Summertime 2020

Monday Playlist 6/8/20

Monday Playlist week of 1/30/2023

World Gone Bad - Words & Music: Pravinand Maharaj

I was born downtown on a bed of rats
From a dirty faced kid to a mean ol’ cat
Mama said son you look just like your dad
It’s hard being good in a world gone bad

Don’t wanna go where I don’t want to be
Don’t want to say what I don’t really mean
What a lowdown rotten life I had
It’s hard being good in a world gone bad

Gonna pull up my boots
Pick up my cane
Put on my hat
Get on the road again
Hit that trail before the break of dawn
You can wait all you want but baby I’ll be gone

Some get their kicks in the back of a hearse
Some drink blood just to quench their thirst
Me I’m on the edge going mad
It’s hard being good in a world gone bad 


World Gone Bad

Recorded by George Jones...released in 1980...named as one of the greatest Country songs of all time. Songwriters were Bobby Braddock and Curly Putman. My favorite George Jones song.

He Stopped Loving Her Today - Cover by Tony

Songwriter - Beth Williams
From the CD, IN THIS OLD HOUSE
Digital Download:  https://bethwilliamsmusic.bandcamp.com/
www.BethWilliamsMusic.com

BIG BAD BLUES - Beth Williams

THE BLACK AND WHITE PICTURES TELL IT ALL (Lyrics by Tony - Featuring Phillip Clarkson) Original 2014

Dave and I have been friends for 18 years now.
Back in the day We have done multiple colabs together.
Iam very happy to colab with him again.
Dave made the music bed.His awesome lead guitar is mid right in the mix.
I made the rythem guitar and lead mid left in mix and vox.
We hope you like it.

The Blue neon lights with Dave Bell

Tough one here.  In recent years, I have lost many family members and so many friend.  The deepest cut was the lost of my beautiful 31 year old daughter a few years ago this month.  As members of this human race we all share in these emotions and feelings.  Many, many good days, some sad.  SO IS LIFE

Dreams Don T Go Away (Original)

Original Music and Production by Bravei. Original Lyrics, Lead Guitar, and Vocals (blending) by Riff. Honored to participate in creating some additional lyrical and other enhancement for Bravei's Big 'Brazilian Beat' and Original Music creation. Lyrics in both English and Portugese.
Faith © - Original
Bravei-Riff
Music, Production - Bravei
Lyrics, Vocals, Electric Lead - Riff
Yes, we need a little Faith 
Oh Yeah, Faith
We need it to walk this world 
We need a little Faith
Maybe, we’ll find a shell with a shiny pearl?
And, if we have Faith…..
Will we trust in things we haven’t seen?
Oh, Faith
Why, some people need theirs laced 
…….with just a little green
(Chorus)
Anyway….
Find something to believe in
Find a way…..
Keep pushing along
Maybe, that’s the way
We keep our spirits strong
(Bridge/Verse)
Takes courage to just let go
Even though deep down we surely know
When the unexpected becomes all too real
Why…Don’t let yourself forget to feel

© Faith - Original
Bravei-Riff
Música, Produção - Bravei
Letras, Vocais, Electric Lead - Riff
Sim, precisamos de um pouco de fé
Oh sim, fé
Precisamos que ande neste mundo
Precisamos de um pouco de fé
Talvez, encontraremos uma concha com uma pérola brilhante?
E, se tivermos fé ...
Vamos confiar em coisas que não vimos?
Oh, fé
Por que algumas pessoas precisam deles?
…… .com apenas um pouco de verde
(Refrão)
De qualquer forma….
Encontre algo em que acreditar
Encontrar uma maneira…..
Continue empurrando
Talvez seja esse o caminho
Mantemos nosso espírito forte
(Ponte / Verso)
É preciso coragem para deixar ir
Mesmo no fundo, certamente sabemos
Quando o inesperado se torna real demais
Por que ... não se esqueça de sentir

Sunny Beaches All Around

Faith ©

Faith © - Bravei - Riff Original Collaboration

The Language Of Love

Vengence

I wrote this in my 20s in the Apartheid era as a tribute to the many people we lost.

