This is a hard rock tune about a vengeance fantasy.
This is a hard rock tune about a vengeance fantasy.
There have been a few set-backs this weekend, so I decided to do a sort of “get it TF together” podcast to wrap up the stuff I’ve been up to lately. I talk about the postponing of the Two Johns podcast, the books I’ve been reading, my own books, and music I’ve been trying to share rather than just keeping it to myself.
My latest song share is an acoustic pop song strongly influenced by islands/reggae music.
This song I wrote for a friend and co-worker of mine whose voice I admired. She was shy about her singing, so I wanted to write something in her range, a rather deep range for the female voice, that she would feel comfortable with.
She never sang the song, so after we were no longer co-workers I decided to record a version. Her lower range was in the middle of my range, so it worked well. This recording is the result.
This is an original rock song that’s part of an unfinished Giantslayer album, the only other song I wrote for which was Jack, which I may record to at least give Feel Think some context.
This cover tune was my first attempt at ProTools, about two decades ago. I decided to remake Sade’s signature song because I just think it’s one of the most gorgeous things to come out of the 1980s. I can only hope my cover capture a fraction of the original’s beauty.
A very simple acoustic, folk rock song about authenticity.
This is a tune from a musical I was working on over ten years ago, tentatively titled Apocalypse DC. In this song, the crooked CEO of a political analyst firm (and his lackeys) pitch their services to an up-and-coming politician.
Please understand that the views of the characters are not my views.
This original song, mixing Middle Eastern and Southern rock styles, was written to a hypothetical girl and boy in the metaphorical doomed city of Babylon from the Apocalypse of St. John. It’s an artistic take on a licentious era coming to an end.
This is one of my spiritual songs, and probably one of the earliest. I believe I wrote this in the early to mid 1990s and finally recorded it around 2000.