Podcast with Morgen Bailey - Novelist and Writer - recorded Monday 10th January (released 13th January).
We talked about the art/process of writing song lyrics and poems, and I gave some tips on this. I also read three of my song lyrics poems. Featured at the end of Part 2: There Is a Love, The Secrets Summer Keeps and No Tour Required (one for Blues lovers). Part 1 is online now, to down load via iTunes etc. Part 2 available from 21st January. See Morgen Bailey's website, Weekly Tips Podcast or Special Episodes page.
Link (scroll down to lower third of page for podcast questions/contents):- http://www.morgenbailey.com/page_1285418781066.html
Words on the Water competition.
Mailed off my entry to this, fingers crossed! Is a poet wothout honour in his own country? Maybe it's time to break with tradition. Enjoy the snowy picture... "When you can see the mountains, it's snowing. If you can't see them , it's raining" (!?)
Link: http://www.golakes.co.uk/thedms.aspx?dms=13&venue=5014735&feature=1405
Clare Free, blues guitarist, band leader. Stuart Dixon.
The last issue of Blues Review magazine featured Women of the Blues, including Joanne Shaw Taylor.
Clare Free is another one to watch out for. Some good tracks to download for FREE, they are a good taster of Clare's Blues tracks. My Favoright? "My Perfect Man", a fine example of Blues got soul.
Links:
http://www.clarefree.co.uk/
http://bluesrevue.com/
Stuart Dixon. From the same area as Clare, Stuart also has tracks to listen to.Currently he hosts the weekly Sunday Night Jam at the Crown and Anchor, St. Edmunds Road, Northampton (8pm onwards, resident Band Cinqui), links:-
http://www.myspace.com/stuartdixonguitar
http://www.myspace.com/cinquimusic
Latest poems lyrics...
Results of Billboard World Song Contest to come in around February time - maybe my entries in the Jazz (a Ballad) or R & B categories will hit the spot?
Since my last Blog, about 6 or 7 new poems lyrics; some humorous in nature
Keep on keeping Above Ground ( to support all post Flu battlers) and I Loved You More Than That (about adopting a small black kitten that then grew into something a bit larger... extracts follow. Till next time keep safe.
Keep on keeping above ground!
When plan A is shot down in flames
It’s the end, or seeming so, of all your plans and games.
No more airy castles, schemes or grand designs
Just blueprints burned and exit signs.
Leaves you choked, you can barely say a word.
But we’re all still here above ground
While the good Lord tends us from above.
Should we dwell on things now snuffed?
Or on much cheerier stuff?
I know which I prefer,
It’s the thoughts that lead to love.
...To conclude I’ll set the mood
And prevent us all having a good brood.
Simply keep on keeping above ground
That’s the art
...
Keep on keeping above ground
Don’t lose heart
Keep on keeping above ground!
I Loved You More Than That (For Gojira)
I found you in the rain on my drive
All black and sodden mewling.
Eyes blinking in that helpless way
That dictates what I did next.
I dried you and fed you from the bottle
Milk like a mother.
Perhaps I could have left you in the windy storm,
But I loved you more than that.
So tiny wee when first we met,
But you grew, and how!
From Kitten to more dog in scale than cat.
Others said: “Too big, get rid”,
While I, I didn’t know what to think,
But I loved you more than that.
....I stroked you for a last time, then watched as you went free,
To roam wherever, as I returned to my static home.
I could have had you adopted by some Zoo
For a Panther is not really a cat.
But in love I set you free,
Although I’ll never know the end, the final chapter of the story,
For I loved you more than that.
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