Fresh studio track from Medicine Warriors recorded at DubConscious Studio in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Bret Holmes and Joel Eisenkramer play all the instruments.
Joel - Drums, guitar, keyboards, and vocals.
Bret - Bass and guitar

Lyrics:
[Chorus]
Word and bullet are the same thing
Speak good, do good
Manifest something
Constructive, we're not destructive
Coming with the blessing and the healing

Word surgery
To open up the hearts of the bloodthirsty
Take out their badness and replace it with goodness and mercy
Nature imagery
Just to remind we
That spring is coming with that fresh green poetry

So all you corporations with your for-profit intentions
The picket line is gonna surround you with an endless chanting
Because now we know what you call political opinion
Is just another tool to create division

[Chorus]

So we march in demonstrations
We write letters to the ones who play the game of representation
More importantly we're talking to our brethren and our sistren
How to make a life outside the bloody system

So don't tell me what's possible and what's impossible
See the affect of vibes on the water crystal
Don't bother telling me what's possible and what's impossible
Vocalization, intention - Manifestation!

[Chorus]

Gardens, upon gardens
Fresh carrots, beets and broccoli
Gardens, upon gardens
Fresh carrots, beets and broccoli

Way out in nature somewhere,
A waterfall is humming with the big bass frequency
Way out in nature somewhere,
A waterfall is humming with that big bass frequency




Doing & Saying (Studio)

Meaningful Life track with Heirloom Seeds band, recorded live by Brian West 6/27/14 at the Loft, Brattleboro VT.

Brian West - Drums
Jay Cook - Bass
Joel Eisenkramer - Vocals, rhythm guitar
Dan Rosow - Keys, trumpet, supporting vocals
Bruce Rosow - Lead guitar
Dan DeWalt - Trombone

Lyrics:

Open crusty, sleep-filled eyes
To the haze maze confusion of the modern day time
Hustle bustle money-making
They build muscle in the gym because all the work is mechanized

Is it greed?
That I just want to buy some groceries
Put some gas in my vehicle
Drive to see my brethren and my sistren

A meaningful life
A meaningful life
A meaningful life
No pain, no strife

How is that the children go to school
Twelve years or more
And they don't learn to plant one seed?
Not one seed
University graduating slaves and thieves

Entry-level labor
Is this the fate of your child you brought forth with love and hard labor
Give them fulfillment..

A meaningful life

Her lovely face
Is lit by the pale glow of a screen held in the palm of her hand
She's one million miles away
In space satellite land

Loneliness transmission
In a text message
Oh, the nearness of radiation
The closeness of cellular separation

Pumped up on stilts
My lovely flower wilts
Future mothers of this Earth demeaned to sex marketing
I can't believe there's a product placement on her backside
Give us..

A meaningful life
A meaningful life
A meaningful life
No pain, no strife

Meaningful Life With Heirloom Seeds band

Live at Green Mountain Camp in Dummerston, VT for Leland &amp; Gray Union High School's class of 2012.  Bless the youth and their potential.

Lyrics
[Chorus]
'Just say that you love Jah
I know that you love Jah
Alpha &amp; Omega
Sing of your love for Jah
You'll feel a little better
Try a drink of water

Modern man agenda
Is disappearing way out over wild blue yonder
They're piercing the sky with their rockets
Spilling chemicals on Mama's fresh green carpet
The original man also traveled in space
Building a big bonfire in a holy place
They traveled 10,000 light years
While they stayed right here

[Chorus]

Technological gadgetry (your iThings)
Give the illusion of movement while you stay stationary
Longing for connect I-Speed
Take a long walk out in the country
Upload praises upon third-optic connection unto Jah
Download the system to reprogram because they suffer too long

[Chorus]

Players:

Bret Holmes - Bass
Pete Biolsi - Drums
Joel Eisenkramer - Vocals, Rhythm guitar
Jason Sperling - Lead guitar
Dan DeWalt - Trombone

Say You Love Jah

Recorded live at the Green Mountain Camp in Dummerston, VT on 6/15/2012.

