PRIVY TO THE BLUES is a collection of 11 blues influenced, guitar featured tracks. 8 are original Jeff Wyatt compositions and 3 are public domain standards from the early 20th century which Jeff interprets with his signature guitar and vocal work. The public domain works included here are GOOD MORNING, SCHOOL GIRL (by John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson 1st), CROSSROADS (by Robert Johnson) and ROLL AND TUMBLE (original writer unknown). Photo by Darren Quarin of Quarin Photography.

PRIVY TO THE BLUES is a collection of 11 blues influenced, guitar featured tracks. 8 are original Jeff Wyatt compositions and 3 are public domain standards from the early 20th century which Jeff interprets with his signature guitar and vocal work. The public domain works included here are GOOD MORNING, SCHOOL GIRL (by John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson 1st), CROSSROADS (by Robert Johnson) and ROLL AND TUMBLE (original writer unknown). Photo by Darren Quarin of Quarin Photography.

PRIVY TO THE BLUES is a collection of 11 blues influenced, guitar featured tracks. 8 are original Jeff Wyatt compositions and 3 are public domain standards from the early 20th century which Jeff interprets with his signature guitar and vocal work. The public domain works included here are GOOD MORNING, SCHOOL GIRL (by John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson 1st), CROSSROADS (by Robert Johnson) and ROLL AND TUMBLE (original writer unknown). Photo by Darren Quarin of Quarin Photography.

PRIVY TO THE BLUES is a collection of 11 blues influenced, guitar featured tracks. 8 are original Jeff Wyatt compositions and 3 are public domain standards from the early 20th century which Jeff interprets with his signature guitar and vocal work. The public domain works included here are GOOD MORNING, SCHOOL GIRL (by John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson 1st), CROSSROADS (by Robert Johnson) and ROLL AND TUMBLE (original writer unknown). Photo by Darren Quarin of Quarin Photography.

PRIVY TO THE BLUES is a collection of 11 blues influenced, guitar featured tracks. 8 are original Jeff Wyatt compositions and 3 are public domain standards from the early 20th century which Jeff interprets with his signature guitar and vocal work. The public domain works included here are GOOD MORNING, SCHOOL GIRL (by John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson 1st), CROSSROADS (by Robert Johnson) and ROLL AND TUMBLE (original writer unknown). Photo by Darren Quarin of Quarin Photography.

PRIVY TO THE BLUES is a collection of 11 blues influenced, guitar featured tracks. 8 are original Jeff Wyatt compositions and 3 are public domain standards from the early 20th century which Jeff interprets with his signature guitar and vocal work. The public domain works included here are GOOD MORNING, SCHOOL GIRL (by John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson 1st), CROSSROADS (by Robert Johnson) and ROLL AND TUMBLE (original writer unknown). Photo by Darren Quarin of Quarin Photography.

PRIVY TO THE BLUES is a collection of 11 blues influenced, guitar featured tracks. 8 are original Jeff Wyatt compositions and 3 are public domain standards from the early 20th century which Jeff interprets with his signature guitar and vocal work. The public domain works included here are GOOD MORNING, SCHOOL GIRL (by John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson 1st), CROSSROADS (by Robert Johnson) and ROLL AND TUMBLE (original writer unknown). Photo by Darren Quarin of Quarin Photography.

PRIVY TO THE BLUES is a collection of 11 blues influenced, guitar featured tracks. 8 are original Jeff Wyatt compositions and 3 are public domain standards from the early 20th century which Jeff interprets with his signature guitar and vocal work. The public domain works included here are GOOD MORNING, SCHOOL GIRL (by John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson 1st), CROSSROADS (by Robert Johnson) and ROLL AND TUMBLE (original writer unknown). Photo by Darren Quarin of Quarin Photography.

