'Live Forever' - A Capella Recording

I first fell in love with this tune during an excellent film about country music starring Jeff Bridges. This movie spoke beautifully on love, music and facing one's personal demons. Robert Duvall is in it as well, and there's a scene where he sings this song. I fell in love...I thought maybe it was just an old folks song in the public domain and that I'd never know who really wrote it...Like it was just a melody floating through the collective subconscious.

I was totally and completely wrong. It's written and performed by Billy Joe Shaver. I don't know much about him, but it's exceptional, simple and heart rending writing.

In my opinion, the version on the film is by far the best, with ol' Bobby Duvall (I've never heard him referred to that way and will probably never do so again) just rolling through it like a salt truck on a honey road. I know that probably doesn't make much sense, but it might if you go find his version on the Crazy Heart Soundtrack.

So anyway, I've been wanting to sing this for a while; I figured at some live show where the mood might be just right...It hit me yesterday that I should just record it and post it on the Boom Box Emporium. So here's my version, based off of Robert Duvall's.

enjoy.

Strange Perspective's 'Ultimate Weapon'

Here's the newest from the FREE and new music series, 'SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE's Boombox Emporium'  This one's a gift from me and my good friend and collaborator Dameun Strange. It's from the upcoming 'Diary of a Droid' which we plan on finishing this spring and releasing later this year!

The follow up to 'Strange Perspective and the Lost Soul's Boy's Choir in Jazz Funeral', is a sci-fi opus of boom bap electronica, rugged and thought provoking dance music, mango sweet melodies, and sharp, gritty philosophical lyricism. 'Ultimate Weapon' is the second song to emerge from the upcoming 'Diary of a Droid'. The first is 'Nobody Sleeps Tonight', also available for free download from The Boombox Emporium (in volume one).

This song emerged from a concept that Dameun pitched about how the most powerful weapon that could ever be would actually bring people together. It's a story of this droid's exploration of consciousness and decision to live for something greater than itself. This droid literally goes through the process day in and day out of creating the ultimate weapon out of itself. Working into it's own consciousness, it's own memory, circuits and spirituality to build the ultimate weapon from the inside out.