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2014 – New Mexico – Wake Self

Songs About New Mexico: New Mexico

written and performed by Wake Self (2014)

From the Album, “Good Things Happen to Those Who Wake”

Packed with flawless production by PH8, Percy Wells and DJ Young Native, Martinez effortlessly ebbs and flows over each beat with the fluidity of a master. With atypical lyrical content ranging from yoga, energy cleansing and eating organic food to population control, wearing matching flannels with his older brother and social media dumbing down America, “Good Things Happen to Those Who Wake” is truly one-of-a-kind. He bravely addresses his happiness and depression as a child, self-mutilation, self-empowerment, and starting over.

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Campbell, Stacy Dean

Stacy Dean Campbell ~ Carlsbad

stacy dean campbellBorn July 27, 1967 in Carlsbad, New Mexico, Campbell is a singer-songwriter, author and TV host.

Campbell’s father was a gospel singer, touring with many notable quartets and along with other members of “The Singing Campbell Family” is an inductee in the Texas Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Raised by his mother in Oklahoma and New Mexico, Campbell began his music career singing in clubs around the Oklahoma University campus and soon moved to Nashville after his brother, Spencer, launched a professional career there. In 1991 he signed a contract to become a staff songwriter for Tree Music, and released his first album as a solo artist on Columbia Records in 1992. Three singles from his debut album hit the Billboard Country singles chart.

Campbell released a follow-up album on Columbia in 1995 and in 1999 he moved to the Warner Brothers label and shifted his focus to making an album that featured more of his songwriting. The result was “Ashes of Old Love” which reached the number 3 position on the Americana Music Chart. In 2000, Campbell and Dean Miller co-wrote Trace Adkins’ single “I’m Gonna Love You Anyway”.

In 2001 Campbell left the music business and returned to New Mexico where he began work on a writing project and in 2004, his first novel, Cottonwood, was published. The book is set in West Texas in 1937. Included with the book is a CD which features 12 original tracks inspired by the novel and composed by Campbell.

In recent years, Campbell has expanded his career and moved behind the scenes, working as a director-writer in music videos and short films. He is the creator of the Americana Travel series, Bronco Roads, a syndicated travel series that showcases life in the American West. Campbell serves as host.

Discography

Albums

Title Album details
Lonesome Wins Again
  • Release date: July 14, 1992
  • Label: Columbia Records
Hurt City
  • Release date: July 25, 1995
  • Label: Columbia Records
Ashes of Old Love
  • Release date: April 13, 1999
  • Label: Warner Bros. Records

Singles

Year Single Peak chart
positions
Album
US Country CAN Country
1992 “Rosalee” 54 57 Lonesome Wins Again
“Baby Don’t You Know” 65 80
“Poor Man’s Rose” 55 42
1995 “Honey I Do” 61 Hurt City
“Eight Feet High”
1999 “Makin’ Good Time” Ashes of Old Love
“—” denotes releases that did not chart

Music videos

Year Video Director
1992 “Rosalee” Piers Plowden
“Poor Man’s Rose” Roger Pistole
1995 “Eight Feet High” Kiefer Sutherland
1999 “Makin’ Good Time” David McClister

 

above: Stacy Dean Campbell performing Rosalee. (C) 1992 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT

for more information: Stacy Dean Campbell on MySpace

source: wikipedia.org

see also:

Jason Ankeny, Stacy Dean Campbell Allmusic

Bronco Roads Official Website

 

 

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2015 – Leaving My New Mexico Home – Zephaniah Stringfield

Songs About New Mexico: Leaving My New Mexico Home

written and performed by Zephaniah Stringfield (2015)

zeph stringfieldZephaniah Stringfield writes about forlorn love, searching for home, finding freedom, and having the courage to go on when you’re all beat out. He was born and raised in the San Francisco East Bay and learned to play guitar at age 13. He gained performance experience and confidence singing on the streets of Oakland and Berkeley and has since spiraled around the country, through cities and deserts, finding music in the nowhere places of America. He has a wide range of musical loves and influences, but most often is compelled by those timeless moments when honest folk can speak their songs from deep below their soles.

The song was released November 27, 2015. Musicians include: Zephaniah Stringfield (guitar, vocals, piano), Peter Oviatt (banjo), Mike West (recording, backup vocals).