PRIVY TO THE BLUES is a collection of 11 blues influenced, guitar featured tracks. 8 are original Jeff Wyatt compositions and 3 are public domain standards from the early 20th century which Jeff interprets with his signature guitar and vocal work. The public domain works included here are GOOD MORNING, SCHOOL GIRL (by John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson 1st), CROSSROADS (by Robert Johnson) and ROLL AND TUMBLE (original writer unknown). Photo by Darren Quarin of Quarin Photography.

PRIVY TO THE BLUES is a collection of 11 blues influenced, guitar featured tracks. 8 are original Jeff Wyatt compositions and 3 are public domain standards from the early 20th century which Jeff interprets with his signature guitar and vocal work. The public domain works included here are GOOD MORNING, SCHOOL GIRL (by John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson 1st), CROSSROADS (by Robert Johnson) and ROLL AND TUMBLE (original writer unknown). Photo by Darren Quarin of Quarin Photography.

'MIND THE TIME' is a colorful electric blues instrumental by Canadian guitarist Jeff Wyatt. What is the musical style of this instrumental? Well,... If you took Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck and Mark Knopfler and shook them up in a bag, 'MIND THE TIME' might easily be the sonic result. 'MIND THE TIME' is dedicated to Jeff's artist cousin, Tina Martel. An original mixed media art piece of Tina's was used to create the single's graphic design.

From the Jeff Wyatt album: Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly's "Tumbleweed") (writer: Jeff Wyatt) Here’s a big orchestral overture and opening theme, reminiscent of the style of John Williams, with some added Spike Jones style of tongue in cheeky-ness to keep the mood from becoming too serious for too long. Canadian west coast comedy scriptwriter MIKE REILLY of Canamera Entertainment (Radio Comedy Shows) has created another gem to add to his growing repertoire of radio ready audio drama productions. This time it’s built on a cowboy western theme, entitled TUMBLEWEED; a fictional Wild West frontier town complete with colorful period characters. Every movie or audio drama deserves a corresponding musical soundtrack. With this in mind, Mike hired Jeff to create suitable music for this fun Wild West production and "Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly’s “Tumbleweed”)" was thus conceived.

©2016 Michael B. Reilly and Michael Vincent [SOCAN] Lyrics: Michael Reilly, Music: Michael Vincent, Instrumentation: Jeff Wyatt Authorship and Rights Holders of this work = 50% Michael B. Reilly, 50% Michael Vincent <><><><><><><><><><> Canadian west coast comedy scriptwriter and lyricist Michael B. Reilly of "Canamera Entertainment Group Ltd." (radiocomedyshows.com) has produced and released another gem to add to his growing repertoire of radio ready audio drama productions. This time it’s a parody entitled "Bar Trek 2"; a space tale complete with a host of colourful characters loosely based on the popular, classic 1960’s TV series "Star Trek". This Reilly/Vincent co-write is part of the 11 track "Bar Trek 2" musical soundtrack "Between Heaven and Earth". Vocals for this song were delivered by Vancouver based musician and songwriter Jeff Wyatt. Backup vocals were provided by veteran Vancouver vocalist Michael Vincent.

From the Jeff Wyatt album: Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly's "Tumbleweed") (writer: Jeff Wyatt) Fiona, although not a specific character in the script framework of Tumbleweed, she could easily be a behind the scenes supporting role. She’s kind of the female version of the character Mongo from Mel Brooks’ cowboy spoof “Blazing Saddles”. She’s rough and tough, kind of dumb and hygienically unkempt. According to Jeff, the idea for the song stemmed from his appreciation of the old Frank Zappa “200 Motels” song “Lonesome Cowboy Burt”, although the 2 songs are very different musically and lyrically. Canadian west coast comedy scriptwriter MIKE REILLY of Canamera Entertainment (Radio Comedy Shows) has created another gem to add to his growing repertoire of radio ready audio drama productions. This time it’s built on a cowboy western theme, entitled TUMBLEWEED; a fictional Wild West frontier town complete with colorful period characters. Every movie or audio drama deserves a corresponding musical soundtrack. With this in mind, Mike hired Jeff to create suitable music for this fun Wild West production and "Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly’s “Tumbleweed”)" was thus conceived.

