LISTEN! IS THAT YOUR NEXT HIT PLAYING? IT COULD BE!
What you hear is one of the songs I'm publishing for YOU to cover as an artist, or to co-publish. There are 167 lyrics, only 14 audios. They're a one-take, fluke recording, unrehearsed, flawed, but they're all I've got to demonstrate them to you so...here they are!
(Quote from a fan: "No cookie cutter songs here...")
See the title scrolling in my Ovation guitar (below, left)? You can find it in the Lyrics list (left) under "Over The River Tonight." Use 'forward/back' arrows on the guitar to play the song matching any of the 14 lyrics you select.
The artist who introduces these songs to the world can make a new career or spark fire in the one they've been working on!
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"Over The River Tonight" is that rare bird of songs, an uptempo love song.
(Quote from a fan: "This is the perfect country song!"
"Take It For A Ride" is too! Either of them could be a 'career song' you can ride to fame and fortune.
I write whatever kind of song comes to me, folk, blues, country, rock, some I fancy as blue-grassy.
If the first guitar part or lyrical line hook ME, as the first listener, I try to write it.
These hooked me. If they hook you they'll hook your audience too!
Gary E. Andrews, August 2010 www.garyeandrews.com
1026 28th Street, Portsmouth, Ohio 45662-2223
740.354.8607 (answering machine)
Click on CONTACT (left) to Email: garyeandrews@yahoo.com
Don't let my voice (comparisons a la' Neil Young, Rod Stewart, Woody Guthrie, Rush, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison) limit your consideration. I'm just singing in the key I play in. These songs can be sung by any singer, male or female, and in various genres. I have rewritten many for a female point of view.
You can read along as the songs play.
Click on LYRICS. Click on a title in the list.
You can sing along! Find your harmony part.
You can play along! The chords are on the lyric pages.
For beginner guitarists, I tell the frets where you hold the strings.
Like C/G. That's C with a G bass, indicated as 332O1O.
You hold the top two bass strings on the 3rd fret, (the 33), the next one on the 2nd fret (the 2). Play the next one 'open, without holding it (the O for 'open'). Play the next on the 1st fret (the 1), and the bottom treble string open (another O). 33-2-O-1-O
Sing and play along! I know you'll enjoy them!
STORY OF THE FLUKE RECORDING
CD: Over The River Tonight (c) 2006 by Gary E. Andrews
Recorded June 17, 2006, @ by Dave Richards, ParkersBsound
I had permission to pitch "Goin' Back To New Orleans," to Leon Russell, a long-time favorite of mine. It seems well-suited for his voice and style. www.leonrussellrecords.com
So a friend in Little Hocking, Ohio (Thanks Loran http://www.windinfeathers.com ) called a friend in Parkersburg, West Virginia (Thanks Dave) who had Magix Cool Edit software. (Thanks Magix)
Dave said, "If the guy can run right through it and we don't have to fool around with it a lot, bring him over."
So we went. I played and sang the song.
Then Dave said, "Just play the guitar part," and recorded that.
I screw up the timing. The song was new. I hadn't planned on doing it that way.
Then he had me sing along with the playback.
Since I was a beggar and the 'don't have to fool around' warning had been given up front, I didn't ask to do a retake. That's what you hear, flaws and all.
My contact with Russell said, "Leon listened without comment."
Good enough. I had a shot and took it!
So now it's YOUR turn! I'm publishing it and 166 others for YOU to cover, as an artist, or co-publish, as a publishing company!
But then, Dave, the recording engineer, said, "Play some more," and left the room.
Well, unrehearsed, I began to pull songs out of my...head. Brain lock!
There were long gaps in the recording where I couldn't think of a song to play, despite 167 songs registered with the Library of Congress Copyright Office in my "Out Of The Woodwork" collections I, II, III, IV, and V, some songs going back over my lifetime.
If you've heard these 14 imagine what the rest could be!
So anyway, by the time he came back, I had recorded 13 more songs.
A bright young man cut the 13-song track into individual tracks.
"Goin' Back To New Orleans" made 14.
(Thanks Seth).
A bright young woman designed a stick-on label.
(Thanks Jackie).
Another bright young man said, "We can print right on the CD," and did!
He got a picture of a river off the internet, a picture of a guitar and 'floated' it in the river. He had me sit on the floor and took my picture, and put me on the guitar.
That became a label on "Over The River Tonight," for the title track. (Thanks Roger).
He took the picture of my Ovation guitar too and built this website.
www.Ovation.com
At long last I felt like I had a real CD! I've gotten more realistic since then.
It seems you have to have more than one copy. lol
WILLIE NELSON'S PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Willie invited people to work with a lyric he and his daughter Amy wrote in 2007 on the road to Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival at Indio, California.
Here's mine, a variation on their theme, published on his site January 21, 2008.
