The very talented Joseph Edgar Foreman (born July 28, 1974), better known by his stage name Afroman, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is known for his songs "Because I Got High", released in 2000, and "Crazy Rap", which was released in 2001 and both were featured on his album The Good Times. Afroman was nominated for a Grammy award in 2002.

Because I Got High

"Iris" is a song by American alternative rock band Goo Goo Dolls. Originally written for the soundtrack of the 1998 film City of Angels, the song was later included on the band's sixth album, Dizzy Up the Girl. The song was released as a single on April 1, 1998. After completing the first-edit on the film City of Angels, co-producer Bob Cavallo and his music producer son Rob Cavallo decided to take along musical artists to a viewing to create the soundtrack. Bob took Alanis Morissette whilst Rob took the Goo Goo Dolls. The following morning Morissette called Rob, and asked him to produce the song "Uninvited" which she had written afterwards as a demo. Shortly afterwards that same day, John Rzeznik called Rob with a song he had written called "Iris", a power ballad. In a 2013 interview with Songfacts, lead singer Rzeznik explained how he wrote the song: "I was thinking about the situation of the Nicolas Cage character in the movie. This guy is completely willing to give up his own immortality, just to be able to feel something very human. And I think, 'Wow! What an amazing thing it must be like to love someone so much that you give up everything to be with them.' That's a pretty heavy thought." Rzeznik named the song after country folk singer-songwriter Iris DeMent, after he noticed her name in a concert listing in the LA Weekly newspaper.

Iris

Tom used the '50s progression (also known as the "Heart and Soul" chords, the "Stand by Me" changes, the doo-wop progression) is a chord progression and turnaround used in Western popular music. The progression, represented in Roman numeral analysis is: I–vi–IV–V. For example, in C major: C–Am–F–G. As the name implies, it was common in the 1950s and early 1960s and is particularly associated with doo-wop. The first popular song to use the progression was Blue Moon, written in 1934. This inspired Heart and Soul in 1938 and Blueberry Hill in 1940.

Zylan Sessions

Walls

Play It Again is a song written by the Dallas Davidson and Ashley Gorley songwriting machine.  Luke Bryan recorded it on the Crash My Party album.  I think Ashley Gorley wrote five or six songs on that record.  Most of the songs are I-V-vi-IV.  But this one is just a simple D-A-E progression.

Play It Again

I found this version of the song on the Finding Wildflowers album.  I like it better than the version on the Wildflowers album.  Tom plays the song in the key of F on his acoustic guitar and then plays another track on the fifth fret in the key of C.  I tried to mellow it out a little more.  The song has suck a great feel to it.  I originally played lead and rhythm on my ES-335 straight into the recorder, but it came across a little flat.  So I plugged my Vox AC-30 into the mixing board.  A lot brighter, so I had to use the bridge pickup and then both.

Crawling Back To You

The story of young George Washington finding a pickle in distress covered with sand. Taking the pickle home, his girlfriend was mortified by the feel of the sandy pickle. She instructed George to wash the pickle in a jar of whiskey but never really enjoyed the taste of the whiskey pickle. Years later, Martha Washington, who loved the whiskey pickle, was known to sing Musha ring dum a doo dum a da when George would come home and give her the whiskey pickle.

George Washington and the Whiskey Pickle

Home For Christmas

Some good old '60s San Francisco rock from the Black Album.

New Sessions

Dino's Song

From their 1972 Sittin' In album.  It was actually Kenny Loggins with Jim Messina.

House At Pooh Corner

Neil Young & Promise of the Real's album Paradox.

Show Me

Fun and Games

Madman Across The Water

From his debut album.  Such a well written song.

Sixty Years On

My favorite song from the Beggars Banquet album.  Nicky Hopkins plays piano on the album.  Just so good.

Stray Cat Blues

My favorite song of Dave Ramirez.  There are a couple live videos of him on YouTube, but the audio is from the album.

The Bad Days

This song ended up on the 1971 Sticky Fingers album which I always thought was an odd fit for the song.  But Wikipedia says the song was written before that with Gram Parsons.  In fact, Gram Parsons released the song with The Flying Burrito Brothers in 1970 because Jagger and Richards thought their version of the song sucked.

Wild Horses

This was Petty's second solo album attempt.  He actually wanted Wildflowers to be a double album, but the record company said double albums were too expensive.  This is also the album that found Steve Ferrone as the new Heartbreakers drummer.  Because even though it was a Tom Petty solo effort, the Heartbreakers acted as the session musicians.

Wildflowers

Petty's band after the Epics broke up in 1970.  From Gainsville. 
 This is the group of musicians that headed west to record an album.  They got as far as Leon Russell's recording studio in Tulsa around 1974 and recorded an album on Shelter Records.  Which didn't do well.  Then around 2008, Petty got the band back together and recorded The Mudcrutch album with Scare Easy and Wrong Thing To Do on it.  Petty recorded Highway Companion in 2006.  I guess he was looking for something else to do and decided to put Mudcrutch back together in 2008.

The Wrong Thing To Do

At the end of the day, we're all just muffins on the run.

Muffin On The Run

Wrote this song when I played the pickle with the Ten Old Men Band.

Stepped On A Muffin

Nothing is better than hanging out at the Jollibee!!!

