All instruments and vocals by John Leonard except for the following:
Faith; Leonard Keegan- Percussion, Keys and back-up vocals / Heart Parasol, Mission Bell, A Sadness, It Looked Cold, We're Zombies; Leonard Keegan-Drums. Writer's credits: Heart Parasol- Words: Edward C. Piercy-Music: John Leonard/Mission Bell-Words & Music: John Leonard/A Sadness-Words: John D. McLaughlin-Music: John Leonard/It Looked Cold-Words & Music: John Leonard/We're Zombies-Words: Tass Marie-Music: John Leonard/Faith-Words & Music: John Leonard/Son Sun Song-Words & Music: John Leonard
影響
Various and Many!
風格近似
Rock/Alternative/Dark Country Blues with a Random Splash of Happy
When I was a kid my father Leonard and his musician friends would have these jam parties that seemed to go on all the time. Them "old cats" really knew how to have a good time! That's when my interest in playing music really began. By the time I turned 14 years old I began to watch them play, with interest. I wanted to learn to play guitar, sing and have fun too. I tried to learn chords by watching my dad but that was pretty hard to do. He had this unique style where he would lay his guitar (strings up) on his lap and play the thing "fingers down". So, I fixed my eyes on the guitar of the guy next to him, “Sonny” Miller, my dad’s best friend. I learned a few basic chords and my first song this way. Eventually, I found a hand drafted chord chart in my dad’s guitar case from which I learned a few more chords. I learned some guitar riffs but I soon became bored with trying to learn cover tunes. So, I tried my hand at creating my own songs. I was soon addicted!
Apart from an occasional lull in my musical participation over the years, I never really stopped writing and playing music. To me, it's like meditation or therapy that's non-exclusive to emotional condition. Now, here I am, about 3.5 Decades after writing my first song, attempting to record my entire song catalog. With the initiation of 3.5 DECADES VOLUME I, my journey begins with a suitcase filled with life experiences, memories, good times and hard times- to be presented as songs. Some are of collaborative effort when I wrote music to unsuspecting poems that were handed to me. The songs on the CD/Play-list will be added in no particular order and they are not fully refined. For now, I'll just call them semiprecious. I just feel the need to get this project going as I've already waited long enough. My goal is to record as much of the 52+ Song catalog as possible by spring 2010 and gather feedback from listeners. After this I plan to put together a more refined album and step up the touring.
The play-list in the jukebox above will be constantly changing as I continue to add copyrighted material. So please keep checking back and send me your thoughts on the new stuff as well. If you would like to help accelerate this project, monetary contributions and investment deals are being considered. Either way, I'm determined to continue with my recording and touring goals. Describing the sound, I would have to say it's Rock, Alternative, Dark Country Blues with a Random Splash of Happy.
My hope is that you will enjoy listening to the songs, as I am grateful to be able to play them for you.
