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Let's Go Out Dancing
TNR: voice, guitar, trumpet, piano, tambourine, bass drum ER: violaDidn't you say we'd go out tonight? Or was it in my dreams.
Left to me, we'd never part.
Oh, let's go out dancing! The days fly by so fast,
and you never hold me much anymore.
Troubled now by crazy thoughts, please give your relief.
Tell me, show me, hold me... hold me.
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The Composer (2008) album should be considered my post-graduate work, three years spent focused on audio engineering; the music was completely written, recorded, mixed and eventually mastered myself. A few friends joined in performing, but I played most instruments myself as well. I even made all of the artwork and production. Everything up to professional specs (in my opinion), and done mostly in my cellar and bedroom. Crazy, no?
Let's Go Out Dancing was written relatively later than the album's other songs, and one of the last recorded (12th of 13). It makes the best single, as it's rather catchy and relatively easy to videoize, being guitar and voice led.
TNR: voice, guitar, percussion ER: violinsongsheet
When Erik Redford and I performed out, this seemed our nicest closer, so my arrangement closes this SongStealer (2005) album.
Originally released on Lou Reed's "Transformer" album (1972), again on the Trainspotting soundtrack (1996) before being re-recorded for The Raven album, Perfect Day has become something of a classic, probably the only of Lou Reed's work I like beyond that with colleagues The Dirty Three. When recorded, I assumed this was written straight forward to a lady love, discovering later likely written for heroin.
Tim Buckley: composer / T. Nathan Roane: arranger, voice, guitar, bass / Amy Wenninger: voice mp3 / songsheet
Amy Wenninger's haunting backing vocals allows my arrangement to stand proudly beside Tim Buckley's, adding a lovely touch of class to the SongStealer (2005) album. The bass effect during each bridge is the only non-acoustic instrument for this collection of cover songs.
Studio released on Tim Buckley's 1970 album Starsailor, I first heard Song to the Siren covered by This Mortal Coil during my darkwave years.
Black - Pearl Jam
TNR: voice, guitar ER: violin
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This arrangement was written specifically for Erik Redford on violin, and is probably my favorite of the SongStealer (2005) album. I consider it better than Pearl Jam's 1991 original. Note the slyly syncopated guitar.
Mary Jane's Last Dance - Tom Petty
TNR: vocals, guitar, percussion AW: backing vocals mp3 downloadsongsheet download
I'd intended to add a rockin' guitar solo, then liked it enough without. Maybe another day? Backing vocals sung perfectly by Amy Wenninger. Audiences would always sing along with "she's standing in her underwear", placed at the 3/4 mark.
Tom Petty's
Mary Jane's Last Dance (1993), is often falsely referred to by me as Last Dance with Mary Jane.
Green Eyes - Coldplay
TNR: vocals, guitar, percussion, bass AW: Irish flute mp3 downloadsongsheet download
My ex-girlfriend Jessi has large, green eyes. Rather than "a rock", it sounds here that I'm singing "Honey, you are Iraq". Otherwise, I should have taken a rhythmic pause in the guitar, playing some silence, and given Amy Wenninger another shot at the Irish flute line.
Green Eyes was originally written and recorded by Coldplay (2002).
The Man Who Sold the World - David Bowie, Nirvana
TNR: vocals, guitar, percussion ER: violins, viola mp3 downloadsongsheet download
Written by David Bowie (1970), I'd not heard The Man Who Sold the World until covered by Nirvana (1993). Here with Erik Redford dueling himself on violins and viola, I've given it more gypsy flavor, especially at the closing. Still unsure what Bowie's lyrics mean.
Gently Johnny - Irish folk tune
TNR: acoustic guitar, trumpet, flugelhorn JP: voice DL: electric guitar, backing vocals DC: violin VA: backing vocals, cello, upright bass, flute mp3 download
Tanakh (2000-2002) was a neo-folk ethnic collaborative, this song recorded at Sound of Music in Richmond, released on the album Villa Claustrophobia: me on acoustic guitar, trumpet and flugelhorn, Jesse Poe singing lead, David Lowery on electric guitar and backing vocals, Dan Calhoune on violin, plus a half dozen others I'd rather know the names of on additional vocals, cello, upright bass, flute, etc.
Together for two years, the best lineup with tabla and violin, the tabla player left for college so we added a drummer and lady bassist, playing shows around Virginia before finally touring northern Europe, me inexplicably on electric bass. We'd more recordings from our time together, none appropriate here.
My favorite memory with Tanakh is sitting on stage, bass drum and cowbell and vocals mic in front of me, trumpet underseat and flugelhorn at my right, phonofiddle and cello to my left with electric guitar behind them, and my clarinet propped centerstage. During performances, I went from one instrument to another then another, in heaven.
My worst memory is of the singer lying to us regularly, and stealing.
Let's Go Out Dancing