QUOTE from the website:
"Gary E. Andrews really put some thought and work into crafting his version of "A Peaceful Solution." He read much into the song that perhaps might not be obvious to all. Then Gary carefully created a narrative version of his understanding that he could sing.
I appreciate what Gary E. Andrews has done. He took the song along on a journey from the beginnings of our country to a glorious peaceful future.
Thank you Gary E. Andrews. Your version of "A Peaceful Solution" will help spread the message and understanding of a peaceful resolution."
HEY!
Click the pause button on my guitar before you click on "Peaceful Solution" or my songs will continue to play at the same time.
Photo there by Barb "The Librarian" Biggs.
Peaceful Solution
A Peaceful Solution,
based on Willie and Amy Nelson's (c) April 29, 2007 original.
(Chords) A XO222O E O221OO B7 X212O2
(Verse 1)
On the road to Coachella
I realized I'm just one fella
But I've got to do my part
With my hand upon my heart.
To restore the Constitution
We need a freedom revolution
The founding fathers gave us
The law that can save us
With A Peaceful Solution.
A Peaceful Solution.
A freedom revolution
For A Peaceful Solution.
(Verse 2)
On the road to Armageddon
Seems to be where they've got us headin'
There's a war on and we're in it
Together we can end it
Let's take back America
We need freedom, peace and love
The first casualty of war
Is the truth that we'll restore
With A Peaceful Solution.
A Peaceful Solution.
A freedom revolution
For A Peaceful Solution.
(Verse 3)
We're all on the road to somewhere
We keep goin' 'til we get there
It's a dream but believe it
Get ready to receive it
To restore the Constitution
We need a freedom revolution
The founding fathers gave us
The law that can save us
With A Peaceful Solution.
A Peaceful Solution.
A freedom revolution
For A Peaceful Solution.
CHICKEN LIMERICKS!
And check out my chicken limericks on Farm Aid's website.
They asked for some. I gave 'em some:
Chicken Limericks
I have a message from your children to parents all over planet Earth:
"We are your children. Give us Peace."
I hope you'll translate that simple message into every language in the family of man. Parents deserve to hear it from their children.
Gary E. Andrews, August 2010
We Are Your Children (Give Us Peace); (c) June 22, 2007
by Gary E. Andrews (All Rights Reserved) Posted on some website?
I can't speak for all the children,
Hungry in the world.
I can't speak for all the boys,
I can't speak for all the girls.
I can't say what's on their minds
But I can say, at least,
We are your children;
Give us peace.
I don't know all you congressmen,
You parliament elite.
I don't know all you CEO's,
Or you Chiefs or Kings and Queens.
I don't know what you're thinking.
I don't hear you if you speak.
But we are your children;
Give us peace.
I don't know what you'll do.
I don't know what they'll say.
I don't know what anybody wants
Or what roles they choose to play.
I'm not sure how they got here
By fate or palms they greased.
But we are your children;
Give us peace.
We are your children;
Give us peace.
I can't stop the need for warriors,
Made to arm and fight.
I can't make sense of factions,
The difference of left and right.
I can't run away and save myself,
In the belly of this beast.
We are your children;
Give us peace.
I don't know what you'll do.
I don't know what they'll say.
I don't know what anybody wants
Or what roles they choose to play.
I'm not sure how they got here
By fate or palms they greased.
But we are your children;
Give us peace.
We are your children;
Give us peace.
We Are Your Children.
You may also enjoy www.seedsofpeace.org
SONGWRITING WEBSITES I VISIT:
www.Songwriter101.com
Welcome to the campus of Songwriter101. Come learn with us.
www.justplainfolks.org
www.tunesmith.net
And here's some lyrical and melodic genius I appreciate:
www.revotismoon.com (Got a record deal and they may have taken his site down) http://www.myspace.com/revotismoon
And
www.vikkiflawith.com
And
www.savingjane.com (Site down? 1/9/2010)
And
www.bobdylan.com
And
www.leonrussellrecords.com
And
www.smither.com
And
www.furpeaceranch.com
And
www.davidhoneyboyedwards.com
And a dude of the first magnitude, an explorer I just discovered (May 2010):
http://www.myspace.com/thecrimefightingofficemanager
Here's a Georgia soldier who offered to list my site on his, so I'm returning the favor, LeeAndrew Bray: http://www.leeandrewbray.com
COPYRIGHT REGISTRATION:
You "own" the "right" to "copy" your intellectual property as soon as you put it in "fixed form," written, recorded, any fixed form. But it's like owning anything else; you may need a lock to keep others from stealing it. Registration is that lock. Only registration of your copyright with the U. S. Library of Congress, Register of Copyrights (or similar entity in your country), will hold up in court as proof you created and own it. A song can be worth a fortune. Protect your legacy. Learn about registering your works at: www.copyright.gov
Click on the banner below to read about the Songwriters' Bill of Rights. Maybe you should sign it. I did. Gary E. Andrews,
August 2010
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