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 [...]
FASHIONABLE INDIGNATION ON WOAFM99
It’s always a pleasure when a radio show, blogger, reviewer or other music based outlet picks up one of your songs out of the blue and plays it on the radio or a podcast. So it was great to have [...]
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 [...]
YOUTH by FOLK IN THE ROAD
YOUTH - A song about the fumbling, bumbling, awkward days of youth. I miss performing, writing, rehearsing and the general atmosphere around the band I left in Melbourne FOLK IN THE ROAD. Here is a song we collaborated on [...]
HIGHWAYS
The next contribution to my LOCKDOWN LYRICS SERIES – HIGHWAYS A relatively new song and not yet recorded HIGHWAYS was written on the road. When driving from Melbourne to the country it dawned on me that the highways and [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
THE HIPPIES WERE RIGHT … a true story
It has been nearly a decade since I released my first solo CD THE HIPPIES WERE RIGHT ... damn. There are no more original CD copies left in the closet (but if you want one I can make you [...]
The Last Of The Old Folk Rockers
The Last Of The Old Folk Rockers ... by Bob Crain Here is a song from the Bob Crain LIVE performance called The Last Of The Old Folk Rockers ... and I hope this will not be the [...]