A collection of songs with me playing cigar box guitar. Some are solo pieces others are duets and with The OddBox Band.

A mixture of live and studio recordings.

Eric Plays Cigar Box Guitar

Another month and another wave of creativity from the Artists on TGS Records. TGS records is a group of people that met through The Guitar Social and support each other in the writing, recording and distribution of original music. What started as a lock down project is now morphing into a project that uses the internet at its best and results in real life, on stage performances and collaborations. I love these songs, I love the project and in many ways, TGS Records demonstrates perfectly what the Guitar Social is about. Well done guys x

August 2021

A playlist full of tracks created by the writers, musicians and producers of our community of musicians, "The MusiCollective" - this is the September edition. A huge congratulations to everyone involved in this. We have a mix of complete recording newbies, seasoned pros and everything in between. All as incredible as each other.

The MusiCollective is a community of people that get behind each others' projects, for example by helping with songwriting, arrangements, recording and production. It is a continuation of TGS Records (https://soundcloud.com/tgs-records) which started as a lockdown project and has been snowballing new members in ever since. Everyone is welcome to take part. If you'd like to join us, get in touch by emailing themusicollective21@gmail.com.

TMC Records - September 2021 playlist

A playlist full of tracks created by the writers, musicians and producers of our music community, "The MusiCollective" - this is the September 2022 edition, marking our 1 year anniversary! For old times' sake (and to bolster the track numbers) we've also thrown in some tracks from the 2021 edition (https://soundcloud.com/themusicollective/sets/tmc-records-september-playlist) for good measure.

A huge congratulations to everyone involved in this. We have a mix of complete recording newbies, seasoned pros and everything in between. All as incredible as each other. 

The MusiCollective is a community of people that get behind each others' projects, for example by helping with songwriting, arrangements, recording and production. It is a continuation of TGS Records (@tgs-records) which started as a lockdown project and has been snowballing new members in ever since. If you'd like to join us, get in touch by emailing themusicollective21@gmail.com or filling in this short form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScgUPAkshXrqaB3yjG3Npa5lZVMs2uqxgzYX77DeZb8HHCYpA/viewform?usp=sf_link

TMC Records - September 2022 playlist

A playlist full of tracks created by the writers, musicians and producers of our music community, "The MusiCollective" - this is the September 2024 edition, featuring both new songs and a couple of oldies from past playlists!

A huge congratulations to everyone involved in this. We have a mix of complete recording newbies, seasoned pros and everything in between. All as incredible as each other.

The MusiCollective is a community of people that get behind each others' projects, for example by helping with songwriting, arrangements, recording and production. It is a continuation of TGS Records (@tgs-records) which started as a lockdown project and has been snowballing new members in ever since. If you'd like to join us, get in touch by emailing themusicollective21@gmail.com or filling in this short form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQL…wform?usp=sf_link

TMC Records - September 2024 playlist

World Wide Ballad

Losing my invisibility outside The Landsdowne in Primrose Hill

Cool Old Man

Done with backing track. ESP Ltd H-1001FM and Fender MIM Stratocaster into Line 6 Pod XT Live.

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday's Gone

Incoherent raving multicoloured on the walls
Cries for help that no-one hears above their own fall
Stained grey stones and broken bones, ignore every shout
Shuttered lives, sharpened knives, where’s the way out?

Seems like it’s there,
A nobody, in a place you don’t know.
But this is here,
A somebody, in the place you call home

Come on and show me
What you embody
Don’t say you’re sorry
If you always will be
Wake up! ...
… this is not a drill

Peeling paint, a silent taint, behind every door
Stumbling round in broken shells, can’t fight any more
Walking past, broken glass, the shards in my mind
Black marks from my boots upon the pavement left behind

Seems like it’s there,
A nobody, in a place you don’t know.
But this is here,
A somebody, in the place you call home

Come on and show me
What you embody
Don’t say you’re sorry
If you always will be
Wake up! ...
… this is not a drill

This Is Not A Drill

When the Hurricane Blows

I had this guitar lick kicking around for ages and ages. I didn't really know what to do with it until my friend Lucoline (https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/GAJYT) had a go at it and we came up with this.

Lyrics:
The moon looks sharp tonight
cutting through the atmosphere
dark shadows pierce the light
so lonely and austere

my breath fogs up like ice
but all my thoughts are crystal clear
I won't let you break my stride
I am getting out of here

Sharp footsteps pound behind
stirring up my hopes and fears
your voice rings clear and bright
it echoes in my ears

Such force and eloquence
that every word is insincere
I won't let you break my stride
I am getting out of here

What do you take me for?
You don't love me anymore
and I'm not the girl to stick around 
just to numb your pain
Your broken and wounded soul
it only keeps you in control
but I realized and it's hit me like
a bullet to my brain

People Are Taller In Real Life

Getting Out (Feat. Lucoline)

Buy on BandCamp

Getting Out (feat. Lucoline)

Jimmy the Rocket

SMCF

Played on a 3 string cigar box guitar with the amazing voice of May Widera

Alberta Alberta

The OddBox band play Old School Blues at WooFest. Features Eric on 3 string cigar box guitar, Ash on electric guitar, kerry on Bass, Doug on Cajon, Jenny on Vocals and Jenni on Vocals and Violin

Goodnight Irene

A song about liking someone and not telling them, and not at all dwelling on that many years later...


