Hi Everyone.  As it turns out this is my last song on Sound Cloud because I have used up all the space that comes with a free account.  But if anyone is feeling generous enough to upgrade me to a pro account then cool.  I'll keep kicking out some Jams when I get back from Europe this year.

If not, no worries I'm thinking about taking up bandwidth on youtube for a while see if I can create enough content to max out their service too!  :)  

www.youtube.com/thebookofcurtis
www.thebookofcurtis.com
www.vaydenmusic.com

Other then that seriously thank you guys for the follows and the support and the comments and feedback.

Todays song I just woke up and recorded in the kitchen.  It's a lil tune I sing to myself to keep chugging along.  It's raw it's morning time.  But I do hope you enjoy.

Thank you again.

"Keep a Song"
by Curtis


On a lonely night,
When the world aint right,
You can find a light in me,
On your search for rest,
From your lowliness you can always count on me.

To keep a song inside your heart,
To keep a song inside your heart,

Like a good clean breath,
From your loneliness,
You can always count on me.

End Transmission

Keep a Song

Greatest Love

Bulls on Hellrasing Parade 2

written by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George David Weiss
Performed by Curtis Casey

Wise men say only fools rush in
But I can't help falling in love with you
Shall I stay? Would it be a sin?
If I can't help falling in love with you

Like a river flows shorely to the sea
Darling so it goes some things are meant to be
Take my hand, take my whole life too
For I can't help falling in love with you

Like a river flows shorely to the sea
Darling so it goes some things are meant to be
Take my hand take my whole life too
For I can't help falling in love with you

For I can't help falling in love with you

Narcissistic Tendencies

Rick Flair Tendencies

Can't Help Falling in Love

Good for something,
Written by Curtis Casey
Engineered and Mixed by Kai Nakamura
Cajon by Max Mars,
Bass by Jeff Covey,
Rhythm Guitar and Vocals  by Curtis Casey
Lead Electric Guitar by Kai Nakamura

Lyrics

They gon say,
You a problem,
When you don't fall in line,
They gon make you an offer,
That you'll have to take this time,

The gon lay,
They whole law down,
Just to get you in the light,
We gon break,
Break it all out,
And keep on burning through the night,

Cause

If you don't believe that you're good for something,
Here's something you can believe,
If all that you are is good for my loving
I'll love you endlessly, x2

We gon make, 
This the heaven,
The Heaven we deserve,
Don't you think,
We learned out lesson,
Of how to go through Hell and earth,
We gon raise,
Up our children,
Like we never had a doubt,
Of how we'd make a good living,
And put food inside their mouths,

Cause,

If you don't believe that you're good for something,
Here's something you should believe,
If all that you are is good for my loving,
I'll love you endlessly.

Narten                        

Good For Something

Ride at Your Own Risk
Written and Performed by Curtis Casey
Engineered and Mixed by Kai Nakamura

Ride at your own risk x 4

You got your finest riding clothes,
Strapped up your boots You're good to go,
You ain't been this excited since you were a kid,
You came up here for a good time,
And chances are you'll be just fine,
But when you ride know you're go'n ride at your own risk,

So come on up and sign your name,
To let us know you wont complain,
If you get kicked off bucked or trampled just a bit,
You just get back up on that horse,
Cause all of that's par for course,

Yeah when you ride know you go'n ride at your own risk.

Ride at your own risk x 4

She caught you with those pretty eyes,
And then she flashed those pearly whites,
And when she did you thought your life had been a gift,
She said I'll teach you how to ride,
I'll give you lessons through the night,
But when you ride know you go'n ride at your own risk.

Ride at your own risk x4 

Everybody say ooh ooh
Left means left and right means right,
Everybody say YeeeHAAWWW!
If you got back hear alive,
Every body say kiss kiss kiss,
Don't forget you're Horses name,
I'm talking to you man I am not talking to your horse cause if your horse could understand I'd call him Mr Ed of course but you go'n

Ride at your own risk x 4

When you merge onto the 405
Just to go do that little drive,
To get you to that thing you're bout to say you did,
Just know this simple  fact of life,
Is that this whole thing's just a ride,
And when you ride boy you go'n ride at you're own risk.

