Dec 31st. 2010: The Year We Make Contact

Ladies & Gentlemen we are floating in space. A new decade is exciting news for all concerned. Here on Planet GTGT we wish your dreams the best of luck of may your wishes all be granted.

To see out this year there's a little treat for you today in your "A Song A Day" section. This is one of my favourite tunes; it's a folk song of Scottish origin originally published in the 1500s. That's a long time ago but the same rules still applied in magic and story telling. I first heard this song on His Royal Bobness's "Good As I Been To You" record and loved it's sincere childish charm and evoked loving memories of being a wee lad scrapping my knees and putting snails in marmalade jars. I hope you enjoy this, make sure you download it interwebly this instant. And speaking of downloading interwebly this instant, I can see how many people are downloading "A Song A Day" but not who they are. I'm happy that there's quite a few of you that are taking these little pockets home with you but let me know who you are. I'm enjoying giving out a song a day, we've only scrathed the surface in this first week, we're going on a journey of song through the ages this coming year; it's going to be fun & I can tell that we are gonna be friends.

Happy festivities this evening. Have a good one and see you all soon
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Dec 29th Diamonds In the Sky

And so. Onwards we go on this journey of song, sun, sea & chips. This one I wrote on my recent travels over the pond somewhere between Austin, Texas & Nashville Tennesse. It's called Diamonds In the Sky; download here

Dec 28th. A Good Friend (Is Hard To Find)

Sometimes the blank page that you set out to fill refuses to play along and remains terrifiyngly blank. No questions answered, nothings is fulfilledd. Tomorrow could be better.

Today's "Song A Day" is called Wasteland. Click here to download it or go to the" A Song A Day" link for all the daily additions.

I scoured the world wide web just now to find something to keep me amused; this is what i found:

"Jack Rosebud left Penetanguishine prison for the criminally insane and called his younger brother Creeping Charlie. Charlie was working as a guitar teacher at an all girls prep school in Dryden ON but needed to leave due to inappropriate behaviour. Charlie and Jack began robbing Gas stations and convienience stores throughout Northern Ontario. It was at one of these robberies that they met Foxtail Lily Lilyopolous, she was the attendant at a station in Ear Falls. Jack and Lily were married 2 days later in a ceremony officiated by the mayor of Beardmore(at gunpoint). They are currently holed up somewhere in Toronto, ejaculating songs from god knows where and working as gardeners for the city elite."

carry on
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Dec 27th. A Song A Day

A Song A Day. For a year. That's the plan. I'm going to put on here a tune I've recorded for all yous to have for nowt and add to your collection. Hope you enjoy these songs; lemme know your thoughts if you're lucky enough to have any. This is music Iove and I just thought I'd like to share it with you. Yesterday we started with a Springsteen tune, this evening there's one of mine called "sparks". I wrote it a little while ago and it's been gathering dust in the gallows of my hard drive. Here you go.

Dec 26.

Happy Festivities. Hope you're having a grand old time. In Tuscany there's been snow, wine and song. I learnt myself to play "spirit on the water" today; perhaps His Royal Bobness in his finest form. Lying low now until the new year brings more numbers for me to chase and trying to finalize the track listing for the record along with learning to play as many songs as i can fit into my day. Son House is currently on the turn table ; the perfect companion to a winter's tale and a broken heart. Here's a download for you; what happens is you click the link and as if by magic I get transported via DTA (digtalised transportation abilities) into your computer and into your house to sing for you whenever you should require me to. I hope you enjoy this new modern feature we have pioneered (beta) here at gtgt HQ; we think it has a good chance of catching on. This song is called Darkness on the Edge of Town; it's my terrible take on one of my favourite Boss songs... "Some folks are born into a good life, other folks get it anyway, anyhow,
I lost my money and I lost my wife, them things don't seem to matter much to me now."

Click here to download

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Dec 16. jingle bells

right on. it's almost christmas. stick a tree in your front room, eat & drink enough in two days to keep the average family afloat for a week. nice. my havent we come a long way. hamumbug indeed. ah no, it's not all work work work ; crimbo does bring good things to everyone...if you live in England for example your reminded yearly of the absolute genius and second to none songwriting caliber that is Noddy Holder and his band of elves SLADE! Merry Christmas. (chooon!) I went to the duke of cambridge, my new favourite local in battersea and played some tunes on sunday after noon and seeing that we're so close to xmas i had to play it. if you play it just on acoustic it sounds like something George Harrison would write, seriously (chooon!) . Anyway I digress from the point of this blog entry, ummm... not sure there is one really but just wanted to say hello and let you know that the record is coming along; from 50+ songs that I've short listed we're meant to do 10. How this will happen, as yet, I'm not exactly sure. Choosing is tough. Losing is rough. I dont want to see any of them go. 5 disc box set anyone? No no, a 10 tune humdinger 0f a record is always the way forward. It'll be done soon enough..hold tight kids, hold tight. In the meantime, as a small way to say thank you to all you lovlies for dropping by from time to time and show your support; here's a free download for you to enjoy; it's a cover I play at gigs every so often; hope you dig.
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