Listen to the song below:

Lyrics

Well, I can’t say where or when I’ll be going next my friends
But, I never meant to stay here very long after all
And that long and dusty road keeps begging me to go
It’s got a handle on my soul, where I’m bound I do not know

But, I’m leaving my New Mexico home
Where I go next, I know
I’ll dream of my New Mexico home
Yes, I’m leaving my New Mexico home
Where I go next, I know
I’ll dream of my New Mexico home

And that same old mystery keeps calling out to me
I’m just a drop in a big old sea, just a pin-prick on the globe
I’ve been wandering since my birth, but it’s a big old earth
And home is where your hat is, I believe I’ve heard it told

And so, I’m leaving my New Mexico home
Where I go next, I know
I’ll dream of my New Mexico Home
Yes, I’m leaving my New Mexico home
Where I go next, I know
I’ll dream of my New Mexico home

Out here in the sage and sand, standing where I am, I can
See the space go stretching out for lightyears up above
And this land of enchantment is necromancing
All them dead ideas that were buried in my head

And still, I’m leaving my New Mexico home
Where I go next, I know
I’ll dream of my New Mexico home
Yes, I’m leaving my New Mexico home
Where I go next, I know
I’ll dream of my New Mexico home

Yes, I’ll dream of my New Mexico home

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source: zephaniah on facebook

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1928 – New Mexico March – John Phillip Sousa

Songs About New Mexico: New Mexico March

written by John Phillip Sousa (1928)

If you think you can predict what happens in a Sousa march, try this most unusual of his marches and be pleasantly surprised! Written in 1928 for the residents of New Mexico, Sousa begins in customary march style, but then launches into a history of New Mexico with sounds of music from the Native American, the cavalry and Mexican traditions. The march concludes with a happy fusion of all these diverse styles. It hadn’t been in print for many years until recently. What a unique march!

above: The Eastman Wind Ensemble performing “New Mexico March” – conducted by Frederick Fennel

for more information: dws.org

source: jwpepper

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1982 – New Mexico Rain – Michael Hearne

Songs About New Mexico: New Mexico Rain

written and performed by Michael Hearne (circa 1990’s)

Michael has experienced a successful 30 year career as a Triple AAA Americana/Country artist. He’s a member of the Nashville Songwriter’s Association International/BMI and a Triple AAA Americana/Country Swing/Songwriter.

above: Michael Hearne performing ‘New Mexico Rain’ with Shake Russell and band at the Old Town Spring Crawfish Festival, April 2007.

Lyrics

Well the smoke cuts the lights in this honky tonk bar
And I’m thinking where I’d rather be
Maybe chasing senoritas here in Old Mexico
Or standing on the edge of the sea
Well if I had the money I tell you honey
We’d be on that first plane to Spain
But as long as we’re here oh the answer is clear
We’ll waltz in the Mexico rain

(Mexico R-a-in) Lord it’s hot down in Texas
(Mexico R-a-in) yeah I call this my home
And if I ain’t happy here then I ain’t happy nowhere
Mexico rain when my mind starts to roam

The lights of the city keep calling my name
Yeah but I’ve been through that before
It’s just a giant hotel on a long four lane street
With the check out time on the door

Well if I had the money I tell you honey
We’d be on that New Delhi plane
But as long as we’re here Lord the answer is clear
We’ll waltz in the Mexico rain

I’ve been drinking all day with a man at the bar
He sure seems unhappy to me
He said he’s going nowhere and going there fast
He envies this life that I lead
Well if I had the money I tell you honey
I’d keep him from going insane
There’s one thing for sure Lord there ain’t no cure
Like a walk in the Mexico rain

Well if I ain’t happy here then I ain’t happy nowhere
Mexico rain when my mind starts to roam

for more information: michaelhearne.com

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2002 – Radio America – The Libertines

Songs About New Mexico: Radio America

written and performed by The Libertines (2002)

The Libertines are an English rock band, formed in London in 1997 by frontmen Carl Barât (vocals/guitar) and Pete Doherty (vocals/guitar). The band, centered on the songwriting partnership of Barât and Doherty, has also included John Hassall (bass) and Gary Powell (drums) for most of its recording career. The band was part of the garage rock revival and spearheaded the movement in the UK. The band gained some notoriety in the early 2000s. Although their mainstream success was initially limited, their profile soon grew, culminating in a No. 2 single and No. 1 album on the UK Charts. In December 2004, their self-titled second album was voted the second best album of the year by NME magazine. The first two of their full-length LPs were produced by Mick Jones, of the British punk band The Clash.

Lyrics

If I get the call
I will call across Radio America
Right across America I will call
Yes, I will call all across Radio America
Right across America I will callIf call I must do
To take my love, my love to youThere a lovely young girl on aboard
Walks down here
And all across Africa, China and Australia
I will callCall you down in New Mexico
In New Brighton and Tokyo
I will call

If call we must do
To take my love, my love to you

For well it may hap’ that these are they
Your happiest days
Oh my good old friend
I see you chanced your arm again
You cut you armRed faced President
Took afternoon tea with Her Majesty the Queen
And they watched old films flicker
Across the old palace movie screen
What a shame as she slipped in the rain
The poor dancing girl well she won’t dance againAnd they tell me it was a transmission
To take my love, my love to you
source: wikipedia