Summer's Gone Complete Tracks

Welcome to the blogum Summer's Gone. Below you can get all the tracks for free (Just click on them), as well as links to liner notes, videos, artwork and additional songs. Later in 2014 I'll be coming out with a new studio album ...And Now THIS. Hopefully this is enough music to hold you until then.

Summer's On    Get more info on "Summer's On" HERE.

Black Bubblegum  Get more info on "Black Bubblegum" HERE. 

Weh Yeh Gon  Get more info on "We Yeh Gon" HERE.

Tired  Get more info on "Tired" HERE.

Se7en  Get more info on "Se7en" HERE.

Settle  Get more info on "Settle" HERE.

Daddy Was a Conman  Get more info on "Daddy Was A Conman" HERE.

Pennies From Hell Get more info on "Pennies From Hell" HERE.

Staying All Night Long  Get more info on "Staying All Night Long" HERE. 

Chemical Cats Get more info on "Chemical Cats" HERE.

The Money's Running In The Wrong Direction  Get more info on "The Money's Running In The Wrong Direction" HERE. 

Drink & Drive  Get more info on "Drink & Drive" HERE.

The Sun  Get more info on "The Sun" HERE. 

Hologram  Get more info on "Hologram" HERE. 

Trapped In Hell With You  Get more info on "Trapped In Hell With You" HERE.

Death's Dog  Get more info on "Death's Dog" HERE.

Special Effect  Get more info on "Special Effect" HERE.

I'm a Fool To Ever Leave Your Bed  Get more info on "I'm a Fool To Ever Leave Your Bed" HERE. 

Darkness Has Taken Hold of Me Get more info on "Darkness Has Taken Hold of Me" HERE.

Summer's Gone Get more info on "Summer's Gone" HERE.

Summer's Gone Program

Get more free songs at Songs That Broke Up My Band.

Here's my latest album "L".

 

 

 

 

 

 

Or buy these studio albums from my previous band:

The Ks Red Numbers Rising Faster

 

 

 

 

The Ks Can't Get It Together

 

The Ks Skunk 

 

 

 

 

 

Or you can make a donation to help support my music. Thanks!

Summer's On

This brings me to the end, and you to the beginning. Welcome here! Bunch of songs, bookended with Summersongs, light and dark. Here's the light one. I've had a lot of fun making this "blogum," and I hope anyone checks it out. I'm fond of my songs. I think there's some value here. Right now very few other people do, so if you're reading this and you like any of what's in here, congratulations! You've entered a tiny gift circle; you're in on the ground floor. Or who knows, maybe I blow up later and this is something for the completists. Right now it looks like the former. Regardless, I'm glad anyone's listening.



Here's a free copy of this song.

You should download it HERE. 

Summer's expensive! Support with donations!

Black Bubblegum

A rocker! The next time you hear someone use "Leopard" as a verb, you can thank me. That's MINE. Another one about broken dreams and broken people. I sometimes wonder if I'm going to end up homeless. I can't seem to rally to get a real job, and no doubt I'll end up getting fired from this one.





You should download the solo-acoustic track for free HERE. 

This one came from the album Red Numbers Rising Faster by The Ks. Here's the track we recorded then. Why won't it embed? Why is everything so hard? I'm going to end up homeless because I don't understand computers. Oh wait no I think it worked! I'm going to have a home!
You can buy the album or the tracks HERE.

Don't let me become homeless! Support with donations!

Weh Yeh Gon

This one is based on an old Hawaiian song of mourning. The words are untranslatable, though the format of the song is a wish to be some inanimate object somewhere far away rather than experiencing some great sadness. American sailors thought the islanders were singing "Where you gone?" as they lamented the arrival of the white man. My blues are more pedestrian, though they would work in a canoe or kayak as well. 

 

I'm unsure whether Santa Fe has beaches, but it sure sounds like a place with beaches and I needed that "waves of Santa Fe" interior rhyme, so now Santa Fe has waves. Let me know if I'm right! I guess I could look it up, but I prefer the mystery. 

If you like this song, you can get it for free HERE. 

Want to lift me out of my mournful state? Buy me an all expense paid trip to Hawaii! Or donate to the cause.

Tired

Started writing this one when my buddies Eppie and Choz were in town. Fun guys, but the body can't party the way it used to do. 

This song will be radically reinvented, or at least tweaked to an interesting degree, on my upcoming album ...And Now THIS.



You'll have to pay for that, probably, but this version you can get for FREE!

You should down load this track for free HERE.

You know what makes me tired? Working my day job! Make me rich!

Se7en

A love song! Warning, this does contain spoilers if you have not seen the movies Se7en or The Usual Suspects. I was going to have the background in the accompanying picture be green or an image of grass to suggest the final scene of the movie but it lost the sense of menace and simplicity, so I kept it this sinister plum. 




As far as the song goes, it was easy enough to know out once I got the concept. The kids seem to like it. 

What's in the box? A free song!

You should download it for free HERE. 

 

I realize it's a very mixed message to offer free songs and then ask for donations, but I mean to give the songs away, and hope that someone comes across me and decides, "Hey, this is creative person who should be sponsored." It's like NPR, only I can't do pledge week. Hopefully a lot of people will get free songs and someone will give me a million dollars. Or ten. Or se7en!

Settle

The Girl liked the song, but didn't like the sentiment. Doesn't like me putting myself down. I envision it as a duet, which might help take the edge off. Two sad-sacks saying they're no good for the other, isn't that love? 

I'm pleased (aren't I always so pleased with myself? I could do better.) about the chord progression. There's some kind of semi-sustained chord for a second. Very singer-songwritery of me. 




You're gonna have to settle for FREE.

You should download this song HERE. 

ALSO very singer songwritery of me, I'm broke! If you have money to support, donate! Thanks.