GRACE MELINDA SERRIDGE VOCALS, HARMONY, TAMBOURINE ETC; MARK SERRIDGE GUITAR, KEYS, & OVERALL PRODUCTION; ROBERT LEE, FIDDLE; NIGEL MCKERNAGHAN UILLEAN PIPES & PENNYWHISTLE; BRETT FULLER DIDGERIDOO Sons Of is an antiwar song to me, it is about the loss of our beloved babies sent to war and dying, it is a lullabye i sang to all my children when first they were born and i would cry from thinking of anyone's baby dying; we are all someone's baby, every one who is fought against in a war is someone's baby, son, husband, brother, father, cousin, mother, sister, child, someone's someone. It is the same when we're driving and walking and being, if u r about to get mad at someone stop and think to yourself What if that was your brother or sister or Mom or Dad in that car, would you want someone to be so mean to them? We are all in this life together, and the more we really live with that consciousness, the better Everyone's life will be .....it is all so tender and delicate and over any second, breathing is one second to the next, ouch !
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Influences
EVERYONE I EVER MET OR HEARD IN SOME WAY !!!
To Name One is to leave out someone inadvertently, EVERY song and musician I've heard has had some influence and yes some more than others ! As For Peaceful places, go to Druidstone Hotel Pembrokeshire Wales whatta TREAT !!! www.druidstone.co.uk for a view:) As for MUSIC :) church choirs, my Mom at the radio station harmonizing with the girls for the religious broadcast Moultrie Georgia 1958; Steeleye Span, Martin Carthy, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Carole King, Maria Muldaur, Eva Cassidy, Billie Holiday, Richard Thompson, Nick Drake, Peter Knight, Bonnie Raitt, Paul Stookey, Dionne Warwick, Jacques Brel, Janis Ian, Buffy St. Marie, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Lori Leiberman, Phoebe Snow, The Shirelles, Connie Francis, Laura Nyro, Petula Clark, Lulu, Maddy Prior, The Carpenters, Paul Stookey, Burt Bacharach, Anne Murray, Sade, Goldie Hawn:), Elton John Friends album precious, Cat Stevens, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Barbara Streisand as a child i listened to her :) Dionne Warwick, Dusty Springfield, Sandy Denny, Buffy St. Marie, Eva Cassidy, Steeleye Span, Dick Gaughan, Martin Carthy, Cat Stevens, James Taylor, George Winston & Windham Hill's Artists, Carly Simon, Vashti Bunyan, Nilsson, Beatles, George Harrison, John Lennon,Julian Lennon, Fairport Convention, Leonard Bernstein, Weird Al Yankovic, Santana, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Earl Okun, Mississippi John Hurt, Lori Leiberman, Janis Ian, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Roger McGuinn, Arlo Guthrie, Maria Muldaur, America, Three Moses, TopFox, Roberta Flack, Dave Mattacks, Maddy Prior, Peter Knight, Ian Anderson, Jon Lord, Dido, Peter Gabriel, Melanie, LuLu, The Byrds, Neil Diamond, Neil Sedaka, John Lennon, Julian Lennon,Stevie Wonder,Johnny Mathis, Hank Williams, Jr., Juice Newton, Ides of March, Blood Sweat and Tears, Chicago, David Crosby, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, Peter Paul and Mary; Donovan, Oliver, Elton John, Harry Belafonte, Jose Feliciano, Stevie Wonder, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Billie Holiday, Paul Robeson, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, Julian Bream, Oasis, Sting,Tanna,Seal, Nantucket Sleigh Ride, Leon Russell, Elton John, Jack Bruce, America, Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Yes Fragile, Jethro Tull , The Who, Beegees, Supremes, Roberta Flack, Gladys Knight, Whitney Houston, Teresa Brewer, Hayley Mills, Dawn French, Monty Python, Charlotte Church, Josh Groban, Judy Garland, Earl Okun, Betty Grable who is my 3rd or 4th cousin :) ! tons of musicians and bands influence and elate me !
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I am using this box to say I pray always for God to heal all the souls in all the universes of the pain and sufferings this human life brings=God bless us all dear precious folks everywhere ! LOVE from me to you !
This is a band no longer living on the same continent, we are some in America and some still across the Pond:) Basically my now ex and I formed a band with friends and when we split up so did the band and I have dearly missed the music, I learned so much and loved performing and listening to the many great folk clubs in England, especially Nettlebed nr Henley-on-Thames !!! So guess it is an "ex" post-facto band in more ways than one, hm!
The TopFox CD was produced in Watlington, Oxfordshire, England in our Thatched Cottage on Shirburn Street, in 2000, where we lived about 3 years, hence we named our studio production house Thatched Music.
We named the band TopFox as that was our favourite pub, the Fox and Hounds at the top of the hill, the TopFox, to differentiate it from the Fox and Hounds pub at the bottom of the hill, the Bottom Fox:) which was across the street from our cottage. We could crawl home if we had to, but it never got quite that bad :) ha!
See www.myspace.com/jazzmelinda and hear how we began working on our jazz music and performed Jazz standards and pop songs which were well received and the whole experience was so happy and gratifying I loved it utterly !!! My specialty, gift I cannot deny from God, is harmony, i am looking for another musician to harmonize and perform with and smile alot with joy.
So here I am sharing it on My Space because it beats letting it sit in the case.I wanted to share the music and be joyful for what we did do.
I have a profile on regular www.myspace.com/melindamuse and www.myspace.com/jazzmelinda for my band Doubletake.
P.S. Aging is a Privilege of the Living so I'm so glad to be "growing" and "older", ha !
I love music and life and dancing round in joyous oblivion !!! yay!
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