The Jollibee

The obsessive love of a muffin.  I think we've all been there.

Thai Sessions

The Muffin Song

Found this song on his newest album.  First time attempting a country song.  Mostly Strat with some Les Paul lead.

Last Time For Everything

The sorted story of the Muffin Man, the spiders and bees and that sweet, sweet, Muffin Bran.

Muffin Sessions

The Story Of The Muffin Man

So I came across a pickle on the sidewalk.  I was like hey.  What's going on.  The Pickle was like not much.  How about you.  Long story short, never trust a pickle.

The Pickle Song

Weezer's album "Make Believe" was released in 2005. Despite commercial success, Make Believe got a mixed reception from critics. The second single released from Make Believe was "We Are All on Drugs". MTV refused to play the song, so Weezer re-recorded the lyrics by replacing "on drugs" with "in love" and renaming the song "We Are All in Love".

Pickle Sessions

We Are All On Drugs

Rhett was born in Valdosta, Georgia to Paige Braswell and singer Rhett Akins, and grew up knowing other singers including Tim McGraw and Brooks & Dunn. After learning to play drums while attending junior high school, Rhett later would go onstage with his father and play. In high school, he was part of a band named The High Heeled Flip Flops. Besides music, he did not have a career choice in mind. After high school, Rhett went to college at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, to study communications, mainly because his friends were going to college and he didn't know what else to do. Rhett's interest in music grew throughout the years and as a result he failed to keep his promise to his mom—he dropped out of college when he was 20 to pursue a career in music. One night while he was playing at a club, an executive from Big Machine Label Group approached him and offered him a publishing deal to write songs. He accepted and began writing many songs for the company.

Look What God Gave Her

In the summer of 2008, Frankie Ballard signed up for Kenny Chesney's Next Big Star competition. After winning the competition for Michigan in 2008, Ballard also opened shows for Chesney at Michigan venues. 
He signed to Reprise Records Nashville in 2010 and released his debut single "Tell Me You Get Lonely." It received a four-star review from Kyle Ward of Roughstock, who praised Ballard's voice and called the song "an above average debut effort." The song debuted at Number 59 on the Hot Country Songs charts dated for the week ending June 12, 2010 and peaked at number 33 in early 2011. 
On January 7, 2011, Ballard made his debut appearance at the Grand Ole Opry. He released his second single, "A Buncha Girls", in early 2011. This song also made the top 40. Both of his singles are included on his self-titled debut album, released in May 2011. Also in 2011, he opened for Lady Antebellum. In 2013, Ballard moved to Warner Bros. Records and released his third single, "Helluva Life". This is the lead single to his second album, Sunshine & Whiskey. It became his first number 1 single in early 2014. Later in the year, the album's title track went to number 1. "Young & Crazy", the album's third single, also went to number 1. The first single from Ballard's third album, "It All Started with a Beer", was released to country radio on November 16, 2015. The album, El Rio, was released on June 10, 2016. The album's second single, "Cigarette", released to country radio on August 8, 2016. Ballard co-wrote "I Came to Git Down" on Big & Rich's 2014 album Gravity.

Sunshine And Whiskey

Thomas Rhett Akins Jr. is an American country music singer and songwriter. His father is the singer Rhett Akins. Rhett has released four studio albums for Big Machine Records' Valory Music imprint: It Goes Like This, Tangled Up, Life Changes. and Center Point Road. These albums have produced nineteen singles on the Hot Country and Country Airplay charts, with thirteen reaching the No. 1 position on the latter: "It Goes Like This", "Get Me Some of That", "Make Me Wanna", "Crash and Burn", "Die a Happy Man", "T-Shirt", "Star of the Show", "Craving You", "Unforgettable", "Marry Me", "Life Changes", "Sixteen", and "Look What God Gave Her". In addition to much of his own material, Rhett has written singles for Jason Aldean, Lee Brice, Florida Georgia Line, LoCash, and Michael Ray among others.

Give Me Some Of That (Instrumental)

Grace Martin's acoustic version of Don's Desert Rambler.  She's really got an amazing voice.  Someday we'll be streaming her songs.

Acoustic Rambler

I've always loved this song by the Austin band Fastball.  I love that the verse and chorus have two different rhythms. Fastball is an American band that formed in Austin, Texas in 1995. The band originally called themselves "Magneto U.S.A." but changed their name after signing with Hollywood Records. In 1998, their album All the Pain Money Can Buy reached platinum sales within six months of its release, and stayed on the Billboard 200 chart for a year. In addition, the group has been nominated for two Grammy Awards – Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for "The Way", and Best Long Form Music Video for their promotional video "The Way". They also received five The Austin Chronicle awards: 1998's Album of the Year, Best Video, Best Single/EP, Band of the Year, and 1995's Best Pop Band

The Way

Knockin' on Heaven's Door is a song by Bob Dylan, written for the soundtrack of the 1973 film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Released as a single two months after the film's release, it became a worldwide hit, reaching the Top 10 in several countries. The song became one of Dylan's most popular and most covered post-1960s compositions, spawning covers from Guns N' Roses, Eric Clapton, Randy Crawford and more.

Knockin' On Heaven's Door

If you love something, set it free.  If it comes back to you, it was meant to be.  Unless you throw it in the river.

Scott Colton

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