Influences: All genres and styles - from Baroque and Blues to Renaissance and Rock.
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers or They/Theirs
After many years of loving deeply, learning broadly, laughing freely, and living fully with a wild and crazy muse as my guide, I began writing songs and started to play music as inspired by a fellow former FAWMer. We made an album together. That was in 2013. I have since had the remarkable opportunity to collaborate writing music with many awesome FAWMers far and near who inspire and delight me with their talents and passion.
I am grateful to you, my fellow FAWMers, for your inspiration, encouragement, and generosity! You never cease to impress and amaze me. I am sure this FAWM will be no exception! Enjoy!
Always open to collaborations, challenges, and co-writing! Happy to write lyrics for you or have you put music to mine.
Glad you liked it; sorry I didn't have time to develop solid A/B/C sections for the instrumentation, so I tried to handle the transitions on the vocal. Thanks for letting me take a try at a ballad!
Great to meet you at FOP! Next year I'll practice a little more before coming, but glad you enjoyed the (poorly-executed๐) songs anyway!
Thanks for the comment on Like much appreciated.
Wow over 1000 comments and 136 songs. That's a phenomenal achievement. Well done. I checked out a few, not the whole 136 that would take about 28 days to analyse them properly.
Thanks again.
Thanks for commenting on my collab songs "Hope Beyond Hope" and "Reach For The Stars", I appreciate the listens!
As you are probably aware, I'm really not good at playing piano. So I figured out the chords on the piano then rewrote the whole thing on the computer in a music notation program, output it to a wav file using a piano sound font... then recorded my vocals. So it's the computer playing piano so beautifully on "Gimme a Straw". Thanks for listening!
Amazing my friend. Sooo many songs and...
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Whew!
Hello Kahlo!
I'm so glad you enjoyed the journey into the spirit waters and the dolphins! I'm flattered especially as I have been admiring your work through other mutual FAWM friends. I'd love to collab with you sometime?
Congratulations on an amazing output of new material. I get the feeling you are quite prolific during the year as well!
Cheers,
Sunnymae
Hi - just wanted to let you know that there is now a demo for 'A Woman Free' https://fawm.org/songs/98518/
ps good grief woman... 135 ???!!!
Thank you for commenting on my song "Doll", I appreciate the listen!
Thank you for your kind words on"Something Doesn't Add Up" I was pleasantly surprised with how that one turned out.
Thank you so much for your comments. Would love to read/listen to all 135 but likely wonโt get there. Always love to see how your lyrics inspire so many different types of songs. Great work!!
It does my heart a whole lot of good to know that a song I made had the power to transfer an uplifting spirit. I think that's a bucket list item for me! I'm so happy it hit the spot for you today. ๐
Thank you Liz! And big Congratulations!
Finally catching up on my thanks yous. Thank you for your kind words on "Love's Muse". I really appreciate that you take the time to listen to and comment on my songs.
Thanks for visiting my collabs "How Long" and "Since We First Touched" and for listening and commenting, it is appreciated!
Hey Kahlo! (i realize I call you by kahlo and not liz...sorry if you'd rather me not! I just like that name for some reason!)
Just wanted to say congrats and that I truly appreciate your skill and talent, and for wanting to team up with me again. It means a lot for someone to want me to work with them. So yeah, I just wanted to say thanks, congrats, and hopefully see you during 50/90 so we can make something else!
Thanks for taking another listen to "Barbra", reading the lyrics I can definitely see how it could be taken as a lost love song. I'm glad people can connect to my songs in any way possible. I'm really glad the song works on more than one level otherwise I'm just writing about zombies.
On a side note, after "Night of the Living Dead" George Romero realized he could use the zombies to get people to come see his movies which were about much more than zombies so I find it fitting that I'm writing songs about zombie movies that have much more meaning than zombies movies and their characters.
One of my dearest musician friends told me to stop telling people when my songs are about movies to let there be some mystery. I still will say some of the Joan Crawford stuff because the songs are about more than just the movie but I don't just say, "This is about the classic Joan Crawford movie The Damned Don't Cry" anymore.
You did 135 songs!!!!!!. Amazing work, glad that we did a couple of collabs. Sorry not to have had time to finish your 'Winds blow through' lyrics but you got a brilliant piece from @andybalham. 50/90 in just a few months ๐
Thanks for all the listens and comments! I hope your pup likes "BEG," and I'm sure you're far less sadistic than the narrator of my song. ๐
Wow... Once again you have exceeded my graphic resources with
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Woo hoooo! Maybe next year we'll get some additional graphics for you over achievers.
Thank you for all support. I am sorry er has not chance to collab this time bur maybe next year. Love ya
Wow never too late!so many songs wow!
If you have time once Fawm winds down wonโt you check out my album https://itunes.apple.com/za/artist/ne... well done
Hahaha! My wonderful Amanda and I don't do the lovey-dovey stuff. She got the dedication for Murder Bunny b/c she takes justice for children very seriously (as I like to think we all do). The lines that hint strongly are "Thinks of not a grown-up she would sa-a-a-ave." and "Icky midnight thieves incarnate, she could kill โem all and neโer reclaim what they took."
aww, I'm glad you are ok with it, if I had more time it would be better, but that is a beauty, thanks for letting me sing it and surprise you with it!!
