pink car nation

buckhorn

Genre: Folk-Rock

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I uploaded this before and it sounded weird, perhaps I'm just losing my marbles.

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over a dirty side walk
above the greasy spoon
there's a welfare mother
sleeping way past noon
Anollette was fading
behind the neon lights
every day she's praying
he'll make it home tonight
in this pink car nation
they hum a lullaby
Godisinhisheaven
everything is right
he's in his heaven.....
and the world keeps turning
her angel cut a tooth
she can't abide the yearning
on the avenue
anne,she aches like sin
at the bargin bin
at the super market
they still got the big spin
in this pink car nation
they hum a lullaby
Godisinhisheaven
every thing is right
he's in his heaven.......

Song Stats

Hits: 473
Comments: 19
Fans: 12
Plays: 48
Downloads: 29
Votes: 1
Uploaded: Mar 12, 2009 - 08:34:53 PM
Last Updated: Mar 12, 2009 - 08:45:40 PM Last Played: Nov 19, 2009 - 12:47:45 AM

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Feter	Feter said 259 days ago (March 12th, 2009)
	pink car nation Man ...you rock ...and you always bring the good vibes loved the feel here ...the arrangement ..all so solid and into the groove ..top work on the vocal ...sounds like the boss ..great job my friend ...thnx alot for sharin !!!! Check out my latest song called A Night With Feter feat'(Roxylee sloparts crissew johnwhitehead and Yamin AL Yamani )

buckhorn	buckhorn said 258 days ago (March 13th, 2009)
	Hi Feter I did think of the boss among other artist, that is very intuitive of you. The picture is a restaurant in Sacramento Ca. I was hired to remodel an apartment in the same building, which I took as fairly coincidental...as always thanks , my friend. Check out my latest song called salience #2

Vic Holman	Vic Holman said 259 days ago (March 12th, 2009)
	good eats at the buckhorn grill better then off of the car grill. cool to hear this one again. Check out my latest song called November

buckhorn	buckhorn said 258 days ago (March 13th, 2009)
	Don't you hate it when folks get all up in your grill.... so you were the one to hear the other version. One day soon I'm gonna hit you up for some mixing advice. Thanks for the listen. Cheers Check out my latest song called salience #2

Feter	Feter said 259 days ago (March 13th, 2009)
	Avatar how did you do that ? ha ! great pic ! Check out my latest song called A Night With Feter feat'(Roxylee sloparts crissew johnwhitehead and Yamin AL Yamani )

Relic67	Relic67 said 259 days ago (March 13th, 2009)
	good song great songwriting, lyrics, chords and melody are right there. the mix sounds perhaps a bit bass-heavy / boomy? Notwithstanding that, a marvelous listen. Thanks for posting! Check out my latest song called Novis Libris

buckhorn	buckhorn said 258 days ago (March 13th, 2009)
	Thanks dude I know just what you mean about the bass. I recently bought a bass and its fun to play, the bounce and rhythm are much better than a midi bass, but Im having trouble containing the tone of it,Hopefully soon I'll figure that out. Appreciate the comment a lot. Cheers Check out my latest song called salience #2

ktb	ktb said 259 days ago (March 13th, 2009)
	ditto on the song writing chops. Its got a very cool progression and your vocals sound terrific. Did you play all the instruments? nicely done buck Check out my latest song called Texas stump

buckhorn	buckhorn said 258 days ago (March 13th, 2009)
	Thanks Karma I did guitar and bass on this one, and some midi keys on some of my other junk. Unfortunately all the drums are loops. Thanks for stoppin by. Cheers. Check out my latest song called salience #2

