From the new Rouge CD "Café Bonbon"  The full version of this track is now available at
http://rougecafe.bandcamp.com/album/cafe-bonbon

Menilmontant (sample)

Another original 2 horn chart by Steve. Recorded 2009 at MOUSe Studio, Seattle USA.

Brian Kent - tenor sax
Al Keith - trumpet
Steve Rice - piano
Dan O'Brien - bass
Devan Stovall - drums

Front and Center / Steve Rice Quintet

Music by Steve Rice (ASCAP)
Lyrics by Ken Morrison (BMI)

Vocals: Stephanie Porter
Piano: Steve Rice
Bass: Chuck Kistler
Drums: Brian Kirk

I Can't Help But Wonder

Music by Steve Rice (ASCAP)
Lyrics by Ken Morrison (BMI)

Vocals: Stephanie Porter
Piano: Steve Rice
Bass: Chuck Kistler
Drums: Brian Kirk

Engineer: Chris Spencer
Post production: Steve Rice

Exceptionary You - slow

Music by Steve Rice (ASCAP)
Lyrics by Ken Morrison (BMI)

Vocals: Stephanie Porter
Piano: Steve Rice
Bass: Chuck Kistler
Drums: Brian Kirk

Lyrics:
Deja Blue 
It's me again 
Just like it's happened here before 
I trust my heart 
Things fall apart 
And I'm right back at your door 

Deja Blue 
There's nothing new 
Just the who, the where, and when 
It's all the same 
And whose to blame? 
Deja Blue comes back again. 

You'd think that I'd learn not to answer 
Each time love comes to call 
But I just keep getting entangled 
As fate sets me up for the fall 

Deja Blue 
I beg of you 
Don't let me repeat the past 
I hope someday 
That I can say 
I'm through with Deja Blue at last

Deja Blue - vocal

Music by Steve Rice (ASCAP)
Lyrics by Ken Morrison (BMI)
contact: stevericemusic@aol.com

Vocals: Stephanie Porter
Piano: Steve Rice
Bass: Chuck Kistler
Drums: Brian Kirk

Engineer: Chris Spencer
Post production: Steve Rice

Lyrics:
I’m gonna go down swingin’ 
They’ll be a tale to tell 
Like a boxer in the ring 
I’ll give my everything 
Until I hear that final bell …Welll 

I’m gonna go down swingin’ 
Whether I’m right or wrong 
I know without a doubt 
Until the lights go out 
You’re gonna hear me singin’ this song 
SOLO 
I’m gonna go down swingin’ 
The world is gonna know 
She went out with a bang 
She’d swing, she swung, she swang 
You should have seen that final show - Whoa 
I’m gonna go down swingin’ 
Long after I am gone 
When you hear that melody 
You’ll still remember me 
That’s how this girl is gonna carry on



Go Down Swingin' - vocal edit

When Love Has Gone (The Nothing Song) 
By Steve Rice - music (ASCAP) and 
Ken Morrison - lyrics (BMI)

Lyrics:
Feeling old, so what’s new? 
Every day brings a different shade of blue 
Nothing can change your point of view 
When love has gone 

Nothing more 
Nothing less 
There is nothing here except this emptiness 
Nothing’s right 
Nothing left to say 
When love has gone 

Once I believed that love could last forever 
But now that feelings not the same 
Now I believe in nothing what-so-ever 
Nothing matters 
Nothing ventured 
Nothing gained 
Such is life 
C’est La Vie 
Guess it simply wasn’t meant to be 
Here alone with these memories 
When love has gone.

credits:
released 15 October 2012 
Stephanie Porter - Vocals 
Steve Rice - Piano 
Chuck Kistler - Bass 
Brian Kirk - Drums

Nothing Song - vocal

By Steve Rice and Ken Morrison (ASCAP)
contact: SteveRiceMusic@aol.com

Musicians:
Stephanie Porter - vocal
Travis Ranney -  tenor sax
Steve Rice -  piano
Chuck Kistler - drums
Brian Kirk - drums

Lyrics:
You're very exceptionary 
No dictionary can define what genuinely indescribable 
Very exceptionary 
No ordinary phrase could capture you 

Now some might say that you're tremendous 
But you are so much more stupendous 
So magnificent 
So magnanimous 
If we voted, it'd be unanimous 

Very exceptionary 
This temporary phrase will have to do, It's true 
For my very exceptionary you.


Very Exceptionary - vocal

by Steve Rice (ASCAP) and
Ken Morrison (BMI)

I Own this Town - Sax

Performed by Troy Kline
contact Steve Rice 206-384-9720

Menilmontant (sample)

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