WRITTEN BY
Zelma Sanders/ BMI
Lezli Valentine/ BMI
L.T. Murray
Marie Hood

The Jaynetts- Sally Go Round The Roses (ALL IN/1963)

Gospel Spirituals

Save a Seat for Me

Blues Ballads

40 Days and 40 Nights

DOCTOR [on screen]: People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.
SALLY: Started well, that sentence.
DOCTOR: It got away from me, yeah.
SALLY: Okay, that was weird. Like you can hear me.
DOCTOR: Well, I can hear you.
— Doctor Who, Blink

A cinéma vérité examination of modern para-sociality via Tin Pan Alley-esque folk jazz.

One of my guilty pleasures of late has been react content — this where you watch someone watching something else so you can watch how they react to it. Completely ridiculous. And yet someone how quite addicting. 

There is an element of nostalgia to it plus the vicarious thrill of reliving what its like to experience your favorite moments from TV or film for the first time through somebody else’s eyes.  At the same time the best reactors themselves become so involved in the story that they enthusiastically cheer the protagonists on, excoriate the villains, and cry inconsolably when tragedy befalls the heroes. Even their interactions with their viewers through the lens of the camera can ape that of a child with an imaginary friend. The overall series of interactions is a bit of para-social möbius strip.

My gateway drug for react content was Doctor Who. This song is my ode to my favorite YouTube react content steamer.
Credits:

E.G. Phillips: vocals
Chloe Mendola: cello
Sarah Bonomo: clarinet
Felipe Ubeda (Cigarbox Man): guitar
Omree Gal-Oz: piano
Curtis Aikens: upright bass

Recorded at Airship Laboratories in Richmond, CA
Neil Godbole: recording engineer
Recorded & Mixed by Nahuel Bronzini 
Mastered by Andrés Mayo Mastering

Arranged & Produced by Nahuel Bronzini & Felipe Ubeda 
Written by E.G. Phillips
(c) 2025 Ducks With Pants Music

Lyrics:

She shares gossip, the weather, and laments her split ends
As she talks to the camera like an old friend
Then sums up her thoughts on the ongoing story arch
And she loves it 			
When It Gets Dark

She’s determined to avoid any and all spoilers
As she predicts the plot points of passé pot-boilers
Warms slow to new faces but mourns when they depart
And she loves it 			
When It Gets Dark

If there’s a grisly murder or
Giants rats stalk the sewers
She’s bubbly and effusive
And though answers are elusive
She becomes intrigued… yes…
She becomes intrigued

How she adores those handsome young men on her screen
Their charm, their sweetness, and yes, their physique
Like figures out of myth or the lives of Plutarch
And she loves it 
When It Gets Dark

When It Gets Dark [Tricks of the Light EP]

Southern indie feels right…’Couple of Times’ is a type of personal reflection that speaks to the cycle of addiction in my life, past to present.  - Paul

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34th Floor

4 Nights of 40 Years Live

The Forecast (Calls For Pain) (Live)

That's All Right Mama - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup/Elvis Presley

I'm Scared   Bingo

New York Jazz Lounge - Michelle

6S I N Z -TWOL A T E 4AM

Soul Strangerz are fans of music first, united by their arguably insane obsession with listening to music, they play like they are keeping evil spirits at bay. Drawing inspiration from everywhere from rock and hiphop, blues to folk, reggae to outlaw country, their original, independent, music respectfully refuses a specific category. 

Maybe it’s the A.D.D. or maybe it’s some strange phobia of being pigeonholed but Soul Strangerz defuses your day by refusing to stick to a single genre and by bringing people together for a party and a dash of lyrical reflection or speaking to the human condition. 

Led by singer/songwriter Paul Watson (guitar), Soul Strangerz features Richmond-area musicians LA Moore (drums/percussion: toured/played with The Jackson 5, Divinity Roxx, Akon), John Trongone (bass/guitar: toured/played with The Trongone Band), and, when not busy touring, producing, or generally being a badass, Michael E. York (lead guitar/bass/keys: toured/played with Sleepwalkers, J Roddy Walston and the Business, The Lumineers)—who shreds harder than he smiles.

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Paul from Soul Stranger

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