Name: Alice by Ricky Murray
Duration: 4 min 2 s
Description: Always wanted the song that ended up as 'Bilbao' to go with the first three songs that have been released for years. Finally finished it and thought of recording other bits and pieces that were created around that time as well as a ditty I made up when I was 7 to go with them. First thing I remember making up.

i am the only thing that stays (demo)

Always wanted the song that ended up as 'Bilbao' to go with the first three songs that have been released for years. Finally finished it and thought of recording other bits and pieces that were created around that time as well as a ditty I made up when I was 7 to go with them. First thing I remember making up.

Alice

Most Instruments - Malek Haltam
Bass - Destin @destin-charles-445727711
Drum Engineering - Hunter Archer
Inspiration - I lovely dip in a crisp creek of introspection

lyrics

River Boy, don't be shy,
you're alright.
If you're coy, take your time,
I won't mind.

~chorus~

You hold the key,
to what it means,
to be we, to be me.
And I won't do, neither will you.
~verse~

River boy, here's your goal,
take it slow...
Time's no toy, needs more soul,
we all know!

So take a deep breath of someone you love,
gaze at the sky and think of your mom!

River Boy, don't be shy,
you're alright.

~chorus~

You hold the key,
to what it means,
to be we, to be me.
And I won't do, neither will you.

~bridge~
Take me away,
I don't want to stay... x4

River boy, take your time,
don't be shy.

Time's no toy, needs more soul,
we all know!

So take a deep breath of someone you love,
gaze at the sky and think of your mom!

River boy, don't be shy,
you're alright...

River Boy (demo)

n The Skies 

You had a vision 
Two souls in collision 
Now you’re gonna walk away 

You needed purpose 
She seemed worth it 
You’re throwing it all away 

Two souls searching for the answers 
Somewhere up in the skies are falling 
And fading away into the night 

Who will catch you when you fall 
From the skies 
Built upon all the lies 
And who will catch you when you fall 
From the skies 
Built upon all the lies 

You needed someone 
Who you could lean on 
To help you as you walked away 

Two souls searching for the answers 
Somewhere up in the skies are falling 
And fading away into the night 

Who will catch you when you fall 
From the skies 
Built upon all the lies 
And who will catch you when you fall 
From the skies 
Built upon all the lies 
And who will catch you when you fall 
From the skies 
Built upon all the lies 

© 2020 Gretchen DeVault

The Blue Herons - In The Skies

there's no way through the dark / that separates you and me

The Cannanes - Frightening Thing

Oberon Rose is built around the songwriting team of Tommy Oberon and Rebecca Rose.
In the manner of Elton John and Bernie Taupin, Tommy writes the music and Rebecca pens the lyrics.
Based out of Nashville, Oberon Rose pulls from a variety of rock, folk and pop influences that span both genres and decades.   
“Psychedelic meets country meets retro glamour with a touch of the Dandy Warhols” is how Aquarium Drunkard describes their sound.
Heavily influenced by the British Invasion and the guitar playing of bluesman Peter Green, Tommy Oberon strives to bring “my love of melody, harmony and electric guitar” to the listener.   
Coming from a background in theatre, lyricist Rebecca Rose adds a spin on traditional storytelling and likens her lyrics to “black-box theatre…stripped down and raw and left to your imagination.”   
As the producer of Oberon Rose, Tommy prefers to keep production simple. “With the technology available today for recording, it is possible to rely on production to make the song and the sound. But when you look back at the songs that will stand the test of time, the kernel of the song exists before any production was added. The production was used to embellish what was already there.”
Tommy and Rebecca work to get the song “fully realized” before the recording and producing process starts. “That might seem like an obvious approach to writing songs,” says Rebecca, “but today so much can be done with technology, it can become easy to overlook the importance of the actual writing process.”
Tommy says, “My goal as producer is to go into the studio with a song that can hold its own with just an acoustic guitar and a melody.” 

Oberon Rose’s forthcoming album Holographic Blues is being released on January 15th, 2021.

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Blending a fusion of jangle pop, doo wop, indie, glam rock, alternative, grunge, new wave, Motown, surf and blues with psychedelic and avant garde ideas of sound effects and recordings of everyday sounds, Ricky Murray is quite the concoction. Tied up with lyrics that pertain to a songwriter that metaphorically wears his heart on BOTH his sleeves, it makes for spellbinding listening. He’s not pretentious at all for writing his bio in the third person and saying all this. When he’s THAT good, he has carte blanche to speak in the third person and assume the effects his songs have on the listener.  After some made-up ditties in the 1990s - ‘Teddy Bear Armbands’ and ‘Greg The Egg’ to name but a few – his songwriting journey (have to use the word ‘journey’ in a bio) began in earnest when he started playing guitar and writing songs, proper, in January 2002 with a ‘God Save the Queen’ rip-off – Sex Pistols song – called ‘Going Back to School’. He soon improved his songwriting, but it wasn’t until January 3rd 2004 on the same evening an FA Cup match between Southampton and Newcastle United was played and that he heard No Doubt’s cover of ‘It’s My Life’ on Virgin Radio that he wrote a song that was decent and came out naturally from within his esteemed being. That was ‘She’s So Cold’, which is available to listen to on YouTube here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DWtGBVMkog 
Since then, he hasn’t looked back, unless it’s to the artists who inspire him to pen his deeply charged laments, all of which has led to the works of genius you can hear here. Hear, hear to that.

Alice

Ricky Murray

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