Thanks for listening to so many of my songs and for the kind comments.
They are truly appreciated. I also wish to say that I am a big fan of your writing. You're one of the folks whose songs I always look forward to checking out.
Thank you so much for the comment on tonight, tonight, tonight and for your continued support throughout FAWM! And wow your output has been insane here! Awesome job with all the songs!
We tied! Although you have more total songs Congrats!
Thank you for your comment! On you don't know I do have a demo but you are still welcome to take a crack at it.
Hi, I went ahead and did something. Easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission and all that. Hope you're not too mad at me! ๐
We, uh, haven't done a collab yet. Oops. Sorry. If my sinus headache settles I'll dig through your list and see if something jumps out at me later on.
Iโm glad you liked the music I set to your wonderful lyrics! I am grateful to have gotten you as my random collab partner, and I hope youโll share some lyrics with me again next FAWM.
So glad you like it.
First of all, I am truly astounded with your prodigious output this FAWM!
Secondly, thanks for your kind comments regarding Pretty. Much appreciated.
Ok its done for now.
Do you want to post it, or do you want me to?
Oh wow! Well that's ok with me as long as its ok with you!
I need to check out the other person's! Maybe its something we could mash together lol
Welp, I'm almost done with mine and will be posting this evening/tonight...its going to be quite rough as I'm rushing trying to meet the deadline - that's a mix of trying to perfect things that don't need to be perfect for a demo and also distractions.
Hope the other person doesn't mind...
Just posted a quick recording of If I Could. It could use some work, but I think I captured the emotion of the lyrics pretty well. You are a writing machine!!!!
WOW, 118 song!! You are very productive!! well done! and thank you for the nice comment on my collab with @ajna1960!
Thank you for the sweet comment! Itโs actually because of you that I even did fawm this year. I had practically made up my mind to skip it then I saw โYou Are Beautifulโ and knew I was supposed to do your song and that got me started. So thank you for creating such touching, meaningful songs. Congrats on a gazillion songs! Youโre amazing!
Hey just to let you know, I actually am in the process of tackling 'Disconnect'...got started tonight and will finish working on it 2moro, hopefully posting it 2moro, too!
I hope you'll dig the vibe ๐
That's is for your comments. And thanks for the congratulations, but I haven't actually made a double FAWM yet. Still need 4 more songs. It's a premature congratulations. ๐
Liz! Thank you for greeting my song so warmly at the gate! I really needed that. Hugs to you!!
Just a short note to tell you the full version of Amanda's "Expectations" with a rock setting by yours truly is now up.
https://fawm.org/songs/97777/
Hi Liz. I'm glad I returned to 'Simplify' as well. Thanks again for your lyrics and also for being such a great person to collaborate with. It's been such a pleasure.
Would you believe my bread machine just started to beep as I read your comment? Thank you for listening and commenting. I'm absolutely floored by your (as I write) 114 songs. Well done.
Thanks for your comment on "Loose Ends". I had great lyrics to work from @cindyrella !
Thanks so much for your support! I am grateful for FAWMily!
Hey Liz! Here is a link to our backwards lofi corpse https://fawm.org/songs/97903/ and I named @ballyhoot as a collaborator. If you could also post a new song with a link to the recording and name @sph as collaborator then we all end up with a song credit. This is the one time I kinda miss the 5090 website cause we can name multiple collaborators. Thanks for playing, this was fun!
Hi, re 'Come dance' I must have been a bit imprecise in my comments. The words are fantastic, what I was suggesting was that the music and the vocal could move towards something more passionate in the final verse. It was the music that I thought could move up a gear, the words are perfect. PS I really like all your lyrics ๐
Great! I can't start working on the song until tomorrow night but I bet I can get it done in one session, since the lyrics are written. Looking forward to seeing what we get.
I might have time to do one of your songs before the gong sounds. Would you be so kind as to pick a couple that you think would be a good fit and email them to me? Danke!
Thanks for commenting on Big Zero Birthday and Germaphobe Blues. KadMad202 did such a nice job with that! I really appreciate your supportive comments.
Thank you for commenting on my songs, I really appreciate them!
I'm thrilled you like it. I always worry when I collab with someone ๐
Thanks for commenting on my lyrics only Movie skirmish. I really appreciate that.
Having a bit of a problem adding you as collab partner. Will leave it locked until I can figure that out.
I always enjoy working with your lyrics, Liz! ๐
Thanks, Liz. That's what I was after. ๐ I know exactly what you mean about all the letters and numbers. Nightmare territory. I'm dyscalculic, so numbers are enough to wreak havoc with my brain. ๐
Well, my dear friend, I'm sorry to say that I don't have a graphic for
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Suffice it to say that you're an inspiration to us all. Great work.
Liz, can you give me the link to your 'Off Track' superskirmish thread? It was given the same number as one of the other skirmishes, and it's driving me crazy trying to track it down. Thanks! ๐
Hope you like what I did!
