ANGELS ON MY SIDE
words & music by Grayson Hugh

Sometimes my sorrows 
come falling heavy 
falling down like rain on me
and tomorrow is all in darkness
like the fog out on the sea

I've been broken
messed up and shaken 
I've been taken for a ride
but there's one thing 
they'll never get to 
that's my soul way down inside

Now when it seems 
that I've hit the bottom 
and I just 
can't find no place to hide
I won't worry
no, I won't worry
I've got angels on my side

Late one night
in a restless dream
my grandfather he spoke to me
he said "just keep doing 
what you've been doing, 
"you'll get to where you want to be"

Now when it seems 
that I've hit the bottom 
and I just 
can't find no place to hide
I won't worry
no, I won't worry
I've got angels on my side

So many pictures 
my heart has taken 
so many faces
so many gone
this house is full 
of sacred places 
that will not fade 
my whole life long

Now when it seems 
that I've hit the bottom 
and I just 
can't find no place to hide
I won't worry 
no, I won't worry
I've got angels on my side 
I won't worry
I won't worry 
I've got angels on my side 
angels, angels on my side 
angels 
angels on my side 
looking over me
I ain't gonna worry
I ain't gonna fear 
not while all my angels are here

© 1995/2020 by River Soul Music/ASCAP

Singer-songwriter Grayson Hugh wrote his song  "Angels On My Side" after having a dream about his Welsh grandfather Ralph Pugh (Pictured above, with  his original surname before he changed it to Hugh after immigrating to the States). "I was very close to my father's father, who I called Papa. He was a big tall Welshman with a deep voice and he always encouraged me in whatever I did. One night I went to sleep worried about everything: money, love, my musical career, the whole show. I dreamed Papa told me "not to worry, Grayson, as long as you keep following your heart and working hard, everything will be just fine. I woke up with tears on my face, and wrote this song."

Angels On My Side

On this show we present a sonic journey from the London based, Dorset raised duo In-Form. They run a YouTube channel and are part of Thirdspace, running quarterly parties in London. This mix is the second in a series called Desired Path and covers a lot of ground, but is circles iterations of introspective new wave and avant pop. Check out their excellent mixes and YT channel if you get a chance.

Séance Centre Radio Episode 62 - Desired Path w/ In-Form

it's been a while... and we're back with a gentle bang a.k.a. a mix of the amazing Sanky @sankywashere!! 
Many of you will have had the pleasure to dive into his selections at other sites. Being a fan for a good while I dared to ask him for a mix and now we installed a window to his universe here at the bin too! As I always enjoyed the variety and finesse of his mixes I asked for his musical background and Sanky was so nice to share this with us: 
"My mother was a piano teacher and sometimes practiced with various classical musicians who were playing at city hall so the house almost always had strange, orchestral sounds emanating from the dusty front room. I can't play a note of piano as my hands don't seem to want to work together as 10 fingers but I can play some wind instruments and loved learning the trumpet, these strange organic sounds are something that I now realize feature heavily when out looking for records, weird sounds seem to mean as much as beautiful lyrics these days. I also think the varied pace of classical from Adagio all up to Presto might have influenced me more than I thought too. I've never really understood music in terms of bpm's but more on feeling. I'm 51 and I feel really lucky to grow up in a pre internet world on rare soul and jazz, boogie, soundtracks, samples and hip hop which provided another view of how incredibly different music really can be. Hearing Colin Curtis screaming down the mic at age 15 playing Margie Evans “Waterfalls” or watching David Mancuso drop “Whole Lotta Love” after Tamiko Jones “Can’t Live Without Your Love’ at 6pm in the afternoon and watch people lose their minds are things I feel truly lucky to have witnessed, genius at work for sure.
 
I just still look out for the oddness, especially on 7” as there is still so much undiscovered music there but also something that sounds familiar even when it’s not. I live in Mexico now and again due to what I hear day to day in the street (not just necessarily music) changes what I collect, the feeling of life here is softer and slower so this mix might have a piece of that in it. I hope you listen to the mix all the way through in a comfortable place you feel happy to be in. It has some of my most favorite records I play over and over…big love.

Let me know if you want to know what any of the tracks are and thanks to the main man Basso who’s been an inspiration for years. 

Cocktails on the beach for all…x

Dedicated to My Mother Kate. RIP."

THANKS SO MUCH SANKY!!!

Sankywashere - Room To Breathe (Guest Mix, 2024)

"Give Me One Good Reason" is from Grayson's comeback album AN AMERICAN RECORD (Swamp Yankee Records 2010). Originally written as a solo song, Grayson demo'd it with his friend singer Polly Messer in 1990. Seventeen years late, Polly, now engaged to and co-producing AN AMERICAN RECORD with Grayson, brought out the cassette tape of the demo'd song as a duet. And here it is: a soulful duet about never giving up on your dreams. And true love is something to be protected and treasured. This song is available individually or with the entire album AN AMERICAN RECORD on graysonhugh.net, iTunes, Amazon and Nimbit Music and most other online stores.

Give Me One Good Reason

M August & R Laybaxxx - Latitude Adjustment

Haiti Mwen Renmenw

Saut- D'eau

Saut Deau

Marabou

L'Amour a L'Infini

L'Amour A L'Infini

This song is about letting go of the past and moving forward with love!!

The Letting Go

This song is about the sacrifices we would make for our loved ones. Would you be able to watch your loved one suffer, knowing you would be able to do something about it, and possibly making the ultimate sacrifice. This is not about changing someone's opinion, but asking you to take the time and think about it.

What Would You Do For Love?

What Would You Do For Love RADIOEDIT

A true classic that was heard and sung countless times while growing up in the O'Brien household and one of my absolute favorite songs to perform!

Danny Boy  -  Greg O'Brien

“Grayson Hugh is an American original, a singer-songwriter of soulful rhythm and rough-sweet blues.  He is the uncompromising truth in a fake-it-till-you-make-it world.” - Leonard Pitts Jr., Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, Miami Herald, January 9, 2019
"Grayson Hugh has been there and is back again. His story - our story - has to be heard" - Robert Doerschuk, CMAWorld.com, May 10, 2010.
"Hugh's piano playing is a veritable cyclone of soul, drawing its energy from such diverse regions as the swampland funk of Professor Longhair, the testifying soul of Ray Charles, with rhythms of African drumming and American bluegrass thrown in the mix." - Alt. Country, August, 2010 (Belgium)

Angels On My Side

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