NEW SONGS – SONGWRITING
SONG WRITING AND FINISHING MODE Settled in on the New South Wales Mid North Coast and time to get back to the main game ... songwriting. Although having some success with songs in the "music biz" is great it's [...]
THE MUSIC GAME
David Crosby once said something along this line ... We don't get paid for getting up on stage and playing music, we get paid for all of the crap you need to battle through to get here. The list of [...]
RING MOTHER EARTH 000 NOW
Help me out here … We are in a climate “crisis”, an “emergency”, a “disaster” a ring Mother Earth 000 NOW we are told. It seems that within, what in Earth terms is the blink of an eye, that [...]
RETIREMENT HOMES FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS
The next and very important edition of LOCK DOWN LYRICS is here RETIREMENT HOMES FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS A local government council has recently, using the ratepayers time and money, passed a resolution condemning the use, possession and production of [...]
AFGHANISTAN
AFGHANISTAN I could write pages about this subject but I will let the song speak for itself. I wrote this song in 2010, call me a visionary or just a student of history. What is happening now in Afghanistan was [...]
SEEDS OF CHANGE
SEEDS OF CHANGE – Not much to say about this song the message is abundantly clear. There are numerous difficult and disturbing issues effecting areas of not only our individual communities but of human society as a whole, [...]
THE LAST REQUIEM FOR ROCK N ROLL
THE LAST REQUIEM FOR ROCK N ROLL A song I hope we never have to play for real – THE LAST REQUIEM FOR ROCK n ROLL studio recording by Folk In The Road No we have not quite got [...]
GET ‘EM OUT
GET 'EM OUT - DEMO In the continuing Isolation Demonstration Series have a listen to Get ‘Em Out. A bit of 12 bar on the acoustic guitar, trying out a few things here in isolation. If [...]
DIME STORE NOVELS
DIME STORE NOVELS - Demo Here in the new century what was once the revered and respected Fourth Estate is now basically publishers of Dime Store Novels. Every story, every photo, every headline is purposely bias leaning [...]
Three Minutes & Forty Seconds or 3:40
Three minutes and forty seconds or 3:40, the commercially recommended maximum song length. Why? Back in the heyday of music in the 60’s and 70’s the musicians controlled the industry because they 1. Refused to give up their publishing [...]