“Lay My Head Down” song with normal voice

By Sleeves, 9 March, 2010, 1 Comment

When I first met Lois I was playing guitar and singing with a kind of high tenor voice. When I started doing songs with piano, I flipped my Leonard Cohen coin and started singing in the gutter range. Lois doesn’t dislike the gutter voice too much, but she often says that she wishes I’d sing like I used to. When she heard the Lay My Head Down song, she mentioned this again and so I thought I’d do a more “normal” version. Here ya go baby!

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Lyrics:
I been lying in this manger
Down beneath the Bodhi tree
Like a pilgrim bound for Mecca
But the road is all I see
So I laid down in the starlight
Fell asleep and had a dream
That I’d hunted all the mountains
And I’d captured all the trees
Lay my head down, let my heart take over me
Lay thy head down, let thy heart take over thee

When I met you
For the first time
How strange I couldn’t see
My legs buckled, I’d done searching
And I was down upon one knee
Lay my head down, let my heart take over me
Lay thy head down, let thy heart take over thee

All these earthquakes and disasters
All these wars and enemies
Well, here’s your warning to destruction
Cause your lady’s married thee
So to William and Elizabeth
What holds you tight sets you free

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Two Wedding Songs for Ron & Fez

By Sleeves, 4 March, 2010, 5 Comments

Photo by Stephanie Gould

Tomorrow on Ron & Fez, it’s the “World’s Fastest Wedding” with Bill & Elizabeth set to tie the knot on air.

Here are two songs to go along with it, neither one fast or even short.

The first song really belongs to the Japanese band “UmiKebu”. They sent me the music a week or so ago and asked me to come up with a lyric and it suddenly seemed to fit in with this wedding deal.

I wasn’t sure if Kevin of UmiKebu could mix my million crazy vocals down in time, so I wrote another song, just in case. But he’s the World’s Fastest Mixer! I wish I could have him mix all my stuff. Anyway…

Song 1: “Lifted” Umikebu Feat. Sleeves

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Lyrics: Lets say you lift me
Until the body break down
Until the flesh grows weak
Until the light turns down
And everything I need
As the body breaks down
As you lifted me
To be or not to be

And all these premonitions
This whole land of felons
And every damned and new thief
And every lost and broken bastard
And anyone who’s ever broke down
And anyone who’s needing shelter
And if you’ve fallen by the wayside
And if you’re bleeding in the gutter
Instead of falling by the black sea
Come dance with me

Song 2: “Lay My Head Down”

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Lyrics:
I been lying in this manger
Down beneath the Bodhi tree
Like a pilgrim bound for Mecca
But the road is all I see
So I laid down in the starlight
Fell asleep and had a dream
That I’d hunted all the mountains
And I’d captured all the trees
Lay my head down, let my heart take over me
Lay thy head down, let thy heart take over thee

When I met you
For the first time
How strange I couldn’t see
My legs buckled, I’d done searching
And I was down upon one knee
Lay my head down, let my heart take over me
Lay thy head down, let thy heart take over thee

All these earthquakes and disasters
All these wars and enemies
Well, here’s your warning to destruction
Cause your lady’s married thee
So to William and Elizabeth
What holds you tight sets you free

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Little Ron & Fez Rejoiner

By Sleeves, 2 March, 2010, 1 Comment


Perry has some really good “coming back from the break” rejoiner songs. I was working on this tune and it wasn’t going anywhere and then I thought it might work like that.

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Image by JoeyLongo! Thanks buddy!

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And the Irving Thalberg Award Goes to…

By Sleeves, 24 February, 2010, No Comment



I thought I had no chance to win this. Lots of great entries and I’m tired of hearing it.

But I am old and have been in the business for a while. Irving Thalberg time.

So I say thank you to Ron & Fez and Mr. East Side Dave and Sir Christopher Stanley. This comes at a good time.

And once more, Pennystock Chaser jingle:

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Here’s the original live Ron & Fez live read:

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“Live Free or Undead”

By Sleeves, 19 February, 2010, 2 Comments

Rick Broussard, Editor of New Hampshire Magazine, is collaborating with Plaidswede Press publisher George Geers, on a new anthology of New Hampshire based horror fiction titled “Live Free or Undead.”

This piece for NHPR should run today about 5:40 or so and then again on Monday morning around 7:30.

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“The Pennbennies” today on WSPS

By Sleeves, 19 February, 2010, No Comment


“The Pennbennies” airs today on WSPS 90.5 FM at 5 pm with music from Pete Seeger, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Stars of the Lid, Eddie Cantor, Labradford, Tom Waits, and Low.

Listen at home on PC via the live stream.

You can also get the stream on your iPhone/iTouch using Internet RadioBOX (simply use the app’s built-in SHOUTcast directory search feature to find “WSPS 90.5″’s stream).

Or click on the player below:

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Specialist Marc Decoteau, RIP

By Sleeves, 8 February, 2010, No Comment

Most of the stories I’ve done for NHPR have been fun or light. Not this one.

But it was still the most rewarding story I’ve worked on. The world of the fallen soldier is rife with cliche. There’s not much you can do about it, except be careful and try to find the real person beneath the golden memory. My thanks to Tom Quackenbush and Sarah Bunkley. Read more about it here.

Story on NHPR:

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Marc Decoteau

By Sleeves, 5 February, 2010, No Comment

This is just a rough draft of an audio piece on Marc, which will simply be the voices of a few people who knew him well.

As of now, it’s Sarah Bunkley, Marc’s theater teacher from Plymouth High and Tom Quackenbush, a friend. But if you knew Marc and have a story you want to share, please get in touch!

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The $1,000 Jingle Challenge – Beat Sleeves

By Sleeves, 26 January, 2010, No Comment

I feel extremely awkwardly proud to be a part of this gimmicky piece of wickedness.

So come up with a better jingle than this for Pennystock Chaser:

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and win $1,000.

More details here.

Here’s the original live Ron & Fez read that really got the penny rolling:

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Today’s Show on WSPS

By Sleeves, 22 January, 2010, No Comment

“The Dinner in the Dark” story airs today on WSPS 90.5 FM at 5 pm with music from The Ink Spots, The Eels, Johann Johannsson, British Sea Power, David Byrne, Mark Kozelek, Elizabeth Cotten and myself.

Listen at home on PC via the live stream.

You can also get the stream on your iPhone/iTouch using Internet RadioBOX (simply use the app’s built-in SHOUTcast directory search feature to find “WSPS 90.5″’s stream).

I’m not much of a phone app user, so I don’t know how easy the above method is. If that works or if anyone figures out an easy way to listen to WSPS on their iPhone or Blackberry, please let me know!

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