Woah, I was just listening to Colin Hay this morning and then had a listen to your song now... you remind me so much of him... it's fab!

love how emphatic but layed back in a groove this is. just an amazing track.thanks

Another great track, Mike. Reminds me of 'The Doves', this one. Good stuff! x

Written by Rob Dunsford
Recorded Aug 2011
Rob - Guitar & Lead Vocals
EL Heath - Accordion
Joseph Cave & Becki Cave - Backing Vocals
Mixed & mastered by Joseph Cave

Here's a Youtube version of this song recorded live by Adam Beresford-Browne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWC7qv9Zu8c

Time To Go Home

can’t stay here

All Of The Stars

Piano-Based instrumental with emotional strings that evokes sadness and melancholy mood. This instrumental is able to underscore somber scenes like funeral, breakups, and other painful life moments.

The Last Wish

The melancholic contemplation of Mark van Maaren aka Les Salopes  https://soundcloud.com/les-salopes inspired me to complicity in this musical narrative. You can listen to the original track here https://soundcloud.com/les-salopes/the-first-blackbird?fbclid=IwAR1-ZEhzFySv9PgK3We9rxesOK3ie1F5w77xBbdPf8ie9svCZ2Hl6gtFmQw

Idea, text, voice, keyboards, bass, flute, arpeggio guitar, percussion by Mark van Maaren.
Trumpets, lead guitar, drums, some effects and final mix by Guitarbeard

Buy https://guitarbeard.bandcamp.com/track/story-telling-time

Story Telling Time

I’m walking the streets
As the city sleeps
All curtains are closed
The blinds all down
No lights shining through any window

No one to be seen
No voices to be heard
As in a concrete desert
I’m Feeling unobserved

The wind taking it slow
Moon hiding it’s face behind a cloud
My footsteps echoing
Bouncing of the brick walls

A gentle drizzle shines the road
A quiet rain
A Doppler siren sings it song
Of troubles , far far away

Streetlights making an aisle
showing me the way
Though I walked this road many times
Knowing every crooked curb, every loose tile
I appreciate the gesture

Traffic lights still keeping control
Of things that aren’t there
The green man flashes happily
The orange light imitating the sunset
And even the bridges are vast asleep

A city sweeper passing by
His cart in a hurry
Heading where he is needed
Heading towards a tidy day

Across the street a drunk is making a fight
With gravity and himself
But give him the glory of a winner
And trust he’ll get home safe

Walking by this place
Where some sort a party is nearing it’s end
Lazy, late laughter of tired folks
Shreds of dancing music
But no more dancing shadows behind the window

The lush trees around the park lane
Give cover to the half boys, half men
Keeping their secret habits out of sight
Smoking, talking, alert yet calm
A quick look enough to see I’m no danger

The smell of rising bread
The steamy windows of the bakery
A promise for this upcoming day
At least there will be breakfast

A distant train
Pounding it’s wheels on the track
The rhythm of transit
The beat of big and small journey’s
There is always those who have to go somewhere

If I take it slow
I might hear the blackbird

Story Telling Time (Mark van Maaren / Guitarbeard)

I dreamt of the chorus and the outro in April 2020. It was co-written by Liam Waugh, about our friendship. Took me twenty minutes to write the rest and a half hour to record.

(Lyrics)

(Chorus)
Everybody needs a good companion. Everyone needs someone somehow.
Everybody needs a good companion now.

(Verse 1)
Our friendship is so good, bonding like we should.
Glad you are my friend, hope until the end.
Kind conversations and motivation.
Be the best we can, you're my biggest fan.

(Chorus)

(Verse 2)
With you, I see you, as a friend it's true.
With you, there's a love, a platonic love.
Happy together, I hope forever.
Love one another, like no other.

(Chorus)

(Chorus)

Sabrina Corpac's Album

Everybody Needs a Good Companion (feat. Liam Waugh)

Cathedral stone

Paraphernalia Of The Bacchanalia

This is the debut single from Lines of Flight. It will released via MH|HW Music Ltd on the Marth 5th 2021, across all digital platforms. Special preview release on Soundcloud available now. 

Birthing Bell is the first in a 10-track series to be released by Lines of Flight: 1 track every month, for 10 months which will culminate into their debut album 'Signs of Life'.

Birthing Bell represents past traditions and future absences - the passing of time in unfamiliar places which we don't want to return to but miss nonetheless.

Lyrics:

On this shore
In July of 1575,
They came to take
The land we loved so well. 

It’s a birthing bell,
It’s a boat’s death knell,
Their rugged story is now ours to tell. 

At the ebb tide
Sails a strange fleet,
From the far side.
Came cargo to greet,
He, we all knew well. 

It’s a birthing bell,
It’s a boat’s death knell,
His rugged story was all ours to tell. 

The waves’ goodbye, the cry below,
We’ll all run mad from sorrow.

At the day’s end,
A banner lifted
Onto dry land,
An infant gifted,
She, we’ll all know well.

It’s a birthing bell,
It’s a boats death knell,
Her rugged story will be ours now to tell. 

The waves’ goodbye, the cry hello,
We’ll not run mad from sorrow. 

Lyrics by H. Whale, Music by J. Moss. Produced and Mixed by J. Moss and E. Heaton. Artwork by J. Moss.

Signs of Life

Birthing Bell

J Train To Myrtle

ORDINARY MAN 2021-01.mp3

UK Songwriter, Musician.  "Mike Turnbull is a singer-songwriter from the Lake District whose main instruments are tenor guitar & octave mandola. Their sound coupled with the sources of his songs suggests Seth Lakeman and, in truth, that isn’t a bad comparison. He certainly has the same drive and energy."
Dai Jeffries - Folking.com

New 2019 album "...in so small a compass" available now...
https://www.musicglue.com/mike-turnbull/shop

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