out world I'm fallin' down
I did my best but I can't handle it right now
The lights are blinding there's all this noise
Nobody's listenin' to this little tiny voice

L o o k out world I'm standin' up
I got these boot straps that I'm pullin' from the mud
There's no more weakness or things to prove
And there ain't nothin' in this world that I can't do

Week 52c - Look 0ut World (201220)

The eighth and last song from Deconstructed

Cute Puppies And Cute Babies (a.k.a. my descend into madness song)

I'm so tired of the world as it is now
it's like no one ever has better things to share
I don't wanna live where I have to know every detail
every crazy little thing someone famous said 

I don't care who got offended
by stupid tweets on the web
I'm here for some feel-good content
someone please share

cute puppies and cute babies on my feed
cute puppies and cute babies is what I need
cute puppies and cute babies show me please
cute puppies and cute babies is all I ever need

feel so cynical, so self-destructive
my anxiety has gone on a rocket to Mars
I just wanna know the date when we finally can hug again
I don't wanna stay inside, i swear I'm going mad 

I don't care who gets offended
everyone should get a grip
here for the heart-warming content
someone please share

fill up my brain with oxytocin, cuteness overdosis
puppies and babies will make my heart melt
I just wanna feel good, real good, stay there if I could
but I'd rather be outside than in my mind

I am not alone when I feel lonely
you are not alone when you feel lonely
we are not alone when we feel lonely
we are not alone when we feel lonely

we don't care who gets offended
we are together in this
we're here for heart warming content
we're here to share

Deconstructed

Cute Puppies And Cute Babies

First recording in 18 months. Hoping that Song-a-week 2021 will get me going again.

Music and image Copyright © Claes Akerblom

Solitude(demo)

"Cold Morning Coffee" (#430, 210116)

Cold morning coffee color of soil
About as thick as motor oil
Like molasses a couple of drops
Made a halo on the countertop

Cold morning coffee forgot it was there
Stained the paper on the rocking chair
Mug is sittin’ on the kitchen floor
Left over from the night before

Cold morning coffee sharp as a knife
Unforgiving like weighted dice
Some kinda’ frozen oblivion
Heart made of obsidian

Cold morning coffee heavy roast
Somewhere south of Mexico
Bitter as winter as dry as dust
Almost dead like the two of us

Week 03 - Cold Morning Coffee (210116)

Love is Breathing Like The Wind

A Place Called Eldorado (#431, 210121)

 * by Dan Rivers + James Tristan Redding * 

Place called Eldorado a couple hours from OKC
One square mile somewhere in the middle between you and me
Sick of these palm trees and I miss the way you laugh
What if I go east and you head west and we cut the drive in half

Bet there's fields of gold and green that glisten in the rain
Never made a footprint there and no one knows your name
Do you still have that Subaru with a peace sign on the back
I got me an old Chevrolet and I just filled up the tank

Hope you're leavin' Greenville L.A. just disappeared
I'm flyin' like an eagle there ain't no rear view mirror
Mile markers flashing by lead to where I'll spend all my tomorrows
A place called Eldorado

A couple books and a baseball cap the shirt you bought for me
Heart racin' as I tossed 'em all on the empty shotgun seat
Bet you're on a two lane road in the Appalachian snow
Somewhere in the desert I turned on that radio

Guess you got through Knoxville I just passed Santa Fe
And I ain't gonna' stop 'til I see your pretty face
Mile markers flashing by lead to where I'll spend all my tomorrows
A place called Eldorado

Sometime after midnight I tried to call you up
Telephone kept ringin' got this feelin' in my gut
Shook it off like I always do and rolled the windows down
Lit another cigarette too late to turn back now

Mile markers flashing by lead to where I'll spend all my tomorrows
A place called Eldorado

Week 04 - A Place Called Eldorado (210121)

Lullaby for Madelyn - Song a Week 2021, Week 3

Hey Lady - please come over here
for this to work you need to be quite near, to me
Oh Lady - your actions soon will show
that you have powers you didn't know, could affect me (so)

You smile - and it warms me up inside
like hot chocolate on a cold winter's night
But when you kiss me - without warning
that's like coffee on a cold December morning
Needless to say - it gets me going

Like a spark in the dark, an electric charge
connecting me to you
Why it happens again, and again science can't explain
but I swear - it's the Gospel truth
it's because I love you

Hey Lady - now that you have seen
what you do to me means, to me
Oh Lady - I know that you can tell
that this experiment went quite well, so let's prove it again

Song and image Copyright © Claes Akerblom

Cold Morning Coffee (demo)

A Cup Of Cold Coffee

Wind and Water (feat mandolin by Erin Wolf) 
        
You’ll feel it in the wind and water
The changing of the signs
When this old world is tired of spinning spinning all the time
The seasons stop believing
The trees no longer shout
You cant remember what this thing called life is all about


Your kids might call you crazy
But you’ve seen far more than they
You love to rock and smoke a pipe 
Say ‘well back in my day’
They just roll their eyes but still they ask a song to sing 
coz deep down in their souls they love to hear your mandolin

Its not about religion
Its not about the rules
Its not about how hard you play but tell the truth
Its far from what where were headed here
In chasing fools old gold
Its in the depths of longing
For the Dreams of long ago

Weve gotta get back to the time
of true community
break down the walls and fences that hold back the you and me
the earth is groaning in its bones for long lost souls like we
to open up corroded hearts and run towards the sea

wind&water wk 6

Nashville songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Godin Guitars Official Artist and Founder of www.songaweek.org.

His catalog of 500+ titles includes collaborations with hit writers Mark Narmore, Elliott Park, Steve Dean, and Pete & Pat Luboff, among others internationally from England to Australia.

Redding's music has landed cuts by numerous recording artists including Dan Whitehouse, Emma Gale, and David Easterling.

Week 03 - Cold Morning Coffee (210116)

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