Very nice song with good lyrics, Dave !!! :-)

Hey man, this is charming. Love your lyrics. Great work!

Lot of wisdom here Dave, such a wordsmith!

I like your poetry, especially in terms of content, very close to life...🌍 ☮︎ 👍

It is a clear violation of the commandment "Do not take the Lord's name in vain" to use his name to justify intolerance, bigotry, and prejudice toward another person.  Others may use their manifestos to justify their behavior, but the Christian (and others as well) have only one mandate and that is to love.

Similar to R I.P.  A bit of fun with a Dylanesque type blues.

A Little While

Featuring the maestro that is Jamie Rhind! Originally written in Jan 1999 and re-recorded to mark the turn of 2024, showcasing Jamie's sublime laid back keywork.
Jamie Rhind - Piano solo
Andy McLean - Soprano saxophone, EWI, Keyboards, Bass, Drum programming, Composition

New Beginning (feat. Jamie Rhind)

Folk number from way back merging a few concepts... Lammas is an August harvest festival and Martinmas a November cattle-slaughtering and salting-down for winter one. Plough Monday celebrates the burying of a corn 'dolly' made from the last harvest sheaf to 'embody' the corn spirit and provide a winter refuge prior to its summer rebirth. Kine is an old word for cattle. How in touch with the land were rural folk from centuries past, and how disconnected we seem today in our little plastic techno-bubbles.🙄My lyrics, Mr. L's music/vocals. Copyright 2008 Jay Rich and Mr. L. Lyrics below:

                John Barleycorn

V1:

Hail old John Barleycorn
Your once ripe earth is so forlorn
With weeds instead of grain it's overgrown
From its trials it seems so worn:
Planted seeds as yet unborn
Lie dormant in the soil in which they're sown

V2:

Come summer, crops stand tall and strong
With you to urge their growth along
So Lammas brings in rich and heavy yields
Reapers sing Thanksgiving songs
Nights are short and days are long
The harvest moon shines bright upon your fields

Ch1:

Hail old John Barleycorn
Arise and be reborn
John Barleycorn arise and be reborn

V3:

Lush pastures flush with feeding kine
And Mother Nature marking time:
Her rhythms and her cycles so well known
To you a reader of the signs
Knowing what she has in mind:
Horn of plenty for the harvest home

*****Break*****

V4:

Plough Monday's corn doll offering:
A ploy to ward off suffering
Tombed in the first furrow of the year
With Martinmas comes slaughtering
Of fattened stock now herded in
Feeling nature's bounty will bide near

V5:

As seasons pass embrace your fate
Of lyring low and enforced wait
Retirement though won't suit John Barleycorn
You'll do no more than hibernate
Your reappearance never late
Your spirit will return to be reborn

Ch2:

Hail old John Barleycorn
Arise and be reborn
John Barleycorn arise and be reborn

Ch3:

Hail old John Barleycorn
Arise and be reborn
John Barleycorn arise and be reborn

Outro:

John Barleycorn arise and be reborn
John Barleycorn arise and be reborn



John Barleycorn (Mr. L music/vocals)

First track from our new EP "Time Zones" now available on Engram Recordings: https://engramrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/time-zones
Premier morceau de notre nouvel EP "Time Zones" disponible dès maintenant sur Engram Recordings : https://engramrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/time-zones

Time Zones

1984 Cherche Soleil

For an aggressive violent species we seem to have great unreasonable fear of anything that looks different than us. We seem to lack the self confidence/insight/character to ask questions first and attack later.
We should embrace difference, seek facts, trust ourselves and others

lyrics

Familiar isn't perfect
Different isn't evil
Keep that in mind
Before you pull the trigger
and take the life of someone
you've never looked at in the eye
Just because some leader has filled your head with lies

Radical white christian
Holds a bible and a rock
Cries out he must protect his world
From the invading colored hoardes
He uses the words of Jesus
To explain his fear and hate
But Jesus wasn't white
and Jesus never threw a stone
so what makes you think
you've got it right at all
If you listened to his words
He'd say he came down here
to save each and everyone of us
and not just you my dear

Neonazis raise their fists
Hate all but their own
an Aryan nation pure and perfect
they couldn't be more wrong
the only thing I know for sure
that's pure and perfect in this world
is a bar of ivory soap[
If they were to look inside
in each a little gypsy hides
but they are too afraid to face the fact
that it's not "them" they hate, they hate themselves

Flowers come in different
colors shapes and sizes
but all need sun and water
to flourish and survive
we all get cold and hungry
we all have fears and needs
but black white or red you see
there is no supremacy

we are drowning in an ocean
of lies and fears and myths
it's easy to get lost
and do something you'll regret
so use your common sense
seek out the facts and truth
think for yourself and think of others
not as foes but as brothers

we all climb the same mountain
the slope is steep and slick
It is easier to get there 
if we offer a hand and not a fist

Familiar isn't perfect

Song by Robert Burns
Vocals and Instrumentals by Layna Claunch

My love is like a red, red rose
   That’s newly sprung in June
My love is like a melody
   That’s sweetly played in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lad
   So deep in love am I
And I will love thee still, my dear
   Till all the seas gang dry

Till all the seas gang dry, my love
   And the rocks melt with the sun
I will love thee still, my dear
   While the sands of life shall run

But fare thee well, my only love
   But fare thee well awhile
And I will come again, my love
   Though t'were ten thousand mile

My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose

The tone of the saxophone melts away. It is a world of music where humans are not involved. A complex world of melted tones and gathered tones. After I start making music, someone else has the power to make decisions on my behalf.


Am I going to play or who is playing?（256）

I'm happy to present this first collab with i-Mac https://soundcloud.com/maclennanmusic , who kindly invited me to work with his cool track ! Cover image also from i-Mac .....
Thanks very much for this inspirational track - it felt like homezone, so my improvisation is in one go !

Psychedelic Pserengeti by i-Mac ................. joerxworx Sax Remix

Pour Autant Ft - Ziaziou

JIM ANDERS _Jetzt

I heard AD's original track "Natural Mystic" and I wanted to make it bigger and badder. He was cool enough to collab with me. I Wrote some lyrics, added vocals and guitars and this track was born out of his Original Idea. I hope you all enjoy our creation. We do \m/


We cannot see through this bullshit you spew
We are deceived from the start till we’re through
You can’t relate to the hate because you’re blind
You only find respite with your own kind
Your message is just more rhetoric recycled
Until you turn us all into Audio Disciples
Until your ears are bleeding from the music that we make
You’re raw with your skills while we Audiobake
Rain down your critiques I’m knee-deep in your hate
It’s just more shit that gets put up on our plate
Every road taken and every day is ours
We progress, our insides and diminish our scars
A mindless submissive, you bound down to your king
You’re kind and defenseless  you don’t feel a thing

You wait for Superman
I look to me
You turn to run from it
We never flee
We are the free and the vengeful divide
We will not stop until we can decide

We fall to our knees, for No enemies
We fall to our knees, for No enemies

Natural Mystics - Razzi  X  Audiodisciples

these are short songs ,poems more than musical songs really,that are meant to emphasize the lyrics that address what I think are critical issues for all of us : our relationship to each other/the planet/ourselves.. so please have a listen and let me know your thoughts. nothing fancy/cell phone recordings/take care be safe
I am now on Spotify.com as Dave Scamurra .please visit

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