Parody based loosely on the song "Straighten Up And Fly Right" by Nat King Cole

The Big Lie

A story of infidelity over a smooth R&B groove.

You Could Have Told Me

Inflation In The Nation

Original song demo from Dec. 1992 with an altruistic/idealistic lyric set to a quasi reggae bkgd. track. 
Credits : McNeal Anderson, Dr.Gilbert Pryor; trumpets & background vocals ; Carl Burnett, guitar ; Andre Richardson, congas ; Jim Fox, engineer (Lion & Fox Studios, Beltsville MD); Lincoln Ross, programing, lead vocal, trombone.

Come 2gether

Original gospel demo in search of just the right vocalist.

I Am Like Jesus

This song was inspired by my Dad who was the best father I could have ever hoped for. Miss you Dad and thanks again for everything.
 Unlike a few of my closest friends who didn't get to know their fathers or have good relationships ... I was truly blessed in that regard ... my Dad was a wonderful man and great role model! Two years before he passed and having recovered from a stroke a year or so earlier I accompanied him on what would be his final trip to his native Trinidad. I had only been to Trinidad once before as a small child (age 4) so this time I could really appreciate the Caribbean culture first hand ... especially the infectious calypso rhythms I grew up listening to on records. When we returned to DC I was inspired to write "My 'Fadda' Say" ... Happy Father's Day to all the dedicated Dads still with us and those beyond the pearly gates.

My 'Fadda' Say

remake of the classic gospel standard by Rev.F.C.Barnes
Image by Simon Matzinger / www.unsplash.com
Licensed through the Harry Fox Agency

Rough Side Of The Mountain (Remix)

Original R&B song demo promoting world peace
Image provided by JFS (Jewish Family Services of Greater Kansas City)

Sweet Love Spirit

Enough Is Enough

No More War

Everyone in every land  /   time for us to take a stand
Or else be doomed  /  with hope no more
Where only the dead / know the end of war
Let’s make it known  /  and crystal clear
We’ll shout it loud  /  for all to hear  

No more war  /  no more war  /  no more war  /   no no no more war 

We have the choice to unite  /  and call for what we know is right
And to let all our leaders know  /  that they must listen or they got to go 
The sad history that’s behind us  /  is ever there to remind us

No more war  /  no more war  /  no more war  /   no no no more war 
No more war /  (instrumental interlude)  /  no more war 

We can’t  give in to hate or fear /  but stand for peace both far and near
This insane madness must cease to be / and all this much man made misery
Restraint and reason must guide us now / and lead us from this hell  somehow

No more war  /  no more war  /  no more war  /   no no no more war 
No more war  /  no more war  /  no more war  /   no no no more war 
No more war  /  no more war  /  no more war  

©2023 Lincoln Ross Music

No More War

70's R&B style original featuring vocal crooner extraordinaire Irving Haywood and written by veteran DC bassist Michael Sescoe
Recorded by Ken Shubert @ Cue Studios/Falls Church, VA

"I Just Pretend" featuring Irving 'Scacy' Haywood

original blues vocal with a comical lyric

"Sexy Senior Citizen" featuring Eddie & Denise and the Good Time Band

original Christmas song in a pop/R&B style featuring the smooth vocals of Kristen Guldseth who some say reminds them of Karen Carpenter in a way

"Merry Christmas Everyone" featuring Kristen Guldseth

Dedicated to the memory of Chuck Brown, Washington DC Go-go music legend. R.I.P. Chuck. we loved your music!

Johnny Long / sax

Changamire', Johnny Long, Lincoln Ross / background voices

Image by Aniekan Udofia Team for The MuralsDC project


We Remember Chuck

Contemporary political comment over a basic hip-hop beat at a moderate tempo ... groove improves after a few bars/puffs!

08/31/2018

Roll Me A Joint / Remix

Lincoln Ross started in music as a 15 year old Washington DC 9th grader seeking to play in the high school band The band director picked the trombone for him because he needed trombone players and thus the journey began. Nine years later he says he happened to be in the right place at the right time and found himself playing 3rd trombone with the Count Basie Orchestra.  The following year Ross says he got lucky again and recorded an album on a national label ("Vibes of Truth"-The Three Pieces / Fantasy 9476). This all came about through his association with jazz legend Donald Byrd who was Ross’ jazz band instructor at Howard University where he earned a bachelor's degree in music in 1973. The Blackbyrd's recording of his original instrumental "Gut Level" reached #9 on Billboard’s US Dance chart in 1974.  

Five years later a last minute substitute trombone player was needed for a recording session. That session date turned out to be the smash hit recording "Bustin' Loose" by Washington DC’s Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers.  In 2001 Universal Records released a 1972 live recording of Marvin Gaye performing his masterpiece album "What's Going On" at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.  Ross was in the local DC horn section that augmented the Motown rhythm section (Funk Brothers).  Over the years Ross continued to work in many pick up horns sections backing renown jazz and R&B artists including Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Sammy Davis Jr., Nancy Wilson, Gladys Knight, the O’Jays, Joe Williams, Johnny Taylor, Millie Jackson and many others. 

As a keyboardist, Ross worked with Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes in the 70's (when Teddy Pendergrass was still in the band) and later with Wilson Pickett in the mid-80's. Unlike the early days Ross says he now finds as much work as a keyboardist / lounge piano player than as a trombonist. 

As mentioned above Ross has pursued songwriting from early on and has been fortunate in having a few of his tunes recorded and published. Aside from The Three Pieces’ “Vibes Of Truth”, Bill Pinkney and the Original Drifters recorded his song "The Same Candlelight", which was released on the Repete and World Wide Gospel labels. Harry Coombs, famed Philadelphia International promotor, executive produced Ross’ “Sha-na-na”, “Take Some Time” and a cover of “Macarena” for his Tempre label in 1996. 

From time to time Ross also works as a producer. In 1999 he produced a blues project (“Sexy Senior Citizen”} for Eddie & Denise and the Good Time Band which received some radio airplay despite any label association.  Other DC local artists have enlisted his producing talents including jazz vocalist Changamiré (“Only Human” and “Love” albums), Irving ‘Scacy’ Haywood (“I Just Pretend”) and Richard Knight (“In The Meantime”) aka Richard Dunbar formerly of the Knight Brothers (“Temptation’s “Bout To Get Me” / 1965 Billboad #12 R&B, #70 pop charts). 

Aside from an occasional high profile sideman gig or recording session Ross states that his mainstay has mostly come from a host of families and social groups in the Washington DC area. Engagements at weddings, birthday parties, retirement parties, anniversaries, graduations and and any number of social gatherings have enabled him to be a fulltime musician for most of his career.  Along with continually writing and producing new original material Ross has kept busy remixing, re-recording and tweaking older songs from his eclectic catalog of about 70 plus tunes (all at least demo’d). Ross says he intends to ‘keep on truckin’ and that he considers himself blessed and extremely fortunate in that he has been able to pursue the path of an artist. “With a supportive family, faithful friends and an increasing number of loyal fans since the dawn of the internet age” he asks … “who could ask for anything more?”



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