boy, you guys sure know how to do it-- wonderful song !!!

A great tribute to the king of country👍

Wonderful creative rendition of a classic. Very enjoyable

@stumphill-music: Appreciate your support Tony!

I can feel the passion you guys have for this old gem! Durge

there is a lot of heart in this...   great cover fellas! Nat

The Valuable Friends:

@janinelevinson - Incredible Vocals and Voice Effects
@rick-4-1 - Beautiful Drums
@phil-mcwalter - The Other Stuff

WAITING FOR THE RAIN

And the vines abide
And lean on old familiar ways
From Hadrian to the Satellite Empire
You can feel it in your soul
Standing on Dryhill
You can feel it in your soul
Standing on Dryhill

The hidden lines and lives
Walk their natural time above the plain
From hill fort to the bunkers underground 
The hill can quicken up your pulse
Standing on Dryhill
You can taste it on your breath
Standing on Dryhill
Looking from Dryhill
Waiting for the rain 
Waiting for the rain

Aeons old and yesterday
In a scintillation (Standing on Dryhill)
A breathless moment under 
The curious twinkling stars (Standing on Dryhill)
The water moves beneath us
It moves below the ice

(below, be-low)

A long-gone, summer swift scream
The hill is not dry
The vines do not wither
Rippling the waters of our many lives
The heart of the hill 
Beats on
Pushing the sleeping rabbit to awake and run (run, run, run)
Seize the seasons
Hang the reasons
In a thousand years the hill will not remember us or its many names…
Our heads boiled, eaten down to the white bone

And the vines abide
And lean on old familiar ways
From Hadrian to the Satellite Empire
You can feel it in your soul
You can feel it in your soul
Standing on Dryhill
Standing on Dryhill
Waiting for the rain
Standing on Dryhill
Looking from Dryhill
Looking from Dryhill
Waiting for the rain
Waiting for the rain

Standing on Dryhill…

Phil McWalter Jan 2023
Recorded at Dryhill, Upper Rissington, Coventry and California
Art: My own manipulated image from the top of the hill...

Waiting For The Rain

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Extraordinary day

Extraordinary Day Final

On May 13, 2015, my brother-in-law Eduardo Fortuny Loret de Mola was killed in a road accident, to the great sorrow of all who knew and loved him, in particular his widow and two sons. I wrote this song in the aftemath of his all too soon passing away, but the time never seemed right to try and record it ... until now, when Enna, his wife, read the lyrics and expressed her wish to hear a recorded version. It would also have been his 60th birthday this year. I took both as a sign that it was time, and thanks to the monumental musical and production abilities of Sergio Aguilar, not to mention the wonderful backing vocals of Beto Quintero, here it is.

The song, needless to say, but I will say it, is dedicated to Eduardo, and all who loved him.

Hallelujah is a transliteration of Hebrew: הַלְלוּ (hallū yāh), which means "praise ye Jah!" (from הַלְלוּ‎, "praise ye!" [8] and יָהּ‎, "Jah".)[9][10][11] The word hallēl in Hebrew means a joyous praise in song. The second part, Yah, is a shortened form of YHWH (Yahweh or Jehovah in modern English).
~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah

“In traditional Christian thought, the final transition from life on earth to life in heaven is symbolized by crossing the Jordan River."
~ https://jesusway4you.com/2020/06/24/signs-and-symbols-of-the-bible-jordan-river/

“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”
― Kahlil Gibran, artist and poet.

"The song is ended
But the melody lingers on
You and the song are gone
But the melody lingers on."
~ Irving Berlin, songwriter.

“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
~ Terry Pratchett, English author.

