Nice guitar work Pa, and a damn catchy blues my friend. Great line BTW...Durge

Great song, mate! Awesome guitar and the lyrics and vocals are outstanding. All round amazing : )

One Moment

One Moment - With Dirk Ködderitzsch

Been writing about methane holes in the arctic and fascists but who needs more of that stuff ? Here's some old heart song instead.

A Hard Woman. ( Steve Killingbeck )

Vorlon Rick Medlock @rick-4-1 - Drums & Percussion Ideas
She/Her Janine Levinson @janinelevinson - Vocals & Ideas 
Tiresias Phil McWalter @phil-mcwalter - The Other Stuff

Pronouns [Let Me Be Me)

She 
He
She 
He...

I don’t want this
I do want that
I don’t want that
I do want this
You call me he
I call me they
They call me him
Let me be me
Or be him...

She Him They Them
She Her Me Him
He Her She Him
Why not be him?

Let me be me
Let me be me
Let me
Be me
Me

© July 2022 Phil McWalter

Pronouns (Let Me Be Me)

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Written and recorded close to the Avon in Stratford upon Avon, Nov 2022
Rick's drums added via the internet from just north of Finham Sewer in Dec 2022 ;-))

Guitars upon Avon

Thank you all for your wonderful feedback on the tracks I have posted from my current album “Focal”. I’ve enjoyed sharing them and reading your comments. Other than the remix I did for “All Kinds of Wonder”, this is actually my first track for 2023.
It’s a familiar style from M.E. 
For those that gravitate to my emotive and melodic work, I hope this finds you comfort and warmth. 
And for anyone that stumbles across this song; perhaps you will have a growing fondness to it.
Here’s to all of our creativity and passion for music making in 2023!

Mood Exhibit - A  Growing Fondness

Here's one I wrote last summer, glad I got a little spare time to make a version of it. The title is taken from a favourite book of mine: Heavy Weather by P.G. Wodehouse; though the song doesn't bare any relation to the story.

Heavy Weather 

so please tell me that you will stay
even if you have no intention to
because you know that I always preferred 
the lies from the truth

so please save a seat for me
somewhere right at the west end of the pew
because you know that I always preferred 
the lies from the truth

the wind blows heavy weather my way
the sun up here she burn much brighter too
there's a few crumbs left round my way
just do the best that you can do

the newspaper heiress pleaded guilty
for using Stockholm syndrome as a ruse
but she said her captors they all preferred
the lies from the truth

last summer was spent back and forth blaspheming
I heard the story told from the Catholic boy
to the Jew
but you know it appears that  they both preferred
the lies from the truth

the wind blows heavy weather my way
the sun up here she burn much brighter too
there's a few crumbs left round my way
just do the best that you can do

just do the best that you can do


thanks for listening and inspiring as always much appreciated, take care folks.

recorded at home in my own ramshackle style in-between life.


Heavy Weather

Lorcán ~ an Irish given name meaning " little fierce one "
Arranged and produced by, Mike Hllton © 05/02/2023
Thanks for listening.

Instruments

PRS Custom 24
Takamine Acoustic Guitar
Double Bass
Bodhrán
Vocal Pads
Chimes

The Lorcan

Lorcán

New Sitar Demo

Only a love song. Not more, not less.
A very easy song, very easy to play, very easy to sing, perhaps a song to sing along? We composed this music, what could you do with this? It developped into a love song, what else could this music be? We usually don't write ordinary love songs, but why not occasionally...

Time With You Began

Written for songwriting contest, w/theme the Santa Fe River in n. Florida. Translations..."Timucuan": native people in n FL at time of Spanish Conquest.  "Cracker Cowboys": colloquial name for cattlemen who herded wild cattle north during the Civil War.  "O'leno town": ghost town on the Santa Fe, a swinging bridge built in the 1930's is still there.  

Roll On, River   c. 2023 by Mike Manetz

V. 1
The river was Timucuan,
Before the comin' of the white-man's gun.
'Neath the giant cypress trees,
They fished the river wild and free.
Spanish priests came one day,
Taught the natives how to pray,
Named the river Santa Fe,
River watched them fade away.

Chorus
Roll on, river,
On and on forever,
She'll be rollin' on when we're all passed and gone.
Through centuries of hopes and dreams,
Conquistadors, fools and thieves,
Roll on, river,
Roll on,
River, roll on...

V2
Cracker cowboys took control,
After driving out the Seminole.
Their cattle on the muddy banks,
Would feed the hungry rebel ranks.
Black man runnin' to be free, 
Down the Santa Fe on to the sea.
Midnight paddle down to where,
A Yankee gunboat's waitin' there.

Chorus

V 3  
Lovers at O'Leno town,
On a swingin' bridge they're lookin' down,
River rushes there below,
Like a thousand years ago.
Their kids will play computer games,
They'll forget the history and the names,
But the river holds the memories,
Of all she touches, all she sees...

Chorus




Their kids will play computer games,
They'll forget the history and the names,
Of all of those who came before,
Guess it doesn't matter anymore...

Centuries of hopes and dreams,
Conquistadors, fools and thieves,
All they left is all but washed away,
Their kids will play computer games,
And forget the history and the names,
of all of those who came before,
They don't care much for that anymore...

Roll On, River

A rainbow perched on a wire, like notes on a staff.

A RAINBOW ON A WIRE

A Quiet noise from Newcastle, Lo-Fi, homespun, acoustic, italicized songwriting. 
 
Thanks for stopping by, really appreciate all the feedback that I've had from the wonderful SoundCloud community. It's always a pleasure to  hear new music from other  artists, and I have been greatly inspired by  all the amazingly talented musicians, poets, singers and songwriters right here on SoundCloud.

All tracks recorded at home on my tascam 8 track.

I have some other music available in bandcamp,  but my latest music is generally here on SoundCloud. Cheers!

Leavin' E.P. available as a free download here
https://pashotthecanary.bandcamp.com/album/leavin

Debut album, Push It Down The River, available on link. My second album " Canary Song" is here on Sounclound in my albums section.
 https://pashotthecanary.bandcamp.com/album/push-it-down-the-river

Heavy Weather

Pa' Shot The Canary

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