🎙️ New episode out now: Don’t Quit Music Lessons! — a real talk about why sticking with your instrument matters more than you think. Recorded at Granby Music in Granby, MA.
Listen here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2552565/episodes/18111100
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Don't Quit Your Music Lessons

Recorded under the Sweet Songs label and released through The Americana Project, “Red Fire Farm Renewal” honors the neighbors, farmers, and families who gathered this November to help rebuild after loss. Inspired by Red Fire Farm’s fall harvest event, the song celebrates resilience in the heart of Massachusetts — where soup, song, and shared labor turn hardship into hope.
Written and produced by Adam R Sweet, the track carries the warmth of late-autumn fields and the quiet strength of community spirit that endures long after the harvest is done.



Verse 1
November wind through the fading fields,
Smoke and soup fill the air.
Frost on boots where the rafters fell,
But kindness is growing there.
The sun sinks low behind the ridge,
Lanterns glow along the bridge.

Chorus
We'll raise that barn again, my friend,
With soup and song and neighbor's hand.
Through the chill, the light will bend-
Red Fire Farm will stand again.
Through the dusk, through the waning year,
The heart of the harvest beats right here.

Verse 2
Tractors hum down muddy roads,
Past rows gone brown and still.
Hands pour broth in paper bowls,
And laughter warms the hill.
The fire took the barn away,
But the roots run deep in clay.

Chorus
We'll raise that barn again, my friend,
With soup and song and neighbor's hand.
Through the chill, the light will bend-
Red Fire Farm will stand again.
Through the dusk, through the waning year,
The heart of the harvest beats right here.

Bridge
From Granby's farms to Sunderland,
They come to lend a steady hand.
Each bowl, each laugh, each nail and beam,
Restores the heart, rebuilds the dream.

Final Chorus
We'll raise that barn again, my friend,
With soup and song and neighbor's hand.
Through the frost, the light will send-
Red Fire Farm its springtime mend.
Through the dusk, through the waning year,
The heart of the harvest beats right here.

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Red Fire Farm Renewal

Recorded by Roots River, “Amherst Fire Displaces” tells the story of a fire that left 232 people without homes in Amherst, Massachusetts. Though the blaze took much, it could not take the community’s heart. Through a steady roots reggae rhythm, the song honors resilience, gratitude, and the love that rises from loss. 

A fire in Amherst displaced 232 people—but unity rose from the ashes. “Amherst Fire Displaces” by Roots River brings reggae soul to a story of hope and compassion.
#rootsriver #reggae #adamrsweet #amherst 


Verse 1
Flames lit the night near the campus edge,
Smoke rose high where the sky meets the ledge.
Two hundred thirty souls without a home,
But every heart beat on, no one alone.

Chorus
Amherst fire displaces, but love replaces,
Hands come together, lighting up the faces.
No one lost, no life erased,
Just strength and care in Amherst's grace.

Verse 2
The firefighters worked through the ash and rain,
They saved the people, eased the pain.
UMass and neighbors, side by side,
Shelter and food, their doors open wide.

Chorus
Amherst fire displaces, but love replaces,
Hands come together, lighting up the faces.
No one lost, no life erased,
Just strength and care in Amherst's grace.

Bridge
From chaos came a gentle peace,
Community in sweet release.
What was broken will rise again,
Hope in the hearts of Amherst's men and friends.

Final Chorus
Amherst fire displaces, but love replaces,
Hands come together, lighting up the faces.
No one lost, no life erased,
Just strength and care in Amherst's grace.


Amherst Fire Displaces

Whispers In The Rain

Whispers in the Rain

A Foul Odor

Cybernetic Fusion™ blends ancestral African percussion with Irish fiddle and bodhran and electronic sound to create a future-born dance tradition.

Grok Musik

[Verse]
An bhfuil tú liom
Faoi mo chroí
Seo mo ghrá
An bhfuil tú liom

[Chorus]
An Traoin
An Traoin
Mo chroí
An Traoin

[Verse 2]
Tá tú álainn
Mo grá geal
Tá tú álainn
Faoi mo chroí

[Chorus]
An Traoin
An Traoin
Mo chroí
An Traoin

[Bridge]
Fan liom
Fan liom
Ná téigh
Fan liom 

[Verse]
 Are you with me
 Beneath my heart
 This is my love
 Are you with me
[Chorus]
 The Traoin
 The Traoin
 My heart
 The Traoin
[Verse 2]
 You are beautiful
 My bright love
 You are beautiful
 Beneath my heart
[Chorus]
 The Traoin
 The Traoin
 My heart
 The Traoin
[Bridge]
 Stay with me
 Stay with me
 Don’t go
 Stay with me


An Traoin

Neolithic Chinese culture artifacts show systematic human bone modification. worked human bones are the result of an intricate relationship between the worker and the worked, associated with kinship and conflict.

Verse 1

By the wide Yangzi, where the waters bend,

Shadows of ancestors rise and descend,

Carved in the silence, marrow of stone,

Hands of the living shape the bones.



