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Thanks. And yeah, hard to single out one as his best. My opinion changes through time. But I keep coming back to this one. Others I think of as his greatest, It’s Alright Ma, Desolation Row, Gates of Eden and more recently Not Dark Yet, among others. Put the music aside, I can read these as poems and say they are some of the best poems of the last century. There will never be another like him.

@@IntraMoeniaArt Bless you.

@@RoseAkerman Thanks.

@@RoseAkerman I’m actually a pretty happy guy generally, but I enjoy drawing from the well of sadness and heartbreak when it comes to songwriting. I’ll try and do more happy stuff in the new year. 😂

@ sad lonely and miserable works so well though…😂

@ It’s a tried and tested strategy, ain’t it. Political, topical, satire songs come and go, but broken hearts, lost souls and human suffering will always be the staples of art. Even Dylan recognized this as early as 1964, and turned his back on the protest singer trends he had so marvellously helped forge. Does anyone really remember Phil Ochs? 😀

I hope it didn’t bring you down too much. I really appreciate you taking the time to listen. Thanks.

​@@GoneButNotGone The lyrics just.... Made me remind me of someone 🙂 Some unexpressed love.... You know.....

@@adelthebo I hear you. Have a good and happy holiday season.

@@IntraMoeniaArt A humbling compliment. I will be reworking this song and will post the full version soon. It’s a sort of homage to all the unknown musicians who quietly live out their dream on UA-cam. The misfits and outsiders who never found their place in the world, but find a quiet place on platforms like this to say the things they never had a chance to say in their offline worlds.

@@GoneButNotGone We're a big bunch, and we should be on TV! Talent shows decide who's a musician now? That's a bummer. I miss the good old days more and more. I still rock out to music from the '70s. What will kids listen to in the future? They're missing out big time. Again, great job! And if we don't chat before then, Merry Christmas. Cheers!

@ I’ll send you a Christmas email in the next couple days so I can say a bit more than I want to say here.

@GoneButNotGone Just what I wanted 👍

Not anymore. Sleepwalkers sold his rights to me, so now a Gone But Not Gone anti-classic!

@@GoneButNotGone 😀

Flattery will get you somewhere, sometimes. Funny, but listening to a lot of of classic albums from the 70s, Elton John among them, and you can really hear the imperfections in all their glory. Little tempo irregularities (they used real drummers, not click tracks back then). And it just makes it so more relatable compared to today’s perfect, vapid pop music.

@GoneButNotGone Very true! This pitch correction trend has gone crazy, as well. It sucks the soul out of vocals. Have a good one, Peter - I'll catch you in the New Year! 🥳

@ Have a great holiday. See you next year.

So much potency.. DONT F ..IT ! Keep it real and crude.. ❤❤🫵🏻💯💯❤️🙋🏼‍♂️

That’ll be me. All covers on this page are by me. Thanks for listening.

@GoneButNotGone well that's a fine job you did

@ Thanks very much. I did the full version, and maybe in future I’ll post it. But for now I’m only posting original songs to my main long form video page. Have a good holiday season, without too much darkness.

@@GoneButNotGone you too.. keep on keeping on

Marcus, thank you. But more importantly, I just your IntraMoenia.Art eulogy. I was moved by it. I wanted to comment, but don’t want to draw attention to myself, so I’ll wait until there are a few comments first. This UA-cam music thing is a series of journeys, isn’t it? Different for each person, but we all share a common bond as creators.

@@GoneButNotGone Don't worry, P! By the way, you're one of the people I wanted to give a special mention to in this text. I hope you understand!

@ 100% understand.

@@GoneButNotGone 👍😉

@@RoseAkerman Agreed, the lower the better for this type of music. It’s why I’ve always loved outsider musicians like Daniel Johnston. There’s an organic quality. Same with those old field recordings of the delta blues, Appalachian mountain music, Carter Family. No reverb, filters or studio tricks, just raw music that stands the test of time.

@@GoneButNotGone gotta keep the soul!!!!

@@maxwashingtonmusic7000 Don’t get many comments around these parts, so appreciate them all the more when they arrive. Thanks very much.

@@maxwashingtonmusic7000 Thanks, man. Appreciate you taking time to listen. High Noon, I just remember the tense but slow pace and the clocks. And it all happening in real time.

I know, whistling needed. I can’t whistle. Damn. 😮Thanks for listening.

That explains it 😙 🎶 I do enjoy the harmonica

@ If this song gets 1994 views, I’ll look about hiring a session whistler and doing a new version. 🤔

The spilled coffee year ☕️ 1994

@ I was thinking your old Silvertone would have sounded lo-fi great through the mic with some reverb in this song.

Thanks. In truth, I don’t like the whole concept of UA-cam Shorts. It further destroys attention spans, promotes addictive scrolling, and from a musician point of view, not the best medium for anything other than self-promotion. But it’s a tool to be used. I want to use it less in future. I’m also not really liking these short, partial covers versions I’m posting because the songs deserve full version treatment. But I made a hard rule for this channel: no covers on my main long video page. So my Shorts covers is a compromise. I may start putting full cover versions in my main video page. Thinking about it. If I do that, I will stop doing as many shorts.

@@GoneButNotGone Don't get me wrong, you're absolutely right to do it... I should really get around to doing it myself. I just never seem to find the time! That's just how things are nowadays, people don't have much time to spare. I can see it with my own videos, not many people watch them all the way through. We're from a different generation, my friend.

I hear you.

@@GoneButNotGone I know 😉

@@IntraMoeniaArt Thank you, as always.

@@RoseAkerman 👍✌️

Thanks for listening.

