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#56 Peach Tree Lane (1984)
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Finger picking ditty with an added strumming guitar. Has some nice gutar interplay, but needs re-recording to tighten up.
folk funny political sixties novelty gentle prolific idiosyncratic lehrer jefferson airplane ochs paxton steve goodman
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Tom Paxton meets Jefferson Airplane. Extremely prolific singer songwriter with a wide range of styles from bizarre novelty tunes and surrealistic poetic songs t
With more than 300 songs and counting and for more than 30 years, I have written in a variety of acoustic styles from novelty tunes to love songs to historical ballads to poetic surrealistic songs to retro-acoustic pop. From bizarre to traditional from funny to poignant, whatever style the song is in, the melodies are usually memorable and the lyrics unpredictable. This site will eventually contain rough often first take demos of my entire song catalogue. Many of the earliest songs when I first started writing will of course be shaky. So expect the songs to get better as time goes on. Feel free to come back and browse often as I will constantly be adding songs, one by one in chronological order, starting in 1974. If you are looking for some unusual songs to cover from a little known but unique artist, you have come to the right place. Just e-mail me. If you find a song here that intrigues you, but you don't like a line or two, or you think it needs a bridge, drop me an e-mail and maybe you can earn writer's credit if it gets that song to be recorded or performed.... otherwise just enjoy. You can become a Rob Lincoln fan at no cost to you. I promise that if you keep coming back there will be some real surprises along the way. While mostly acoustic, some original material will veer into folk rock and even 60's pop, but the garage rock and loudest material will also be found in full band arrangement at soundclick.com/abrasiveflowers Eventually some of these 300+ tunes may be rerecorded and make it on to CD, including a novelty CD that would be suitable for Dr. Demento or an historical ballad CD or a political song CD--but until then, this is the only site you can hear most of these songs. (A few of my songs CAN be found on songramp.com/RobLincoln and myspace.com/lessickandlincoln)
Song Info
Charts
Peak #457
Peak in subgenre #33
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1984
Uploaded
May 19, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 2.1 MB 128 kbps 2:20
Story behind the song
Peach Tree Lane was my first* attempt at writing a finger picking song. In this particular recording I added a strumming guitar to give it more meat. The second fingerpicking guitar you can hear half way through this song would have been coordinated much better if I had more than 15 minutes to record and mix the song. If you think it's worth me re-recording to get it right, rate it a 4 or better. This was written for a dear friend that was moving far away. *My First Song is a finger picker on this site, but was originally just a strummer. Mp3 listeners gave this a 4.1 out of 5.0...Comments included: "Pretty little song" "Liked the guitars thought you will need to re-record" "Liked the melody and the hook"
Lyrics
The moon shone a yellow glow Cross my window through the rain Thinking and a knowing That you're finally on your way You've gone so far away To Peach Tree Lane The summer of gold Has now turned into gray I'm feeling old And I miss your shining ray The funny things you say Have gone to Peach Tree Lane Walking down dusty roads Far away from home I'll think of you Wherever I roam Might even hop a train Right to Peach Tree Lane
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