Flowers . . .

https://ozarkedgewildflowers.com/summer-wildflowers

/sensitive-brier-mimosa-nuttallii/

Wishing upon a star

Takes me so very far.

Just don’t play around with my heart.

You must take special care

Not to damage or tear

Just the smallest little part.

Sometimes I’m not too clear

What is this thing that I fear.

It’s so difficult to describe.

How can something unknown

Make me feel so alone.

I should be the bigger man

But I clearly won’t. 

I’m just a sensitive flower.

I’m such a sensitive soul.

I’m just a sensitive flower.

So I’ve been told.

Maybe the way I react

Lacks some refinement or tact.

I just do the best that I can.

Sometimes we’re out in a crowd

Full of opinion so loud.

I go back inside of my shell.

No matter how very hard

I try to change how I behave.

I just can’t seem to please

All the people even half the time.

Do you think that I can be saved?

In this state of affairs

Don’t get caught unawares.

Just be cognizant of what’s there.

Why do those who can’t see 

Think that some vision can’t be

Advantageous to possess

For someone like me.

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        Black & White Then Back

The Devil You Say? . . .

 

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/sympathy-for-the-devil-

milton-s-satan-as-political-rebel-1.5497049

(from Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend by Thomas Mann)

". . . the draught from him had got abruptly stronger, so that it went through my overcoat and pierced me to my marrow.  Angrily I ask:  "Cannot you away with this nuisance, this icy draught?" . . . He: Alas, no, I regret not to be able to gratify you. But the fact is, I am cold. How otherwise could I hold out and find it possible to dwell where I dwell?" . . . I (involuntarily): "You mean in the brining pit of fire?" . . . He (laughs as though tickled): "Capital! Said in the good robust and merry German way. It has indeed many other pretty names, scholarly, pathetical, the Herr Doctor ex-Theolugus knows them all, as Carter, exitium, confutatio, pernicies, condemnatio, and so on. But there is no remedy, the familiar German, the comic ones are still my favorites. . . "

Hell
- Squirrel Nut Zippers



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            Ambience & Wine

Denial . . .

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Denial, performed live in Ocean City (MD) in 2019 by Jay & Ray of OHO. 

Denial appears on OHO's Gazebo and also on Ahora, our latest release.

 
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            Another Shot

Rounding . . .

. . . out the year with OHO 

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For The Ride

Chromatose . . .

 

Cover Art by Russell E. Jozwiak

Back in the early aughts I remember feeling a bit 'behind the times' regarding digital music, that is digital recording and reproduction of my music. So I read some 'dummies' material and played around until it gradually became more comfortable. After a spell of attempts at marketing original pop songs to other artists, and knowing (and being comfortable with the fact) that I was not nor ever will be a 'vocalist' of any particular distinction, at the suggestions of my three sons, I began recording my compositions as solo piano arrangements - stripped-down, bare-bones, jazz-inflected melodies with generous amounts of improvisation within each. Using a digital four-track machine (TEAC maybe?), I made the recordings then had an album mastered at a local studio, filled-in all the CD Baby forms and released Chromatose.

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Me? . . .

 

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Who, irrespective of religious affiliation, disposition or lack of any at all, can't appreciate a well-done spiritual song?  And by the way, one sure-fire way to determine if your sore throat is serious enough to call in sick to work is to recite, as low, serious and slow as you can, the line, "Why me lord?"

Why Me?
- Kris Kirstofferson

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                 Critic’s Choice

Mother . . .

https://mythologysource.com/gaia-greek-goddess/

Chicago, originally Chicago Transit Authority, included a song on their third album entitled Mother, which was about the callous pollution and bleak future to which we were subjecting our 'Mother Earth.' An excellent song with a trombone duet improvisation, the song went out on a chord progression much like this,  which I had always thought was a beautiful sequence. My song, Mother Chi is based upon that chord progression and appears on my album For The Ride.

 

 
   

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                   Chromatose