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I'm never gonna play Wagon Wheel again
It's been tainted, tattered and torn apart my friend
Keep your dollar and your kind words
I'll keep my memory collection
But I'm never going to play Wagon Wheel again

In a dimly lit apartment
There was an old man singing loud
strumming hard and singing off-key 
but it was genuine and he was proud
His words reached an elevation
and time whirled around the beat
I was taken someplace, another time
and given someone else's memories

I heard it made it to the radio
where the music goes to die
Now quit watering down my drinks
and selling shit I won't buy.
You'll never find meaning 
on the hood of a racing car
You stopped that singing old man
and plucked the wings from his heart

So rock me Mama like Wagon Wheel
Rock me Mama the way I used to feel
Hey, Mama rock me
Rock me Mama from the pouring rain
Rock me Mama like a grounded plain
Hey, Mama rock me
You could rock me Mama back in your prime
Now I'm tossing you into the sea of time
Hey, you used to rock me

Not Wagon Wheel

This is an acoustic take of a song I've been playing with lately.  It's about having those perfect nights that you wish could go on forever, and what you'd have to give up for that to happen.

Evergreen Acoustic

Just messing around with TMBG's Lie Still Little Bottle.  Kinda went off the rails at the end there.

Lie Still Little Bottle

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Army Of Me Bjork cover

In episode 7 Carl rambles about the death of Lemmy and shares a new song idea. Special guest Bhrigu Sahni plays his finger-style guitar with clean, beautiful vocals on his song "Time to Fall." Sisterwives returns to the podcast with his song "Multiverse." Monsterfuniture wraps up the live music/interview portion.  Carl ends the podcast by reading a portion of a Robert Service poem. 

Episode #7- w/Bhrigu Sahni, Sisterwives, & Monster Funiture

Walking on the Sun (Smash Mouth cover)

This is my entry for SA Rockstar 71, the theme being "any song with something about SPACE in the title: Mars, Stars, Space, Sun, Moon, Black Holes, Pluto, yes, EVEN URANUS." I planned on trying a few songs, but never got around to it and settled on this one; one of my favorite tracks from the last few years. 

The song I'm covering is Black Sun. It was written by Ben Gibbard and originally performed by Death Cab for Cutie for their 2014 album Kintsugi. It is in B-minor. This version is structurally similar to Death Cab's original, but at a slower tempo. 

A lot of the musical ideas were inspired by a brief fascination with 80s New Wave-style synth lines and reverb/delay heavy arrangements. I pulled back on the cheese factor a bit, but it's still apparent in spots: the intro's synth line, for instance, and the dense synth pad used throughout. 

In pursuit of a more ominous sound to accompany the synthesized tones, the vocal melody for the verses was rewritten up a third with some melodic ideas borrowed from some other projects I'm working on. The harmony line remains similar to the original vocal, is mostly a tight repitching, and utilizes reverb and delay utilized to give the vocal an artificial sound.

Not much more to say. It's long, but there's not much fat to trim. In terms of the arrangement, no melody or harmony or chord goes to waste. The mixing was quick and admittedly a little clumsy, but the only part I have a real issue with are the vocals. There are obvious rhythm, clarity, and enunciation issues that I may still fix, and if I do, I will note it as an edit in this description. I am, however, eager to have a version of this posted up so I don't miss the deadline and there you have it.

Black Sun (Death Cab for Cutie cover)

I hate myself and must share the suffering.

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