THE MUSIC LED THE WAY … YES IT DID
All songwriters and musicians have influences it might be Beethoven or Bach or it might be Stills and Mitchell … but we are all influenced by the music that came before us, that we listened to, that has left [...]
Forsaken Veteran of the Drug Wars
THE WAR RAGES ON A couple years back my friend and California Hip Hop Rap artist J.Smo wrote and produced the Folk Rap Fusion version of a folk rock song I originally wrote in 2010 which was included on [...]
PROFITS IN WAR from Bob Crain – LIVE
PROFITS IN WAR - LYRICS Don’t you see it folks its all just a ruse every other day a scary story in the news They trot another consultant to prophesise on the clues they’re talking up theory the threat [...]
Snow & Co Album Launch
It is always an honor to be invited to play at someone's "special gig" like an Album Launch so it is my pleasure to be opening for my friend and former bandmate Paul Snowden at the Album Launch of [...]
Just About A Year Ago – Pacific Nature
Around this time last year I was in California playing some gigs and my set at The Folk Barn was recorded and eventually became Bob Crain LIVE ... a digital download exclusively available from my website https://www.bobcrain.com.au/product/bob-crain-live/. Nine songs [...]
INDIAN LESSONS
I generally stay away from politics on my music blog page but ... hearing and reading about how Native American's are being denied the opportunity to vote in North Dakota due to the lack of fixed residential addresses on [...]
WHOLE Lotta Hate Going On
Gee there is a whole bunch of hate going on in the world at the moment. So many people seem to be hating on each other for all kinds of reasons ... not that anyone actually did anything to [...]
Songwriters, Songs & Stories
Songwriters Session, Songwriters Circle, Songwriters in the Round, Writers Rap ... they go by various labels but the concept is the same, a multi songwriter line up together on stage sharing their songs and the stories behind those [...]
REAGANOMICS … the Song, the Theory
Not so long ago I was thumbing through some old lyrics that I wrote in the 70's and 80's when I lived in Hawaii and I stumbled on one called Reaganomics. I had a look at it and thought [...]
If You Know Aloha
There is really not enough room on the World Wide Web for me to write everything I could or would want to say about Hawaii ... I have tried to say it best in this song If You [...]