Your voice is sublime on this. Great song!

Very cool, laid back song, with, of course that lovely voice from Janice, and good, funky bass from Ray (didn’t know you play the bass so well, Ray!) and guitar play from Peter. Like it a lot. Wish that rewinding counts for me too!

Estate

We are in the process of recording On Track, so decided to release a live version first. It was recorded at the Con Club Lewes using a TASCAM DR-05X handheld device on 19th April 2025. This was the first song of the set, the band were on stage and Rick (the singer) started with the train information message from the back of the club and only joined the rest of the band during the solo. We'll put a movie on YouTube at some point.

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I’ve got some Dylan
Some Velvet Underground
“Chelsea Girls”
On this mixtape I found
Ribbon on a reel 
My life in sound
Yeah ribbon on a reel
My life in sound

I’ve got some Bowie
From the old “Low” days
The thin white lines
And the foggy haze
The songs get played
Then fade away
Yeah the songs get played
Then fade away

I’ve got some Patti
Singing “Dream Of Life”
She’s howling out dreams
Into the deep dark night
It feels so alive
So it’s alright
Yeah it feels so alive
So it’s alright

I’ve got some Leonard
On this old Walk Man
He comes up after Joni
“So Long Marianne”
Such a heartbreak
Guess he wasn’t her man
Yeah such a heartbreak
Guess he wasn’t her man

Cause that’s my life 
This mixtape I found
Yeah that’s my life 
My replay life in sound
Cause that’s my life 
This mixtape I found
Yeah that’s my life 
My replay life in sound

MIXTAPE (with Joliz)

Fingers In The Folklore

ReggaeBluesFunk :)
© 2016-2025 J. Merritt, B. Merritt & P. Fulham
Janice Merritt: vocals and cajon
Peter Fulham: guitar
Ray Cochrane: bass
Bud Merritt: Mixing/Mastering/RealTracks*/RealDrums*/MidiSuperTracks*
Thanks to PG Music*, Peter & Ray

Baby please forget that stop button
You don't need to hit that button
don't want money, don’t need a mansion

Just hit pause before it's too late
Yeah hit pause before it's too late
Come on now doncha hesitate

I feel like I've been on fast forward
Yeah too long on fast forward
Slow it down, you know my password

Rewind me, take me back in time
Rewind me, take me back in time
Back to when you were all mine

Rewind Me

"Shamanism is a spiritual practice that involves a practitioner (shaman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance..." Thaaaaaaaanks Wikipedia...

Music can deliver a form of Shamanism to us in my pea head opinion. Joining me in this track is TexMex Shaman from Texas in the good old USA.

Connect here: https://soundcloud.com/texmex-shaman

Stephen is an incredible human, musician, artist and producer and made this the way more polished piece it is with his wonderful lead guitar and mix and master skills. I just handed him my splat and he made it the five pointed star it is with more Actual Intelligence from a human being brain. Nice one bro!

Lyrics

Yeah... Meet a musical bear 🐻

Sounds vain,
Bigging up my own brain.
Blame the world,
This status quo
The fake and fucked up reality show
I can't watch artificial grow
Without musical smells to make it go
Life is art and art is life
Fake the steak for a weak minded right
Go live your FUD
Go live in pain
I'll sing real truth!
Soul gain!
From indie to metal to rock to rhythm and blues and jazz...
Human algorithm

Yeah.. I'm liking this musical bear 🐻 😆

Make a style
Be a new way
Create a world that says new day
Create a world that honours history
Where artists spirits expand our mystery
These spirits are sad with your fovia fake
Art 'aint random when a human make!
So regurgitate your souless take
It all sounds the same this AI bake
So grab an instrument and express real heart beat
(Guitars / Samplers / Keyboards / Saxophones... all music that is expressed whether that's banging rocks or playing a harp)

FUCK AI MUSIC
Ask your soul to prove it
Chuck the lazy loser... you!
You lost!
Now hear those waves where life is not a cost...

