Lonesome EJ New Youtube Videos

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From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 01 Jul 17 - 03:00 PM

Tribute song for Buck Owens and Don Rich

West Coast Troubadours

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From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 06 Jun 17 - 02:07 PM

My dad used to tell me "there's nothing there in the dark that isn't there in the daylight." I never quite believed it.

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From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 04 Jun 17 - 10:39 AM

Shadow in the mirror: Thanks, EJ Now I'll have to sleep with the lights on!
RtS

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From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 03 Jun 17 - 10:30 PM

I found the lyric for this very strange song while going through a notebook of papers from the early 70s. I was in a rock band at the time, and must have written this song with that in mind. Anyway, it slumbered in the dark for 40 years, like the Undead, until a few days ago when I decided to get it recorded. So, turn out the lights, make sure the windows are closed, and listen to

No Shadow in the Mirror

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From: David C. Carter
Date: 12 May 17 - 03:24 AM

I think you've just about nailed him;-).Good one,as usual.

David

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From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 11 May 17 - 07:41 PM

New song

How Much Will We Take (Donald Trump Blues)

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From: gnu
Date: 06 Apr 17 - 02:13 PM

"Sometimes the photos are a challenge to put together, and the songs can be limited in their meaning by them, if you follow me." Ahyup!

Subject: RE: Lonesome EJ New Youtube Videos
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 03:12 PM

Thanks Gnu and David.
The new one, Wyoming Wind, got posted on Soundcloud, which is where I usually post new material so I can listen and make any changes I feel the song needs. Then I will often create a photo slide show and put it on Youtube when I feel that the song is finished. Sometimes the photos are a challenge to put together, and the songs can be limited in their meaning by them, if you follow me.
Some, like Ghost Town, are quite easy when you find the right batch of pictures.

Subject: RE: Lonesome EJ New Youtube Videos
From: GUEST,gnu... who ate my cookie???
Date: 04 Apr 17 - 02:55 PM

Great stuff yet again. And, I must say, the amount of work you put into editing pics for these is impressive. Thanks.

Subject: RE: Lonesome EJ New Youtube Videos
From: David C. Carter
Date: 04 Apr 17 - 10:10 AM

Mon cher Ernie,thanks for the info'.

Wyoming Wind,couldn't be anyone else but you!Good one!

Wyoming whisky,what's that like?Does it help you write these great songs?

As for our song,you can do as you please.It would be an honour.Look forward to it.

David

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From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 03 Apr 17 - 04:14 PM

New song...a new Western, maybe?

Wyoming Wind

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From: David C. Carter
Date: 22 Feb 17 - 08:28 AM

Ernie,Don't know how I missed these last few gems;guess I don't come here everyday.It's great to hear something really good.

Thank's for a very kind PM.I'll write you soon.

David/Dragana

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From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 22 Feb 17 - 01:47 AM

I recently asked my friend Jackson Ahern if he had some lyrics I could work with, being a poet of fine reputation. This is the song that resulted when we put his words with my music...

Ghost Town

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From: gnu
Date: 22 Jan 17 - 06:06 AM

Nicely done, LEJ.

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From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 21 Jan 17 - 10:34 AM

One recorded by my Bluegrass group, our version of a Blood Oranges song

Bridges

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From: gnu
Date: 21 Dec 16 - 06:14 AM

Goosebumps... nearly tears. Thanks LEJ. Great job again.

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From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 20 Dec 16 - 01:58 PM

New Youtube video of this song...Golden City of Aleppo

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From: gnu
Date: 08 Dec 16 - 02:23 PM

Great tunes, bud.

MERRY HO HO!

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From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 08 Dec 16 - 12:18 AM

Merry Christmas 2016!

At This Time of the Rolling Year

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From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 05 Oct 16 - 07:53 PM

New song on Soundcloud, sort of a Cowboy Ballad.

I Must Ride

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From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 02 Sep 16 - 06:07 PM

For those interested, I have a new CD, Full Fathom Fifteen. For a track list and ordering information, visit my FB page

Ernie Johnson

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From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 29 Jul 16 - 06:12 PM

A little quiet meditation by a mountain stream

Friday Raga

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From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 29 Jun 16 - 12:32 AM

Again, a new one on Soundcloud

Early Riser

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From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 28 May 16 - 12:19 AM

Any Friend of Hank's
New track on Soundcloud.

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From: David C. Carter
Date: 27 Mar 16 - 02:31 PM

Will listen to it on the morrow,no time today.

But if gnu says he loves it,I guess it must be good!

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From: gnu
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 03:54 PM

Love it. Michigan... subtle.

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From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 03:20 PM

The warring factions battle it out in ancient towns like Baghdad, Damascus, Palmyra and Aleppo. These are cities that are among the oldest inhabited sites on earth, and they are being reduced to rubble in our time. What must life be like for people in these places who have families and dreams? Who are they, and why do they want to leave? These were some questions on my mind. The incidents of terrorism in Europe and the US are horrific, but in comparison we live in a paradise interrupted by the rare nightmare. What is it like to live in a nightmare from which you can't wake up?

The Golden City of Aleppo

Subject: RE: Lonesome EJ New Youtube Videos
From: gnu
Date: 17 Feb 16 - 06:34 AM

Ditto David and I'll add goosebumps on the lyrics. Another one out of the park. Thanks for sharing.

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From: David C. Carter
Date: 17 Feb 16 - 05:38 AM

Ernie,that was great.

