Soulful and blue, but not really The Blues, this track is a musical journey through the life of Keith Richards. Written, played, arranged and recorded by Peter Allan, here is You've Got To Get Old (to get young again).

You've Got to Get Old

What would you do to escape consequences? What deals, what pacts would you make? Well, here's Lead Shoes by Peter Allan, sure is blue but not a "Blues",

Lead Shoes

Simply titled "Embrace" you are free to let your mind wander through the song and hopefully get something out of it.

Embrace

Written and recorded on 26th July, 2015. As such a meditation on David Bowie circa 1976 when I was just starting to become musically aware.

White Like Lightning

Here's a song called Magic Show for the winter experience we all go through. Recorded live, that is, with a couple of microphones and no overdubs or pauses, etc. Simply given as if I were playing it to you in person.

Magic Show (live)

Sister Rilke is an original song that's got some steaming soul in it's veins. Always nice to play some blues and groove. This is my first recording and just about all first takes so hang on.

Sister Rilke

In this version Arise appears more as a love story. Written and performed by Peter Allan, recorded Nov 2015. "We find love alive in many places, we feel love arise in many faces"

Arise

At last I've got round to recording this song with its final verse. Solo me-o with a touch o piano. One is silver, the other one is black. I know which car I would choose if I were not coming back.

Black Car For My Guitar

A questing questioning song. How can we see through mere thingness to find beingness?
I've heard that darkness always gets its man. Prison blues played by an un-dead band, and everywhere I look I just don't understand. Awake I lie in the dark halls of history, then I shuffle off to work in my dream factory. Everyone is humming their own melody.
Why do men have things? cry and cling to autumn leaves. Why do men love things? Could it be they're hurting, because they can't let go.
Turn up that reverb, make a cathedral swell. Took a little white lamb to ring the old Bow Bells. So many questions that feed your fears. Why do men have things?
Everyone is opened by their own knife.... Why do men love things?

Why Do Men Have Things ?

This Is Not A Folk Song, by Peter Allan.
To some of you this is a folk song
One you've heard before
With golden geese and war and peace
A sea without a shore
To some of you this is a love song
A time to turn away
With mirror deep and poison sleep
All for your desire
There's flood and fire, blood, barbed wire
A trench deluxe to sleep in 'til morning light.
To some of you this is a bad song
The critics are all excited
But you're all alone when you point that bone 
For so you are divided
Come let's see with open eyes
The stars are brightest through the darkest night.

This Is Not A Folk Song

Nostalgia, twice dead. Nostalgia, once warmed and now re-frosted. Nostalgia, thump it, pump it, for comfort deal with it.

Nostalgia

Three is a Spanish-flavored song: One is all, two apart, three is the number of mystery.

Three

Turn Around People is a  plea for change, a warning and a song of hope, all rolled into a boisterous blues/jazz tumble of sound, pulled together by insistent rolling rhythm and guitar ragga beat.

Turn Around People

A Fool In Your School

Blind Lemon Jefferson is one of the most original voices in early blues and in many ways the Buddha of the Blues. Here's one of those dream songs with a big swamp of sound.

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