This is a song about my beautiful, fierce and fragile daughter, Becka Kelley.  I love and miss her immensely. 

~ Becka’s Mom


Lyrics by Samantha Goodell 
Composed by Samantha Goodell and Michael Crittenden
Music by Michael Crittenden
Produced by Mackinaw Harvest Studios
Grand Rapids, Michigan

She Couldn’t Stay

Young Prophet (feat. Teject)

SMALLTOWN GIRL 
(Schultz-Munday-Marcott)

Recorded at LP Studio 1990
Lincoln Park, MI
Performed by The Nameless

Michael J. Schultz (Vox, Words)
Shawn Munday (Guirar, BVox)
Chilly (Guitar)
Kelly Marcott (Bass)
Todd Erkfitz (Keyboards)
Kenn Kaye (Drums)


SMALLTOWN GIRL

Smalltown Girl...
In a great big world
On her own...barely grown in the city
Smalltown Girl...
A long way from home
Looking fresh but all alone in the city.

Bright lights, city nights
From a broken down shack just isnt right...
Without a friend
Broke and cold...missing home!

Smalltown Girl...
Nothing's like it seems
Broken dreams...
On your knees in the city!
Smalltown Girl...
I guess you got your way...
Now its time to pay 
On the streets...they show no pity
No pity...no pity...no pity

Bright lights, city nights
From a broken down shack just isnt right
Without a friend
Broke and cold...missing home

Smalltown Girl...
Why Dont you listen
Its not too late
Pull yourself together find yourself a better way
Its not too late...why dont you listen...
Go back home and find what you're missing...
Smalltown Girl...

Smalltown Girl...
In a great big world
On her own...barely grown in the city
Smalltown Girl...
I guess you got your way
Its time to pay
In the streets they show no pity

Bright lights, city nights
From a broken down shack just isnt right
Without a friend
Broke and cold...missing home

Smalltown Girl...
Why Dont you listen
Its not too late
Pull yourself together find yourself a better way
Its not too late...why dont you listen...?
Go back home and find what you're missing.
Why won't you listen
Its not too late
Pull yourself together and find yourself a better way
Why wont you listen?
Go back home and find what you're missing.

Smalltown Girl (4)


COPYRIGHT 1997
Nameless Music


Smalltown Girl

PASSCODE (Demo)
(Schultz-Schultz-Ballish)

Recorded at 131 Lincoln
Clawson Sound Recordings 2017
Performed by Causal Nexus

Artwork provided by Josh Celmer

Michael J. Schultz (Vox, Words)
James Schultz (Keyboards)
John Ballish ((Keyboards)


PASSCODE

Across the main road...
Live the very, very rich
Ten feet away...
Lies a man in a ditch
The husband? He's a doctor
The wife? She's a bitch!
Ohh ya

Looking up at me
How was I to know?
She said, "Come back, Later...
Here's my Passcode".

She gave me her Passcode...
To get into the gate.
Passcode...69-68
Passcode...You know my daddy he ain't home
Passcode...She don't wanna be alone
I got her Passcode!

I look in the mirror
She looks my way
She gives me a wink and a smile but I got nothing to say...
She drives in my car...but she never pays
And she's high as a kite just like every other day...

She gave me her Passcode
To get into the gate
Passcode...69-68
Passcode...You know my daddy he ain't home
Passcode...She don't wanna be alone
I got her Passcode
Passcode
Passcode

"Can ya stop at the store?
Get a bottle of wine.
Any kind you like...I don't really mind.
Just make sure you hurry...
Because I hot no time!
Thank you very much."
I said, "The pleasure is all mine"

Thank you for the Passcode...
To get into the gate.
Passcode...69-68
Passcode...You know my daddy he ain't home
Passcode...She don't wanna be alone
Passcode...Passcode
She gave me her Passcode
Passcode

COPYRIGHT 2021
Dirty Gas Music



Passcode (Demo)

ABORTION (Demo)
(Schultz-Schultz)

Recorded in Black Betty Sound
Royal Oak, MI.  2023
Performed by Fish Eye Gravy

Artwork by Josh Celmer

Michael J. Schultz
(Vox, Words)
James Schultz 
(All instruments/Treatments)


ABORTION

Driving through the fog
On a warm San Clemente night
Heading down to San Diego
Where the price was right

Cruising down I-5...going south
She had a burger in her hand...
And ketchup on the side of her mouth
Ninety-Five dollars is all we had to pay
Seems a small price to take a life away...

Nobody questioned
Nobody cared
No one the wiser...nobody there
Nobdy there...nobody there.

She stood on that stage
In her tiny bathing suit
She looked like the winner to me
There was no dispute
A wink and a swirl, Orphan Annie curls...
No one seemed to care 'bout the destruction of a girl
Awkward smile, Snorting like a child...Running wild.

Nobody questioned
Nobody cared
No one the wiser...nobody there

No one said it would be this way
They claimed it was black and white
but I see only gray
Who woulda thought a moment in time...
Would last forever in the back of my mind.
We were young and dumb...
Full of confusion...whiskey and rum.

Nobody questioned
Nobody cared
No one the wiser...nobody there

Just outside downtown...
Looking torn and afraid
No one was around to take the money that we saved.
Who would be the accomplice...
to a couple young fools?
Stopping a heart...a brand new start
Breaking all their rules

Where can you go
when there is no place to hide?
How do you escape...the devil inside
The devil inside
The devil inside

"Don't be alarmed at the power that you hold.
One day you'll laugh about it.
One day when you're old."
She said, "Try not to think about it.
Try not to care.
This happens to everyone...no reason to be scared!"

