When a singer friend apologized for not making it to an open mic because of immobility I felt a wave of sympathy expressed in this little song entitled Sharing Thoughts.
This is a song I’ve been working on which I put up on this page and was very touched that my old bandmate Woody Martin added some uplifting sparkles to the outro and family friend John Clayton added some discreet strings asking the question Where’s home?
Later this year I pursuaded my wife to join me on a trip up to Galloway to see the Milky Way (no hope in London) and we got two beautiful clear nights to see the milk composed of millions off distant suns,
A singer friend Maggy Boyd noticed the similarity of the lyrics to Blue Speck written by Tony Winn and suggested I write a melody. Here’s my version.
Tony has now released his CD entitled Blue Spec. To find out more follow this link www.tonywinn.org.uk/blue-spec/
This following song Lonely Station has rather different history. It appeared first on a CD entitled Loch Ness made in colaboration with guitarist Giorgio Serci feauturing our original composotions. The album, released in 2002 is now on Youtube and Lonely Station can be heard via this link.
A couple of years later some words started settling on the melody and, now, a decade later, I have recorded them at Greg Dowlings studio, elsdenmusic .com
I love the Loch Ness album and perhaps some words will start to settle on some of the other tunes. There are still copies of the CD about as per this link
Another song I recorded at the session is Between the Trees. It really about the summer breeze but that is already the title of another song it has inspired which you may know. The breeze wanders near and far…..
Whats the difference between a poem and a lyric? Poet Kopan Mahadeva suggested I write some jazzy tune to Oh, We Are Happy which celebrates his youthful days with his late wife, Sita. Here’s what sprang to mind. At the Carlton Tavern I am joined by Stuart Hall on bass and Jasper Morrisey on drums. A poem beomes a lyric.
Click this link to the video made by Ailsa Gudgeon and banjoist Richard Muttonchop who happened to be in the audience.
As we know English spelling is a bit eratic and a word used in music has two different spellings though pronounced the same , they are vocalise meaming a vocal melody sung without words throughout, and vocalese meaning words added to a recorded jazz solo on an instrument. Just to be contary I added vocalese to Rachmaninov’s Vocalise. With the help of Andy Hamill who contributed on harminica, bass audio and Julian Ferrarreto on violin, viola and cello and Marc Clayton who edited the video which now can be found on Youtube by clicking on this link :
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=succulent+bob+stuckey
Bob Stuckey 