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There Are (These Songs, Too) – Side 6
If you haven’t visited sixstr stories in a while, this is what’s been going on. (If you have, you can skip this and scroll straight to the songs on Side 6.) There Are (These Songs, Too) is a collection of 45 songs. Covering … Continue reading
There Are (These Songs, Too) – Side 7
Here’s the next quintet! Track 31: “Cherish These Moments” – I must say that this is one of my favorite songs. I’m really proud of this one, and I’m still trying to remember to take my own advice. Cherish These … Continue reading
There Are (These Songs, Too) – Side 8
Here you go! Another Side of Five! Track 36: “Every Single Day” – It really was just as the lyrics say, when this song first emerged. Every Single DayHere I sitIn this darkened roomWondering if I may as wellBe howling … Continue reading
There Are (These Songs, Too) – Side 9
OK! Here they are: The Final Five! Track 41: “Go!” – What I got when I tried to write another “What.”* Go! On your mark, get set… Go Go now Go ahead Go to town Go for the gusto Go … Continue reading
There Are (Songs To Be Sung) – the album
There Are (Songs To Be Sung) was my second full-length, self-produced album. All 14 tracks were digitally recorded in 1994 at Fishtraks Studios, in Portsmouth, N.H. Jim Tierney was the recording and mixing engineer. The recording sessions were held on … Continue reading
Anytime – the album
Anytime was my first full-length, self-produced album. All 12 tracks were recorded live-to-digital on Friday, September 9, 1988. The “studio” was Mayer Auditorium, located in the basement of the Academy Building, on the campus of Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, … Continue reading
Five Songs – the ep
Five Songs was my first venture into the world of Independent Music Production. It was recorded live-to-two-track analogue tape on July 7, 1982 at Reelization Studios in Rye, NH. Norm Thibeault was the owner of the studio and the recording … Continue reading
Marking The Trail: One Melody’s Journey Through American Music – Part Five
At the end of the trail, looking back. “Sitting On Top Of The World” & “Things ‘Bout Coming My Way” made their entrance into my musical consciousness thanks to two items I purchased somewhere back in the mid-to-late 1970’s. One … Continue reading
Marking The Trail: One Melody’s Journey Through American Music – Part Four
Back on the trail! Walter Vinson/Vincson/Jacobs’ melody to “Sitting On Top Of The World”/”Things ‘Bout Coming My Way,” soon became a popular one to borrow. I know of four now-legendary Bluesmen from the 1930’s who each put it to very … Continue reading
Marking The Trail: One Melody’s Journey Through American Music – Part Three
The journey continues. But first, a divergence. “Things ‘Bout Coming My Way” soon began to blaze a trail of its own. On February 10, 1931 – twenty-two days after Sam Hill From Louisville (aka Walter Vinson) cut the inaugural recording … Continue reading
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