tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47623531130762981682024-03-28T04:32:38.524-07:00SO SAID THE SAPSONGS and SUCHUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger297125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762353113076298168.post-1224185899197630302024-03-28T03:14:00.000-07:002024-03-28T04:32:06.287-07:00IT BEGAN AS A SONG<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody;">This small selection was aired by Rick Stuart last night. </span></p><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody;"><a href="https://x.com/rootsandfusion/status/1773103775575638291?s=12&t=hRYknAi_SpAKCwtuseOM0Q">https://x.com/rootsandfusion/status/1773103775575638291?s=12&t=hRYknAi_SpAKCwtuseOM0Q</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 40px;"><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762353113076298168.post-25595057181235649402024-02-08T03:05:00.000-08:002024-02-27T10:57:21.991-08:00GLALELL<p> <span class="text-small">P.S Due to my carelessness the GLALELL URL got taken over by someone in the far east and was only rediscovered a while ago. It is now being used for a one page only site at <a href="https://www.glalell.com" target="_blank">https://www.glalell.com</a>. You </span><span class="text-small">will find there a nice image of the GLASS HOUSES in the Botanic Gardens and a newly re-recorded spoken word track SOME LAST DAYS OF FUN. This was the last track of the many on the double CD THE UNKNOWABLE NEXT. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762353113076298168.post-88730054153505913852024-02-07T08:15:00.000-08:002024-02-08T03:33:47.919-08:00WILL I EVER RETURN HERE WITH SOMETHING WORTH SAYING? <p>Just checking in to say that and with the intention of doing something more constructive. Perhaps setting up a link to here from SKC SONGS. That might work. We’ll soon know. Or will we! </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762353113076298168.post-54345272846951187042023-05-29T11:08:00.005-07:002023-10-06T00:40:52.710-07:00NOT MUCH HAS CHANGED<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px;">Several months ago I wrote that I had been reflecting on the activity of writing songs and had decided I needed to rethink how I was approaching it. That thinking has continued but I have decided to keep most of my main thoughts to myself until I have something worth saying. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.7px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.7px;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762353113076298168.post-48865814396990066342023-04-17T04:26:00.013-07:002023-04-21T01:37:40.852-07:00ON THE ROAD GOING NOWHERE - an update<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">The phrase "the good enough mother" was
coined by the British pediatrician and psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott in his
famous book Playing and Reality. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">On the Road Going Nowhere, my latest attempt at song
writing, probably belongs, for me anyway, in the category of a good enough
track. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I’m not yet certain that the sentiments expressed will
prove to be ‘true’ but at the present time they feel that way. I have recorded several versions but am undecided about making any of them available. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Being on the road to nowhere is not meant to be a hopeless sort of place to be in. There are millions of us on the road of not going anywhere special or
anywhere in particular and who are just glad to have enough money and be well
enough to get on with the tasks of ordinary everyday living.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">As for all that goes on around me separate from the
song writing it’s impossible not to be profoundly saddened - partly because it
seems impossible to do anything significant about it- that the unrelenting and
overriding drives of greed and grift which have infected so many continue to
make such basic aspirations for so many others so incredibly hard to achieve. I
should probably have said impossible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">As regards what writing songs can do about it. That’s
a question I have repeatedly asked myself without ever getting a satisfactory
answer. And yet for a very long time I have kept writing them. On the Road
Going Nowhere may be a spur to some fresh thinking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><br /><p></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762353113076298168.post-75866816980976653612023-03-21T06:38:00.001-07:002023-03-21T06:45:10.640-07:00MORE ON THE CHARLOTTES<div><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">It has been my intention for a long time to complete this selection of material and I am hoping that updating this much </span>earlier post will be a useful reminder.</div><div><br /></div><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">There is a page entitled ON THE CHARLOTTES on my web site at www.sheilakcameron.com. And the plan is to transfer the information which I first posted here to that page.</span><div>
