Just One More    © 2008 Paul J Penton Just one more drink, Then I’m gonna hit the road Gonna Hitch it up,  get hauling this heavy load. To a destination that I’ve never seen Just one more drink, And I’ll be movin’ on There’s just one kiss, resting like a butterfly here on my cheek, [...]

Mary Celeste                             © Paul J Penton March 2008 She hides everything in a  dark swirling mist and lives in a ghostly halo,     this girl is cloaked in mystery  her spider-web wheel spins round and around she drifts on a dead calm sea her sails await a friendly wind but none ever comes blowing Mary Celeste [...]

Buried and Dead                                © Paul J Penton 2009 Friday night and I’m out driving the same old streets the stores arrive in the same old way I remember that they did when I was a kid behind those doors they won’t know me Nothing’s changed since I left here under the bridge a lot of [...]

Sunset over the bay © 2008 Paul J Penton Sunset Over the Bay-Update 15July > I want to sit back and gaze in wonder, At shades of purple and grey Be sittin’ on our own front porch, With you sitting next to me I could hand you a glass of fresh chilled wine, The finest [...]

Most of today was consumd with trying to find an alternate melody and chordal structure for the chorus of ‘Low Maintainance’- not sure if I have succeeded yet- also did some more writing on a co-write on a song with workng title of ‘stranger at the table’. I also did a mix on ‘buried and [...]

After trawling through the latest round of ‘fragments and thoughts’ I managed to get some melodic ideas for some of the ramblings. A particularly nice one for a song in progress called ‘another perfect moring’ – just a vignette about waking up as autumn mornings close in and the air begins to chill somewhat. My [...]

Well this morning I attended an online Critique of ‘Mr Perfect’ with five other particpiants [ whose songs were being critiqued also] - the session was led by one of my mentors - Jai Josefs – The response was highly favorable especially the line ” Bar stool dissapointment” . He didn’t say a word about the music [...]

I have been working on MR perfect the last few days whittling away at those last few jagged lyrics - I also have the deadline of a Nashville song critique tomorrow – so that was good to focus the mind- check out the demos page for the latest version. In other news as you may have noticed [...]

There’s been a bit of organisational stuff happening working out what might and might not make it on the albums- I spent some time at Phillip Island [thanks Digny]categorising and recording ideas- as well as some video for ‘sunset over the bay’ this was my first attempt at this sort of thing and I learned [...]

THe big question is can I complete two albums – or at least get the backbones of two done in 3 months or so? There will be two on the go simultaneoulsy… Backlog: all the old songs that I haven’t yet recorded and Forelog: The ones I’m working on now and will create in the [...]