relationships are complicated..trust/forgiveness..love is a lot of work

I can't even function before breakfast never mind write and record a tune!  Most impressive!

Produced, composed, arranged, lyrics & vocals by hLo(@hLo-64)
Mastered by Woods Studio Norway (@woods_studio)

In September 2019, I went for a gig in the saloons of the Ogc Nice stadium (remember the time when it was still possible !). The organizer arranged to meet us at the Burger King car park. I thought to myself, what a peculiar place for a rendez-vous? This inspired me this song.
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Produit, composé, arrangé, paroles & vocaux par hLo(@hLo-64)
Masterisé par Woods Studio Norvège (@woods_studio)

En Septembre 2019, je suis allé faire un concert dans les salons du stade Ogc Nice (rappelez-vous l'époque où c'était encore possible !). L'organisateur nous a donné rendez-vous au parking du Burger King. Je me suis dit, quel drôle d'endroit pour un rendez-vous ? Cela m'a inspiré cette chanson.

BURGER KING BLUES

Je t’attendrais au parking,
Au parking du Burger King,
 Je porterais mon costume croisé ,
Tu sais celui qui te plait.

Baby, prends bien tes vitamines, 
On tracera loin, loin des abimes, 
Au volant de ma Cadillac ,
J’espère que t’es pas insomniaque.

Tu porteras une robe d’été,
 Cheveux de jais sur décolleté,
 Le temps s’arrête quand tu parais.
 
 Burger King Blues  (x2)

Je t’attendrais au parking,
Au parking du burger king,
 J'me mettrais peut’etre en smoking ,
Tu seras plus belle que j’l'imagine.

Tu sais pour moi c’est pas les Grenadines,
 Ni les weeks end aux Philippines,
 J'suis pas un prince de magazines

J’aimerai tant voir l’Italie,  
Aller plonger à Camogli ,
Flaner la nuit à Napoli.

Burger King Blues  (x2)

T’es jamais venue au parking,
Au parking du Burger King,
 Tout ca, tu sais, c’est dans les films, 
Du style Marilyn et James Dean.

T’es jamais venue au parking,
Au parking du Burger King,
 J’me sens comme une quille de Bowling,
 Tout seul au milieu du parking.

Like a Bowling Pin (x3)

Release date: April 30, 2021
©hLo 2021 All Rights Reserved

Burger King Blues

Deep in thought with the trials & tribulations of life reflections  ,highs ..lows .hopes  ..changes ..all that & everything 🤗 Thanks for listening 😊🙏 this is a DAW-less production one take live recording made using Concert mate Mg1 moog ,Micro-granny 2,Dave smith Mopho,Juno 60 ,recorded to H5 Zoom recorder via Allen Heath pa 12 mixer .

Pensive Pt 1 (light & dark mix) Daw-less one shot live recording

This is about how life is constantly presenting challenges. We must learn from each incident/experience and use that learning to try and be more resilient and be able to move forward. 
I wrote it on my 3/4 size Hofner classical guitar. It’s first song! I used open G tuning after being encouraged to try it by Mark Spruce (Original Spruce - great songs- give them a listen!). Thanks Mark! 
Hope you enjoy it. Best with headphones! 
Take care 
James 

Lyrics 
My Uncertain Steps 

As a boy, I was scared of the sea
With my family, on a beach in Normandy, 
a French boy told me the ghosts of drowned sailors grab your legs and dragged you down
I wouldn’t go in! 
Too naive and trusting! 

As a teen, I was all over the place! 
Always confused, just didn’t know which way to face
Too many temptations, suggestions and thrills, distracting and wild
Couldn’t think straight 
Couldn’t concentrate! 

It was always their demands and directions 
Had to meet their dreams and expectations 

My uncertain steps
No confidence 
(Trying to find my own way)
My uncertain steps 
At my own pace
(My way) 

My wreckage of a life, with this chaotic love
Constant demands, you can never do enough 
Mix in the bullies, the twisters and those egos too
It pulls you apart
Breaks your heart 

I’m seasoned, I now know this path
One crisis avoided, another starts 

My uncertain steps
More experienced 
(Trying to find my own way)
My uncertain steps
At my own pace 
(My way) 

And now I expect to see the worst
In everyone and everything I know
Just know how it is, but feel I can somehow 
see it through

(outro) 
I’ve got friends (for my uncertain steps)
I’ve lived and learnt (for my uncertain steps)
I’ve got you (for my uncertain steps) 
I’ll get through this (my uncertain steps) 


James Whiteman copyright  18 January 2024

My Uncertain Steps

Ian Greaves vocals @ipg1
https://soundcloud.com/ipg1/modern-times

Special thanks goes to @r-u-r-pl for his endless patience and absolute hears. Advices - priceless.