During this time our home and our church were invaded by the Special Branch while we were holding meetings. Our phone was tapped, and at work I received a scare call from the Wit Wolf that a bomb was placed in our legal offices. And yet my anti-apartheid involvement was very light-touch and perfectly legal! Heady days indeed.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abDQ6Y4jrnM

One Life (Brian Peters)

It's so hard to touch a life
And it's so hard to feel
To know that this is right
And this is what is real
And when one life goes out
Nothing's changed, nothing's new
It's your point-of-view
You know it could have been you

There's no meaning except to know
That this is what we give
No sense to what we've lost
Except to know we live
And when one life goes out
Something changes within
It's a tragedy
I guess it could have been me

And I'm thinking about Robert 
And I'm thinking about Ruth
And I'm thinking about Albert 
And I'm thinking about Rick
And I'm thinking about Stephen 
And I'm thinking about Neil 
And I'm thinking about David 
And I'm thinking about Chris 

And I'm thinking about Matthew 
And I'm thinking about Fort
And I'm thinking about Hector 
And I'm thinking about Saul
And I'm thinking about Dulcie 
And I'm thinking about Johnny 
And I'm thinking about Solomon 
And I'm thinking about Sipho

And when one life goes out
Something changes within
It's a tragedy

One Life

Everything is enhanced when Janine is around.

Voice, vocal melody, words and flat felting image: Janine Levinson https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson

Music and instruments: Jonathan Beckenstein

is there an ever blooming flower?
is there an ever open rose?
is there an ever present lover?
well maybe it could happen
who knows

is there an ever thumping mattress?
are there forever open legs?
is there eternal love and happiness?
well maybe it could happen
maybe it could happen

once in a while
go out the open window
and fall into the cold
go out the open window

am I the ever open flower
with petals ever in your nose?
and neurons ever more to fire?
well maybe it could happen
maybe it could happen

An Open Window (with Janine Levinson)

I always loved this track - and in a world that seems increasingly like a disaster movie with the combination of Covid-19, Trump and the George Floyd protests, the track resonated even more. 

I changed the lyrics in the last verse from "Hand out the arms and ammo, we're going to blast our way through here" to "Lock up your arms and ammo, we're gonna march our way through here". There's enough violence and chaos in the world. Democracy moves when we are able to be heard. Stay safe out there.

SOMETHING IN THE AIR
Thunderclap Newman
Words and Music by John Keen

Call out the instigators
Because there's something in the air
We've got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution's here, and you know it's right

And you know that it's right
We have got to get it together
We have got to get it together now

Lock up the streets and houses
Because there's something in the air
We've got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution's here, and you know it's right

And you know that it's right
We have got to get it together
We have got to get it together now

Lock up your arms and ammo
We're gonna march our way through here
We've got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution's here, and you know it's right

And you know that it's right
We have got to get it together
We have got to get it together now

Something In The Air (Thunderclap Newman Cover)

Remembering old friends and places with such great images.  This song
was written by Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen Jr,. while they attended
Texas A&M in the late 70's. It was released by Lyle in 1986.  What an American singer and songwriter.  A gem of a song

This Old Porch   (  cover - Lyle Lovett)

Written by Josh McAlexander
Guitar, Banjo, Bass, Mandolin: Josh McAlexander
Old song new arrangement

cumberland coal

Cumberland Coal (Original)

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Summertime [feat. Monica Dockery + MoodyMo]

“I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim or too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard travelling. I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you. I could hire out to the other side, the big money side, and get several dollars every week just to quit singing my own kind of songs and to sing the kind that knock you down still farther and the ones that poke fun at you even more and the ones that make you think that you've not got any sense at all. But I decided a long time ago that I'd starve to death before I'd sing any such songs as that. The radio waves and your movies and your jukeboxes and your songbooks are already loaded down and running over with such no good songs as that anyhow.”

― Woody Guthrie

Vengence

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