The Songbook Highway

Bob Dylan’s new album. Tempest, is due September 11. Like all Dylan fans I was happy, and intrigued just to see the list of new tracks. This week, while perusing the titles a strange idea grabbed me. I would try to write and record ten songs based on the titles before his album appears in [...]

This is Steve Shelton from Chicago. Go to ReverbNation and check out his soulful tune, Beach house in the rain. You might dig it!!!

-Chris

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BREAKDOWN

Here comes my summer girl
Summer took my ticket to the station
She took it all away
Gave me back a book of Revelation

But I’m not gonna make time this time 3x

Into my heart, breakdown
Into my soul, breakdown
Into my arms, breakdown
Into my love, into my love

Is someone running here?
Someone better stop and get elected
She got it figured out
Summer [...]

THE MIGHTY GRASSHOPPERS: REBEL ROCK

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DARKMAN

Another dark man
Out in the jet stream
Another great plan
Another dark dream
Just ask his cell phone
Ask his advisers
When it’s all over
Who was the wiser?
Another dark man

They’re coming over
They have the car keys
They have agendas
They are the enemy
Just ask his hangers on
And the survivors
When its all over
Who was the wiser?
Another dark man

I barely knew him
It didn’t take [...]

These four photos prove that David sees something that others do not…. CL

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COMES A MORNING

Comes the morning
On the highway
There’s a low cloud
Drifting our way
The hardest night together
The hardest line that ever
Made it down…
And the wind blows
Across the wasteland
Like the song goes
We got fooled again
And the hardest time’s
The time you leave behind
When your heart knows

Comes the morning
Comes a morning
Every time

You seem paler
Than the moonlight
You seem colder
Than the firelight
The [...]

From http://godangers.blogspot.com/2012/02/history-of-dangers-4-radio-city.html

We played our second show at My Place Or Yours. I don’t think we made it to the third show because the club was closing down. As per usual a landlord expected to be paid. Pay was old school.

We empathized with the young club entrepreneur, Bryan, and wondered how a place that had a [...]

Mike Wilkerson 2004

Life’s So Hard Make It Softer

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

One of my favorite collaborations with Mike Wilkerson. He did not live to hear his music on an album but was giddy about the idea of folks hearing this music… a unique, sad and precious voice. – Chris LeRoy

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

I am thirsty give [...]

A last Valentine’s Look….

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MY SOMEDAY

Before I make it home
Traveling on a road
Before the rising moon explodes
Before that shooting star
Could tell me where you are
Or tell me where you go

And just before the dreaming
Before I close my eyes, my
Someday
My someday
My someday will shine

My mind is driving slow
I really want to know
The how we got so high [...]