Refrain

Yangzi River bones, drifting with the tide,

Stories of the bloodline time cannot hide.



Verse 2

Echo of battles, kinship in flame,

Names forgotten, yet memory remains,

Honored in fragments, worked by hand,

Binding the people to the land.



Refrain

Yangzi River bones, drifting with the tide,

Stories of the bloodline time cannot hide.



Bridge

Not just remains but voices that sing,

Whispers of sorrow, of war and of kin,

From conflict's ashes the spirit grows,

The river remembers, the river knows.



Final Refrain

Yangzi River bones, carried on the tide,

Kinship and conflict forever allied.



Outro

By the wide Yangzi, the silence moans,

Forever we carry the Yangzi River bones.

Yangzi River Bones

A new track from Qin Silk Consort, released through Sweet Songs. “Taung Child” reflects on the small discovery that reshaped how we understand our beginnings, told with a gentle, thoughtful touch.
 #SweetSongs #QinSilkConsort #TaungChild
 


Recorded with the Qin Silk Consort, “Tahng Child” reflects on the discovery that changed how the world understood its own beginnings. The song follows the moment a small fossilized face emerged from the earth in South Africa, inviting scholars to rethink long-held assumptions and look with clearer eyes. It carries a quiet, steady warmth, shaped by string textures and an understated melodic line, honoring the way a single finding can shift an entire discipline. Gentle, reflective, and grounded in the spirit of honest inquiry, this track leans into stillness and wonder as it traces the legacy of the Tahng Child and the light it continues to cast on our shared story. 

the Taung Child shook up the scientific world Almost 100 years before calls to decolonize science, Taung was challenging researchers to reassess their internal biases. 


Verse 1
Long ago in a southern valley,
Hands uncovered a quiet face in stone.
Small as dawn and light as memory,
Carried forward from a world long gone.
Scholars paused and the story shifted,
Old ideas felt the edges move.

Chorus
Taung Child, rising from the earth,
Whispering truths we had yet to hear.
Teaching us how the past can open
When we learn to see with eyes unclouded.
Taung Child, still speaking clear.

Verse 2
Maps were drawn with a heavy leaning,
Lines decided long before the proof.
But the dust of ages held another meaning,
As the shape of history found its truth.
Quiet bones set the mind to wonder,
Where the path of humankind began.

Chorus
Taung Child, rising from the earth,
Whispering truths we had yet to hear.
Teaching us how the past can open
When we learn to see with eyes unclouded.
Taung Child, still speaking clear.

Bridge
Sometimes change begins in silence,
A single voice from long ago.
Asking us to let go lightly,
And follow where the evidence goes.

Final Chorus
Taung Child, rising from the earth,
Calling us back to what is real.
Showing the strength of honest learning,
When the heart is steady and the mind is still.
Taung Child, still speaking clear.


Taung Child

Sunken Silk Road city found as archaeologists discover ‘Atlantis’ in one of oldest lakes.  New findings confirm an ancient city, bustling with trade for over 1,500 years, was destroyed by a catastrophic quake. 
#QinSilkConsort #SweetSongs #SunkenSilkCity
 

Verse 1
By the edge of the oldest lake they wandered,
Traders once carried their silver and tea.
Caravans followed a path through the mountains,
Guided by lanterns that glowed in the breeze.
Stone walls held stories of many nations,
Voices that mingled in market and hall.

Chorus
Now the deep water keeps their footsteps,
Holding the rise and fall of the past.
Where boats once drifted on quiet mornings,
Columns rest peaceful beneath the glass.
The city sleeps in the lake's cool shadow,
Waiting in silence for daylight's track.

Verse 2
One night the ground shivered under the heavens,
Rumbled through valleys and ridges so wide.
Street after street gave way to the tremor,
Homes slipped slowly into the tide.
Yet those old patterns of woven culture
Still seem to shimmer where sunlight bends.

Chorus
Now the deep water keeps their footsteps,
Holding the rise and fall of the past.
Where boats once drifted on quiet mornings,
Columns rest peaceful beneath the glass.
The city sleeps in the lake's cool shadow,
Waiting in silence for daylight's track.

Bridge
If you lean close by the quiet shoreline,
Sometimes a ripple will shape a sound.
A hint of a song from long forgotten,
Echoing softly from where they drowned.

Final Chorus
Now the deep water keeps their footsteps,
Holding the rise and fall of the past.
Where boats once drifted on quiet mornings,
Columns rest peaceful beneath the glass.
The city sleeps in the lake's cool shadow,
Waiting in silence for daylight's track.

Sunken Silk City

"Voice of the Old Lands" is an instrumental inspired by early Irish and Scottish soundworld. 

Feature ancient bagpipes with a steady dronescape, Deskford Carnyx with bold metallic calls, bone whistles playing light melodic figures, antler wrest planks adding dry percussive rhythms, and a gentle triangular harp shaping the harmony. 

Guth nan Seann Dùthchannan

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