Divine sax sound immersed in unique moments. I love the chill beats. Wonderful production.

Little excerpt from a gig a few weeks back. There was an old piano lurking at the side of stage so Dani wondered over and gave it a good bash mid set - i made some pretty average bass noises in the background : )  pardon the audio quality -  its a straight raw capture from my trusty zoom . Vibe is good though

Kirby/Ward Live @ The Polish Club (piano Improv)

I broke a leg bone (femur) in May of 2022. I wrote the song as I lay in a hospital bed and sedated with a mild dose of morphine. About a week after the operation, a physio nurse had come into my room to go over some exercises. To be honest, she was quite pretty and she seemed a bit suggestive with respect to "if I would be up for some exercise".  Probably just the morphine but it got the lyrical part of my brain turning and from that came most of the verses.  I managed to type them into an email on my phone and send it to myself. I had to make some alterations but this is gave me a solid start.  The music came later, as did the final changes to the verses. The outro just came as an inspiration during the recording.  It might have sounded better if I had done the 3 parts about a dozen times but I left it the way it was on the first takes. 

There were a lot of small events which gave the final direction to this song, including an interesting road sign just south of High River, AB.

Rough Road  (a.k.a. The Broken Femur Blues)
==========

[INTRO]

Ya  it's a shame, too late in the game
To find any thunder in this lightning bolt.
It'd be a nice surprise, but by the look in your eyes
That’d be all she wrote.  Ya, it’s a long, rough road.

Still I remember . . . lying there in pain,
Unable to stand, my face in the dirt.
I just couldn't decide , was it really my pride
Or my hip that was hurt.   Ya, it’s a long, rough road.

[SOLO]

[BRIDGE]
They say there's no gain
Without a little pain
The plan was never to gain a lot.
Just sing me a song and then move on and be happy with what I got.

So I ended up . . . in an ambulance ride
And a surgeon ready to cut in.
Some x-rays pics and sister morphine doing her tricks
A lag bolt and steel pin . . . Ya, it’s a long, rough road.

I walked with 4 wheels then I walked with a cane (asking myself)
Will I ever be the same again?
Well it took me seven months to stand on my own.
If life was easy, it wouldn’t be such a long, rough road.

[OUTRO]
Without the pain . . . without the pain
Without the pain, it wouldn’t be such a long, rough road.

Words and Music copyright Rick Engler
Photo and Reproduction copyright Rick Engler
Mixed in Cuckos Reaper on a PC
Audio Input using a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (3rd gen)
Vocals and Harmonica: Shure SM58
Acoustic Guitar: direct input using amp modelling VST
Keyboards: Casio with Addictive Keys VST

Rough Road

Rough Road (Original)

Tascam cassette archive find. Morry and I were asked to perform this early 70s  song at a friend's mother's wedding in 1991. We had never heard the song before but our friend's mom liked the original Paul Stookey/Peter, Paul and Mary version of it I think - and she was nice enough to risk asking us... two not so responsibility young guys to perform it. We had both just graduated college in May of '90 and had returned to Louisville. We practiced the song for the week or two leading up to the ceremony and recorded this live take on our Tascam in our apartment as part of prepping. I think we may have sent the tape to the bride as sort of a proof of life gesture - that we actually took learning it seriously enough to be trusted at the wedding. When the time came, we packed up Morry's round-back Ovation acoustic guitar and drove to the wedding in Chicago. Stayed with the friend and his family for the weekend. One of the most fun weddings, from what I can remember of it lol  I really like Morry's guitar playing on this. Hope our FB friends enjoy.

Her is some hx on the song: 
Stookey had first performed the song at the wedding of Peter Yarrow—Stookey's co-member of Peter Paul & Mary—to Mary Beth McCarthy at Saint Mary's Catholic Church in Willmar, Minnesota. Stookey was best man at the ceremony, which took place in the evening of October 18, 1969.