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">It is mostly about the songs which were written during my time of living on Haida Gwaii - referred to then as the Queen Charlotte Islands. I intend to include some comments about their content and the context in which they were written. They all belong to a particular place and time but they are also representative of one of the earlier phases of my interest in writing songs.</span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Then as now writing songs happened only occasionally and in no set or determined way. But perhaps it did become more of a habit when I was on the islands. And my way of working may well have been heading in that direction from its beginnings in Glasgow through a relatively brief stay in Alberta.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762353113076298168.post-23230814069092591942023-01-22T02:15:00.005-08:002023-01-22T02:15:57.908-08:00In the Cold Light of Day<p>The words for this track came from a news item which I just happened to see the day before Amber McLaughlin was executed. The words were a way of dealing with the shock I experienced the following day on reading that it had taken place. Much of my response is in the words but I did honestly think it would not happen. I foolishly felt sure such a barbaric act would be stopped. </p><p>I can't ever recall feeling as shocked as I did on reading the news item about Amber's death and the decisions which were made. There was a vulnerability in her face in the photograph I had seen in the newspaper and her final words have stayed in my head. </p><p>It’s not much good being upset about what happened but I wanted to make others aware of the awful way in which Amber's life ended. </p><p>There is a free download of the words on Bandcamp on the following link <a href="https://sheilakcameron.bandcamp.com/track/in-the-cold-light-of-day" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small;"><span>https://sheilakcameron.bandcamp.com/track/in-the-cold-light-of-day</span></a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762353113076298168.post-35233951845249265302022-11-25T05:24:00.002-08:002023-03-21T06:46:57.737-07:00ANOTHER BACK THERE <p> I’m working on a song that undoubtedly came from my own circumstances but they are nothing compared to what others are experiencing about the place they belong. </p><p>I’m not sure yet whether it will receive the kind of arrangement which will make it more likely to get heard. But I have been once more neglecting this site and thought this song was worth a mention. </p><p>The title is THE BACK THERE BLUES. And I expect to have more to say about it soon.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762353113076298168.post-45147524064026415552022-10-12T01:52:00.000-07:002022-10-12T01:52:14.155-07:00A MOVING LINK<p>There was a link to this blog on the home page of the web site at www.sheilakcameron.com. It used the original image which was a collage of SO SAID THE SAP . But the home page was looking a bit cluttered so it will soon be found on its own page on the site. And that page may need to get dressed up a bit with some further information. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762353113076298168.post-89221236232838587172022-09-01T07:00:00.001-07:002022-10-12T01:11:14.504-07:00I’M GONNA GO BACK<p>The words were written and recorded with some of it sung and much of it spoken. I got it mastered by genius Geoff Allan as an acoustic only track but also put it out to be worked on. It was worked on by Brian J McNeill formerly of China Crisis and is available to be listened to on BANDCAMP and on my web site at www.skcsongs.com. It has been played by Iain Anderson on his Radio Scotland program and is on the playlist of RADIO SIX INTERNATIONAL </p><p> The pleasurable times are those which come with completing the words and getting a nearly complete idea of how the song might sound. All the rest is unsettling - verging on the excruciating. But now it is finished and out there I have not yet tired of it. That’s a good sign for me. I hope others will listen several times and feel the same.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762353113076298168.post-21035947100217273132022-05-13T09:18:00.004-07:002022-05-13T09:18:47.733-07:00An Audience of One<p> Today May13th 2022 I uploaded a very small selection of spoken words to one of my main sites at www.skcsongs.com. Two of the tracks are about sadness and loss and I make no apology for that. It is saddening to wake each day to hear and know more about all the awful things that are happening in the Ukraine. </p><p>The fourth track is more hopeful and I may re-record it sometime soon. It is entitled GOOD REAPS GOOD. The four tracks are free to download. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762353113076298168.post-69793667058218341852022-04-30T06:50:00.002-07:002022-04-30T06:50:52.517-07:00It’s been a long time! Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762353113076298168.post-37307868067258421992021-12-28T01:28:00.002-08:002021-12-28T01:29:06.537-08:00REVISITING <p> It might be time to use this site again. I’m going to think about it after I publish this brief post.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762353113076298168.post-67941492076940106232021-05-21T04:18:00.002-07:002021-05-21T04:18:26.370-07:00<p> THE UNKNOWABLE NEXT</p><p>Some comments on what it is meant to be and why. Coming soon</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762353113076298168.post-29421846316851722972021-01-30T06:13:00.007-08:002021-02-01T04:22:22.278-08:00The Girl in the Red Dress<p>As I was preparing the ebook companion to the
double CD The Unknowable Next I became suddenly engaged with the words which
began with the line A child took my hand. Without hesitation I copied them into
a separate document, printed it and took it to the room where I have my main
recording equipment.</p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US">I do occasionally record an idea on my iPhone
and have several portable recorders but this is where I go if I am seriously
intent on trying to get a ‘good recording’. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good in that it might be a track I will choose
to get mastered or will ask someone to arrange for me.</span> </p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US">On this occasion I became very focused and wanted
