Don, I do believe you have such a good time picking--happy tune !!

So happy to have been able to include the fabulous SuZanne Ledwith on this track. Skip over here to check out her talent: https://soundcloud.com/suzanne-ledwith


Fast Train

The morning sun has lost its warmth
There’s a coolness in the air
Shadows lengthen in the street
On branches that are bare

A frost lies gentle on the grass
The smell of burning leaves
Each night hangs heavier in our bones
As we rise
To brush our teeth

The train pulls in at half past eight
We file into the aisles
Hanging from the rails and straps
We’re rocked from side to side

The backs of houses pass us by
A hundred stories to unfold
As the wheels thunder on the tracks
And we try to keep control 

Now smile
Because the world it needs to laugh
Stay  awhile
Your stations just gone past
This train’s too fast

A woman’s crying next to me
Tears drop into her coffee cup
Strangers crowd and try to help
And all our eyes are welling up

Her shoulders shake with every sob
We all stand and watch in awe
As things fall apart
In carriage number four

Now smile
Because the world it needs to laugh
Stay  awhile
Your stations just gone past
This train’s too fast

Fast Train - featuring SuZanne Ledwith

I posted this piece many years ago, I had added the strings from my Yamaha, but on advise of some Friends, I have made a second recording, with a slight change in notes, and thus only piano...
I hope you like it....

Art picture by Dave Ellis on Unsplash

Que Pour Toi

Ejercicio (José Ferrer 1835 - 1916)

No one knows who wrote the nursery rhyme London's Burning. Was it about The Great Fire of London in 1666, did they have fire engine in those days, who knows? (Maybe Joe Strummer).
https://youtu.be/iZOJ-HzbQUg

A big thank you to Jonathan who played both acoustic & electric and did the mixing. He is such a talent!

London’s burning
Fetch the engine pour on water
London’s burning
I tell ya what I think we oughta
Push that fan up to full throttle 
Fill up all our water bottles 
Think that we are in big trouble
Again 
 
London’s burning
Burning here on Friday Street
London’s burning
Listen to the angry heat
Thomas Faryner’s not to blame
It did not start in Pudding Lane
It’s driving cars and aeroplanes
It’s insane 

London’s burning
People jumping off the bridges 
London’s burning
Some are climbing into fridges
I smell smoke
It gets your throat
And it’s no joke

London's Burning (with Jonathan Beckenstein)

From the new album A Certain Rapture - https://moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/a-certain-rapture

Mood Exhibit - A Certain Rapture

The cakewalk was more than a recreational dance; it also gave a chance for enslaved people to ridicule those who tyrannized them.

Photo: Bert Williams and George Walker who popularized cakewalk dancing more than anyone.

Cakewalk Into Town (Taj Mahal)

Junk-Paul McCartney

Dulcimer Jubilee!

Dubuque/ Single Footin' Horse/ Spotted Pony, Lois Hornbostel

1988 Washburn R305 guitar, McSpadden dulcimer, 1928 Gibson A2 mandolin

Kids just having fun.

Kids Recess

I have again the honour and pleasure to share with you a composition by Jean-Pierre Dubois (JiPé)...I was really pleased when he had sent me this composition he wrote a long time ago, as the title mentions it too!:))
I hope you will enjoy my interpretation of it....

Valse Retrouvée by Jean - Pierre Dubois (Performed by Liz Dicker)

Joe Hill, Swedish emigrant, songwriter, working class hero, was the inspiration behind this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tnCcqcICcY&t=1s

A poll released on August 16th found that nearly half of Americans who support Biden plan to vote by mail rather than in person on election day, compared with just one in ten backers of Trump.

Big thank you to https://soundcloud.com/jonathan_beckenstein for his beautiful raw playing that takes this song from its humble ‘rural’ beginnings into big ‘city’ overdrive. And to Yaron Engler for his deft drum programming.

No letter in the post for Joe
No letter in the post for Joe
Where’s that vote
In an envelope
No letter in the post for Joe

He needs that letter to make things better 
Why’s it so damn slow
Don’t stop clapping
Until it happens
No  letter in the post for Joe  
      
Click, snap, a letter box flap
Tell me yes or no? 
If that my vote
In an envelope
That’s all I need to know
Or I tell you Joe might blow

Kids Recess

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