Leaked Mixes From the Forthcoming Minutes til Midnight LP... Available January 24, 2012 

Unstoppable

Demo Version of a track I co/wrote with Paul Oakenfold.. this song appeared on his Grammy Nominated 2007 solo album "A Lively Mind".. Hear it now in all its original, dirty, low budget glory! 

No Compromise

Here's another tune off the Lost Raga Tapes from 2000. It was recorded in Austin, Texas with Henry McGuinn playing lead 12 string acoustic Martin and Jim Guittard playing a 6 string Epiphone acoustic. Henry and Jim are the Ragas!

The Lost Raga Instrumental

Wrote this song after doing my 4th CPE Unit - Clinical Pastoral Education.  It is somewhat serious and somewhat sarcastic.  It is in the style of freak folk I suppose. 

Advocating

Advocating it, if you're not doing it
You're just so massively unfit.
Pushing back, now that's advocating.
Don't you procrastinate doing that.

You gotta speak for the other
Even if they say don't bother.
Advocating is making your case
Even while you spray the can of mace.

Chorus
Advocate, advocate, advocate.
That's what they tell me to do.
Advocate, advocate, advocate
That's what they tell me to do.

In the heat of the moment you gotta advocate
even if it's risky.
What's risky about going towards somebody
with your can of mace.
They may not understand you
and you may not understand them.

Chorus
Advocate, advocate, advocate.
That's what they tell me to do.
Advocate, advocate, advocate
That's what they tell me to do.

Go back to the other
Then they'll come back to you.

State your case.
Bring your can of mace.
Bang your gong.
Then it'll be alright.

Words and Music by Jim Guittard
2016

Advocating

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LP release on Sugarbush Records UK October 2016

Infloresence

8X8 - My Summertime High

The new album from Minutes til Midnight...

Stories and songs from 1967's legendary Monterey International Pop Festival, now celebrating its 45th Anniversary! 

Monterey Moments: The Byrds "Chimes Of Freedom"

Cliff Magreta - "Hello"

This one is from the Guittard Tapes recorded around 2001.  I lost the version with the harmony vocals and found it in 2013.  Here it is!  Recorded in Los Angeles on a 4-track Tascam machine.

Getting There Is Not So Easy (with Harmonies)

This Channel will be a place to listen to materials that I have been recorded within the past ten years or so that I have not released until now.   I call this channel the Guittard Tapes channel because the songs are taken from tapes that I had in many boxes in storage.  The tapes were found after years of sitting.  See if you can find a treasure.

Getting There Is Not So Easy (with Harmonies)

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