I love the sentiment,plus the music.

The whole thing talks to me.

David

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From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 16 Feb 16 - 12:08 PM

If you came face-to-face with God, what would you ask of Him?

God On the Mountain

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From: David C. Carter
Date: 03 Feb 16 - 05:57 AM

Wot gnu said.

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From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 03 Feb 16 - 12:58 AM

My version of the traditional song Betty and Dupree

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From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 19 Jan 16 - 11:43 AM

cnd, try this link for Southern Flyer
and this for A Song for You

Some of the older links are connected to songs that have been remixed and replaced unfortunately.

Subject: RE: Lonesome EJ New Youtube Videos
From: cnd
Date: 18 Jan 16 - 06:26 PM

I can't see the first two videos you posted. Also, the first "Hatfield Story" link is still watch-able.

Otherwise, it's good stuff

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From: gnu
Date: 18 Jan 16 - 07:22 AM

Lovely!

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From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 17 Jan 16 - 02:22 PM

About 12 years ago, we had these things called Song Challenges, many of them posed by Aine down in Texas. Well, one day she was digging in her garden and found the broken pieces from a blue china jug in the ground. Of course, she wondered who it had belonged to, and who put it there, and so she issued a song challenge. I wrote these lyrics as my entry. I even remember Bert singing the words to the tune of Sweet Betsy from Pike on Mudcat Radio one night. So, quite appropriately, it took a while to unearth these lyrics and write a melody for them, but here, newly unearthed and assembled, is the Blue China Jug. Hope you enjoy the story...

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From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 16 Jan 16 - 06:08 PM

Sorry for any confusion, but I have blocked the above link for Hatfield Side due to an editing glitsch. Here's a link for the corrected version.

The Hatfield Side

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From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 15 Jan 16 - 01:37 PM

There are some truly bizarre photos in the slide show. Don't ask me to explain the bizarre masked characters, or the toddler with the alligators.

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From: gnu
Date: 15 Jan 16 - 06:55 AM

Nice! Love the images/imagery.

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From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 15 Jan 16 - 02:20 AM

New song and video, a rather strange little piece of Hillbilly mythology written by Cheri Knight...The Hatfield Side

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From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 06 Jan 16 - 01:54 PM

Gnu, thanks for the kind words. One of these days I want to do an album of co-written songs, including Is Our Forest Really Ours written with you, Song of the Saxons written with Amos, Little Sally Walker with Janie Endres, and Fools and Horses with David Carter, all friends from Mudcat. A great variety there, which I think only really happens when working with other writers. I have a lot of songs, especially the newer ones, on Soundcloud now. and my Youtube Channel has in excess of 100,000 views. The song you posted was based on a story told to me by my lady friend, who is from Casper Wyoming, and whose father worked for the murderer and had to testify in the trial.

By the way, here's the newest song and a link for others on Soundcloud... https://soundcloud.com/ernie1949/here-we-stand

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From: gnu
Date: 05 Jan 16 - 05:21 PM

Anybody don't follow LEJ be missin out eh? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuDI765YMeg

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From: gnu
Date: 06 Aug 15 - 02:27 PM

Congrats on another CD. I'll check out tracks that I don't recognize/remember (happens a lot these days).

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From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 06 Aug 15 - 12:56 AM

Yes, folks, a new CD now available! It's called Harps & Hailstones, and has 12 tracks: Justin McQueen, Southern Flyer, Like John Wood, Devil's Backbone, Snowshoe Hare, Audrey Brown, I Went to see my Molly, Cypress Cowboy, Rosalie, The Rainbow, Burning Hills of Mexico, and Supernova. Price will be 10 dollars, plus 4 dollars shipping. Most of these tracks have appeared on Youtube or Soundcloud, but have been re-mixed and edited for better fidelity on the CD.

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From: gnu
Date: 29 Mar 15 - 07:45 AM

Got it in the truck now on accounta I always have good music on when I am driving. Thanks LEJ.

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From: gnu
Date: 26 Mar 15 - 12:32 PM

Ditto Janie.

$1.35 for a US letter delivery from Canuckistan? I suppose the grocery store has to make money too, eh? Every Sobeys (HUGE company) grocery store I have been to has a Canada Post PO. And they'll soon be buying NB Liquor when they buy off the politicians. Actually, I think the politicians are already bought off but just having a hard time fulfilling their contracts.

Hmmm... is there a song in that? Theme : I went to Sobeys PO and got a Dear John letter but the liquor store was next door so...

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From: Janie
Date: 25 Mar 15 - 06:23 PM

You do it well, LEJ:>)

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From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 25 Mar 15 - 05:43 PM

That's what my music is all about, gnu...agonizing reappraisal.

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From: gnu
Date: 25 Mar 15 - 01:17 PM

I saw the Canuck dollar heading further into the toilet with the price of oil dropping so I bit the bullet and bought USD$15 today. $4.03! You would think that our PM's reckless (illegal?) policy of bombs and bullets in Iraq and soon in Syria would prop up the CDN$ a bit for sucking up to the Brits but noooo. Apparently, killing people costs a lot of money.

Sorry for the rant about war but it's on the minds of many Canucks these days. As I am sure it's on the minds of most humans with a heart and a brain. Dog help us all.

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From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 15 Mar 15 - 03:09 AM

Each time I hear it my favourite track changes, the whole CD is a delight.

RtS