Tiptoeing

dirty dancer

Listen

Can't Get Out Of This Mood

Linger Awhile

Guess Who I Saw Today

Linger Awhile (feat. Pasquale Grasso)

I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)

Mustang Drive Music
Produced with Axel Ives, SUNO
Lyrics by Mustang Drive
2025 
Title: Oh, Woe Is Me 

[Verse]
Woke up this morning feeling gray,
The sun forgot to shine my way,
The coffee's cold, the toast is burned,
Another lesson sadly learned.

[Chorus]
Oh, woe is me, this dreadful day,
The universe chose me to play,
A game of tricks and clumsy stumbles,
Oh, woe is me, I curse and grumble.

[Verse]
A pigeon aimed right at my hat,
The bus drove off, imagine that,
Ran into an old flame or two,
With nothing nice or sweet to do.

[Chorus]
Oh, woe is me, this dreadful day,
The universe chose me to play,
A game of tricks and clumsy stumbles,
Oh, woe is me, I curse and grumble.

[Verse]
The office meeting ran so late,
My boss's jokes I couldn't fake,
Got home to find a mess of sorts,
My cat's been playing some grand sports.

[Bridge]
But, as I sit and take a breath,
I find some charm in this small mess,
For every cloud and gloomy morn,
Comes with a tune where hope is born.

Oh, Woe Is Me

Capillary

Time Alone With You

Time Alone With You (feat. Daniel Caesar)

Aromanticism

Don't Bother Calling

A native of the Bronx, Samara Joy became entranced by classic R&B as a child and cut her teeth as a singer in her church’s gospel choir. And while her family history is deeply musical — her grandparents helmed the Philadelphia gospel group the Savettes, and her father, the musician and songwriter Antonio McLendon, has produced, composed and arranged his own astounding original work — she didn’t delve into the jazz tradition until college at SUNY Purchase. During her studies there she won the 2019 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, which introduced her to the larger jazz scene as a rising star to watch.Joy released her self-titled debut on the Whirlwind label in 2021, followed a year later by Linger Awhile, her breakout Verve debut.  

 Portrait, is the proper follow-up to Linger Awhile, her 2022 breakthrough LP, and it represents the next phase in her continuing artistic evolution — unbound by expectations. It also spotlights her burgeoning gifts as a lyricist, in ingenious arrangements that meld her thoughtful words with music by Charles Mingus, Sun Ra and her late mentor Barry Harris. Co-produced with the veteran trumpeter/bandleader and multi-Grammy winner Brian Lynch, the album was tracked in streamlined sessions — just two or three takes of each tune — at one of jazz’s most hallowed sites, Van Gelder Studio. The vocalist offers an album that both honors jazz heritage while staking out bold, singular territory.

Can't Get Out Of This Mood

Samara Joy

Recent comments

MARV WAYY

the ignorant savants

Ando

User 346123797

Related tracks