Modern Times - IPG1 vs kavvka (New Soul Project re-edit 2024)

https://soundcloud.com/audiobake
lyrics-
you give me chills -you give me fever 
you make me ill- you make me quiver
i know i gotta break this cycle of woe
how can i when youre in my head everywhere i go?
so i slip down deeper - nowhere else to go
getting weaker - i just cant say no

you make me sweat you make me rage 
you make me rust you make me smaller and amaller and smaller and smaller and small

i know i gotta stop this spiral
i know i gotta break this cycke of woe 
just cant seem to find the right road - keep my feet upon the right road

you give me thrills you give me the fear
you make me blind you make me hear things- louder and louder and louder and loud

i know i gotta stop this spiral i know i gotta break this cycle of woe 
just cant seem to find the right road - keep my feet upon the right road

what would i be? who would i be ? without you

CYCLE of WOE- Audiobake x purpleclaire

Patrick/DjArtw2001 (@djartw2007) and I now present track 6 in our current collaborative album "Galaxy Universe" (2024).

The track was created in September 2023 (initial composition, recording, arrangement and mix by Patrick/DjArtw2001 in MAGIX) and 23 April 2024 (subsequent composition in GarageBand, further additions, arrangements and final mix by Alex M in Logic Pro) and posted on SoundCloud on 24 May 2024 (by Alex M).

The artwork cover for the track zooms on a part of an oil painting by Patrick/DjArtw2001 of 7 January 2024 that was cropped from a photo and annotated using Mac OS Preview by Alex M on 3 February and 24 April 2024 with final version of 21 August 2024 - in coordination and agreement with Patrick/DjArtw2001.

Duration: 11:08 minutes

Galaxy Universe 6 - Alex M & DjArtw2001

All guitars, bass and final mix by Neno J.
Original music, arrangement, piano, drums, instruments; J.J. Terrell
Check out Neno J. https://on.soundcloud.com/zH9vq3MzzExrnDjQ9

Enlightenment (Collab with Neno J.)

Terry Reeves:  Vocals
Gary Reeves:  Drums
Hans-Michael Albers:  All other instruments, Arrangement & Production
(From the forthcoming album ‘From London To Hamburg’)

Photograph and post production by Dan Duchars.
Hans’ video: https://youtu.be/Lm8WoxCegRE?si=XFq1zX8Gkz3oLDmH

When you’re brainstorming ideas for album covers, you never really think they might involve placing yourselves in the middle of a road as traffic bears down on you.  However, that is precisely what we did.
Now I’m not one to tell tales but it was all Gal’s fault.  He thought our front cover  should feature an image of the entire band, which was quite compelling aside from the fact that we lived in London, Hans in Hamburg and have in reality never met.  But Gal had a mate called Dan (who lives in Norfolk, hence the title), a professional photographer whose comprehensive knowledge of Photoshop could bring the three of us together.
We’d always loved the pre-fame, Astrid Kirchherr portraits of The Beatles, taken during their club-playing, Hamburg days and two of these became our template - in focus subject occupying the foreground, covert and blurred figure (in our case, 2  figures) in the distance.
And so it was that, armed with a pin-sharp shot of Hans, we met with Dan to photograph the background scene which, as outlined previously, was in the middle of a busy side road.  Camera in hand, Dan teetered on a plastic crate as Gal and me  dodged back and forth to avoid a plethora of oncoming vehicles - everything from lorries to mobility scooters - who were, on the whole, very accommodating in the circumstances. Some even smiled and waved - at least I think that’s what they were doing…
We owe Dan so much, not only for his consummate skills and kindness but also for laying his life on the line in the name of art.  This song is for him.  (Terry Reeves)

I met a man called Dan holding a magical light
Viewing future moments, giving individual sight
Shadows from Hamburg, combination of skills
Show London reflection of a figure standing still

Chorus:
A flash of light, picture to follow
In black & white, diverse as tomorrow

