Lovely honest song, full to the brim of everything it begs for, bursting with feeling.

Well put together. Keys works well and strong vocals. [via https://sc.repostexchange.com]

hometown is where it all started, keep stanking it up brother!

lovely song, great songwriting, great performance

Really good start on song, strong vocals with great harmony behind! Well done composition, melodies are really nice!

the harmonies on this are great keep it up

[original guitar score by @john-byrne-117035719]

When I watched you from a paper cloud,
my paper cloud
was overflown with all the
beauty there could be.

And then it was time
to tumble down, can't turn around,
but every choice I made
made a smaller me.

And when I looked around
my world so small, no world at all
I remembered all the colors
I'd seen from above.

And I decided to enjoy the fall
dive into the rotten dirt
and dig me up some love.

This plane is going down,
but it's the screaming
of the air that awoke us

Good time to take a look around
and find the way to plummet
with an unrelenting focus

Yeah, this plane is going down, down, down
but it's still holding up,
and it ain't down yet.

Great time to use up all that focus
I need to burn my way
down to zero in regret.

[ zero in regre-e-et, e-et ]

So when I take you
by the neck and waist
then spin around,
it's like I'm dancing
with a much braver me.

Let's never plan
to settle down, nor settle for
anything less than everything
there is to do and be.

This plane may be going down
but nothing short of
a mountainside can block us.
It's time to move those feet around
we can dance circles 'round the world
when all we've got is focus.

[ Swing with me.
Take a swing with me.
We'll take a swing at everything there is
to do, and to be.
There's so much to do
and to be... ]

You're invited to my paper cloud—
my paper cloud
makes all possible beauty plain to see.

This plane's still going down,
it's going down, it's going down,
but it ain't down yet.
There's always time to
work our way down to
zero in regret.

We will watch the world
grow bigger in our eyes.
We will burn every last drop of fuel
on nothing will suffice.

Support John

Zero In Regret (with John Byrne)

Extract from the track n°2 on the Scots Wha Hae album (2022), "White Cross" opens with some traditional Scottish marchs and then turns into an energetic "Scotland The Brave" that rocks a while to illustrate this white cross on the Scottish flag.
Extrait de la deuxième piste de l'album Scots Wha Hae, "White Cross" vous propose un voyage revigorant débutant par des marches traditionnelles écossaises, puis ouvrant sur une reprise très rock du standard "Scotland The Brave" pour illustrer la croix blanche du drapeau écossais.

Scots Wha Hae

White Cross (extract)

One evening in December...

Studio Time and this song

A song about searching for your roots and finding a place where you belong! A song about the own twenty-something angst to find out who you are and where you belong. And yes there are Dylan references :-)

Home Ground

Going back to my hometown, 
back to the banks and parks I used to know
I crossed the dirt roads down to town
and left the neon signs far behind
On my home ground, I feel fine
On my home ground, I feel fine
On my home ground, I feel fine
I’m going back again
 
Out in the city of endless streetlights,
drummed in the crowd no place left to go
It overcomes me, wishing to be back home again 
whenever I feel the stars don’t shine
On my home ground, I feel fine
On my home ground, I feel fine
On my home ground, I feel fine
I’m going back again

When the thriving heart of my soul, whenever it needs shelter from this storm

On my home ground, I feel fine
On my home ground, I feel fine
On my home ground, I feel fine
I’m going back again

Going back again,
Going back again,
Going back again

Going back again

Songwriter Kim Van Weyenbergh
Composed Kim Van Weyenbergh
Music Lucky Came to Town

December Sessions

Home Ground

Duration: ca. 20'
Music by Robert Paterson • Lyrics by David Cote

Instrumentation: baritone and chamber ensemble (wind doubler [flute, B-flat clarinet, oboe], violin, cello, percussion, piano)
Performed by American Modern Ensemble, Jorell Williams, Baritone

Purchase Sheet Music: (Version for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble): http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_137&products_id=2778

Purchase Sheet Music: (Version for Baritone and Chamber Ensemble): http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_137&products_id=2777

For more information:
Version for Baritone and Chamber Ensemble: https://robertpaterson.com/in-real-life-ii-version-for-baritone-and-chamber-ensemble
Version for Baritone and Piano: https://robertpaterson.com/in-real-life-ii-version-for-baritone-and-piano

In Real Life I for soprano and chamber ensemble and soprano and piano also available. (In Real Life I consists of different songs than In Real Life II.)

PROGRAM NOTE
As a follow-up to our song cycle for soprano and chamber ensemble (or piano), Robert and I  agreed the concept of five characters looking for love online should have a male counterpart. Written for baritone and chamber ensemble, In Real Life II looks at five contemporary men clicking their way to second chances and romance. In “No Frog” we meet a prototypical player, a guy who fluffs his profile, but the truth keeps slipping out. The tone shifts with “Sola Fide,” in which a U.S. veteran of the war in Afghanistan explains the tattoo on his chest and the wounds inside. An older gentleman envisions one last fling in the irreverent “Die with Me.” In “Still Vamping,” a gay man muses on his start-and-stop romantic history. Finally, in “Nice-Plus,” an everyday guy reveals a hidden passion. In Real Life II was commissioned by American Modern Ensemble with funding from the Doctorow Family Foundation.

American Modern Ensemble: In Real Life

In Real Life II - I. Ain't No Frog

Matt Hancock

Where Buffalo Roam [Parts 1-5]

Hymn Of Faith

Artwork by Gregory Jacobsen
https://www.instagram.com/p/CxHZwkvtGCw/

ElderlyWoman 3 092723 GCHNA

Classic rock/pop but with an edge.
Hope the lyrics are meaningful too.

Sincere Man - (Chris HD)

Tales of a Starless Night

The Wind

Title track for my upcoming season of releases "Wake". This is the second part of a two part track. A new track from this collection will drop once every 3 weeks.

Wake

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www.luckycametotown.be

On the pace of old steam trains, hidden away in one of the empty boxcars, Lucky travels through the Rocky Mountains. By his side is an old, broken and worn out guitar. Before he climbs aboard some other train in search of new adventures, he picks up his guitar and he sings. In a bluesy tone, he sings his folk songs about lonely people, dancing girls or ghosts wandering along the banks of the Mississippi... 

Lucky Came to Town is a band from Louvain (Belgium) who mixes alt-country, roots, blues and folk.

Influenced by songwriter as Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, Townes van Zandt but also contemporary singer-songwriters such as Ryan Adams, Jason Isbell, Dave Rawlings or Josh Ritter. Add the same dark and somber tone from Tom Waits of Felice Brothers and you will come close to the sound of Lucky Came to Town.

Home Ground

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