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The Bloom Continues

This piece came from a workshop that I attended at SERFA at Black Mountain NC last week. The workshop was called The Heart of the Matter: Creating Emotional Impact and Songwriting. The presenter was singer-songwriter Jess Klein. At first Jess had us all share a song that had moved us in an emotional way. Many of us discussed a meal that we had recently enjoyed too. With these thoughts in mind, she asked us to do a free writing exercise for 10 minutes, and these are the words that I wrote down. Maybe this is a seed to an upcoming song? Maybe this is all this will be. Maybe this is enough. I should add that I got very misty when Jess played her song, In It For the Love during her showcase. Check that one out. Thank you Jess Klein. Thank you SERFA

The Bloom Continues 

Say the wrong thing 

sing it and play it every day 

write that book and leave it opened 

open for the others 

for the closed minded

For the closed doors

For the shut ins

For the left outs

Sing it out

Leave everything to chance

Take and make change

Your mind is off on the right track

Tracks of tears

Tears of clowns with smeared make up

Sit down and have a good meal

Chew slow so you know the taste

Chew slow so you hear the voices

Of those close

Sitting at that table on a Black Mountain

Energized by the youth of it all

Mixing young Christians with liberal folkies 

Pete Seeger’s banjo is ringing in these mountains

The sustain is traveling through to the next generation

Where have all the flowers gone? 

Well, I found them here and here and here

Just try to block them out of your mind

A blink won’t do it

Nor shut eyes or white noise

The bloom continues

The bloom continues

Pushing up daisies? 

OK 

Be a dead or lazy

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It's My First Time Behind The Wheel

It's #FreshMusicFridayTB and this is as fresh as today's headlines. This will certainly be added to my ongoing album It's my First Pandemic, but for now, enjoy this first run through. "My first path was dirty and it gradually got gritty, but the gravel as I traveled smoothed away... But now I feel, it's my first time behind the wheel."

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My Roots (2015)

Tell me about a song that takes you back. Back in time. Back home.

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I wrote this 15 years ago or so. My Grandpa Eston Riley Kimble grew up on his family farm in Pendleton County WV, near Seneca Rocks. If I'm remembering correctly, the farm sat on the other side of this beautiful landmark, just down the road a piece.

The food and the people were whole.

There was a party line that connected more than a couple families, possibly the entire community? Pendleton County is the fifth least populated county in WV. While I was driving through, back in 2015 from one show to the next, I played my song near the rocks. It meant a lot to me.

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Change (For Clean Water

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Out There And At It (2012)

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Channeling my Roger Miller on this one. The year was 2012 and the album was Building Characters. Don Dixon played bass and he also recorded and produced the album, bringing his mobile studio from Ohio to Nashville and setting up in Tim O'Brien's music room. Kenny Malone plays percussion on the entire album. I set my camera behind my head for this one shot and glad I did as it brings back sweet memories for me. I later did the whistling and Tim added the Nugget mandolin.

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Cradle

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Tip only if you’re able. I will continue to create for you.
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Cradle by Todd Burge May 14 2020
In the cradle of your arms
I once found
A safe place to sleep
I imagine it still there
Saving my place
For when again we meet
As I try to kill
The thought…
Of all the days
I did not….
Give
And breathe a little bit of life
Into this time
I’ve got left to
Live
In the recess of my mind
I see time
Taking a day off
On a monkey bar I climb
And here I stay
Like it or not
As I try to kill off
The thought…
Of all the days
I did not….
Live
And breathe a little bit of life
Into this time
I’ve got left to
Give

©2020 Bunj Jam BMI

Old Music Monday! Fun in the 80 by The Larries (1985)

#OldMusicMondayTB The year was 1985 and my band, The Larries made our TV Debut on WVPB. Larry Groce introduces us and Mountain Stage was only two years young! What would you like to see next on Old Music Monday? I appreciate that you are supporting what I have been doing for decades by visiting Todd's Tip Jar here www.toddburge.com - You keep me going! Love you, Todd