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My Album, Funeral Business, Free to Play on YouTube
My album of original music, Funeral Business (featuring Andrew Lee), has been available for purchase for some time. Well, now is the time when you can just listen to the whole thing for free on youtube. You can click here to get to my youtube webpage and subscribe, but below I am also putting all the…
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Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Tears of a Clown
“If there’s a smile on my face, it’s only there trying to fool the public, but when it comes down to fooling you, now honey that’s quite a different subject.” I don’t think there is a better opening line of lyrics and verse melody ever crafted in a pop song. It’s the perfect combination of clever introspective word…
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My Album, Funeral Business, Is For Sale!
After nearly five years of writing, singing, recording and mixing, my first full-length album is complete and available for sale on practically every major internet music store. I actually finished “Funeral Business” three weeks ago but had to wait until iTunes, Google Play, Amazon and all the other music stores made sure I wasn’t uploading…
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My New Music Video, Chain Letter!
UPDATE: 12/22/2013. This song has undergone an significant overhaul in the past few months. First, the immortal Feliziano B. Flores came by to help me flesh out the chorus and middle part. Mr. Flores was wonderfully inspiring, providing incredible work under time pressured conditions and my less than reliable producing. I thank him for that. Still,…
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Making More Rock And Roll, Deconstructing Sgt. Pepper
Well, I haven’t updated the ole’ website in a good while, and the reason is because I’m still making more rock and roll. The intention of this humble little corner of internet space was never to be a daily rock and roll blog, that happened more or less organically. The site was created to feature…
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Willie Simpson, Heart On My Sleeve
For your consideration, I submit yet another song from my forthcoming album “Funeral Business.” “Heart On My Sleeve” is a moderately paced romantic dance rock song that I am very proud of. The lyrics were all true to my heart, written during a lonely time last year when I extra pathetic, giving it the double…
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Willie Simpson, The Necrophiliac
Are you OK? Did you survive the wrath of Hurricane Sandy? Somehow, in the middle of Brooklyn, I managed to hold onto power, internet, and hot water, a real miracle. I had never heard more menacing and frightening winds ever in my life. It was quite the experience. Well, I hope you are fine, and…
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Willie Simpson, My Girlfriend Needs An Exorcism
I wrote this song originally in 2007 (I think) in a fit of post break up madness. The song was my therapy for an otherwise sad separation. It went through a few iterations before I left it incomplete with shambling static laced vocals, unfinished drums, and an overall horrendous mix. I always kept the song…
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Derek and the Dominos, Presence of the Lord, Covered by Andrew Lee
Andrew Lee is an amazing guitar player. Better then amazing actually, a genius. How do I know? Well outside of the fact that he has played lead on a ton of my recordings, including this one, he has just today started making no frills videos showcasing his incredible talent. The video below shows Andrew, matching…
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Willie Simpson, Funeral Business Meets the Ghostbusters!
So, several months ago, I posted a song I made called “Funeral Business,” on this site. The presentation of the song was wrapped around a simple title card youtube video, nothing fancy. Well, consider the fanciness level knocked up a notch. Over the past month, I’ve been slaving away on music video extravaganza for this…