Moviz	Moviz said 258 days ago (March 13th, 2009)
	Excellent play on words in the title and excellent lyrics. I think this is your best performance yet, with that good sound you've got..... great song, cheers M Check out my latest song called Come Back Billie

buckhorn	buckhorn said 258 days ago (March 13th, 2009)
	Performing is fun. It's the reason I do this. If I can't sing at least I can perform, if you catch my drift. I appreciate you taking the time to comment, especially because I am so lax and lazy in that department. Regards Check out my latest song called salience #2

blaky smith	blaky smith said 255 days ago (March 16th, 2009)
	Unfortunately all the drums are loops, but what a great result ! Very nice piece, great to hear this one again, very well done on all levels, a pleasure to listen. Bravo ! Marc Check out my latest song called Sur le sable (w Jiguma)

buckhorn	buckhorn said 253 days ago (March 18th, 2009)
	Thanks Marc I appreciate the listen, and you taking the time to type some words in english. Cheers. Check out my latest song called salience #2

davisamerica	davisamerica said 255 days ago (March 16th, 2009)
	gather yer marbles ... this rocks Check out my latest song called No Son(egobandit band)

buckhorn	buckhorn said 253 days ago (March 18th, 2009)
	bottles and cans , clap your hands. Thanks Jack......so you found em? marbles. Check out my latest song called salience #2

Bob6stringer	Bob6stringer said 242 days ago (March 29th, 2009)
	Distilled the essence My ears appreciate your whole approach here from the writing to the execution. Excellent repetition on the isinhisheaven part. This is just an excellent outing. Does he make it home? There's got to be a deep backstory on this one. I can imagine many more verses to this from which you've distilled the essence. Check out my latest song called Yours and Mine

buckhorn

buckhorn said 240 days ago (March 31st, 2009)

verse two (extended dance version)
"All the conversations
behind all the backs
he's deep inside the box cars
the track it don't go back
and the creeping charley
on the fire escape
she wonders if they'll meet up
at purgatories gate"

That was the verse that I removed because I thought
the song was too long and boring. Im guessing you wrote your own ending. Thanks for the kind and insightful words.

Check out my latest song called salience #2

jiguma

jiguma said 242 days ago (March 29th, 2009)

I like this a lot
The way the chords move around the pace and the low-key vocal are really very nicely done. Great set of lyrics too. I have a nit about the vocal though - what type of accent pronounces "heaven" as "heavOn"? Is that part of your accent, or something else? I have to admit that this started to really grate on me - then there are probably things about my accent that might grate on you too :)

The bass sounds like it needs some work regarding the sound (as you mention). I'd probably try to take out a little of the lower frequencies (say from 50 Hz down) with a low end filter then look at some compression - try the following settings for starters and see where that takes you: attack 4 - 10 ms, release 10ms, threshhold -2 to -10dB, ratio 8:1 and a hard knee. If you're using Logic, there are some really good bass settings there (I imagine there'd be some good ones in GB also). If you have the mid and high frequencies EQ'd down, I'd suggest they be brought up at least to the same level as the lower frequencies. A good bass sound needs nids and highs as well as bass frequencies - a common mistake by non-bass players is to think "it's called bass, so I only need to use bass end freqs".

Anyway, enough tech stuff. This is a really cool song and I like it a lot - it takes me to heavon ;)

Neil

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buckhorn

buckhorn said 240 days ago (March 31st, 2009)

Non bass player
That does describe me, but its a lot of fun trying.....I don't know why I pronounced the things they way I did, except I wanted all the syllables to be all mixed up and conglomerated, perhaps the sound more important than the meaning. I really don't think about it when I vocalize, I just try to let go and feel it. Heavone is not my normal manner of speech.....Thanks very much for the mixing advice, I'll make a preset from your suggestions and try it on the next one. I think the main problem with the bass tone on this one was I had the gain way too high on my interface, Im getting a much cleaner sound with lower levels. Thanks again for the detailed analysis, I appreciate it very much. Cheers

Check out my latest song called salience #2

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Folk-rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and rock music. In the original and narrowest sense, the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and Canada around the mid-1960s. The sound was epitomized by tight vocal

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