Verse 1
So… Here I go again
Not saying the words running through my mind, that it’s you I’ve wanted all this time and
No… I cannot get myself to say it
To your face when I’m with you these words just seem so out of place

Chorus
And I’m lying to you and lying to myself,
Deep down I know nobody else can make me
Feel - quite - like - this - I - can’t - help – it
All I see is visions of you looking through me
Like you never knew me

Verse 2 
And hey… it’s far too late to let it show
Now I’m in orbit all around you 
And your mates, and I am bound to keep a
Straight… face while you fall in love with someone else and 
Parade her past me, and surely it’s plain to see that I am

Chorus
Lying to you and lying to myself,
Deep down I know nobody else can make me
Feel - quite - like - this - I - can’t - help – it
All I see is visions of you looking through me
Like you never knew me

Bridge
And I’m not dwelling on the fact
That I never got to tell you that
I liked you from the very first time we met
How pathetic I held it back for all these years
So cheers to frozen fears and cold regret
About the things I should’ve said to you
When I could like I was always mad about you
And here’s to never seeing you again
To never being more than friends, 
Holding hands on the beach or the middle of the street, you’re out of reach and I still

Chorus
See those visions of you looking through me
Like you never knew me
Looking through me
Like you never knew me

Never Knew Me (demo)

Selva Oscura (A Dark Wood)

Music Only Knows (Haiku song)
Words and music by Ell Freeman

Starlight through the leaves
On twilight paths unwinding
Music leads the way

Firelight through the trees 
Smoke and embers spiralling 
Music starts to play

And in the darkness
I will leave my path behind
Who cares where it goes
And where we’re walking
As I take your hand in mine
Music only knows

Daylight through the leaves
Nighttime revelries recede
Where has music gone?

Dew has doused the fire
Ashes where the flames once played 
Sing a sombre song

But in the darkness
I will leave my path behind
Who cares where it goes
And where we’re walking
As I take your heart in mine
Music only knows

Singing through the trees
A bracing autumn breeze brought
Music to our lips

When time comes to part
Following separate paths
We sing in our hearts

And in the darkness
I will leave my path behind
Who cares where it goes
And where we’re walking
As I take your heart in mine
Music only knows

Music Only Knows

My version of this classic blues standard. I think this song was first performed in 1924 (not by me!)

Trouble In Mind

Demo 5 of songs I wrote in my songwriting group sessions over the last year. The prompt for this one was to look at the last photo on your camera roll, and mine was a screenshot of the address for an upcoming artists/friends retreat. Enjoy! :) 

photo by Jenn Seguinot (Thru Jenn’s Frames Photography)

Cabin 

There were six of us 
Just making art
A weekend away wasn’t quite the start 
But it was a beginning 

We drove on in
From Canada
New York and the capitol
And we met in the middle 

Falling leaves
Painted trees
Shinying (I know it’s not a real word but it’s what appeared and I like it) up a new 
Version of me 

Looking out
On the lake
If this all weren’t so real
You would think it was fake

The tarot cards         
Tell the truth 
They cracked us open in the new moon
We could sense we were winning 

The concerts and 
The solar eclipse 
The pictures snapping gave us a glimpse of 
The life we’d been wanting 

Falling leaves
Painted trees
Shinying up a new 
Version of me 

Looking out
On the lake
If this all weren’t so real
You would think it was fake

We stayed in a cabin
We knew what would happen
And it did 

Smoke in the air
Raspberries sweet
On my lips

Cabin (demo)

Cover of the Chase & Status feat. Plan B. classic

End Credits (cover)

DANCE RECORD

When you find yourself in a dark deserted road and you are scared, but you have a guardian angel that will always help you find the way

CREDITS:
Lucia Mameli: Music, Lyrics, Lead Vocals, Producer
Berkinozcan: Guitars, Drums, Pads, Mixing and Mastering

LYRICS
It was dark at night
standing in the fog
I was scared damn right
Thinking I’d get lost

And I stepped back back back
Never looking back
And I stepped back back back
Back on my own track
And I stepped back back back
Never looking back
And I stepped back back back
Back on my own track
I stepped back

She was there for me
Pretty with a smile
She said “Child, come here
This is the door you need”
And than I felt that I
Was gonna be all right
But now I know that you
You’ve always been my guide
My light inside

And I stepped back back back
Never looking back
And I stepped back back back
Back on my own track
And I stepped back back back
Never looking back
And I stepped back back back
Back on my own track
I stepped back

Who will guide me
when you’re gone
will I hear your voice inside me
whispering which way to go

And I stepped back back back
Never looking back
And I stepped back back back
Back on my own track
And I stepped back back back
Never looking back
And I stepped back back back
Back on my own track
I stepped back 

STEPPED BACK

Luciano Simoncini - Early Spring

all production by @clever

www.twitter.com/soundsbychris

download for free: https://www.toneden.io/clever/post/lofi-01

free download

EARLY...

They Gon' Wanna Come

An old song/cover of "The Bird and The Bee - How Deep Is Your Love". i absolutely hate this cover i made since i had no idea of what i was doing at the time. however i'll leave it up since so many people seem to enjoy it.

cutie

A collection of songs recorded at Silver Pine Studios with Eric Molyneux and Rachel Smith. Most of the songs feature the cigar box guitars made by OddBox Guitars

It Hurts Me Too

City of Reflections

Gravity

Old school blues and more on homemade 3 string cigar box guitar

Cool Old Man

OddBox Eric