Stookey recorded "Wedding Song (There Is Love)" for his solo album Paul and, which was released on July 23, 1971. On this track he accompanied himself on a 12-string guitar tuned a tone and a half down. On June 28, 1971, "Wedding Song" was issued as an advance single from the Paul and album. It reached No. 24 on the Hot 100 in Billboard and reached No. 3 on the Easy Listening chart.[2] Internationally, Stookey reached No. 31 in Canada and No. 55 in Australia with "Wedding Song".

1991 Renn Cherokee Recordings

Marriage Song (There is love)

Interlude By IPG1 (Joerxworx Tenor Sax Remix)

for an earlier version visit
https://soundcloud.com/richsoundz-534267642/an-auspicious-day-oorlab-music of Richsoundz who wrote the lyrics

The instrumental version https://on.soundcloud.com/rHnwK

Picture
c.1546 PREVIOUSLY ATTRIBUTED TO FLEMISH SCHOOL, 16TH CENTURY
Elizabeth I when a Princess c.1546
Queen's Drawing Room, Windsor Castle
www.rct.uk/collection/404444/e…h-i-when-a-princess


An Auspicious Day

V1:

Our good Queen Elizabeth

Bereft of mother while so young

Has weathered slingshots of outrageous fortune:

Wise has she become

She kept her wits, maintained her cool

Let no one play her for a fool

Over us has she proved fit to rule

V2:

Her coronation day they say

Was calculated by John Dee

Astronomer, astrologer

With the insight to foresee

With the planets right-aligned

Fortuitous would be the signs

To crown our sparkling jewel in her prime

*****Break*****

V3:

'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown':

So goes the famous quote

Fraught is rule, so full of danger:

Readily is that head smote

Discretion our Queen Bess learned fast:

Made sacrifices to the last:

All dreams of marriage consigned to the past

V4:

And auspicious was that

January 1559:

Gloriana cheered by London crowds

So dignified her might

And her regal status, power:

Woman of the hour

Her 'Golden Age' long reign saw England flower

An Auspicious day

An Auspicious Day

The North Sea was the stage for many violent battles, with lots of human losses. What would an orphan think, standing on the cliffs?

Written in French, of course. No other language offers six different meanings to the sound of "on sent la mer d'ici", all of them relevant to the situation.


** MER DU NORD **

Je suis venu de loin pour écouter le vent.
Penché sur les falaises, d'ici je me comprends.
D'ici je me comprends.
Ma mère m'a dit qu'il fallait pas venir,
qu'il vaut mieux oublier.
Ça sert à quoi de vouloir rebatir 
les ombres du passé?
Ma mère a tort. Ma mère a tort. 
Il me fallait venir.
Ici je me comprends. Je sens mon corps frémir.
De ces falaises
on voit la Mer du Nord.
Et je viens aujourdhui
pour contempler les vagues qui déferlent au vent
sous les nuages gris.
La Mer du Nord
La Mer du Nord
On sent la mer d'ici,
les cuirassés qui brulent encore,
coulés au fond des nuits,
les bombardiers touchés par les chasseurs
et piégés dans l'oubli.
La mer des morts.
La mer des morts.
Mon père était parmis
les mariniers partis au nom des forts 
et jamais revenus.
Je suis venu pour boire cet océan
et m'enivrer de lui.

Ma mère m'a dit qu'il fallait pas venir,
qu'il fallait pas venir.
Ma mère a tort. Ma mère a tort.
Ils sont tous bien ici.
La mer des morts.
La mer des morts.
Mon père était parmis
les mariniers partis au nom des forts 
et jamais revenus.
Je suis venu pour boire cet océan
et m'enivrer de lui,
m'enivrer de lui...

Mer Du Nord (based on CreaFlow Warm North Wind)

Fruits of my Labor day weekend 9/4/2023
Original written by: Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Peter Buck, William Barry of REM off the Murmur Album 1983 IRS Label, now 2012 Universal Music Enterprises, a UMG subsidiary

09042023

Perfect Circle (instrumental cover) REM

Autobahn

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