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S. J. Tucker Official: Wild Times

Description: Get this track: http://music.sjtucker.com/track/wild-times More music: http://music.sjtucker.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/sjtuckermusic Blog & show info: http://sjtucker.com Online shows: https://onlineconcertthing.com "All the old familiar rhymes are not gonna fit these wild, wild times. What's familiar's gotta be run out on a rail." Magical practitioners and creative types have not been idle during this summer of upheaval. The call has gone out for us all to uplift BIPOC voices, to listen and learn, and to be the change of dismantling systemic racism worldwide. That call, recent protests across the US and beyond in support of an end to police brutality, and documented acts of magical activism brought S. J. to the place she needed to get to in order to be the conduit for this song. More about the sevenfold waning moon spell for magical resistance: www.patheos.com/blogs/tempest/2020/06/a-witchs-sevenfold-waning-moon-spell-for-magical-resistance.html Donate to Black Lives Matter Seattle/King County: blacklivesseattle.org/donate/ List of Bail Funds for Protestors across the United States + Toronto & Montreal: bailfunds.github.io National Community Bail Fund Network: www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory Arkansas Freedom Fund bail fund info: www.arfreedomfund.com Lyrics: I stand between the wild and the familiar wondering if they've always been the same. Tonight's is a moon worth drawing down. We are witches worthy of the name. Comes a gathering of signals from far and wide, little candles burning on both sides of all our dirty screens tonight. All the old familiar rhymes are not gonna fit these wild, wild times. What's familiar's gotta be run out on a rail. So let it begin right here, right now. Let it begin with me, oh, let it begin. Picking up the call to action, wands ready and tears held back, let's send out everything we've got that the blue would pale before the black. "Red, White, and Had It Up To Here!" comes a gathering of signals from everywhere. Here comes that moon, and the sky is clear. All the old familiar rhymes are not gonna fit these wild, wild times. What's familiar's gotta be run out on a rail. All the old familiar rhymes are not gonna fit these wild, wild times. What's familiar's gotta be run out on a rail. Darling, you are not the only one. Everything you need to feel, go ahead and feel it 'til it's done and after, take some time to heal. This machine and I know the work continues over time. No vacation from the lies. All the old familiar rhymes do not suit our changing times. Damned if the revolution ain't televised and broadcast far and wide. Keep documenting all that's ours. Keep on speaking truth to power. Listen, learn, lift up, survive. Survive. released July 3, 2020 Lyrics, music, guitars, bass, vocals, drum programming, mix, and cover image by S. J. Tucker. Recorded at The Pixiehouse, Camp Timberlake, Arkansas, US. Mastered by Ben Deschamps, Amphis Music, Hamilton, Ontario, CAN. Special thanks to Laura Tempest Zakroff, and to all who put their lives on the line for positive change.

S. J. Tucker Official: rehearsal July 15 2020

S. J. Tucker Official: Trickster Prayer

Description: Download directly from the artist: http://music.sjtucker.com/track/trickster-prayer Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/sjtuckermusic Online shows: http://onlineconcertthing.com Blog, show info, subscribe: http://sjtucker.com In an uncertain world, perhaps a prayer to the unpredictable is something we can cling to. I wrote this one in 2015, and it's been a favorite of mine ever since, sharing some characteristics with both my older song, "Carousel" and some of my newer, more jazz-influenced stuff. For whatever reason, a bunch of my encounters with the divine have involved a Trickster deity about half the time. That's a thing which might terrify some people, and I understand. Like the song says, I know they'll be as gentle as they can. Lyrics: Jokers wild, cloudy skies, lights go down, new sunrise, temple burns, mothers weep. Trickster, guard my fitful sleep. Aces high, spirits low, always on with the show. Rules to break, vows to keep. Trickster, guard my fitful sleep. "Poker Face", Suckerpunch, "Amazing Grace", Naked Lunch, Battlestar, Quantum Leap; Trickster, guard my fitful sleep. Spider song, rabbit silk, jackal purr, raven's milk; fairy tales softly creep. Trickster, guard my fitful sleep. I know you've been as gentle as you can in sleeping or in waking. I keep my courage very close at hand and pretend I am unbreakable. Heavy crown, thistledown, wicked smile, silly frown. Love's embrace, no mistake. Trickster, guide me when I wake. Cuddle tight. Kill the light. Bring the love and not the fight. Morning coffee, evening tears; Trickster, please stay right here. Oh, I know you'll be as gentle as you can. I'll be at my bravest, stick to the road, follow all the plan, no matter how it changes. credits released June 5, 2020 Music, lyrics, arrangement, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, bass, vocals, mix, and produced by S. J. Tucker at The PixieHouse, Camp Timberlake, Arkansas. Cello by Betsy Tinney, Wild Pine Studio by the meadow, Redmond, Washington. Mastered by Ben Deschamps, Amphis Music, Hamilton, ON. Cover photo by Ryan Loyd & design/layout by S. J. Tucker. Thanks to Sherry Kirk for the gift of the (ethically collected & prepared) coyote skull many years ago, and thanks to my Patrons on Patreon for helping me choose this tune for June 2020 release.

