Urban Skies is Rock/Fusion song with extensive solos. Musicians: James Murrell: Guitar (Melody, 1st solo & solo at the end), Greg Jones: Guitar (2nd solo), John Toedtman: Bass, & Leon Robinson: Drums.
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My name is James Murrell. I am a guitarist and composer from Ohio. My style is jazz but I blend in influences from rock, blues, R&B, folk, & world music. I pray
I wrote "Urban Skies" in early 2006. I live in a part of Dayton, OH that is near a hospital and at night you can hear helicopters and sirens. I was lying in bed one night and the noise was especially loud outside of my home so I looked outside my window at the urban skies and then I wrote this song. Originally I recorded the song as a Bossa Nova with cello and a jazz band but, last summer I recorded it the way I heard it in my head when I wrote it, with crazy electric guitars and a strong back-beat. Both recordings are great and the fact that the song works both ways shows that it's a great tune!
