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Fixed up the lyrics a bit.  Cranked it up a tone.  Performed it half way up the stairs for a bit of acoustic space (that whole bathroom thing is such a cliche)

The Usual Sort of Thing (live on the stairs)

This is a song I wrote in January, that's had a chequered history to get here.  Highlight definitely getting https://soundcloud.com/dave-mckeown to play clarinet.  Low point,  trying to get a fictitious character to play guitar on it. The couple in the first verse are the same as the couple in the last verse.  The guy in the middle is just a random fool.

<i>On the street the boys are down there shouting at each other
Hear them boast and fight,  but you know they'll go home to mother
There's not one who wouldn't rather be up here with you
And if they didn't more fool them

When he first knew love his new wife wasn't even born
Soon her lovely nothing-knowing face he'll almost scorn
Wishing it could move him like that face from long ago
And if he doesn't more fool him

Yes we're kind of old it's been so long I won't deny it
But before you criticise you really gotta try it
Sure, we have some mem'ries but we make em all the time
So what comes next? I'll stick round and see
And if I didn't more fool me</i>



More Fools Featuring Dave McKeown

Everything except the surdo is a real instrument.  The 1930's accordion weighs a ton.
vid here: http://youtu.be/sz9DINHY85A?list=UUYLjtFgIqFeEmDwLwX0HXbQ

Until the Road Runs Out

Inspired by a line from Drimble Wedge's classic song

Save Yer Breath (2011 version)

Personnel:
Voice with loads of attitude: http://soundcloud.com/steph-casey
Sax, production, mastering,  making all the decisions I just dithered about: http://soundcloud.com/jomama-2
All the other bits including writing the song:  Me

If You Never Change Your Ways. Featuring Steph Casey and Joe Drzewiecki

I made an appeal for some guitar solos for this.Here's the first.This is the country blues take on the song. Joseph has given it that authentic North Carolina charm <a href="http://soundcloud.com/houckjt" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Joseph Houck</a>


SC Blues Feat Mr Joseph Houck on guitar

This is a song by Nelson Sargento.  I wrote the English words, based pretty closely on the originals (with a lot of help from my half-brazilian,  or to be more precise half-baiana neice).  Please please check out the original http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW1JG1LYInU with Nelson's lovely old broken voice,  some virtuoso matchbox playing from Elton Medeiros and truly astonishing 7-string guitar (yes, it's just one guitar) from the lamented Rafael Rabello

Go from one bar to another 
and drink to conceal
The pain in my heart that I feel
And all of these losing you blues
Any advice I consider and later reject
No more intelligence no self-respect
I get into fights and I lose

I'm drinking no more than recommended
For a big man if the session extended
Over the course of a week

Roll into the bar ; put my troubles behind me
If I rise to get up they soon find me,
Sit me down and say 'Have one more'
Sit me down and say 'Just one more'

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Vou de boteco em boteco
bebendo a valer			
na ânsia de esconder		
as dores do meu coração	
conselhos não adiantam
estou no final			
perdi o élã
perdi a moral			
meu caso não tem solução	

eu bebo de mais pro meu tamanho	
arranjo brigas e sempre apanho		
isso me faz infeliz

entro no boteco
pra afogar a alma			
as garrafas então batem palmas	
me embriago
elas pedem bis


De Boteco Em Boteco (Nelson Sargento Cover)  - My english translation

Hi,  I am the UK's No 1 John Hollingum tribute band. Some say I sound uncannily like him. I even look a bit like him,  except the T shirt is obviously a different colour.

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