Amazing vocals that add just the right edginess to the melody

Great  vocal nice track and guitar work, excellent mix and prod 👌

Delightfully engaging from the word go....vibrant, high paced, melodies reach uncharted territories..love the subtle interplay of scales!

Great song, Eric, with amazing lyrics and vocal. Awesome! 👏 ❤️

Monday Playlist week of 12/19/2022

Although this song was written by me about one of my most loved places in the world, I heard Nat sing it when we were figuring out how to present it, and I just had to have her stick with the lead vocals as she sings it so beautifully, even though she has never set foot in the great Mountain State (now she wants to!). So we just changed "she" to "he" and it all fell into place. It tells the story of someone who has watched a lover leave and seeks solace in the Wonderful and Wild of West Virginia. The state became a bit of a passion for me since I first visited our friends in Keyser when I was still a boy. And it still represents a place of reflection and spirit to me. A place where one can find themselves and answer the deeper questions perhaps. And that's what happens in this song. It celebrates the wonders of this beautiful place even while it describes the complicated challenges of this world. This is dedicated to the entire Campbell family, without whom I'd not know the beauty I've tried to capture in this simple song. I especially want to recognize Margaret & Richard as the head of that Campbell clan, bless them both in heaven. As long as there are mountains and rivers in West Virginia, their memory will live large.
(lyrics below)

Copyright Daniels & Durgy 2021
Gentle Rain Records.
Produced, Written & Performed by Nat Daniels & Craig Durgy
Pedal Steel - Dakota Holden  
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Craig Durgy: Vocals, Guitar & Mandolin
Nat Daniels: Vocals, bass and production
Dakota Holden: Pedal Steel
See Our video! :  https://youtu.be/-FVLtkalVlA

Lyrics;
Hey, West Virginia, I’m crossing your state line
It’s me again, hello old friend, it’s been a long, long time
Four windows open, to feel your mountain air
To breathe you in, rememberin’, the child in me out there
You see I need your wisdom, your reassuring smile
I just want to listen, to the wonderful and wild
I know he’s leaving, I just came to tell you so
These backroads lead me back to me
To watch your Greenbrier flow
Yeah, he’s moving on now, you knew long ago
It’s what I do, so much like you, 
They come, they love, they go
You see I need your wisdom, your reassuring smile
I just want to listen, to the wonderful and wild
He loved my stories, and sunshine, wind and rain 
But like before, he’s found the door, and here I am again
Hey West Virginia, the tall grass crickets call 
The stars appear, much closer here
You catch ‘em when they fall
You always catch me when, I fall
You always catch me when,
You always catch me when, I fall

Back To West Virginia

West Virginia

Jim Croce has always been a favorite singer/songwriter of mine.  
I decided to do another one of his tunes.  I wonder what great
song he might have written if he was still with us?  Thanks
so much for listening.

I Have To Say I Love You In A Song ( cover - Jim Croce)

Isn’t it amazing how a lifetime passes by – you are a father now and once you were a son
And everyone who knew you then still think they know you now – judge you for all you did not what you've done
I’d like to think I’m drifting on a cloud and looking out upon the souls that I have touched along the way
And like to think their looking back and as they smile they say – Hey man you know what you were okay
And when I feel I’m going nowhere – I’m going nowhere fast I look into your eyes once again
And when I feel I’m going nowhere – I’m going nowhere fast I realize that you're my one true friend
Isn’t it amazing how a lifetime passes by – you were a warrior and you still are now – and everyone who knew you then still think they know you now but because of you I made it through somehow
I’d like to think I’m drifting on a cloud and looking out upon the souls that I have touched along the way
And like to think their looking back and as they smile they say – hey man – you know what you were ok
And when I feel I’m going nowhere – I’m going nowhere fast I look into your eyes once again
And when I feel I’m going nowhere going nowhere fast I realize that you're my one true friend
Isn’t it amazing how a lifetime passes by kids have grown they got their own lives to live
I thank the lord they see me now same way they saw me then but to go back twenty years what I wouldn’t give
I like to think I’m drifting on a cloud and looking out upon my kids who understand my forte
And like to think their looking back and as they smile they say you know what – Dad you were okay

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Lost Highway is a country music song written and recorded by blind country singer-songwriter Leon Payne in 1948. Hank Williams Sr. recorded it in 1949 and the rest is history. This is my raw one take version of this great song.

Lost Highway - Raw Cover by Tony

And oh, life goes way too fast - I look to the past and all i see is you
and you were my shining star - better than the last - I better watch my breath
its fading fast - I know that you are here but you seem to disappear in all of my despair - I die again
I have to face the truth - that everything I am I am because of you
and you I know you feel it too cause everything that we've become we've never come undone
And oh this alcohol is killing me - sometimes i drink so much I cannot see - and you never bat an eye - stand by my side - no matter how rocky the ride 
and oh --- I know that your are here but you seem to disappear in all of my despair - I die again 
and I have to face the truth - that everything I am I am because of you - and you I know you feel it tooo- cause everything that we've become we've never come undone
remembering  when life was oh so simple back in the days
now I spend all my nights looking down at your grave 
its oh so dark and desolate this hell blowing in my face
I need you to have my back just one more time
and oh I know that you are not here but you seem to reappear in all of my despair I die again
and I have to face the truth that every thing I am I am because of you

Because of you (I die again)

My Last Cold Breath

Way back when, my friend J and I used to jam our Sundays away on our Atari. Me mixing our own pre-recorded loops and unique, melodic arpeggios and J improvising melodies over that mix, often resulting in hourlong opuses. I have fond memories of long sessions that almost felt like they were beyond time and space; just creative capsules of music and intuitive collaboration. Not many words were uttered; we spoke with each other through the music.