Lyrics
Last night I dreamed my brother strode with Jesus by his side
With heavenly strength to move them on, they walked the ocean tide
I cried, “Dear brother, hold your haste, we all must journey home.”
“Jordan calls me,” was all he said, I knew myself alone
I knew myself alone

Hal-le-lu …. Hal-le-lu …. Hal-le-lu …. Hal-le-lu

Last night I dreamed my brother rode in tandem with James Dean
Along the streets and the highways that to this world are unseen
I cried, “Dear brother, promise me, you’ll meet me when I come.”
He smiled his smile, and raised his hand, I felt my world undone
I felt my world undone

Hal-le-lu …. Hal-le-lu …. Hal-le-lu …. Hal-le-lu

Now I’m awakened, oh, let me dream that dream once more
Hal-le-lu, Hal-le-lu, Hal-le-lu, Hal-le-lu, Hal-le-lu … yah

Now I’m awakened, oh, let me dream that dream once more
Hal-le-lu, Hal-le-lu, Hal-le-lu, Hal-le-lu, Hal-le-lu … yah

And take me over Jordan, see my brother walk upon its shore
Hal-le-lu, Hal-le-lu, Hal-le-lu, Hal-le-lu, Hal-le-lu … yah

Yeah, take me over Jordan, for I am tired and so heartsore
Hal-le-lu, Hal-le-lu, Hal-le-lu, Hal-le-lu, Hal-le-lu … yah

Credits
Music: Michael Sellers; Sergio Aguilar
Lyrics: Michael Sellers
Vocals: Michael Sellers; Beto Quintero
Guitars & bass, piano; musical arrangement, & production: Sergio Aguilar
Drums: Rodrigo Uribe
Album Cover photo: Michael Sellers
Cover design: Loretta Sellers Fortuny

One Singer Left to Mourn

I Dreamed I Saw My Brother

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I Dreamed I Saw My Brother FT Beto Quintero (UKSC: Star Rating: 5 Commended Entry 2023)

This is the first song on the first volume of The Hungry Pyknic. Ricochet is a short anthem or theme song to set up the rest of the album. Five fell from their path -- what will happen to them?

LYRICS:
Won't paintings talk to you
Well I don't think about it
Ideas ricochet off walls every day
Step to the plate again
Let me see your face
Climb down there's something wrong
Let’s see embrace

One so cold in their own home, dah dah dah
Reaping rewards of seeds that, la da de da dum

Counting hallways, my own pictures
Lively scenic sets once stood these halls
Step to the plate again
Let me see your face
Climb down there's something wrong
See embrace

Five fell from their path
They’re right, they’re left, straight ahead
Crooked all you do is don’t, to do, to won’t
Make up your damn mind
So fate can see you at the show
Five fall down the path
A right, a left, straight ahead
Look in you do, you don’t, don’t you do
Damages you prove
But fate will see you at the show.

Ricochet

Just Blues

Sealed Soundscapes

Embrace of Serenity

Embrace Of Serenity

Cosmic Rain Drops

Garage band no effects using imac stock mic. Always loved this song. Hope our SC friends are doing well. 

Image from:https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/arts/music/bob-dylan-assembles-the-lost-notebooks-of-hank-williams.html

I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry (Hank Williams)

Coming up to the fastlane...
Please dont get trough.! 

Wanna go Hi.?  Play it LOUD.!!

8-)

FastLane

Music vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZbkpVrlLtk
2021 version: https://soundcloud.com/lydiaelsewhere/bathed-in-starlight-1

We are the weary
Bathed in starlight
We are witches, we are wicked
Ain't no rest for us tonight

Because all our dreams are fleeting
And this is only an echo
And my soul is bleeding
Woah

I like to go starbathing
Because it helps me to recharge
And the Goddess wears a dress of infinite stars

And I lie naked before her
As the meteors shine on
Cometary fragments burning out their final song

And they scratch their silent vinyl
Burning out like rock and roll
To keep the demons all at bay
Tell me what colour is today?

And as they fade into the morning
And the sun sets in reverse
What's the epitaph of our lives
Bathed in starlight

Bathed in starlight
Just like rock and roll
Burning bright, meteoric, and out of control
Just like rock and roll

Because no one is sleeping
No, no one is sleeping
Even when our souls are deeply dreaming
No one is sleeping

Bathed in Starlight (Vid in Description) (2024-03-02)

Thy WILL Be DONE

We are two old friends from KY. Posting songs we recorded many years ago on Tascam cassette recorders...and starting to get together to write and record again on a Tasccam DP24 when our dad schedules allow...hopefully we'll have some new ones to post soon.

I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry (Hank Williams)

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