℗ © Copyright Ian Stokes. All Rights Reserved
Recorded and mixed using Logic. Mastered in Soundcloud
Guitar played: Taylor 714CE in standard tuning (Capo 1st Fret)
Photography: Thanks go to Nigel and Libby Hume at Hume Photography.
SONG NOTES and LYRICS:
I wrote this song about an imaginary character born and raised on the Mississippi, growing up to be a music man. It's not based on anybody real, but is a kind of tribute to all (blues) musicians down the ages, who have developed their own style of playing and have become admired by future generations. I was inspired to learn to play the guitar listening to great guitar players and fascinated by their ability to simultaneously play a bass line, percussive rhythm and melody, while singing at the same time. (For guitar players interested in how this song is played, it is capo'd at the first fret and played in Bflat, using the thumb on the left hand to play bass notes while stretching fingers 3 and 4 for hammer-ons.). Hope you like it!

They named him Mississippi
That’s where he was born and found
Raised by the crew of a steamboat
Never did like his feet on solid ground 
Could have grown up to be a gambler
But he’d seen where the money goes
So he just played the blues
And watched the river flow

So Mississippi he became a music man
His hat tilted to one side
He wore a watch chain in his waistcoat 
And a twinkle in his eye 
Those gamblers liked to buy him a whiskey
So he’d smile on the dice they’d throw
As he’d play them the blues
And watch the river flow

Now they say down in Mississippi
When you’re riding on the river at night
That if you raise up your glass of whisky
There’s a chance that you just might
Hear the sound across the water 
From the deck of that old paddle boat 
As he plays the blues 
And watches the river flow

Mississippi

Snowbound

Quite some time ago, I made a quick “live” recording of this classic old Beatles song. It was just to serve as an example of how Nat & I might try doing a proper recording at some future time. But as Nat has so often managed to do, she added her beautiful harmonies and piano work and other production touches to make something out of it that we both now feel is well worthwhile. This song was written by John Lennon and released on the 1965 Beatles album “Help!”.

Craig Durgy: vocals & guitar
Nat Daniels: vocals, piano, bass & production

Deja Views

It’s Only Love

It's Only Love (Beatles Cover - Live)

I Know Nothing

This is my second collaboration with @cerulean_ascent ... the other one being his response to my open collab last month. Similar to our last collaboration he kind of deconstructed parts of my original stems and put them back together in a new way. The final product contains melodic and drum elements from both of us, I think it results in a really cool fusion of our styles!

Gravity Well [Cerulean Ascent Vs Tea R. Sea]

A lyrical an musical vision of my trip to Hell, after I was clinically dead, aka brain dead.

Artwork was done by Jame' Bryce

The Darkness

Cover of Talking Heads’ Psycho Killer.

One of the most original bands of the late 1970s.

Original https://youtu.be/eauZzwt8Ci8

About Talking Heads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Heads

More cover versions https://soundcloud.com/yankel-muromachi/sets/duck-cover-versions

Published on SC 3 March 2023

Situationism

Psycho Killer (Talking Heads cover)

African funk Latin Jazz dub: Entheogenic Psychonaught, guitars & keyboards. Mikey McFaffington, saxophone

Under the Baobab Tree. (Funk mix). with. Entheogenic Psychonaught & Mikey McFaffington

Jazz variations made after listening to a rap track by Dtrot the Pilot, a vast talent....first time listening...and I mean really listening... to a rap track....specifically....listening to the musical patterns. After immersion in Dtrot the Pilot's track (Whatcha Feelin) for over an hour...this came out. Thank you Dtrot. You inspired me.

Jazz (Horn) Variations on listening carefully to a rap track

Youtube music video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0okRYhkARyc

Not so much to say about this one. Just started it on a sample I found and it turned out to develop into a real nice song. Hope you'll like it!!!
Dedicated to 💚

Written and produced by Deep Sky Musics
Vocals royalty free from Splice

Jazz (Horn) Variations on listening carefully to a rap track

Paul Maurice Roche | Composer