Alone in that room
Shaken and scattered...nerves shattered...nothing matterd
Full of worry, anxiety and fear...
"It'll be over before you know it"
All your troubles will disappear

Where can you go
when there's no place to hide?
How do you escape...the devil inside?
The devil inside
The devil inside
The devil inside

COPYRIGHT 2023
FISH EYE GRAVY MUSIC

Abortion (Demo)

COME AND GONE

Recorded by Victor Perraino
Lincoln Park, MI
Performed by The Nameless
Artwork provided by God

Michael J. Schultz
(Vox, Metal Drum, Words)
Shawn Munday (Guitar, BVox)
Chilly (Guitar)
Todd Erkfitz (Keyboards)
Kelly Marcott (Bass, BVox)
Kenny Kaye (Drums)


COME AND GONE

Nights are getting longer...
Warmth drifts into cold
Another season passes and another year old...
Leaves are slowly turning...
The northern breeze a whisper
Nights are getting shorter
How I wish that i was with her...

Summer's over...
Winter's come!
Another girl has Come And Gone, Woah

Over and over like a rerun movie
Come And Gone...
Over and over and she never really knew me...
Come And Gone
Come And Gone, Woah
Come And Gone

The October wind us singing
Wait until another June...
Nights are getting longer
As I look toward the moon
Summers don't last forever
Nor does love it seems...
Soon there'll be another season's change
And another girl to fill my dreams

Summer's over...
Winter's come
Another girl has Come And Gone, Woah

Over and over like a rerun movie
Come And Gone...
Over and over but she never really knew me
Come And Gone
Come And Gone, woah
Come And Gone

(Solo)

Over and over like a rerun movie
Come And Gone
Over and over but she never really knew me...
Come And Gone, Woah
Come And Gone, Woah
Come And Gone, Woah
Come And Gone, Woah
Come And Gone

COPYRIGHT 1997
NAMELESS MUSIC




Come And Gone (Demo)

SHINE
(Collective Soul Cover)

Recorded at
Black River Blue Water Audio
March 02, 2024
Performed by Jagged Wires

Michael J. Schultz (Vox)
Zev Kendra (Guitar, Bass, BVox)
Moisus (Drums)

SHINE

A HEROES DESPERATION

LIFE GOES ON 
(Schultz / Munday)

Michael J. Schultz (Words, Vox)   Shawn Munday (Guitar, BVox)
Bob Chilcutt (Guitar) 
Kelly Marcott (Bass)
Kenny Kaye (Drums)

Ultimatum...or common sense?

Shawn Munday plays my favorite lead on this tune. His tone was purrrfect for the session.

Life Goes On

Jagged Wires is my accumulative inspirations!

The last of ten children, I was raised in Allen Park, Michigan on Blues, Beatles and Big Bands. My father Kenneth Schultz was an accomplished Big Band trumpeter and saxophonist whose career was unfortuantely derailed by WWll !

My influences vary from Howlin' Wolf to Charley Christian to Brian Eno to Peter Green, Syd Barrett, David Bowie and Scott Walker...with Savoy Brown and Can thrown in for good measure!

I've been produced by artists as diverse as members of America, John Fogerty and The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, My eclectic song stylings have been captured here by such bands as Naked Youth, The Persuaders, The Nameless, Jagged Wires, Fish Eye Gravy and others.  Disecting topics as far ranging as spirituality to politics...love and hate and angst and irreverence...More often than not within the same song! The key is the story told not necessarily the chords that lead it.

After relocating back to Detroit from San Clemente, CA, I formed The Nameless with fellow SoCal transplant and member of Naked Youth and The Persuaders, Chilly Bob Chilcutt. 

After releasing the 4-Song cassette "A Really Big Shoe" The Nameless morphed into Emperor's New Clothes after keyboardist Todd Erkfitz left the band. ENC was nominated in two categories at the Detroit Music Awards: Best Alternative Band, Emperor's New Clothes, and Best Alternative Recording for their album "Run Around Naked".

I retired from performing after suffering serious injuries following being struck by a car in Wyandotte, Mi.  While retired I mentored my two sons, James and Jeremy Schultz, as they formed their own bands including Sunlight Ascending, Wounded Touch, Not OK, Hollow Earth, Thin Skin, Porton Down, Broadacre, Joy And The Aftermath  and Causal Nexus. 

I also wrote and published my first novel, 'The Vela Project' (Xlibris Press) and released an accompanying CD under the same name. My first in a concept series of novel-soundtracks. I have since written 3 other novels, 'Naked Youth', 'The Houseguest' and 'They Shoulda Uber'd'...and two Screenplays.

After publishing 'The Vela Project' I went on to form Jagged Wires in 2017 with guitarists/bassists Bryan Zadrazny, former Allen Park High grad Dennis Angelotti, Chilly and Michigan Rock And Roll Hall-Of-Fame drummer Kenny Puma.
Angelotti left the band and was soon replaced by Slide-guitar wizard Richard Goodell. The band members have evolved and revolved but Jagged Wires has survived with the riddle yet solved...thus far!  

Currently, rotating members include
Trina Manning, ex of Huntress, on Guitar, Richard Goodell from the EZ Kings on slide guitar, Bill Tatar on drums and Todd Erkfitz from The Nameless on keyboards and other guests such as Zev Kendra and Gary Miller on guitars and Erick Whalin and Skip Nelson revolving on bass.

Current recordings include  collaborations with Christian Bouillon from the Montreal area and Walter Blamer from 'Chris And Walter' as well as brother and sister trancers Joshua and Joanna Pomeroy from the Detroit area and Swingin' sisters Teena & Teri from SoCal.

My main goal of this site is to find musicians willing to help with my musical journey. 

For Bookings and/or inquiries please contact: Ambientman1@gmail.com

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