It's a nice song with a calm atmosphere 🎸🌞🎶

Nicely performed. Bringing back memories. Merci!

Well you really got to the core of this song,  Rick, love the notes too, you have to know the history to  deliver a song this well!!!

Seven Before 07

I  Didn't Used To Love You

Music & Lyrics: Margareta Theorin

DU, MUSIKEN OCH JAG

Du och musiken 
gör mitt liv, värt att leva.
Varje dag vi har det fint
Du, musiken och jag.

Vi sjunger, spelar
skriver maskin
och umgås som bara vi kan.
Dagar blir till veckor
månader till år.
Snart vi sitter och minns
det som varit.

Tiden bara rusar
musiken enbart tjusar.
Vår kärlek lever med oss
för alltid.

Du och musiken ....

Lyckan har vi funnit
alla år som runnit.
Utan hopp och mening
levde vi då.

Stämmor 1993 Margareta

Du, musiken och jag. 1399 ( 1993 ) Margareta Theorin ( Margareta )

Much of this research of the song "Wagon Wheel" comes from an article in Rolling Stone Magazine.

In Sam Peckinpah’s 1973 film "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid", Bob Dylan had an acting role and was asked to do the sound track as well or maybe the acting role was the carrot. He started work on this in late January, 1973 in Mexico City. The next month he moved over to Burbank, California and brought in Byrds frontman Roger McGuinn, drummer Jim Keltner and bassist Terry Paul. The sessions yielded Dylan’s comeback hit “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” and just a few takes after finishing that classic they did two versions of “Rock Me, Mama.” It was far from finished, and they soon moved onto the main title track for the movie and probably forgot all about the sketch of a song. Somehow or another, the session tapes got in the hands of bootleggers and “Rock Me, Mama” began its slow, unlikely journey to the top of the charts as “Wagon Wheel.” 

Old Crow Medicine Show’s Critter Fuqua picked up a bootleg of the Pat Garrett sessions when he visited London. “I let [bandmate] Ketch [Secor] listen to it, and he wrote the verses." Old Crow Medicine Show released the song as "Wagon Wheel" in 2004, splitting the royalties evenly with Dylan.

This is just one of those songs which audiences seem to enjoy listening to as well as join in, especially the chorus. It fits into so many genres but its roots are folk roots but easily slides into country and or bluegrass. I know a few musicians who have grown tired of playing it. I'm not one of them.  This is just another Dylan classic but he did have help on this one.

Since most of the people who come to listen to me are local to southern Alberta, I decided to "Albertify" this song to gather more interest by changing a few words in order to be more identifiable with the listeners in my neck of the woods.  My apologies to Ketch ... in case you come by for a listen.

I really wanted to add a banjo and possibly a mandolin but I own neither at the moment. The more varied the instruments and the variety of bandmates, the better this song gets.  In the end, it is just I, me and myself and my very eclectic set of percussion instruments and harmonicas.  This is the last of a planned 12 song set.  I do hope you enjoy it!!  I play this one in the key of G using a Seagull 12 string and a C harp.

Wagon Wheel by Bob Dylan and Ketch Secor - Alberta Version
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Heading down south to the land of the pines
I'm thumbing my way into Caroline
Staring up the road and pray to God I see headlights
I made it down the Rockies in seventeen hours
Picking me a bouquet of dogwood flowers
And I'm a-hopin' for High River, so I can see my baby tonight.

So rock me momma like a wagon wheel
Rock me momma any way you feel
Hey, hey, momma rock me
Rock me momma like the wind and the rain
Rock me momma like a south bound train
Hey, hey, momma rock me

Running from the cold up in Lac Ste. Anne
I was born to be a fiddler in an old time band
My baby plays a guitar, I pick a banjo now
Oh, north country winters keep a-getting me down
I lost my money playing poker so I had to leave town 
But I ain't turning back to living that old life no more.

So rock me momma like a wagon wheel
Rock me momma any way you feel
Hey, hey, momma rock me
Rock me momma like the wind and the rain
Rock me momma like a south bound train
Hey, hey, momma rock me

[instrumental]

Walkin' to the south out of old Panok[a]
Caught a trucker out of Lacombe had a nice long toke
But he's making for the Yellowhead and north to Grand Prairie
And I gotta get a move on before the sun
I hear my baby calling me -- I know she's the only one
And if I die in High River at least I will die hap-py.

So rock me momma like a wagon wheel
Rock me momma any way you feel
Hey, hey,  momma rock me
Rock me momma like the wind and the rain
Rock me momma like a south bound train
Hey, hey, momma rock me    (one more time)

(Repeat chorus & fade)

Road  Apples in the Foothills

Wagon Wheel - Alberta Version (Bob Dylan and Ketch Secor cover)

How's your halo
when you've nothing to wear?
Hold you head up
on a wing and a prayer

Float like feathers
Float like feathers
Just open wide
wide

Elevate
the 
stars
pull
parachutes

Hold your head up
for there's nothing down there
With the open eyes
eyes

Elevate
the
stars
pull
parachutes

(we connect the stars)

How's your heavens
when you're stopping for air?

parachutes

Out Of The Sky

Dancing Ice Crystals

All Instruments By Martin Reed,
Produced By Martin Reed.
https://youtu.be/eB4VgSr9WW4

Tokyo Jams

A little sung poem.

