Name: Raining In My Heart by Big Al from the Grove
Duration: 3 min 25 s
Description: Always loved hearing Buddy Holly sing this song and loved the movement in the chord progression. The song was written by Boudleaux and Felice Bryant and suited Buddy perfectly. I tried to capture feeling I get from Buddy's version.

Nice one, Al. I'm a huge BH fan too. I really like your guitar tones and the layering. Best wishes. Robert.

Ah! Thankyou .I loved your take on Cajun Moon.Map of Nowhere is great song too.Kinda cool  too that you had a live audience while Hiding in Plain Sight.I was in a strange bar in a strange town listening to a band and watching the locals dance .

I definitely got that feeling that I was hiding in plain sight.I wrote a song called The Glass Tube about that feeling.

Some good ol' family music playing, recorded one night at our home. with uncle on guitar & vocal, dad pickin' and taking solos, and me blowing on the harmonica (for the first time I think, judging by the reaction!). One of my favourite nights on this planet. 
(song by Johnny Cash)

Here's another from that night, something a little more hoppin':
https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/long-gone-lonesome-blues-live-family-cover

home style country

fourty shades of green

Always loved hearing Buddy Holly sing this song and loved the movement in the chord progression. The song was written by Boudleaux and Felice Bryant and suited Buddy perfectly. I tried to capture feeling I get from Buddy's version.

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Raining In My Heart

Second attempt covering the beautiful song, Watermark, by Enya. The strings are still not as good as they could be, but this version includes those Enya harmony hums in the middle bridge section, so it's a nice improvement over the previous version I had uploaded.

(song written by Enya)

***funny note re: image art - i did a little edit job in Photoshop, morphing my face onto Enya's. Not the most appealing result, but who am I to say?! lol...

here's the real album cover for reference:
https://imagez.tmz.com/image/46/1by1/2018/10/09/46585da9b70459589a6d1dc81550fe07_xl.jpg

and the real me, early 2023:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mark_boucher/53550250098/in/dateposted/

As always, thanks for listening, and don’t hesitate to give any critical feedback to help me improve. 😉

Watermark (cover - see description re: image art)

I'm sorry y'all--this is another downer of a song with preachy lyrics but it's an idea that came up and demanded to be completed. 

The only side I take is the human one, but I couldn't have more contempt for the ostensible leaders of both Gaza and Israel who seek their own interests at the cost of so much suffering among innocents. Nothing good comes out of "Let's go kill some people."



You Let This Happen

have you understood that this is the final warning call
abandon hope all those that linger here

you lived the diamond life and could not lend your ears
and now the sand is wet with blood beyond our wildest fears 
how could you let this happen here

we plant the seeds of death beside the seeds of life 
so they can pay the price and have the will to fight

the bloodied face that no one could identify
now here's the news that was a mother's precious baby
how could you let this happen here

so how do you think this story ends
when it begins with the death of innocents
another thousand years of war is in the cards
another generation with daggers in their hearts

and you let it happen

You Let This Happen

Cast of Characters:

Computart – @computart – guitar, vocals/whistling, composition

Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – mix and production 

K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara -–Ken–drums and percussion

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)–@josh-clary-1 –-four string fretless bass and mandolin

This song started as a recording of Computart playing the guitar and singing/whistling to a metronome, which you can find raw on his page. Having worked together before on a song called The Shining, the Frenchman reached across the pond again and asked me, the Yank, if I would like to add anything to this. This style of music being one of my favorites, I jumped at the chance. Of course, I got Ken involved right away because every great song needs a great drummer. I came up with a bass line, to which Ken added drums, to which I in turn redid my bass line, as is our usual process. I then added the mandolin. Then, Ken added the hand drums to put the icing on the cake. Tez was generous enough to produce and mix this for us, and we feel like he got it to sound like we were all playing in the same room together. 
  We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed putting it together.

Plaisir (The Eclectic Collective with Computart)

A song written by the Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona. The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra had a big hit with their 1940 recording. The song has been covered by various surf guitar bands. The Shadows also recorded a version of the tune.

The Breeze And I

This is a different recording than my version with the blue guitar. 
 I replayed the melody and brought in a second guitar on parts of the song. The backup is more of just a bass and percussion thing. The two guitars are in octaves at times and then finish with a bit of interplay improvisation.

Getting Married [Single]

How Deep Is Your Love

(apologies for being away from SC for a while, looking forward to catching up with all your latest creations...)

Well, I finally finished the full version cover of one of my all time fave songs, In Your Eyes, by Peter Gabriel (previously uploaded only up to the first verse). This is a straight up cover that's as faithful to the original as I could get. It's definitely the most time and meticulous effort I've spent on a song trying to do it justice. All instruments are played by me on keyboard, as well as the live talking drum and spotty singing, and then some backing synth pads and the vital backing vocals by @remnant60 (https://soundcloud.com/remnant60). Bill was also instrumental in giving feedback and offering suggestions, and providing the mastering duties. I'm very grateful for his help, and since we both agree PG's original song is a masterpiece, we have a bit of a surprise remix version coming up that highlights all the layers of sounds that go into this song. Can't wait to share it with you!

Song written by Peter Gabriel

(image is a mash-up of my face on the album cover, done in Photoshop)


Here’s the ‘cluck’ version by acarboni:

https://on.soundcloud.com/RVCa1PY1HgvriWsE7

In Your Eyes  (cover)

Instrumental cover of The Beatles Michelle. This is based on the Chet Atkins arrangement.

Michelle

Hide and Seek

Fell in love with Guitar sounds since I first heard Duane Eddy twanging out Rebel Rouser. Then I heard  Chet Atkins Hi Fi in Focus album. This was back around 1960.Me and my brother Cliff got guitars as soon as we could and started learning ourselves to play some tunes. Now about 60 years later I am still loving it. I lost Cliff last year but his jazz loving influence is still present in my playing. You can just never stop learning new stuff and ways of playing when you love the sound a guitar makes. My son Bryce also fell in love with guitar and he also is a fine singer. Il be also posting some songs that have been able play along with him.I  just hope there are people who will enjoy the music I play and post, thankyou Al Gibbs

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