From the Jeff Wyatt album: Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly's "Tumbleweed") (writer: Jeff Wyatt) Although the title is an obvious take off on the John Lennon song title “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds”, this mariachi style song does not resemble the Beatle song in any possible way. Here’s the corny story of a colorful Mexican bandito who’s constantly struggling with his frustrating love life in the Wild West. As such he can’t decide whether he wants to remain north of the border, or go back home to Mexico. He doesn’t really think of himself as a bad guy, per se. After all, he hadn’t “robbed a stagecoach since last Thursday”. Canadian west coast comedy scriptwriter MIKE REILLY of Canamera Entertainment (Radio Comedy Shows) has created another gem to add to his growing repertoire of radio ready audio drama productions. This time it’s built on a cowboy western theme, entitled TUMBLEWEED; a fictional Wild West frontier town complete with colorful period characters. Every movie or audio drama deserves a corresponding musical soundtrack. With this in mind, Mike hired Jeff to create suitable music for this fun Wild West production and "Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly’s “Tumbleweed”)" was thus conceived.

From the Jeff Wyatt album: Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly's "Tumbleweed") (writer: Stephen Foster - public domain) Wikipedia states "Gwine to Run All Night”, or “De Camptown Races" (popularly known as "Camptown Races") is a minstrel song by Stephen Foster (1826–1864). It was published in February 1850. Another edition was published in 1852 with guitar accompaniment under the title, "The Celebrated Ethiopian Song/Camptown Races". In 1974 Richard Jackson wrote, “Foster quite specifically tailored the song for use on the minstrel stage. He composed it as a piece for solo voice with group interjections and refrain ... his dialect verses have all the wild exaggeration and rough charm of folk tale as well as some of his most vivid imagery ... Together with "Oh! Susanna", "Camptown Races" is one of the gems of the minstrel era.” Jeff messed with Foster’s original lyric and wrote some of his own original verses to bring the song home to Tumbleweed Canadian west coast comedy scriptwriter MIKE REILLY of Canamera Entertainment (Radio Comedy Shows) has created another gem to add to his growing repertoire of radio ready audio drama productions. This time it’s built on a cowboy western theme, entitled TUMBLEWEED; a fictional Wild West frontier town complete with colorful period characters. Every movie or audio drama deserves a corresponding musical soundtrack. With this in mind, Mike hired Jeff to create suitable music for this fun Wild West production and "Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly’s “Tumbleweed”)" was thus conceived.

From the Jeff Wyatt album: Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly's "Tumbleweed") (writer: unknown - public domain) According to Wikipedia, “Shenandoah" (also called “Oh Shenandoah", or "Across the Wide Missouri") is a traditional American folk song of uncertain origin, dating at least to the early 19th century. It was first printed as part of William L. Alden’s article “Sailor Songs” in the July 1882 issue of “Harpers New Monthly Magazine”. The song had become popular as a sea chanty by the 1880’s. Although Jeff had previously treated this old melody as a dreamy guitar instrumental on his 2008 album “Reflections at Every Corner”, he took a totally different approach here. He completely changed the melody, chord structure, tempo and even messed with the lyrics, and added some of his own verses. Is it sacrilegious to change Shenandoah so drastically? I don’t know; Jeff hasn’t been struck by lightening or by a musical purist yet. What was he trying to do by changing this song so extensively? He imagined what the young Johnny Cash and his trio might have done with this song for Sun Records in a rockabilly format back in the late 50’s, and thus tried to create that groove. Canadian west coast comedy scriptwriter MIKE REILLY of Canamera Entertainment (Radio Comedy Shows) has created another gem to add to his growing repertoire of radio ready audio drama productions. This time it’s built on a cowboy western theme, entitled TUMBLEWEED; a fictional Wild West frontier town complete with colorful period characters. Every movie or audio drama deserves a corresponding musical soundtrack. With this in mind, Mike hired Jeff to create suitable music for this fun Wild West production and "Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly’s “Tumbleweed”)" was thus conceived.