When My Time is Done

When moonbeams prism starlight in a crystal grain of sand
As it slips into the ocean, from the furrow of my hand.
When warm fogs on the glaciers sit frozen by the sun
And the clock hands fuse in unison, I’ll know my time is done.

When a feather halts the rolling rock, in the shallow of its hill
While a rainbow melds to monochrome, and lunar orbits still.
As the hanging snow that fails to fall and the rivers pause their run,
With the swallows standing silently, I’ll know my time is done.

When the whispers of the moor grass take respite in the lee
And what was once myself is my lost memory of me.
When the final spark has flickered long before dawn has begun,
And the acrid mizzle sprinkles then I’ll know my time is done.

When clouds subsume the ribbons shredded scarlet in my mind.
The jaded thoughts of lamentation all that’s left behind,
As the boy soprano soft subsides, my hymn of life is sung
White horses on the Bamburgh coast will know my time is done.

When the minor keys of requiems float sweetly in the dust
The book is finally closed and bound, my history left to rust.
From chapel bells at midnight, a solitary peal is rung
The fossil tombstones weeping there will tell my time is done.

When my race from ashes to ashes and from dust to dust is won,
Then you, not I, will know for certain that my time is done.

When my Time is Done

Step right up and get yer biscuits and gravy!
hilariously terrifying :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh2C7_n8ZB8

biscuits 'n gravy across the nation

Seem to have come over a bit goth.

Brrrrr.......

Icicle Pie

Ladders of madness – to nowhere;
Painted out canvasses – laid bare
Cambric in waters polluted by thoughts
Of things I despised yet endlessly sought.
With camphor on cotton wool, pressed to my face,
Recounting histories filtered through lace,
Made by widows with fingers of wax and faces of bone.

A lifetime of daydreams – unspoken,
Like windmills in jetstreams – stand broken.
A khamsin-blown gold dust extracted by fools
Dangling their trinket polystyrene jewels.
Double up the cortisone, cradle my head,
As it cracks on its axis of cruciform lead,
Smelted from church roofs at Easter by Satan’s condoned.

Lay my corpse serried – and kindly,
Leave it unburied – for vermin to find me.
Cripples with broken teeth weeping in cells,
For sins I committed knowing full well,
That penance unfolds as eternity extends
My story untold, my mannequin pretends,
From his box 'neath the window framed by gargoyles of stone.

Photo by Lorenzo Colombo on Unsplash

Icicle Pie

Gravitational

Volt5000 (@volt5000) I are now glad to present our collaborative version of my recent track "The Moonlit Snow-White Mountain" (https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/the-moonlit-snow-white-mountain). It will be the 2nd track in our single under the title "Disturbed Planet", which we intend to release on SoundClound later on 2021. We hope you'll enjoy this longer, more varied, version of ours too! Volt5000 has added vocal samples from MAGIX, and extended beautifully the initial track into rhythmic but also relaxing developments.

The artwork cover, that will also be used for our single and its two constituent tracks, is based on a photo taken by Alex M on 8 August 2020 and then cropped and annotated by Alex M (in Mac OS Preview) on 10 January 2021.

Created in collaboration on 25 and 27 December 2020 (initial mix and recording in GarageBand iOS and Logic Pro X by Alex M) and 27 January 2021 (final mix and recording in MAGIX by Volt5000), and posted on SC on 28 January 2021 (by Alex M).

Merci infiniment, mon ami, pour cette belle collaboration de nous !

Duration: 10:10 minutes

The Moonlit Snow-White Mountain (Collaborative Version) - Volt5000 & Alex M

Somewhere I read that SoundCloud is the DIY of the music world.  Very true for most of us wannabe (famous) musicians.  For those who were lucky enough to spend years in an actual sound studio, maybe this is a slam dunk. For the rest of us, it's like being the Wright brothers before they fully understood the science behind aerodynamics much less get a machine to fly.

I have learned a lot in 2018 thru 2019 while playing at small, local venues.  It's a lot easier to sit back in a "recording studio".  I do put that in quotes since, for me, this is just a couple of microphones connected to a DAW which is connected to a computer with some multi-track software and some free plugins to enhance the finished product.  I believe there are about 5 unique disciplines to learn which include: playing an instrument, singing, doing both together, using a microphone, connecting with the audience.  I have much more respect for stage performers now, especially solo artists. Now, if one adds the discipline of recording engineer, well then, you have a well rounded musical background. 

I do hope that you enjoy some of my tunes.  I'm always happy to hear from listeners who have something meaningful to share, even when it is not particularly flattering or in someway odd.  I'll even try to answer any questions you may have.  Remember that you are never too old nor too young to create and share your music and/or share your knowledge.

Wagon Wheel - Alberta Version (Bob Dylan and Ketch Secor cover)

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