It has that The Clash  vibe! Love it. Real stuff! 🍻

I can tell you got a guitar heart ..yes indeed...nice rock n roll  sound

Great Chorus Rob, love the bounce of the vocal with the music!

Catchy, grooving great song and performance! Great job Rob!

Powerful track man!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Really dig those deep lyrics, your vocals are always so darn good!!🔥Love your expression!!Sweet guitar solo in this!!🎸 btw I got a lot of catchin up to do!! Lookin forward to hearing your other tracks my friend!

Composition and lyrics: Paul and Fritz Kalkbrenner

This is the raw version (the "Sand"-edit...) of a collaborative project with https://soundcloud.com/synline. We both used the same vocal track.
Please take a listen to his "Sky"-version, it is quite different:
https://soundcloud.com/synline/sky-and-sand?si=95b81c6c2859417d8653ce0853ecc8df&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

A Big Thank You to my friend Synline. I enjoyed this collaboration very much.

Sky And Sand 

In the nighttime when the world is at its rest
You will find me in the place i know the best
Dancin’, shoutin’, flyin’ to the moon
Don’t have to worry ´cause i’ll be come back soon

And we build up castles in the sky and in the sand
Design our whole world ain’t nobody understand
I found myself alive in the palm of your hand
As long as we are flying, all this world ain’t got no end
All this world ain’t got no end

(I found myself alive in,
In the palm of your 
In the palm of your hand,
I found myself alive in…)

In the daytime you will find me by your side
Tryna do my best and tryin’ make things right
When it all turns wrong there is no fault but mine
But it won’t hit hard `cause you let me shine

And we build up castles in the sky and in the sand
Design our whole world ain’t nobody understand
I found myself alive in the palm of your hand
As long as we are flying, all this world ain’t got no end
All this world ain’t got no end   

(I found myself alive in,
In the palm of your,
In the palm of your hand…
As long as we are flying 
All this world ain’t got no end,
All this world ain’t got no end,
Ohh,
All this world ain’t got no…)

Sky And Sand (cover, raw edit)

© Joe Liberty 2025, all rights reserved

Tuff luck 

Got sold that dream of a Ponzi scheme 
Hard work n sacrifice know what I mean
Trade your life away to make a few bucks
And all ya got left is a lotta tuff luck

Tuff luck
That sucks
Tuff luck
Aww

To fast to live, to young to die
Without enough sense to ever wonder why

To old to work to broke to quit
Just a cog in the wheel lost in the mix

Tuff luck
That sucks
Tuff luck
That really sucks
Tuff luck

TuffLuck

'The Minstrel and the Jester' Just a title that popped into my head. This is where it went.

My Drouthy Cronie

The Minstrel and the Jester

This is the third Texas Tea song from me and @texmex-shaman that has a super dark eerie mournful vibe to it. We are thinking of them as a kind of trilogy that began with "Got a Light", continued with "Black Coffee" and culminates with this one. Each title is a reference to David Lynch's Twin Peaks. In season 1 or 2 of that show, the main character Agent Cooper says that he takes his coffee "as black as the sky on a moonless night". The mood is kind of appropriate for the weather this time of year, at least in my part of the world!

Moonless Night (A Texas Tea Production)

Pause a minute to contemplate
Consequence of decision made
How this shakes out
Pros and cons spinning in circles

Directly in my path
Unrealistic battle between 
Head and heart

I know what I think I want
Know what I think I want it to be
I think I know everything 
Don’t want to hear it ain’t that way

Give my heart, commit completely 
There it is, uncertainty 
Listen to friends, they all tell me
I’m blinded by fantasy

Easy to accept a truth
We’ve been told to believe 
Unbelievable that all this time
Might not be entirely true 

Turn the page lead to more
Complicated twist of fate
Struggle against circumstance 
I can’t control 


Not Entirely True

This is a track from a few years ago.  I recently remixed it with some new parts.  This song is why I think I have ADHD.   

You may know the title from the sound a teenager makes once they've figured out they know everything. 

lyrix:

woah!
ahhh ahh
scheau
scheau
crazy
i like parties 
scheau
lol
scheau
ohhh ohhh oh oh ohhh
(shamanic chants)
scheau x2
oh goddamn
crazy

Scheau

Savourer le Mr Freeze  
On me le dit souvent, alors je m’assois et j’attends.  
Monsieur frise un peu trop souvent,  
qu’on me le dise…  
J’attends, j’attends.  

L’air du temps qui glisse à travers le vent,  
À mâcher du réglisse et s’asseoir,  
Et à perdre son temps… alors j’attends.  

J’attends.  
Resté inactif et le regard vif,  
Je voulais y revenir un peu trop souvent.  
Mr rit de toutes ses dents,  
Et tu me le dis…  
J’attends.  

L’air de rien qui passe comme le vent,  
Souffle, traverse le temps et s’assoit,  
Se terre souvent… alors  
J’attends.  

Resté immobile même si la vie défile,  
Sur mon côté débile si facile,  
Dégouline une larme sur ma joue.  
La menthe me manque, juste une envie.  
Personne n’arrive, un ciel trop clair,  
À crier dans les airs…  
J’attends.  


J'attend

Human Ground (Earth) – KAT x Lou
Rooted in stillness, the pulse of being.

Earth hums quietly beneath the noise,
solid, ancient, forgiving.
A piece that carries both gravity and grace.

Created in collaboration with Lou (@louie_e), whose earthy guitar tone meets my lyrical breath  - 
a dialogue between soil and sky.
Part of the Element Series, this collaboration rests on grounded sound and poetic resonance.

The cover image traces back to my Tribe Painting, created in the deserts of Mexico during a shamanic journey, a circle of life, soil, and song.

Human Ground (Earth)

chemical research

" Praise ye the Lord" is an Air form Georg Friedrich Handel's oratorio "Solomon", written in 1748.
The anonymous libretto is currently thought to have been written by the English Jewish poet/playwright Moses Mendes. It is based on the biblical stories of the wise king Solomon from the First Book of Kings and the Second Book of Chronicles.

violin - Clarke Alonzi, Anna Downes
viola - Philip Hayman
organ - Helen Roberts
voice - Robert Llewellyn

We hope you'll enjoy!

lyrics

Praise ye the Lord for all his mercies past,
Whose truth, whose justice will for ever last.

Praise ye the Lord  (Solomon - Georg Friedrich Handel)

Rub-A-Dub-Dub

Hi! I'm Rob!! I write and record my songs, and present them to the world here. I am the singer, guitarist and bass player, EZDrummer3 keeps the beat!
I have a collaboration with Single Use & Recycled:
https://on.soundcloud.com/XmiY1G8qKTuGQiAeZQ 
and another with my brother Joseph Olsson:
https://on.soundcloud.com/y261JZd5ZFZbOKmn40 
(Starts October 17)
Check 'em out!

Not Entirely True

Rob Olsson

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