Cover of Peter Frampton's cover of Ringo for his 80th Birthday
Shan Frogel, Vocals
Glen Evertsen, Guitars  & Bass

It Don't Come Easy

A chill jazzy track with vocals. A modern mood with cool lyrics and smooth guitar licks. A song about being hypnotized by the eyes of another. A chance meeting with someone in a crowded room or online. The magnetic attraction of meeting someone who might be your soul mate. Instant connection. 

Recorded in my home studio using Cubase 10 and various VST plugins. Overlaying Heritage 535 and Telecaster guitar licks with a Guild 12 string rhythm guitar. I play all the parts and sing lead Vocals. 

I'm mesmerized by your eyes, kiss me tell me it's real
I can't disguise this feeling inside, I'm hypnotized by the wheel

I'm falling falling into the skies, I'm falling falling free
I've memorized the sound of your sighs, you're calling calling me

I'm hypnotized by the wheel
The wheel that brings me back to you
The wheel that brings me back ... to you

I'm falling falling into the skies, I'm falling falling free
I've memorized the sound of your sighs, you're calling calling me

c) 2022 P. Trappen Umpteen Music BMI

Mesmerized

Good Time Charlies got the Blues ... this is a live cover version with  Keith Rothco singing lead and Bill Canty and myself on Harmony. I'm playing the lead. Keith sent this to me recently and I must admit, it's a lovely mix. Live at O'hara's Club in Palm Beach around 1982. Keith is finger picking the main guitar, Bill is playing rhythm and Rick Rossano on Bass guitar.

"Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues" is a song written and performed by American folk singer Danny O'Keefe. It was first recorded by O'Keefe in 1967, but not released. It was recorded by The Bards and released in 1968.

Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues

"They say that Blues is a woman, I believe that's true ... Cottonmouth Blues".
(For those familiar with 'little weed' ;)
This original blues song was written / arranged by me. I'm playing lead / rhythm guitar on an Epiphone Les Paul Modern 6 string played through a Fender Blues Jr. (cranked). Recorded / produced by Stuart Epps at his studio in Cookham UK. On Bass and Keys is Paul Hirsh. Martin Ditcham is playing the drums.

LYRICS:
Well it seems that I've smoked too much again
And I've wound up with that old faithful friend
That old faithful got me, pro'bly got you too
Cottonmouth Blues

Well I'm dry, I'm so thirsty I could die
Yeah I'm high, got the feeling I could fly
the whiskey bottles empty, should have brought me two
Cottonmouth Blues

Well it seems, my woman left me for another man
Yeah my baby, left me for some other man
They say that Blues is a woman, I believe that's true
Cottonmouth Blues

Copyright June 2024 Umpteen Music BMI

Cottonmouth Blues

COTTONMOUTH BLUES

This original blues song was written / arranged by me and recorded / produced by Stuart Epps at his studio in Cookham UK. 

Paul Hirsh is playing Bass and Keyboards. 
Stuart Epps is playing/programming the drums. 

I am playing the slide guitar / rhythm guitar on a Martin 00028 6 string Eric Clapton Signature model acoustic with a bit of copper tubing for a slide and also playing the Harmonica solos.

I wrote the song this year (2024) while learning to play the slide guitar after being inspired by two friends at the Navigation Blues Jam in Nottingham: Doc Shellard and Simon Rose (thanks chaps).

Loosely based on Rollin' and Tumblin' a blues standard first recorded by American singer-guitarist Hambone Willie Newbern in 1929.

Copyright June 2024 Umpteen Music BMI

Jack of all Trades

A song I wrote about a girl that was, in my eyes, unapproachable. But love conquers all as they say.

This was created while I was learning the chord pattern of Am7 to Am6 and seeing the similarity with the D9 chord. I loved the break with an apeggio on the inverted chord pattern. I play all guitar parts on the Heritage 535. 

There's Martin Ditcham on drums 
Paul Hirsh on bass and keys. 
Recorded and Engineered by Stuart Epps at his studio in Cookham UK. 

Copyright June 2024 Umpteen Music BMI

You Got Me Dancin'

YOU GOT ME DANCIN'

'I think everyone feels like this sometimes. The old Norse God Loki is constantly playing tricks on me.'

This original song was written and arranged / mixed and mastered at Hired Guns Studio by me.

Engineered / recorded by Stuart Epps at his studio in Cookham UK. 

Paul Hirsh is playing the Bass and Keyboards. 

Martin Ditcham is playing the Drums. 

I'm finger-picking a Heritage H-535 6 string hollow body guitar playing through a Fender Blues Jr. (cranked). 

Mixed and Mastered at Hired Guns Studio using Cubase and the iZotope oZone Mastering plugins. 

Critics say ""Curse" is stunning."

Copyright June 2024 Umpteen Music BMI

(Sometimes I Feel Like) I've Been Livin' With A Curse

Welcome to the Hotel California!  My version of this classic Eagles tune, although a few steps lower than Don Henley's high vocals. This version of mine is still very popular on the N1M charts.


(demo only - not for sale)

Hotel California

It was 1987 at the 264 Club Palm Beach Florida. We were the house band and this is just one example of the great times we had there. The club officially held 72 people but on any given Friday or Saturday night there were 150 of us whooping it up. Rick Rossano on guitar, Kevin Kaufman on bass, George Anderson on drums and I was playing a Vox Jaguar organ and singing lead vocals. What great memories...

Good Lovin'

A song fitting for our times. A song I wrote and recorded on my 'Frequent Sea' LP released in 2001 (2 weeks before 9/11). I played all parts and sang lead vocals with Shan Frogel joining me on a very nice Bass guitar part. 

Lyrics based on the book Fahrenheit 451, a dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, first published in 1953. Often regarded as one of his best works, the novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found.

I'm the Fireman come and take a look
I'm the Fireman come and watch me cook
i'm the Fireman, I've come to burn your books
I'm the Fireman ...

Don't you dare speak out, I will silence you
Don't you dare have doubts, I will execute
Don't you move about I will punish you
I'm the Fireman, I'm the Fireman

You don't have to worry about me ...
You don't have to worry about anything
You can watch it all on TV
You don't have to worry about anything!

Frequent Sea

I'm The Fireman

A song I wrote and recorded in my home studio in WPB FL ... released in 2001 on the "Frequent Sea" album. The backing track is done on a Roland XP50 workstation - drums, bass and sitars etc.  I overdubbed the 12 string Rickenbacker lead & rhythm guitars and vocals. I learned a lot from this project, it wasn't easy programming each beat and note. It still sounds good though, I think, but the bass guitar part is a little pedestrian.

Rainbow Child

I was born in a crossfire hurricane, raised up on good scotch and earned my degree at the University of Hard Knox.

Mesmerized

Peter Trappen

Related tracks