FOLK IN THE ROAD A group of four diverse veteran musicians and songwriters have come together to write, play and perform original folk rock music (and a few covers) in venues and festivals around Australia ... and the world. [...]
MADE ALL THE LIGHTS - Demo The next entry in the ongoing (and possibly never ending) Isolation Demonstration Series. MADE ALL THE LIGHTS (just me on guitar and vocals recorded on a Zoom Digital Recorder in my [...]
Locked down in the fair city of Melbourne, Australia … so many things you can’t do. Can’t go out in to the fields and forests and there is just so much TV the mind can take. Can’t go to [...]
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 [...]
Well here we all are in Government imposed isolation for our own and of course everyone else's protection ... a perfect time for reflection, assessment and scratching out a few things on the "to do" list (I am hoping [...]
There is a whole lot of music stuff happening at the moment or in the planning stage SONGWRITING - I have recently written or finished several new songs with titles including A Lot More Rock n Roll, It's Been [...]
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 ... by Bob Crain It is going to be a sad day when all the real Folk Rockers retire and the hard core, socially conscious, meaningful song writing that dominated the [...]
I wrote the song It's Lotto World back in about 2010 ... nothing much has changed probably more people now with their lives completely hinged on the outcome of a bunch of numbers bouncing around in a big [...]
Retirement Homes For Nuclear Weapons With the Super Powers and wannabees around the world once again using the specter of Mutually Assured Destruction via nuclear weapons as a methodology to keep us all "under control" and our heads in [...]
