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About Me

As a label "singer songwriter" is far too grand for someone who so clearly struggles to sing and play music! However, Richard has been trying to write songs for many years but has had the decency to enforce these only on the captive audience of his family. Pushed into performing live as the only way to have his work heard by others and to test reactions to his songs, he has succumbed to requests to join the myspace generation. His small ambition is that someone somewhere may like something presented here, whilst his big ambition is to one day hear one of his songs performed well (by others).The 'songs' presented here are simple demos - please stop by and add comments - let me know what works and what doesn't!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/5/2007
Band Members: I think it's pretty obviously just me!
Influences: Every piece of music is an influence - some positive and inspirational, others less so. The most positive influences are: the poets disguised as musicians such as Jacques Brel, Dylan, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Steve Harley, Springsteen, Bowie; the raw emotional deliveries from people like Odetta, Billie Holliday, Johnny Cash; the roots musicians of the blues, bluegrass, cajun, zydeco; with a little spare room for the sheer charisma and personality of Elvis.
Sounds Like: That could only be an insult to anyone named!
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Demo Butterfly Wings

This song is about how the mundane and ordinary can explode into the extraordinary at any time. It is based on chaos theory: In 1963 Edward Lorenz published "Deterministic non-period flow" in the Jou...
Posted by Richard Stephenson on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:19:00 PST

The Fish Song

I was moved write this a few years ago. I was trying to comprehend why we do what we do to the earth and other people - or rather why we remain so self-absorbed so as not to do anything to stop i...
Posted by Richard Stephenson on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:21:00 PST

The Escape (New Orleans)

I wrote this as a modern day sea shanty based very loosely on the events surrounding hurricane Katrina. I was fortunate to visit New Orleans many years ago and loved the city. Watching the devastation...
Posted by Richard Stephenson on Sun, 25 May 2008 09:29:00 PST

The Great Garcia Marquez Iliesta

This song is the product of an overactive imagination and a love of people watching! Several years ago I was staying in a village/small town in Spain. In fiesta week I was with my family in the v...
Posted by Richard Stephenson on Sun, 25 May 2008 09:19:00 PST

Frank’s Song

Frank was my Grandad - he was of that generation who left school and started work as a boy. He spent his working life at Shildon Wagon Works mainly putting rivets into the steam locomotives ...
Posted by Richard Stephenson on Sun, 25 May 2008 09:02:00 PST