Stand high in right places, enchanted vision of art
Friend of ageing musicians, sorcery skills from the heart
A Wizard conjuring cover, Kirchherr’s copy of claim
Painting light into a picture, producing Album in frame

Chorus

Viewing from height - sparks of vision
Seeing it tight - artist precision
Know left from right - avoid collision
Negative in sight - develop position

Chorus

Confidence in commitment, enjoying musical tracks
Working four to an image, platinum vinyl plaque 
Black and white cover photo, a clue why, when and who
Monochrome life connections, enjoy vision past to new

Chorus

A feeling it’s time to give a show
A feeling making history grow
A feeling, a feeling only one way to go
A feeling thinking fast going slow
A feeling Duchars photos will glow
A feeling CC one day will all know

FROM NORFOLK TO LONDON  - CRIPPLE CLUB  (Video)

Three hundred thirty million people in this country 
And we had to pick these two
Three hundred thirty million people in this country 
You’d think we could find somebody new

You say you really want to exercise your right to vote 
But if either of these guys was captain of a boat
You’d be afraid to set foot on that ship
You wouldn’t take that trip

Commercial jet pilots retire at 65
Cause after that age they’re afraid they’ll nosedive.
But there’s no age limit for the president of the USA
It’s perfectly okay

What are you supposed to do when both choices stink
You’ve got two glasses of Kool Aide
You’re not sure which one to drink

They get up on stage and we watch them a debate
Instead of rising to the occasion, they punch below their weight
We keep hoping that one of them will say something profound
But they let us down

They get asked hard questions and their answers are simple
Preventing World War three it’s like popping a pimple
And those budget deficits will magically disappear
We’ll be in the clear

Every four years we’re told that the situation is so dire
It’s like the country’s a giant gallon of milk 
And it’s about to expire
They say a broken clock is right two times a day
You never know we might pick the wrong guy and things might not turn out okay

What are you supposed to do when both choices stink
You’ve got two glasses of Kool Aide and you’re not sure which one to drink
Three hundred thirty million people in this country 
And we had to pick these two
Three hundred thirty million people in this country 
You’d think we could find somebody new

Two Bad Choices

Written and recorded before breakfast. I  later re-did backing though and used subscription to re-upload 

Please let me let you down
I'm just a clown
My mind isn't sound 
It's known around town
Could you let me let you down
Do let me lay about 
I've never been stout 
In my struggle with doubt 
Until I get gout
Please let me lay about 
Why don't we embrace love?
Why don't we embrace love?
Why don't we embrace love?
Embrace love
Would you let me let you lie?
Let your heart calcify 
I couldn't let myself comply 
Quite brave for a wise guy 
Would you let me let you lie?
Never could let you let me down
With words and deeds that confound
So let's wear a long gown 
And watch the sun going down 
Never never never let me let you down
Never let me let you down

Never Let Me Let You Down

Another All I Want For Xmas Song

As heard on the radio and, by my concierge (sorry). 
Thanks to The Happy Somethings and the various plays sprung from our collabs and to Rayna on the Radio for playing my lo-fi phone recordings in Canada. Thanks also to the others I have collaborated with (see below) and engaged with on here over the years. Many musicians miss out on SC I think as they don't understand it. 
"Single" REVIEW: https://joyzine.org/2024/01/10/single-review-cobbled-moth-the-happy-somethings-what-ive-found/

AI-generated answer:

"The Cobbled Moth is a term used to describe a musician who creates lo-fi demos using a Tascam pocket studio and acoustic guitar". 
(what about electric?)
"Cobbled Moth Regenerated is a music artist that has released a song called “Stream Not the Way”.

Conscious AI just around the corner - yeah right! 

*First page: The Cobbled Moth (Started  2014) - www.soundcloud.com/thecobbledmoth 

COLLABORATIONS so far:

With The Happy Somethings (both had radio play):

'What I've Found' 
#SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/fcje6

'Bitter' 
#SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/fSVcs

With Aine Parkes: 

'Even Knights Need Their Rest' (Lullaby written for my son) https://on.soundcloud.com/aQrSk

With Lin: 'Fantasy' #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/eRK2m

With Sal (Sarah) Lettes:

'By the Way' #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/U8eFC

All songs for free download 
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The Cobbled Moth

Never Let Me Let You Down

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