Happy New Year!
Kingdom Of Comfort acoustic version
So it’s 2012…a new year. So why start with an old delirious? song and not a new one?
A little nostalgia?
maybe…
Actually I think that Kingdom Of Comfort is one of the best songs I’ve ever been a part of writing… and I want to go into this new year remembering the best of the past while living in the now.
I want to keep asking myself what am I building… a comfortable life? Or am I still living with big questions about what I’m here for and how does my living affect others?
Am I deaf to the cries of the oppressed, the poor and the powerless?
I hope that this new year is full of clarity, joy, peace, hope, success and fulfillment for us all!
peace
stu
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The Everlasting
This song by The Manic Street Preachers is one of my top 5 songs of all time.
There’s no formula to a favorite song is there. It’s a mixture of things: environment, how you’re feeling, what you’re dealing with, the people you’re with, lyric, melody, music, and how it all mixes together and how it hits you when you hear the first few bars…
I remember buying, This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, and listening to it on tour busses and aeroplanes often going to sleep with it in my headphones. Something happens in your sub-conscious when that happens…it was the same with The Smashing Pumpkins Adore.
I’ve wanted to learn this song for a long time and never done it…until now
I’ve sung it for years with my mates, listening in vans and headphones, and so naturally sang the chorus as I heard James singing it…including the word “genuine” sung “gen-oo-in”…this cracked my wife up and I haven’t lived it down…can’t believe how odd that sounds :)
This cover version is my tribute to the Occupy protesters and peaceful protests for equality everywhere.
peace
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Beggar’s Prayer
This song originally by Emiliana Torini, is one of the most beautiful songs I know. Her recording of it on the album Me and Armani is simply stunning.
“Lord you just dropped me here on the side of this road, I’m just so cold and I don’t wanna walk it alone”
Stark but beautiful…
“I’ve got a bottle of your blood inside me, and an old beggar’s prayer on the tip of my tongue”
There’s a longing in this song. It fits the season of advent.
December 18th, 1865 saw the passing of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. This saw slavery abolished in the United States.
Speaking as a former slave, Austin Steward said,
“the more we knew of freedom, the more we desired it”
Think of the freedom most of us enjoy, and remember those who are still slaves today… and those who are fighting for the end of slavery…people like Justin Dillon and so many more.
and Emiliana sings,
“mama said lift your head from the sieve of your hands, mama said eventually this hurting will end”
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Here’s an acoustic version of Meet With Me originally recorded on the One Sonic Society ep One.
It was the first song I wrote with Mia Fieldes.
The ambient guitar loop is the one I recorded on the OSS session using my Jam Man and I use it when we play live.
hope you enjoy it
check out the original here
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I posted on my facebook page the other week if there were any requests for these christmas blogs. I had quite a few folks ask for acoustic versions of songs.
I’ve been playing more acoustically lately, mainly in the company of our amazing friends The Stellas (though they are so good it makes you want to give up!)
I thought it would be fun to record a few of these vids over the next week or so…no frills no HD (i don’t have an HD camera) - one microphone - voice and guitar down one mono channel - warts and all - no auto tune - what you see is what you get
I’m cringing already
This is the song Rollercoaster which first appeared on the delirious? album, Audiolessonover
hope you enjoy the experiment!