Now, many years and other priorities later, we have rekindled our musical co-creativity and breathed new life into our old format from those jam sessions: Spacemaze, but with a different take on the collab because of geographical reasons. J has made Spacemaze Apollo I part 1 and 3 and this is my continuation of the project, part 2. We aim to continue this project together and post our finished mixes on SC under our old band name, @PekPax.
https://soundcloud.com/pekpax/sets/spacemaze-apollo-i

Spacemaze Apollo I Part 2

Good Times for a Change

Good Impression

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L'aube D'été By Zitou Itou & Wildsilence (lyric Grassland)

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The Backup Battery by Boddenberg & Jeamland

This dear Listeners is a Re-Mastered Release of Cosmic Cycles with Soprano Nadia Selvaggi. It's a beauty. Please  Re-post and share it more widely.

I originally reached out to fellow SoundClouder and Vocalist Nadia Selvaggi, @nadiaselvaggi ,wondering if she'd like to collaborate on one of my orchestral-fusion compositions. And Happily she said Yes! 😊

After a few weeks of Listening, she zeroed in on one of my favorites entitled - Cosmic Cycles*. And as i expected, her thoughtful, lyrical and awesomely powerful Vocalaise certainly takes the piece to new Cosmic heights. 
I'm so thankful for her creative contribution to this piece.

We're delighted to present it today. 😊

May you enJOY.

Composition © Gary Courtland-Miles 2022 -2024
Vocals ℗ Nadia Selvaggi 2022 - 2024

© Gary Courtland-Miles & Nadia Selvaggi 2022 -2024

Mixed by Anomon

Photo : A Stairway to The Milky Way

Cosmic Cycles * with Soprano Nadia Selvaggi

We're Square

It Is Time

Video:  https://youtu.be/9FFo2xsLauo
Take Me Down  - Words & Music by Pravinand Maharaj aka Johnny Minstrel

There’s a ghost star light
Somewhere in the night
If ever I be found
Baby take me down

I’m out on a limb
And the odds are slim
If ever I be found
Baby take me down

Out on this side
Everything’s hazy
Nothing’s ever clear
Out on this side 
It’s so crazy
How far the way appears

Some leave tracks
To the moon and back
If ever I be found
Baby take me down

Out on this side
Everything’s hazy
Nothing’s ever clear
Out on this side 
It’s so crazy
How far the way appears

When worlds collide
A spark survives
If ever I be found
Baby take me down

There’s a ghost star light
Somewhere in the night
If ever I be found
Baby take me down

Image from "Photo Bucket"

Take Me Down

Original Lyrics by Tony Harris
Vocal, Music, Production and Mix by Riff Beach
Re-mixed by Riff 1/13/19  

THE UNFORTUNATE SON
                             
BEEN READING JOHN'S NEW BOOK				
SAW IT ON THE BOOK STORE SHELF				
DECIDED TO GIVE IT A LOOK				
JUST A FEW OF THEM WERE LEFT				
BEING A CCR FAN				
WELL I GAVE IT A READ				
I LOVED THAT SIXTIES BAND				
GLAD THAT JOHN TOOK THE LEAD				
THE FORTUNATE SON				
BECAME THE UNFORTUNATE ONE				
LEFT OUT IN THE COLD				
FOR A FEW PIECES OF GOLD				
OH THE FORTUNATE SON				
BECAME THE UNFORTUNATE ONE				
OH ,YEA, THE UNFORTUNATE ONE				
AFTER THE BAND BROKE UP				
HE DIDN'T PERFORM FOR AWHILE				
MET THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE				
CONVINCED HIM TO NOT GIVE UP				
THEN BEFORE TOO LONG				
HE WAS BACK ON TOP AGAIN				
WITH A STRING OF HITS				
FOREVER A BANSMAN				
THE FORTUNATE SON				
BECAME THE UNFORTUNATE ONE				
LEFT OUT IN THE COLD				
FOR A FEW PIECES OF GOLD				
AWESOME GUITARIST				
HE PRACTICED EVERY DAY				
ONE OF THE BEST				
HE'S BACK IN CENTERFIELD				
AND NOW HE'S BACK IN CENTERFIELD				
I'M SO GLAD HE'S BACK IN CENTERFIELD				
THE FORTUNATE SON				
BECAME THE UNFORTUNATE ONE				
BUT NOW HE'S BACK IN CENTERFIELD				
AND NOW HE'S BACK IN CENTERFIELD				
I'M SO GLAD THAT HE'S BACK IN CENTERFIELD				
				
© 2017  Lyrics by Tony Harris (BMI)

The Unfortunate Son - Lyrics by Tony Harris - Featuring Riff Beach - Original - ReMix 1/13/19

Love country, folk, rock, gospel, blues and 60's style rock/pop music. I also post a Monday Playlist each week. My main page is Tony's Lyrics https://soundcloud.com/tonyslyrics

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