Rick Flair Tendencies         

Ride At Your Own Risk Acoustic

This is why I don't delete voice memos with out listening to them first.  This is a phone memo of me making music with the brother Armin Peterson during our off time in Germany.

Germany Memos

(Don't let them Chop you down)

Written and performed by Curtis Casey
Engineered by Eric Racy
Mixed by Ryan Greene
Strings courtesy of Ryan Wylar.

Love Lies and Lullabies

Secret

Written by Alex Aiono and Curtis Casey
Performed by Curtis Casey
Produced, mixed and Engineered by Curtis Casey
Guitars by Armin Peterson

Pearl Studio

Then You

Written by AWOL Nation
Performed by Curtis Casey
Mixed and Engineered by Sejo at 4th St Records

4th St Records

SAIL

Written by Paul Mcartney
Performed by Josh Aiono
Engineered by Kai Nakamura
Produced by Curtis Casey

Josh

Black Bird

Written and Performed by Curtis Casey
at Phonogenic Studios
Engineered by Josh
Mixed by Eric Racy

Right By You

“Hallelujah” (Leonard Cohen interpretation)  

My good friend is pregnant with her first child.  She asked me to learn one of her favorite songs by Leonard Cohen.  I learned it and recorded it really late in the evening over at my friend Michael Kuehli’s house in Marne Germany.  Michael was also the key to making the Maria Magdalena Sessions a reality in Germany too. (Feel free to check that recording session out on the Vayden youtube channel.)  

Seriously thank you to all my friends for giving me another good reason to sing and make music.  Here’s to the health and prosperity of the next generation of music lovers.  

Curtis-

Ps I have had a few friends ask me how they can download the songs From “The Book of Curtis” to keep on their hard drives.  First of all let me say I am super flattered that you want to keep my songs in your memory.  So I was thinking of fun ways to make this a possibility.

If I can get today’s post shared 100 times.  You know like 10 of my good friends sharing it with 10 of their friends then I will make all of the songs on the book of Curtis Downloadable to everyone who wants them for the 2 weeks following that mark being met.   

Thanks for spending time on my cloud and caring enough to share.  Have a great week and don’t forget to Check in with Vayden on Sat-Sun and Monday for the HD Youtube release of “The Maria Magdalena Sessions.”


Hallelujah (cover)

As I keep doing This Book of Curtis thing I am realizing that it is very much becoming an audio diary.  And for those of you who are resonating close enough to care about what the world sometimes sounds like to me seriously thank you.  You truly are the brightest stars of the darkest skies.  

Now this song I wrote and recorded when I was 18 for a friend of mine who was 17 and going through something we both thought was rough.  Another friend of mine John Guffa (Amazing Musician) wrote and recorded the guitars and I came and laid down the vocals one sunny afternoon in Tempe AZ.

I guess that’s a big reason why I write and record music mostly to help myself understand things that I don’t and perhaps help out a friend or two along the way as well.  

Thanks for listening in.

Curtis  

casetane@gmail.com

Email me :)

"Loves Arms"
Written and performed by Curtis Casey and John Guffa

There’s things in life that you can’t define
Cause they don’t align with the truth
Yet your life girl it reflects mine
Cause it runs in line with my youth

And I don’t have to see you to know
And I don’t have to be you to know you
Girl all I need is to see the marks on your shoes
Cause mine are marked to.

Now run on home and go and tell your momma
You went away and oh you lost your honor
To a boy from the wrong side of town
He aint never been rich but he always held it down

You fell in love and though it sounds crazy
You turned your love into a little baby
Let her know that you never meant harm
And girl you found your place in loves arms.