Instrumental.  Composition by Jason Sperling.

Players:

Bret Holmes - Bass
Pete Biolsi - Drums
Joel Eisenkramer - Rhythm Guitar
Jason Sperling - Lead Guitar
Dan DeWalt - Trombone

Medicine Warriors - Ska Tune

Doing &amp; Saying - recorded live at Inferno, Brattleboro, VT 7/13/2012

Players:

Pete Biolsi - Drums
Bret Holmes - Bass
Joel Eisenkramer - Vocals, rhythm guitar
Jason Sperling - Lead guitar
Peter Eisenkramer - Keyboards
Dan DeWalt - Trombone
Ron Kelley - Alto Saxophone
Libby Garofalo - Shakere

Lyrics:

[Chorus]
Word and bullet are the same thing
Speak good, do good, manifest something
Constructive, we're not destructive
Coming with the blessings and the healing

Word surgery
To open up the hearts of the bloodthirsty
Take out the badness and replace it with goodness and mercy
Nature imagery
Just to remind we
That spring is coming with that fresh green poetry

So all you corporation with your for-profit intention
The picket line is gonna surround you with an endless chanting
Because now we know what you call political opinion
Is just another tool to create division

[Chorus]

So we march in demonstrations
We write letters to the ones who just play the game of representation
More importantly we're talking to our sisters and our brethren
How to make a life outside this bloody system

So don't tell me what's impossible and what's possible
See the affect of vibes on the water crystal [x2]

[Chorus]

Gardens
Upon gardens
Fresh carrots, beets and broccoli [x2]

Way out in nature somewhere
A waterfall is humming with a big bass frequency [x2]

[Chorus]



Medicine Warriors - Doing & Saying (live)

Medicine Warriors cover of Dawn Penn's "You Don't Love Me (No, no, no)" featuring Libby Garofalo.
Recorded live at Inferno - Brattleboro, VT 7/12/2012

Players:

Libby Garofalo - Vocals
Pete Biolsi - Drums
Bret Holmes - Bass
Joel Eisenkramer - Rhythm guitar
Jason Sperling - Lead guitar
Peter Eisenkramer - Keyboards
Dan DeWalt - Trombone
Ron Kelley - Alto sax

Medicine Warriors - You Don't Love Me (feat. Libby Garofalo)

Recorded live at the Icehouse at Okemo's Jackson Gore area 7/27/12.

Players:

Pete Biolsi - Drums
Bret Holmes - Bass
Joel Eisenkramer - Vocals, rhythm guitar
Jason Sperling - Lead guitar
Peter Eisenkramer - Keyboards
Ron Kelley - Alto Saxophone


Lyrics:

There has never been a
There has never been a
There will never be a
Time when this battle is not raging
Your strength is your discipline
So arm up yourself and stand firm
Send love out and you'll see love return

You and I have always
You and I have always
You and I will always
Be in love
In various capacities and relations
Mother and brother, friend foe or lover
So many lifetimes we've been together
And I still love her

Contact with matter makes us feel hot and cold
Pain and pleasure, attraction and disgust
Making distinction between victory and defeat
But we must learn to endure fleeting things
The foundation is in the roots
It's in the roots

It's in the roots, in the roots, in the roots and that's the truth...
And if you're looking for love
There's only one place that you're ever gonna find it
And if you're looking for something to tide you over
Hold firm or the wind is gonna blow you over

Gita Blues (Live at the Icehouse)

Recorded live at the Icehouse at Okemo Mountain Resort, Ludlow VT - 7/27/12

Players:

Pete Biolsi - Drums
Bret Holmes - Bass
Joel Eisenkramer - Vocals, rhythm guitar
Jason Sperling - Lead guitar
Peter Eisenkramer - Keyboards
Ron Kelley - Alto saxophone

Lyrics:

[Chorus]
What do they find when they break open atoms?
What do they find when they break open particles?
Jah Jah again
Jah again