S. J. Tucker Official: Chalk on the Sidewalk

Description: Download direct from the artist: http://music.sjtucker.com/track/chalk-on-the-sidewalk Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/sjtuckermusic Online shows: http://onlineconcertthing.com Blog, show info, subscribe: http://sjtucker.com "Chalk on the Sidewalk" wrote itself in 2015. This version got a glowup from my #MusesontheRoad tour sisters Ginger Doss & Renée Janski. The three of us recorded our tracks remotely while sheltering in place, and I put them together in my studio space on 6/18/20. We hope to release another version ASAP including our tour mate Lynda Millard on flute. Donate to the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund: http://www.naacpldf.org In all my paper white whiteness, I ask you all to please listen to and support Black and Indigenous voices as often as you can, to aspire to be antiracist in all you do, and to keep pushing for positive change. It's time. Our children deserve a world that's worthy of them, no matter who their people are, where they live, how they look, or where they come from. Also, wash your hands, and hang in there. --S. J. Lyrics: Try to paint a picture with your eyes wide open Tina's just a little girl but she opened up a portal to another world with the chalk on the sidewalk. Even while drawing that very first line, she laid out the treasures of her beautiful mind with the chalk on the sidewalk: flying fish in a coastal cove, a map to the pirates' treasure trove, in the chalk on the sidewalk. Always encourage the mind of a child. Imagination is meant to run wild with the chalk on the sidewalk. Everybody sing: Try to paint a picture with your eyes wide open. Let's keep the magic on our side. Try to paint a picture with your eyes wide open. Let's make it safe to play outside, for them. I see my friends and neighbors in the whole design, not templates for a police outline in the chalk on the sidewalk. See, I believe in their rights to stand up, to be heard and answered, to not end up in the chalk on the sidewalk. Just a body in the chalk on the sidewalk. Can't Breathe in the chalk on the sidewalk. Down in Houston with a clock on the sidewalk. "Love thy neighbor" still applies regardless of creed. Compassion must rise, or else, what will we be in our children's eyes but the very same monsters we claim to despise? Little kids ain't throwin' shade when they show us the truth in the art that they made with the chalk on the sidewalk. Tina's just a little girl, but give her some room, and she can change the world with the chalk on the sidewalk. It all starts with the chalk on the sidewalk. Everybody sing: Try to paint a picture with your eyes wide open. Let's keep the magic on our side. Try to paint a picture with your eyes wide open. Let's make it safe to play outside, for them. Try to paint a picture with your eyes wide open. Let's keep compassion on our side. Try to paint a picture with your eyes wide open. Let's make it safe to play outside, for them. released June 19, 2020 Lyrics, music, cover image, lead vocals, arrangement, bass, guitars, mix, and production by S. J. Tucker; The PixieHouse, Camp Timberlake, Arkansas. Harmonies and djembe by Ginger Doss; Eagle Audio, Fayetteville, Arkansas. Layered harmonies and keys by Renée Janski; Janski Studio, Fayetteville, Arkansas. Mastered by Ben Deschamps, Amphis Music, Hamilton, ON.