to both record the words and find a tune. And I stayed with the task until I
had a track which came close to what I wanted. The outcome was in no way
special but it gave me enough of what I wanted for me to leave it alone – for a
while anyway. No changes were made to the words I had printed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span>On moving away from recording the words I opened
my iPad and discovered there was an email from the woman who is referred to in
the lyric as ‘a mother’. She rarely contacts me and this was a relatively rare
communication. More amazing I thought, was the video attached to the email. In
one of the features of children dancing was a girl in a red dress. And this was
the child, now older, who had taken my hand and ‘walked me through a garden’.</p>
<p class="Body">Once the song had been arranged - and I hope I am
right about this – I thought it might be worth sharing as it expresses
something of that loss we all know when we have to let go of a dream Or when we are having
to accept that a dream we had is no longer likely to be realized.</p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US">The song can be found on my web site at www.skcsongs.com and on BANDCAMP at <o:p></o:p></span><a contents="https://sheilakcameron.bandcamp.com/track/and-a-longing-goes-to-rest" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://sheilakcameron.bandcamp.com/track/and-a-longing-goes-to-rest" target="_blank">https://sheilakcameron.bandcamp.com/track/and-a-longing-goes-to-rest</a></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762353113076298168.post-54065103128636600972021-01-20T04:29:00.005-08:002021-01-20T04:31:11.613-08:00We Could Live in a Hut<p> And we nearly did.</p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">On arriving in Masset on Haida Gwaii (known at that time as
The Queen Charlotte Islands I met with a man who offered his hut as a place to
stay until a room at a hotel could be negotiated. With a friend we acccepted
and began cleaning the place to make it habitable for the night. The Principal
of one of the schools heard we were planning to stay there and came to rescue
us. <o:p></o:p></p><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762353113076298168.post-30913685225681425122020-12-19T06:15:00.007-08:002020-12-20T02:54:55.832-08:00 The Unknowable Next: a book of would be lyrics<p>Presently being worked on as an ebook: it can best be described with the introduction below - which has just been completed</p><p><span>INTRODUCTION </span></p><p><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN-GB">The words in this
book were also recorded on a double CD with the same title. The book is meant
to be a companion to the CDs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><span>
<p class="MsoNormal">About the words:
they consist mostly of thoughts and ideas which at the time they occurred I had
chosen to write down. They were usually written in lines and rhymes because at
sometime or other - although I can’t remember exactly when - it had become a
habit to do that.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Most of them began
as one line with the prospect that they might become a lyric. And some of them
are lyrics. Others wandered away in a different direction to become what they
now are.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Only a few of the
words had previously been worked on and in preparing the book I wanted them to
remain that way. I knew from experience that once the process of making changes
has begun it can be hard to stop and there is always a risk that what was
initially written down can become something unrelated to the originally
expressed thoughts or ideas.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The reluctance to
get drawn into making changes to the words has informed the eventual content of
the book and two issues in particular. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Several years </span><span lang="EN-GB">had gone by since the recordings were made
and I was unable to locate an exact copy of the text which was used at the
time. As a consequence the recorded words are not an exact match with the
printed words. No attempt was made to remedy this,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Also there are
several duplicates, mainly as a result of some rushe</span><span lang="EN-GB">d editing and having used
two different kinds of title i.e. first line and made up.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The most obvious
remedy was to remove them and this could have been easily achieved with the
written words. There was however no easy way of making changes to the already
published CDs. I have opted instead to explain the situation and apologize for
any confusion this might </span><span lang="EN-GB">cause.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The track lists
from the recordings are being used for the indices in the book and although the
playing times of the recordings may not be of interest to the reader they have
been retained for any interested listener. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The recorded words
are on two CDs: DISC ONE and DISC TWO and the printed words are in two parts
PART ONE and PART TWO.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Written or spoken
there are seventy seven items in nine sections. The titles for both have been