Waaah

This project is one of multiple styles of the same song. The more fake bs skip to result splats I hear from ai typers the more I want to try and upgrade what goes into my own real music. Sir Isaac's 3rd law says what we need to do with that poison! So for me thats the only positive so far from ai music... It inspires me to make it the insignificant random arrangement of plagiarism it is... Sometimes I go soft in my head on some ai typers... but they need to have that reckoning with the technology as individuals too.. They robbed all of our musicians work and they're probably going to steel all of ours here eventually too... Like social media, for me from a creativity stand point it just adds to the general limiting of our abilities and desire to develop skills being happy with some heroine result instead of a grind to get there... If ai artists were honest with themsleves, listen to what they make and what every other complicit plagiariser makes... It's the same fake sounding music! Who are you inspiring with that? Usually as far as I can tell the individuals artists ego and thats it... It's the indifference towards the artists that taught it without permission... Thats the real shallow Merovingian in the system and the people that feed it. Piano/Keyboard - two directions... left and right. My tip... start there

Imagine a bank with all the cash. It's everyones cash... Then some dude comes along and builds a bank beside it and prints the same amount of cash and says! Look at me I have all the money lets play here.. If your head is poisoned by money too... thats not fair obviously... what ai companies have doen to artosts is worse. They took their fucking souls and will now profit on them for years to come because of the lack of political will to regulate or stop big corps doing this bs. It's too late to save the soul of their art fully but we need to get it reigned in fast

Actual Intelligence

Single Use Guitar
Rob Olsson Base
Rob Lyrics:

Somewhere in my brain
Where light rarely flickers on
Bumping 'round in the dark

Truth is not one dimensional
I hold on to more than one truth

Shadows still fill The deepest corners of my mind
Try to wave them away like flies

Truth is not one dimensional
I hold on to more than one truth

Peeling away the layers of lies
I convince myself I'm right

Living in this three dimensional world
Do my best
Get on the right side of  the truth

Peeling away the layers of lies
I convince myself I'm right

Somewhere in my brain
Where light rarely flickers on
Bumping 'round in the dark

Right Side of the TRUTH w/Rob Olsson

Taken from my latest album release BESIDES - a compilation of demos and unfinished instrumentals: wouwouandthewormling.bandcamp.com/album/besides

Aphids

Just some rain and noise
Outside my morning window
Strangers passing through
On the way to some rendezvous

I’m thinking of you today
Like I do when I’m breathing
You were flying through the night
Before I knew you were leaving

I should have jumped up on my horse
Run the roads from coast to coast
The California dream was just a dream
And those motorcycle cowboys
Know exactly what I mean

Ran into your brother
He was packing up a U-Haul
Said you called from Sedona
After rolling out of St. Paul

I know the winter cuts deep
And the sun suits your skin
But miles don’t mean forgiveness
When it all comes back again

I should have jumped up on my horse
Run the roads from coast to coast
The California dream was just a dream
And those motorcycle cowboys
Know exactly what I mean

I should have jumped up on my horse
Run the roads from coast to coast
The California dream was just a dream
And those motorcycle cowboys
Know exactly what I mean
And those motorcycle cowboys
Know exactly what I mean

Motorcycle Cowboys (with Joliz)

THATS THE TIME I FEEL IKE MAKING LOVE (COVER GEORGE BENSON)- 2025-07-26, 5.22 PM

Overdub instrument at Home Recording - 7/30/2025
Performed on Yamaha DTXtreme III Drum Kit with a Yamaha M12 Percussion Drum Pad

No luck at all  -  Vocal n Drums.wav

We enjoy writing and producing Americana songs.  Janice's 2018 Americana album All Over The Map, her 2020 blues album Am I Blue Enough and her 2023 blues album Deep In The Domain are streaming on Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon,  Youtube and other platforms.  We appreciate you checking them out!

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