@@RoughGuessMusic Thanks, man. A bit more positivity and love is gonna shine through in the New Year! With or without my baritone sandpaper nasal vocals.

@GoneButNotGone Right on! Cheers, Peter. 😄🍻

@@RoughGuessMusic Thank you, Tim. This was one of those songs that just naturally flowed out spontaneously while noodling around in the open C tuning I love so much. I was actually working to refine my song Memory Ghost, same tuning, slightly similar chord/picking patterns, but decided on something new. You have a safe and peaceful holiday season. I know people get busy and stressed this time of year, so never feel obliged to stay up to date with my postings, but always appreciate it when you listen/comment.

@@GoneButNotGone It's always great to hear your latest musical projects - something I look forward to. Hope you have a wonderful holiday season as well! 😀🎄

Graci, amico. This was a very interesting song to write. It came from a rather spontaneous flow state. I realized after finishing that it had possible meanings I hadn’t intended. And I leave it to the listener to interpret. I really love the open C guitar tuning I used here.

@@GoneButNotGone I believe that the true essence of a great musician is precisely this: to make music and then let the listener experience it according to their own interpretation and emotions. I congratulate you once again and I'm truly happy to have found you :)

@ Many thanks.

Thanks Rose, I really appreciate your comment.

@ do I know you? Is your name Peter?

@ Bingo! This is he. The one formerly known as Songs for Sleepwalkers. I retired that persona a few months back, wasn’t sure I would return, and went with the Dylan strategy of reinventing myself. 🤫

@ great to see you back! I missed your music!

@@RoseAkerman I appreciate that.

Thanks.

Really interesting comment. It never occurred to me when I wrote this that it might be interpreted as being about actual death. But yeah, I can see why some might see it that way. I’m still working in the song so I’m gonna think more about this. Thank for the comment.

@@IntraMoeniaArt Very helpful comment, thanks. There are a couple glitches in the piano part, but overall I’m happy with how this plays out. I wonder how this would sound in Italian? Sometimes I think about translating to a different language.

@@GoneButNotGone It's often said that English is better suited for singing, but I'm curious to explore that myself. I have a good voice - my mother was a soprano and would have loved for me to follow in her footsteps - but I'm extremely shy on stage. In fact, even recording myself makes me uncomfortable (lol).

@ Wow. I’d like to hear you sing. I have a baritone that sounds like like it’s filtered through cigar smoke and rough sandpaper. If you ever want to translate one of my songs and sing it, I. A send you the music mp3 file.

@@RoseAkerman Rose, good to see your comment. I have been gone, but not really gone. After retiring my Songs for Sleepwalkers persona, I created this. But I’m aiming to keep a relatively low profile this time and won’t be playing the engagement game as much. Just focused on the songs, not the analytics. I’ll pop by your channel incognito and see what you’ve been up to when I have time.

Thanks for listening.

@@RoughGuessMusic There a lot to write about in this great nation. More Canadian content sure to come. I’m slowly transferring over my favourite tracks from Sleepwalkers channel, and am quietly hiding the versions there. I’ll probably quietly delete that channel if I finish the process. The Aurora lights, I saw and heard them when I worked a couple seasons up north years ago. They emit a low frequency hum. Rather eerie and beautiful. Thanks for the comment.

@@bigb2020 Many have made that pilgrimage. I may too if I ever get to NYC again.

Very good observation. Every detail in this is indeed intentional, planned and orchestrated for effect. It’s as much performance art as it is a simple song. When you don’t have many people watching your channel, there’s a bit more freedom to take risks and experiment. Thanks for your insightful comment.

@@GoneButNotGone Better few but good... What do we do with those who only pretend to listen hahaha!!!

@ Well, I stopped worrying about things I have no control over. Just make music, have fun, and try not to get distracted by the algorithm forces.

Thanks for noticing that. I tried to clean up the chorus a bit more without doing it over. Ideally I’d want a Motown backup singer ensemble (like the Stones had for some of their songs), and more driving electric guitars reaching that shooting star crescendo before it falls at the end. Maybe a horn section, too. 😆

@@GoneButNotGone That would be awesome! 🎺

Unfortunately I’m not doing full cover versions in my main video page, but the best full version is by the master himself, Townes Van Zandt. If you search the song title there are lots of his studio and live versions available. It’s also a song covered by many other artists. Many believe Townes is America’s greatest songwriter. He passed away in the 1990s. About a year before he passed, I had a ticket to see him live in Vancouver but the day of the show his tour bus got stopped at the Canada-US border and Canada officials denied him entry to Canada because of his past drug offenses. So there was no show. I was so disappointed. But his music lives on.

Yep, Canuck here. Thanks for your encouragement.

@ if you’re on the west coast . Van or van island and ever do a show let me know

@ Thanks for that. My live days are far in the past, just a hobby now to keep me out of trouble. And ya, born and raised on the West Coast. I don’t get many visitors at this channel, so when I get a couple comments like yours, much appreciated. Thanks again.

Thanks for stopping by for a listen.

✌️Thank you.

Much appreciated. Will check your channel a bit later. Thanks for the comment.

@@RoughGuessMusic Thank you for your thoughtful words. I agree that this taboo subject deserves more open discussion, from all angles, including the uncomfortable angles. Even so, I’m a bit uneasy posting this so close to the holiday season (a thought that occurred to me after). I had set a general rule for my main page that I won’t be posting more than one song per week. I broke that rule and posted a touched up Shooting Star simply because I didn’t want What If? to linger at the top of my feed for too long. One of my goals moving forward is to move into more emotionally neutral terrain with subject matter; I tend to dwell a bit much on sadness and melancholy. Thanks again for your measured thoughts.