kept the same.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">DISC ONE: PART ONE</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"><span lang="EN-GB">The Inescapable Road<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><st1:place><st1:placename><span lang="EN-GB">Heartbreak</span></st1:placename><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><st1:placetype><span lang="EN-GB">Land</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span lang="EN-GB"> and Thereabouts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"><span lang="EN-GB">On the Road to Sundrie<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4. </span></span><span dir="LTR"><span lang="EN-GB">The Bay and Beyond<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"><span lang="EN-GB">Out There Somewhere</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">DISC TWO: PART TWO</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 39.3pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-GB">1. I</span><span dir="LTR"><span lang="EN-GB">f it Had Not Been So Dark <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 39.3pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"><span lang="EN-GB">So Said the Sap<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 39.3pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"><span lang="EN-GB">Clown in a Pram<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 39.3pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"><span lang="EN-GB">The Unknowable Next<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">There is a separate concluding track entitled Some
Last Days of Fun</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">A selection of the
recorded words can be heard and downloaded from Bandcamp at <span class="Hyperlink0"><a href="https://sheilakcameron.bandcamp.com/album/the-unknowable-select"><span style="color: black;">https://sheilakcameron.bandcamp.com/album/the-unknowable-select</span></a></span>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><br /></span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762353113076298168.post-55358838812711208822020-09-11T07:39:00.006-07:002020-09-11T08:22:17.171-07:00OLD DOCUMENT SCAN<p> And it could be called a SAP SCAN. </p><p>I have been scanning the documents from an old folder. They began with my first letter to the BBC in which I was requesting an audition. I had been encouraged to do this after meeting with several people who worked at the Glasgow Drama College. But the person who guided me in what to say in the letter was the Secretary. </p><p>It did result in a few radio performances but this post is more about my overall impression of all I had tried to do as a singer, a songwriter and then - as it became apparent in the last few documents - as a writer. </p><p>And the words which have stayed with me are that throughout this endeavour I had been asking the wrong questions of the wrong people. And I’ll leave it there for now.</p><p>It’s good to be back on the Sap site. There is a strong feeling of belonging which I am thoroughly enjoying.</p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762353113076298168.post-62968086256585330082020-04-06T11:25:00.001-07:002020-04-12T04:34:55.471-07:00NINE RHYMESThe first rhyme is entitled THAT'S IT - although it does have a longer alternative one called SMOTHER THE OTHER. I have recorded a version with a very basic accompaniment using a cajon. It may need to be re-recorded so for now it is staying out of view.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762353113076298168.post-86396496195155626212020-04-06T04:23:00.001-07:002020-04-06T11:26:36.251-07:00The NEGLECTED Sap<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Sap has been neglected and I wonder if there is a reason. I'd like it to be that I no longer feel like a Sap, or that I no longer feel as much of a Sap as I once did. But leaving that aside I inadvertently came across the site today - I was in no way looking for it - and I thought I should post something new.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The newest news is that I am working on a selection of words which were written over (I think it was) about two days and because they all happened during that time frame I am assuming they are associated with each other - although the association, as I work on them, is best described as loose.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The selection is entitled <b>NINE RHYMES: on getting back in line</b> and I hope to have more to say about it soon. </span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762353113076298168.post-21447544026915765052019-11-12T03:04:00.002-08:002020-04-06T11:27:10.041-07:00JOAN URE AND ME<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I was recently asked how I met Joan Ure and began working on songs with her. I replied: <span style="font-size: 12pt;">I met Betty at a soiree in the West End of Glasgow. We talked. She said she wrote plays. I said I sang songs. We got together and talked some more. I sang some songs. She liked how I sang and began writing words for songs and I wrote some tunes to go with her words. That's it.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><img src="blob:https://draft.blogger.com/88e16083-97e0-4789-b9ff-c0830b83d356" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762353113076298168.post-5713249978200386062019-11-12T03:02:00.000-08:002020-04-06T11:26:55.205-07:00A SAP NO MORE - MAYBE<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I awoke this morning knowing that I needed to make a page for SO SAID THE SAP on my site at <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/Tuesday,%2022%20May%202018%20A%20REMINDER%20-%20TO%20MYSELF%20The%20site%20SO%20SAID%20THE%20SAP%20was%20set%20up%20as%20a%20follow-up%20to%20writing%20words%20and%20making%20a%20paper%20collage%20to%20go%20with%20them%20Both%20are%20below%20The%20words%20have%20been%20strung%20together%20to%20limit%20their%20use%20of%20space%20The%20image%20below%20is%20a%20scan%20of%20the%20original%20collage%20%20%20On%20the%20way%20to%20live%20out%20life%20These%20words%20may%20not%20be%20heard%20as%20rap%20but%20they%20were%20written%20by%20a%20sap%20who%20could%20not%20see%20that%20need%20and%20greed%20can%20oft%20times%20quell%20true%20love's%20appeal%20who%20could%20not%20see%20that%20what%20they%20saw%20was%20victim%20of%20their%20deepest%20flaw%20a%20tendency%20to%20keep%20repeating%20what%20they%20had%20when%20four%20or%20more%20%20Around%20that%20time%20the%20date's%20not%20clear%20but%20what%20they%20got%20was%20stark%20-%20a%20fear%20of%20losing%20what%20they%20had%20and%20whether%20light%20or%20dark%20the%20fear%20was%20bad%20or%20bad%20enough%20to%20find%20a%20place%20in%20everything%20they%20did%20-%20a%20trace%20of%20fear%20ran%20through%20their%20every%20move%20and%20kept%20them%20tied%20to%20anxious%20mood%20To%20hesitating%20stepping%20back%20scared%20of%20falling%20off%20the%20track%20that%20others%20rode%20with%20engines%20stoked%20with%20words%20of%20love%20of%20praise%20of%20hope%20that%20all%20would%20play%20out%20good%20and%20true%20that%20what%20they%20had%20would%20see%20them%20through%20%20But%20being%20sap%20does%20not%20require%20to%20also%20breathe%20a%20bitter%20fire%20upon%20all%20those%20who%20have%20it%20good%20although%20a%20bit%20more%20sharing%20would%20improve%20the%20lot%20of%20those%20who%20feel%20they%20never%20got%20their%20early%20needs%20met%20in%20ways%20that%20set%20them%20free%20of%20fear%20-%20the%20sort%20I'm%20citing%20here%20%20So%20said%20the%20sap%20the%20day%20they%20found%20love%20does%20not%20always%20leap%20and%20bound%20to%20fill%20the%20heart%20and%20head%20with%20joy%20sometimes%20its%20crap%20and%20but%20a%20ploy%20to%20satisfy%20the%20selfish%20needs%20which%20found%20a%20place%20when%20grief%20destroyed%20those%20tender%20moments%20soft%20and%20kind%20which%20we%20all%20need%20if%20we're%20to%20find%20within%20ourselves%20a%20peace%20of%20mind%20%20In%20the%20above%20version%20some%20of%20the%20capital%20letters%20used%20in%20the%20original%20text%20have%20been%20changed%20%20%20The%20words%20are%20available%20as%20a%20spoken%20word%20track%20on%20Bandcamp%20at%20https://sheilakcameron.bandcamp.com/track/so-said-the-sap">www.skcsongs.com </a> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A page that would include a link to this site where there is so much about what I have said and done over the past few years</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Also from now on I think that I will be using that newly made page to post the kind of information which usually appeared here - although I may cross reference it </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A printed sheet of some words entitled THE SAP AND OLD FAITHFUL was lying around on my desk as I decided to do this so this task may have been in the making - with my thoughts only catching up this morning</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The plan is to record those words soon and to use them on the new page - and probably on here</span></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762353113076298168.post-23833647479389282812019-05-16T10:57:00.002-07:002019-05-16T11:00:50.544-07:00RIVER to SEA from TLELL to TIREEI am still unsure about whether I should have done this but it is now almost complete. The final step is to pay for the production of 300 CDs and have 200 of them sent out to Radio Stations in the UK and in Europe. Or I think that’s where they are going.<br />
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The remaining 100 will be mine to distribute most likely to friends and charity shops. A few may be purchased on Bandcamp.<br />
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So why the uncertainty.<br />
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There were two considerations. Uppermost was the feeling that I had not adequately acknowledged all that Wild Biscuit had brought to my songs and I thought that putting together the first selection of tracks they had worked on with the more recent selection would provide me with the means of doing that.<br />
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A small CD of only the more recent selection was a possibility but I thought combining the selections would make it a more representative item - and the cost would be the same. Also when MORE LIKE A RIVER was initially distributed it was to 50 stations only. This time the songs will go to 200.<br />
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Perhaps I’ll only know further down the line whether or not it was a good idea. As said, right now, I’m not sure. But what I can definitely say is that one morning I woke up with the words River to Sea in my head and I liked the idea of using that title and that set me off in this direction. <br />
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I also enjoyed deciding on the CD cover which will be posted on line in a while.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The occasional forays into promoting a song on REVERBNATION have been remarkably unsuccessful</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This time the song DEEP and REAL is doing quite well and even as I post this the count is increasing!</span></div>
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Now at 854 on October 8th<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; line-height: 1.3;">WOS has recently used two more songs for their Podcasts: these were MOXIE BLUES and DON'T SIGH EVEN SLIGHTLY </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; line-height: 1.3;">Much later in the year, sometime in November, they will be playing DEEP and REAL</span></span></div>
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