From the Jeff Wyatt album: Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly's "Tumbleweed") (writer: unknown - public domain) This is an adaptation and certainly a takeoff on the old song “Turkey in the Straw”. Jeff wrote his own lyrics, keeping the original melody intact, with some twists and turns in key changes along the way. According to Wikipedia "Turkey in the Straw" is a well-known American folk song dating from the early 19th century. The song's tune is derived from the ballad "My Grandmother Lived on Yonder Little Green" which was derivative of the Irish ballad "The Old Rose Tree." Originally a tune for fiddle players, it was first popularized in the late 1820s and early 1830s by performers such as George Washington Dixon and Bob Farrell. Another song, "Zip Coon", sung to the same tune, was popularized by Dixon and flourished during the Andrew Jackson administration. This version was first published between 1829 and 1834 in either New York or Baltimore. Both of the above performers claimed to have written the song, and the dispute is not resolved. Also, Ohio songwriter Daniel Decatur Emmett is sometimes erroneously credited as the song's author. But (like much Americana music) after all this time, authorship is a mute point since the song has been in the public domain for almost 2 centuries with no hope of any royalty payments to family descendents of the writer, whoever it was. Canadian west coast comedy scriptwriter MIKE REILLY of Canamera Entertainment (Radio Comedy Shows) has created another gem to add to his growing repertoire of radio ready audio drama productions. This time it’s built on a cowboy western theme, entitled TUMBLEWEED; a fictional Wild West frontier town complete with colorful period characters. Every movie or audio drama deserves a corresponding musical soundtrack. With this in mind, Mike hired Jeff to create suitable music for this fun Wild West production and "Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly’s “Tumbleweed”)" was thus conceived.

From the Jeff Wyatt album: Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly's "Tumbleweed") (writer: Frank Maynard - public domain) Wikipedia has this to say: "Streets of Laredo" also known as the "Cowboy's Lament", is a famous American cowboy ballad in which a dying cowboy tells his story to a cowboy passerby. Derived from the English folk song "The Unfortunate Rake", it has become a folk music standard, and as such has been performed, recorded and adapted numerous times, with many variations. The title refers to the city of Laredo, Texas. The old-time cowboy Frank Maynard (1853–1926) of Colorado Springs, Colorado, claimed authorship of the revised Cowboy's Lament, and his story was widely reported in 1924 by the journalism professor Elmo Scott Watson, then on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Canadian west coast comedy scriptwriter MIKE REILLY of Canamera Entertainment (Radio Comedy Shows) has created another gem to add to his growing repertoire of radio ready audio drama productions. This time it’s built on a cowboy western theme, entitled TUMBLEWEED; a fictional Wild West frontier town complete with colorful period characters. Every movie or audio drama deserves a corresponding musical soundtrack. With this in mind, Mike hired Jeff to create suitable music for this fun Wild West production and "Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly’s “Tumbleweed”)" was thus conceived.

From the Jeff Wyatt album: Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly's "Tumbleweed") (writer: Stephen Foster - public domain) This popular old song was first published in Cincinnati in 1848. The original title by the writer Stephen Foster actually contained an exclamation mark, and thus was literally OH! SUSANNA. For Jeff’s version of the song, he took Foster’s original, cleverly written lyrics, changed them a bit here and there, and even wrote additional verses relating to the fictional town of Tumbleweed. Canadian west coast comedy scriptwriter MIKE REILLY of Canamera Entertainment (Radio Comedy Shows) has created another gem to add to his growing repertoire of radio ready audio drama productions. This time it’s built on a cowboy western theme, entitled TUMBLEWEED; a fictional Wild West frontier town complete with colorful period characters. Every movie or audio drama deserves a corresponding musical soundtrack. With this in mind, Mike hired Jeff to create suitable music for this fun Wild West production and "Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly’s “Tumbleweed”)" was thus conceived.