There’s things in life that you can’t explain
Cause you can’t explain all that’s real
Ink on paper is much to plain
Wont come near to contain all you feel

And I don’t have to see you to know
No I don’t have to be you to know you
Girl all I need is to see the storms in your eyes
Cause they’re the same in mine.

Now run on home and go and tell your momma
You found your place in loves arms.


Loves Arms

This is a collection of cover songs that I recorded at 4th Street Recording Studio in Santa Monica California.  There is one original song that I spent the last 20 minutes of Studio time recording called Alone at the very end of the collection.

I call it Generally Curtis for two reasons.  One my guitar's name is the General.  Two these are songs that if you came to my house you'd probably see me sitting on a chair next to my wardrobe singing and practicing this particular set just incase my Aunty asked me to sing a song at Sunday Dinner.


I hope you enjoy.  Stay safe and please spread the love if you are so inclined.  

Thank you for listening and also thank you to

Geordie Gillespie for believing in me enough to pay for the studio time.  
Thank you to Sejo Navajas, Kathleen and the whole 4th Street Recording crew for being the best pirate ship recording studio in the world.  I'll scalawag with you guys any day.
Thank you to John the Hiker.
Thank you Karess Frederick for always seeing me in the best light even when I'm being bi-polar and also taking my photos from time to time.
And of course thank you to all my friends, family and fans who keep me singing everyday.
My cup runneth over with gratitude for you all.  Thank you for reading this.

SOMEONE LIKE YOU

SITTIN ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY

Give Me One Reason

CRYING

(Sound Cloud is down so this weeks "New Music" entry is on FB until soundcloud clears up and I can post new stuff on it again)

I wrote this song for one of my best friends when his son passed away in a car accident.

When I wrote it I was a child. I was grown and living on my own but I hadn't walked through the archways of parenthood. So in the grand scheme I was still a child.

When I performed this song at the Maria Magdalena Session it was one of the few times that I've performed this song as a Father.

I had been away from my 2 year old boy for around 2 months and I was missing him everyday I was gone.

When ever performing you want to "go to the edge" but not "fall off." In this case it felt like I was hanging on by the tips of my fingers just trying not to think about why this song was written and trying not to break down in front of hundreds of people.

It got me in a way that I really don't like to look at. But when I hear it I know with out a shadow of a doubt that there is something fundamentally different about life after childhood.

A deep compassion for the world that just isn't obtainable through any other experience except parenthood.

May we all keep our angels close and appreciate them for every understanding that they bring into our lives.

May we return to the days of family home evenings and dinners around the table. At the core that is what my book is all about.

"If you're lucky enough to know,
That you can take your angel home,
If you're lucky enough to say,
That you've seen your angel face,

Don't let it go away."

Thanks for stopping by this week. 

Curtis

Zoe's song (Sound Cloud)

A little while back the music director of the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) hit me up to sing a song that he wrote for one of their characters, Matt Hardy.

The story was, after a long and successful tag team partnership with the "Hardy Brothers" it was time for Matt to break away and do his own thing.

This is the resulting song. "Me"

Jim Johnston is a killer musician and song writer and I was totally honored that he would call me up to have me lend my voice to one of his creations.

Not to mention it's the WWE!

All signs of good creative people to do business with.

I'd encourage anyone who sees the value in public speaking, body mastery, and good ole fashion entertainment to pursue a career in the WWE format.  It's a long way to the top, just like rock n roll.  But if you're reading this you probably already know it's more about the journey then it is the destination.


Lastly I just want to leave you with a thought that my oldest sister Eileen blessed me with.

"If everyone in the world looked out and cared for themselves, then there would be no one in the world that wasn't looked or cared after."

She's so wise.  Remember to take time for yourself and trust that truly doing the best by you is the best thing you can do for your people and environment too.

Thanks for stopping in this week.

