This song was recorded in 1967 and released in 1971 by Danny O'Keefe.  Artist such as Elvis and Willie Nelson have recorded it along with many others.  I recently heard this tune and remembered how much I liked it and had to give it a go.  Thank you all for the listen and support

Good Time Charley  ( Cover)

Lyrical beauty and harmony. Voices weave with strings with guitar accompaniment.

Henriette

The Blue Room – smoke and whisky and tears….

The original idea was a smoky, jazzy, late night club-for-lonely-hearts kind of thing.  But since my “jazz” piano always ends up honky-tonk, and I can’t seem to lose the backwoods in my voice, the final product – though still smoky & late night – is more lonely hearts beer joint than jazz club.  Jazzabilly maybe.  Redneck Blues. 
								
But there is a plan to give the song a little jazz credibility.  I play an organ solo mid-song that I actually wrote for saxophone.  I’m sending the song to my little brother, longtime Atlanta musician Herb Avery, who says he knows a sax player who’ll take it on.  So if Herbert can make that happen, I’ll upload the new version later.  If he can’t, I’ll be looking for a sax player out there.  And yes, for now I’m keeping the sax player pic posted, to remind me to get this done.

My daughter Julia helped out vocally on the choral refrain.

So here we go.  Come set for a spell in The Blue Room…..when nobody loves you.

The Blue Room

Impressions of beautiful African landscapes.

Grootberg

Happy vibrant tune about love and connection

Turn

Dear friends, missiles are raining down on Ukraine every day!!!
This is a fairy tale about a nine-year old girl and her little three-year old brother.
Today I heard a voice from Gaza: "NOW WE CAN HEAR THE BIRDS AGAIN!"
I really hope that the people in Ukraine soon can hear the birds!

Those Two keep Together

They are the only who survived after the digusting attack
against the house where they were born
and their appartment was on the third floor
They just remember the flash of light
and that their father screemed- kids You must get out
The Year twentyfour was a terrrible year
that noone ever in the world could imagine

It was the missiles from the east falling down on their house
where they have lived for several years
they were a family consisting of several kids
and also daddy and their mom
and also Granddad and Grandma was there
The Year twentyfour was a terrrible year
that noone ever in the world could imagine

the little girl of only nine found her little brother of only three
under the masses of broken bricks
he laid his lovely little arm around her neck
and then she felt the love from him
I will not ever leave You my love
The Year twentyfour was a terrrible year
that noone ever in the world could imagine

They wrote a letter to the guy who is shooting at them
please stop the shooting- we don’t feel well
and have You seen all the men that You have lost
we do believe that You were wrong
when You entered the land of ours
We certainly hope that the year of twentyfive
will be a peaceful year without casualties

Those Two keep Together - 2025-01-20 12.36 (Lyrics in description)

Dear friends, this is a song for the weak people of the world

Silent Words

Have You heard those silent words that come from the smallest ones
They are the people that seldom are heard
They are so small and they can’t compete
with the guys that screem so loud
and noone listen to the words they say
we need to clear our ears so we can hear their voice


The children are silent when they suffer from something bad
we have seen pictures from Palestine and Ukraine
their eyes are empty reflecting pain
and the tears have now run out
and noone listen to the words they say
we need to clear our ears so we can hear their voice


In some parts of our cruel world the women don’t dare to speak
it is so strange that it can be like that
these women speak with some silent words
but in the future we will hear
what they say with their silent words
we need to clear our ears so we can hear their voice

Silent Words - 2025-01-29 14.24 (lyrics  in description)

There are stars in the Southern sky
Southward as you go
There is moonlight and moss in the trees
Down the Seven Bridges Road

Now I have loved you like a baby
Like some lonesome child
And I have loved you in a tame way
And I have loved you wild

Sometimes there’s a part of me
Has to turn from here and go
Running like a child from these warm stars
Down the Seven Bridges Road

There are stars in the Southern sky
And if ever you decide you should go
There is a taste of time-sweetened honey
Down the Seven Bridges Road
V3.02

Seven Bridges Road

Dear friends, I sit here philosophizing and thinking about how wonderful it is to have all our senses.
Unfortunately, it can happen that you lose one of them. So sad!

That we have

There are many, many things that we have
we are able to see with our eyes
and we can hear what people say - to us
and we hope that it’s nice - what they say
and bulliing is not what we want to hear
we want to listen to nice words - by this way our world will be a pleasant place to have  
we maybe lose our vision and maybe our ears as well


We are lucky if we can feel the scents of spring.
when there are many, many flowers around
and when the dew in the meadows
offer us a lovely event
these feelings are for all us people
whereever we may be - by this way our world will be a pleasant place to have  
we maybe lose our vision and maybe our ears as well

 
We can listen to the voices of our kids
they are so full of expectations for the days
that lies ahead for the young folks
they are full of life in their minds
they can’t see any troubles with enemies
even if there are threats- by this way our world will be a pleasant place to have  
we maybe lose our vision and maybe our ears as well

That We Have - 2025-02-09 12.03 (Lyrics in description)

The joys of living in the rainforest.  This is a song about our local butterly that comes and folics regularly in the clearings after the rain.

I saw Ulysses fly

Oh it is so sweet to die with Christ.-Hymn 482-Oh que dulce es morir con Cristo.-Himno 200-LSM

Classical guitarist/pianist who writes & produces music.  I study music and compositon at CQU Uni. I love crossing boundaries and genres in my original music.  New album on Spotify etc https://open.spotify.com/album/2cnmt2NytLzD9L3AVWwUdW?si=jcpQ5z5IRSmpSySFHQLvug

I saw Ulysses fly

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