The Lady is Risen

Tea for two

Sarah Jarosz - Build Me Up From Bones

A song of mine from the Blues Academy album

Uncool

'The Flow' 
Written by Jon Woode 

This is still my most played song on SoundCloud and one of my most precious recordings.

I actually wrote the lyrics to 'The Flow' whilst walking around Waitrose in Canterbury, Kent. The guitar part came later that day. 
I didn't think it suited my voice and really wanted my daughter Sophia (pictured above) to sing it but she was studying for her GCSE exams at the time. I pestered her until eventually she said she would have one go at it in her break. This was the first and only time she sang it.

The Flow was included in Tom Robinson's Fresh On The Net and has had a fair bit of airplay since then, it is still available on SoundCloud and Spotify etc, there is also an instrumental version of the song available.

Sophia's is now an F2 Doctor, so no harm was done in making this recording 🙂

"As soon as this intricately played track gets going, you get a creeping suspicion that Canterbury’s Jon Woode is not supplying the vocals. Deft investigative journalism (reading the track info) reveals the voice actually belongs to his daughter, Sophia, who sings of being an uncontrollable fire that consumes all, then a waterwheel, perpetually pushed around, and finally the air, wind and breeze, “Delivering kisses and scattering seeds”. It’s really as beautiful as that sounds, and proved immensely popular with Listening Post readers this week. 


Steve Harris  Freshnet favs: Batch 140



Songs of Land and Sea

The Flow

It's Better If You're Around

https://youtu.be/WW87KXe_Fpk

She says you shouldn’t play your music so loud after dark
If you want to play your guitar, then go to the park
Stop dancing on the table and standing on the stool
If you want to put on make-up, go to acting school

And if you’re not too careful, you could get your hair full of greasepaint
And if you’re not too careful, you could see it all slip away
					
You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours
If you don’t, one day you’ll be down on all fours
	
She says that you’re not as young as you once were
If it doesn’t work out, go to the job centre
Tuck in your shirt and polish your shoes
They will find a career more suited to you

Copyright Janislaw Szczepaniak Sloane
@jansloanemusic

It's Better If You're Around

Matt Slouch

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