Curtis-

"Me"

Written by Jim Johnston
Performed by Curtis Casey
Engineered by Eric Racy

"Me" (Matt Hardy theme song)

Man there have been some real roller coasters in life these last couple of years and this song imparticular I keep really close to my heart.  Singing it in my head or out loud gets me through some real thick spots. It was written by his senior dopeness Hagoth Aiono (Long Beach King) and I recorded a quick version at my friend Michael Khueli's house in North Germany.  I truly am blessed to have such talented creators in the Pantheon.  

Thank you for listening.  See you next Tuesday

Curtis

"Everything's Gonna be Alright"

Written by Hagoth Aiono
Performed by Curtis Casey
Recorded by Michael Khueli

Everything's Gonna be Alright

So I've never been more pleased with how a recording has turned out as
I am with the latest Vayden record.

Basically for 6 months last year we locked ourselves in a Studio in
Baldwin Park CA. And we screamed and yelled at each other (with our
instruments and sometimes our big boy words) until we learned
something very important in music and in life.  How to listen to what
eachother was saying.

After 6 months of that head banging and bashing we flew out to Bremen
Germany and recorded the album in 12 days.  Then we toured around
Germany for a bit brought the masters back home and had them mixed in
good ol LA.  Now because we live in the day and age we do we just put
the enitre album online for anyone to listen to enjoy and purchase.

(get it now link)
http://vaydenmusic.com/music/04.html

For the next 11 weeks on the BOC I might just drop another track off the
Vayden record until everyone who is familiar with me goes and gets a copy and a
taste of something that I am very blessed to be a part of.  
The Rock Band Vayden.

This song "Alone in the Sky" was one that I wrote the lyric and melody
on an acoustic then the dudes came in and put their voices on it
and it became the epicness that you hear in this recording.

I dropped an unmixed sneak preview of this song a couple of months ago
but now that the album is out mixed and mastered I'm putting it back
in the book.  (Like some of you may know this place is kind of like a musical diary for me)

Please do your ear drums and my landlord a favor and purchase a copy
of it online :)  

http://vaydenmusic.com/music/04.html

Then send it to all your friends and spread the good
word that Vayden is here to stay.

Love you guys thanks for tuning in this Tuesday.

Curtis-

"Alone in the Sky"
Written and Performed by Vayden
Pre-Production Crazy Man Production Studios in Baldwin Park CA
Recorded at Seven Rays Studios in Bremen Germany
Engineered by Henk
Mixed by Mark
Burdesgate Affiliated
BOC art work by yorukiyo

Lyrics

You alone in the Sky?
No you're not
I was there
You forgot
Said you wanted to Fly
No you don't
We all could
But we wont

All for you my love
All for you my love

Was alone in sky
Now I'm not
You were here
I forgot
Said you wanted to die
No you don't
We all could
But we wont

All for you my love
All for you my love

And everything we know
We have been told
In words we may have bought
Or lies we sold
But for every mark you ever missed
For every cheek you never kissed
Keep us here to lighten up your load.

You alone in the sky?
No your not
I am here
Here for God
Said you wanted to try
No you don't
If you did you'd let go.

(Available Now)
http://vaydenmusic.com/music/04.html

End transmission.

Alone in the Sky

Curtis Casey is an American Born Singer Songwriter from Phoenix Arizona who was raised all over the United States as well as the country of New Zealand where his Mother was born and raised.  

“We moved around our fair share because my father was a nuclear engineer. Music and song writing with an acoustic guitar became my constant and was my safe place.  To this day whenever I walk into a room and there is a guitar in it I immediately feel welcome.”

As a half Polynesian half Irish American Curtis learned to love and appreciate music and singing of all types at a very young age and still loves the entire process of writing and recording music.  

For 15 years he toured all around Europe and the United States with his Active Rock / Nu Metal band, Vayden.  

“We were lucky we got signed to a subsidiary of Warner Music very young and they sent us all over the place to play.  We ended up recording 3 albums together and 2 EPs.”

Now Curtis enjoys the simple joy of singing nice songs in cool places to appreciative audiences.

Today he lives in Marina Del Rey with his wife, two sons and small daughter.

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