Jim Coates composes

Here is a screen shot of how FD looks in the print preview window of Band in a Box. The 1st 4 bars are the intro chords. I got a particular sound by playing the initial G6 chord at the 12th fret, and the rest are at the 7th, 5th and 3rd frets. I was just fooling around when I made the recording which is why the timing is so bad.

Jim Coates plays

Here are some more songs Jim and I have written. I posted "Francis Drake" (the lyrics) a few days ago.

francis drake (no vox).wma

http://www34.zippyshare.com/v/TOsjeiJd/file.html


I have not yet posted the lyrics to "One Suit for Every Season."


One Suit for Every Season.mp3

http://www15.zippyshare.com/v/diWugiXi/file.html

Jim Coates plays

I have two more songs by Jim Coates, this time played without vocals.

"Hi Ho Rally Ree" is actually a song with my lyrics, but I won't print them here at this time.

hi ho rally ree (no vox).wma

http://www43.zippyshare.com/v/nbXLFo5Z/file.html

This one is Jim's own work. Rivers Avenue is the main thoroughfare in North Charleston, South Carolina.

Mendel Rivers, a Democrat,  represented the 1st SC District in the US House of Representatives from 1941 until his death in 1970. He made his political career initially by supporting the residents of the unincorporated area north of Charleston against the corrupt party machine that ran the city. In office he was instrumental in 1948 in getting "the North Area's" first paved four-lane highway -- named Rivers Ave. in honor of his effort.  

The rivalry between the city and the North Area continued for decades. When I lived there, in 1972, after a bitter court fight, North Charleston incorporated as a separate city and vigorously moved to annex other outlying areas, more than doubling its population in its first year. By 1976 it had become the state's third largest city. 

rivers avenue blues 8th.wma

http://www43.zippyshare.com/v/rP4vaQll/file.html

just for laughs

This was recorded in the early -70s with my good friend Jim Coates of Mt. Pleasant SC. We used to spend hours jointly composing songs and discussing all the important topics in life.
Listen to this in a generous frame of mind. I hope it's good for a few laffs. Keep in mind the part about the drunk in a midnight choir (Though I think we were probably sober.)

bird.wma

http://www38.zippyshare.com/v/M57gH0Uh/file.html

This next one is much more recent (and without any Vorhees vocals). Here's Jim's intro:

"Finally got around to combining the 2 versions of One Suit as I told you I wanted to.

Tell me if you think the vocal sounds ridiculous. I had a real hard time coming up with a vocal I like until I stumbled upon singing it this way ... I was eating some All Bran when I decided to punch in a small part of the vox track and it came out like this, so I did the whole thing that way (sans the All Bran). I'm going for a Long John Silver meets Tom Waits kind of sound but I'm afraid there's some Jimmy Durante in there. Tom Waits did this thing great on one of his albums. I wish I had him around to do the vocals but have to do the best I can.

I left off the repeat of the 1st verse because it's a pretty wordy song without a strong story line to bind all the words. Thought it better to cut it short."

One Suit for Every Season.mp3

http://www10.zippyshare.com/v/wcdePM8g/file.html