We don't super collide
We just check it out how the bread rise
Hi tech advancement
But the poor will never be able to access it
Except for in sweatshop labor conditions
They're robbing all the precious metals out of Africa
To fuel the slave labor in China
Foxconn employment lies
To lure the peasant out of the countryside
We nets to prevent suicide
80 hours overtime to make the computer you want to buy
They're a bad Apple with the prefix i-

[Chorus]

God bless the children
Who can satisfy their curiosity without a big explosion
Test tube babies, they're cloning sheep
Corn and soybean
We BT chemical for free
You (Monsanto) say it is the hungry you want to feed
Then how come you try to bring the farmers to their knees?

[Chorus]

Hear what they're calling innovation
But you can't improve on creation
It is perfection, what Jah has given us
The key to the lock is a selfless love
Scientist see your ugly reflection in a mushroom cloud
You've gone astray with good intention
But materialism is just spiritual corruption
Show the people there's nothing on the outside
For the solution, be free of ego pollution

[Chorus]

Atoms (live at the Icehouse)

Recorded live at the Ice House at Okemo's Jackson Gore for their summer music series, 7/27/12.  One microphone, one love.

Players:

Pete Biolsi - Drums
Bret Holmes - Bass
Joel Eisenkramer - Vocals, rhythm guitar
Jason Sperling - Lead guitar
Peter Eisenkramer - Keyboards
Ron Kelley - Alto saxophone


Lyrics:

In our sacred places..

Just to recharge the soul battery
Reconnect with the maker, crystalline integrity
Rest by the bank of a stream
Listen to space-time murmuring
Worries peel off to detach
Self is left naked but nothing lacks
Refortify as you must pass through
Corruption, and come out clean
Be merciful, oh Jah
Don't let me deceive the I
Too many excuses over too long a time
Trying to measure the width of a needle's eye

In our sacred places..

We travel without to defend
And within to strengthen
In the city buildings scrape the sky
When she's longing for caress the whole time
A people driven mad by electromagnetic stress
Flourite in my pocket to block all of this
See how everything out the Earth has its purpose?
Man can play at creation but the Creator is a righteous one
She is a righteous one, She is a righteous one

In our sacred places...

In our sacred places we plant our seeds
Keep nurturing hearts to watch what's manifesting
Hours turn to days and days turn to seasons
The shiny clean appearance of the civil-lie treason
Seeks to lure I out but regardless of their illusion scheme
I hold I sight and Jah holds what I see
I hold I sight and Jah holds what I see
I hold I sight and Jah holds what I see

In our Sacred Places..

Sacred Places (Live at the Ice House)

Recorded live at our studio space.

Players:

Bret Holmes - Bass
Pete Biolsi - Drums
Joel Eisenkramer - Vocals, rhythm guitar
Jason Sperling - Lead guitar
Jed Blume - Percussion
Ron Kelley - Alto saxophone
Dan DeWalt - Trombone


Lyrics:
[Chorus]
Life is what you do with it, do with it, do with it

I love the morning (love morning)
When the sun is rising
And the dew on the grass is
Cool and collected

All promises are unbroken
All promises are unfulfilled
All promises are unbroken
In the morning

[Chorus]

You came to the dance 
Not to stand in one place
You came to wine up
Straight from the waist

And if the bass is pumpin
Morning will be there
More likely than not, she will over sleep her clock
And I'll get to spend
More time with you

[Chorus]

Just before sunrise
Two lovers awoke
One said to the other
"Do you love me or yourself more?"
One responded, "There is no me, I've faded into you.
Like a ruby held up to the sunrise,
There's no difference."
So you see this is how, they say 'I am God'
And tell the truth
Do your work, don't stop digging your well,
Don't try to make excuses
(paraphrase of Rumi's 'Ruby Sunrise')

[Chorus]


Cool & Collected

Medicine Warriors play roots reggae, hip-hop, dub and ska music to empower and uplift.  The music is to move you mind, body and soul in a celebration and purposing of life.