Be careful of the water...https://youtu.be/7HaoeAm7Il0
Thanks for the kind words on Things Gotta Change!
thanks for the lovely message! glad to be an inspiration and encouragement. and it's hilarious about the bra thing! hahah!
Same here! We both have been writing like mad though! ๐
We are both at 100!! How cool. Thanks for listening to Easter Again. Marthie had asked for some Easter lyrics. I had sent her He Shows Up, and then she wanted a bunny one, so I did It's Easter Again.
Hey Liz! I'm sending you an email link from your contact email here on the fawms. Let me know if you're ok with it or feel free to post. I can always re-record. Fun.
Thanks Liz - The Cave of Old Forgotten Women is definitely reminiscent of crones and the circle of power around them, but also the sadness of being relegated to the invisibility of being an older woman in our society.
Thank you for all of the great feedback on my songs this morning! I had "Black Ice" done but just needed to mix in the lead guitar part. I recorded "The Congressman" between skirmishes but didn't have time to post it. So it looks like I got WAY more done like like 20 minutes than I really did.
OHM Y GOSH 91 SONGS!!!!!
I worked something old and red up yesterday and I wanted to sit on it for a minute. Them then my modem quit and now I must. But it's close, so I'll provide a link when it's closer. ๐
Those definitely caught my eye and ear...I have a reggae-ish track in the works that a friend is singing on; and 'Simplify' has a great feel to it already...
The problem is, I can't pull either off vocally myself.
But I think the synth vox might work on Disconnect.
6 more days left, huh? Hmm...I am going to try to do something with one of them...let's see... (i'm both excited and nervous! ๐ )
You are a machine!
Looks like you're gonna hit 100!
So I'm going to keep creating until March, and now I am going to be looking through to see if you have something I can try to put music to, if you'd still be ok with me doing so.
I'm limited with what I can do with vocals - I just have my vox synth, and it has trouble with a lot of words coming through clearly, so the simpler the better.
Thanks so much for your kind words about my song. Cheers Greg - I can't believe how many songs you've done in 20 or so days, amazing!
In case you notice me posting other stuff, I am a little all-over-the-place with songs right now, but I will definitely complete our random collab with your beautiful lyrics before 2/28.
Thanks for the very kind words on "Running Scared" I had a lot of fun writing that one. The really dark ones are the most fun to write.
Yeah! So glad you like it. <3 <3 <3
You've been very busy! Thanks for the listening and commenting. I truly appreciate it.
Holy crap, youโre prolific! Sorry I hadnโt gotten back to you for our random collab. I should have some time this weekend. Are you lyrics only? If so, do we wanna talk about what to write about, or just send me lyrics, or should I pick one of the songs youโve already posted? Let me know ๐
Thanks for your kind words! I really like your writing too! Good variety of themes, mood, and genre.
I can't think of a topic I'd particularly like right now. Maybe something non-political, because I'm enjoying using FAWM to give myself a break from obsessive news-checking. As for genres, I'm pretty much open; I usually just record demos with vocals and acoustic guitar, but I can play with virtual instruments and synths on GarageBand if that works better for the song. Thanks!
Hi. I finished the music for your song 'Chose the one'. It turned out more funk than rock but I hope you'll like it anyway. Still working on your 'Winds blow through' lyrics.
Here's the link to 'choose the one' https://fawm.org/songs/96053/
Thanks for the feedback on "They're Gonna Vienna". I had added glockenspiel but after playing it for Dori I realized not only was it not needed but it was totally distracting,
Good morning! I'm excited about our random collab. I don't think I've collaborated on a FAWM song since like 2014, and that's a shame. Let me know if you'd like to write something new or if you'd like for me to put music to lyrics you've already posted.
Thank you so much for your kind words about Dance of the Tender Hearted and Keep You Safe. I appreciate you taking the time to listen and respond so thoughtfully. I'm also a little blown away that you've written 76 songs so far! That must be some kind of record!
What an insightful comment on "Not Broken"--probably so!
Thank you so much for the comments on my last two songs! Very glad to hear you liked them, and the lyrics has been very close to heart (making it natural to sing them with feeling then, I guess, although I always try to connect emotionally to what I sing). Thank you for taking the time! You've had a crazy output on here, congrats to all the songs!
How do you get up to 76 songs and still have time to listen and comment? Thank you for listening to me!
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Hi Elizabeth. I managed to get a bit more time today than I thought and recorded 'Winds Blow Through'. I hope it pleases and thanks for suggesting it. Keep FAWMing!
Ha ha ..I listened to it and youโre not as bad as you think..
Unique and authentic sound to your voice....
You got some GB skills? Man I envy that...
But itโs all good right?
Iโm on the road of continually trying to improve,
Make better songs be a better player learn how to record..
Thanks so much for stopping by Upside Down In Love and leaving that kind comment!
Thanks for your great comments!
Oh wow take a look at your awesome output!!
I think I can do something with 'Winds Blow Through', but it might be in a little while as real life impinges on my FAWMing for a few days. I will try my best to come up with something though ๐
Thanks for listening and commenting, much appreciated!
Thank you for the listens and the great comments.
Thanlk you for always being so supportive. Hope you are all good