TJ McFarland

TJ McFarland http://www.tjmcfarland.com TJ McFarland Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:09:33 +0000 http://www.tjmcfarland.com en VIDEO http://tjmcfarland.com/VIDEO http://tjmcfarland.com/following/tjmcfarland.com/VIDEO Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:09:33 +0000 TJ McFarland 519498 OFFICIAL YOU TUBE PAGE OFFICIAL VIMEO (HD) PAGE FREE SAMPLER http://tjmcfarland.com/FREE-SAMPLER http://tjmcfarland.com/following/tjmcfarland.com/FREE-SAMPLER Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:51:57 +0000 TJ McFarland 1708239 CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD SAMPLER Songs on Sampler: Apolitical Blues, Horses, Howlin' Wild, Lucinda's Wine, Red Wine Blues, Shine On Me Marie, Take a Side Want free stuff? Just click on the above link to receive a selection of songs from TJ's last two albums "Apolitical Blues" & "Howlin' Wild". The sampler contains 7 songs in high resolution mp3 format and should upload to your computer immediately upon clicking the link. These songs are FREE and we encourage you to burn and share them with your friends. We just ask that the songs are not sold or used for monetary gain. Thanks. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/1708239/Haymn Loft_0672BW.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/1708239/Haymn Loft_0672BW_o.jpg" align="left" /> MUSIC http://tjmcfarland.com/MUSIC http://tjmcfarland.com/following/tjmcfarland.com/MUSIC Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:35:28 +0000 TJ McFarland 649649 CHOOSE AN ALBUM APOLITICAL BLUES 2009<img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/649649/Ablues2by2.jpg" border="0" width="144" height="144" width_o="144" height_o="144" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/649649/Ablues2by2_o.jpg" align="left" /> HOWLIN' WILD 2007<img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/649649/Howlin2by2.jpg" border="0" width="144" height="144" width_o="144" height_o="144" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/649649/Howlin2by2_o.jpg" align="left" /> HOWLIN' WILD ALBUM http://tjmcfarland.com/HOWLIN-WILD-ALBUM http://tjmcfarland.com/following/tjmcfarland.com/HOWLIN-WILD-ALBUM Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:27:21 +0000 TJ McFarland 649642 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/649642/Howlin2by2.jpg" border="0" width="144" height="144" width_o="144" height_o="144" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/649642/Howlin2by2_o.jpg" align="left" /> HOWLIN' WILD 2007Produced by TJ McFarland Recorded at EMI Studios / Nashville, TN Recorded & Mixed by Chris Latham Mastered by Richard Dodd DOWNLOAD LYRICS TRACKS (Click on track for lyrics) Howlin' Wild / Sweet Baby Angel / Crazy If You Wanna Go / Kurt Cobain / Father Law / Too Bad To Be True Tennessee / Ain't Afraid to Die / Horses / Shine On Me Marie / The Ballad of Belle Gunness Blood Red Bay / I'm Leavin' (That's All) ♫ 01 Howlin' Wild.mp3 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5509700/Howlin%27%20Wild%20192k%20MP3s/01%20Howlin%27%20Wild.mp3 ♫ 02 Sweet Baby Angel.mp3 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5509700/Howlin%27%20Wild%20192k%20MP3s/02%20Sweet%20Baby%20Angel.mp3 ♫ 03 Crazy If You Wanna Go.mp3 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5509700/Howlin%27%20Wild%20192k%20MP3s/03%20Crazy%20If%20You%20Wanna%20Go.mp3 ♫ 04 Kurt Cobain.mp3 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5509700/Howlin%27%20Wild%20192k%20MP3s/04%20Kurt%20Cobain.mp3 ♫ 05 Father Law.mp3 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5509700/Howlin%27%20Wild%20192k%20MP3s/05%20Father%20Law.mp3 ♫ 06 Too Bad To Be True.mp3 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5509700/Howlin%27%20Wild%20192k%20MP3s/06%20Too%20Bad%20To%20Be%20True.mp3 ♫ 07 Tennessee.mp3 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5509700/Howlin%27%20Wild%20192k%20MP3s/07%20Tennessee.mp3 ♫ 08 Ain't Afraid To Die.mp3 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5509700/Howlin%27%20Wild%20192k%20MP3s/08%20Ain%27t%20Afraid%20To%20Die.mp3 ♫ 09 Horses.mp3 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5509700/Howlin%27%20Wild%20192k%20MP3s/09%20Horses.mp3 ♫ 10 Shine On Me Marie.mp3 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5509700/Howlin%27%20Wild%20192k%20MP3s/10%20Shine%20On%20Me%20Marie.mp3 ♫ 11 The Ballad Of Belle Gunness.mp3 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5509700/Howlin%27%20Wild%20192k%20MP3s/11%20The%20Ballad%20Of%20Belle%20Gunness.mp3 ♫ 12 Blood Red Bay.mp3 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5509700/Howlin%27%20Wild%20192k%20MP3s/12%20Blood%20Red%20Bay.mp3 ♫ 13 I'm Leavin' That's All.mp3 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5509700/Howlin%27%20Wild%20192k%20MP3s/13%20I%27m%20Leavin%27%20That%27s%20All.mp3 ...is a glance, a shock, a breeze, a daymare belonging to a pack of hungry thieves, murderers, corrupt priests and hobos in holy garb. Its a first attempt at murder. The murder of that which binds the child-like mind. The realist lives in a square leaking house with his plump wilted wife Iris and from a slick leather chair regurgitates out of print sermons to a congregation of two, one fortunately deaf and the other with flees. I am attempting to walk down main street naked, basking in the twilight glow of high expectations and limited options. I've seen the ghost and he is becoming more physical with each passing breath. I will give him a copy of this record and I believe he will offer me a toke or a glass of warm Beaujolais. He is always alone and humbled penny-less. He has come to the realization that everyone he's met including himself is not devoid of hypocrisy, but that is no reason to remain silent. This is imperfection, this is growth, this is honest and revealing. This is also a stone shattering glass in the middle of a dark, dark night. I am not Oscar Wilde. This is more than just a joy ride. -TJ APOLITICAL BLUES ALBUM http://tjmcfarland.com/APOLITICAL-BLUES-ALBUM http://tjmcfarland.com/following/tjmcfarland.com/APOLITICAL-BLUES-ALBUM Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:27:18 +0000 TJ McFarland 649634 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/649634/Ablues2by2.jpg" border="0" width="144" height="144" width_o="144" height_o="144" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/649634/Ablues2by2_o.jpg" align="left" /> APOLITICAL BLUES 2009Produced by Will Kimbrough & TJ McFarland Executive Producer: Blair Lewis Recorded at EMI Studios / Nashville, TN by Chris Latham Mixed by TJ McFarland & David Henry Mastered by Steve Marcussen TRACKS (Click on track for lyrics) Lucinda's Wine / Crazy If You Wanna Go / Take a Side / Apolitical Blues (Back to the Woods) Savannah Was a Plain Jane / Bring Me Down / Somebody New / Astray Almost Like Leavin' Home / Red Wine Blues ♫ 01 Lucinda's Wine.mp3 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5509700/Apolitical%20Blues%20192k%20MP3s/01%20Lucinda%27s%20Wine.mp3 ♫ 02 Crazy If You Wanna Go.mp3 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5509700/Apolitical%20Blues%20192k%20MP3s/02%20Crazy%20If%20You%20Wanna%20Go.mp3 ♫ 03 Take a Side.mp3 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5509700/Apolitical%20Blues%20192k%20MP3s/03%20Take%20a%20Side.mp3 ♫ 04 Apolitical Blues.mp3 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5509700/Apolitical%20Blues%20192k%20MP3s/04%20Apolitical%20Blues.mp3 ♫ 05 Savannah Was a Plain Jane.mp3 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5509700/Apolitical%20Blues%20192k%20MP3s/05%20Savannah%20Was%20a%20Plain%20Jane.mp3 ♫ 06 Bring Me Down.mp3 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5509700/Apolitical%20Blues%20192k%20MP3s/06%20Bring%20Me%20Down.mp3 ♫ 07 Somebody New.mp3 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5509700/Apolitical%20Blues%20192k%20MP3s/07%20Somebody%20New.mp3 ♫ 08 Astray.mp3 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5509700/Apolitical%20Blues%20192k%20MP3s/08%20Astray.mp3 ♫ 09 Almost Like Leavin' Home.mp3 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5509700/Apolitical%20Blues%20192k%20MP3s/09%20Almost%20Like%20Leavin%27%20Home.mp3 ♫ 10 Red Wine Blues.mp3 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5509700/Apolitical%20Blues%20192k%20MP3s/10%20Red%20Wine%20Blues.mp3 It was a breakneck sporadic affair...the recording of TJ McFarland's newest full-length rant Apolitical Blues. Produced by TJ and Will Kimbrough (Daddy, Rodney Crowell, Todd Snider) and tracked in two sessions at EMI's basement Studio in Nashville, the aim from the start was one of urgency and turmoil... "I met with Will at Ru Sans, a sushi joint in Nashville for some preproduction talk and I told him I wanted a band on this record that could make these songs sound like a drunk pawn shop...he replied with a couple names and mentioned he'd bring in some of his old gear...the day we recorded the studio was filled with old Gibsons, Les Pauls, Harmonys, Silvertones, wine and whiskey...only thing missing was a few old guns and some antique wedding rings." -TJ McFarland 8 of the 10 tunes (all written by McFarland) were backed by a diverse group including Kimbrough on guitar and backing vocals, Smith Curry (Kid Rock) on lap/pedal steel and dobro, Billy Mercer (Ryan Adams) on bass and Paul Griffith (John Prine, Todd Snider) on drums, with additional harmonies sung by Bonnie Whitmore and Amanda Williams. The players recorded live, and on most occasions tracks were approved within the first couple takes in an effort to capture the organic soul of records like the Rolling Stone's Exile on Main Street or Bob Dylan's Bringing it All Back Home. On one occasion the first run through of the tune was ultimately deemed the master track for the record (Lucinda's Wine). The album concludes with 2 songs in the same vein as McFarland's last release Howlin' Wild, Almost Like Leavin' Home, with McFarland on guitar and harmonica and the album's closer Red Wine Blues, a rewrite of the folk traditional standard Cocaine Blues/Coco Blues played along with Smith Curry on dobro. LYRICS http://tjmcfarland.com/LYRICS http://tjmcfarland.com/following/tjmcfarland.com/LYRICS Sun, 26 Jun 2011 22:15:46 +0000 TJ McFarland 523791 BIO http://tjmcfarland.com/BIO http://tjmcfarland.com/following/tjmcfarland.com/BIO Thu, 09 Jun 2011 04:02:50 +0000 TJ McFarland 669007 Late on a Friday and the street was a mess of straw hats and glitter yokes...Bar hoppin' hick wannabes shovelin' coal in a glow spittin' furnace. I descended down Broad, 18 and green, black boots on the city sidewalk... past Earnest Tubb's Record Shop down to Tootsie's Orchid Lounge to Robert's... 47 bands playing "Make Up and Faded Blue Jeans" way too fast... killer rockabilly trios..upright bass cats with motor oil chops shakin' their curls like Jerry Lee... Hillbilly Disneyland to an Oklahoma kid trying to chew gum like George Strait... Studied the songs of Dean Dillon, Merle Haggard, Dwight Yoakam...soaked up with whiskey the country classics...Hank, Lefty, Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys...Scraped up...bought trailors, vans, PA's, recording time...Start bands...leave bands...start new bands...Work every dancehall, dive, honkytonk and juke joint in Oklahoma 10X over...Watch The Doors at least 40 times...spill cheap red wine on every white shirt I'd own...reciting Wilde...blarin' down the highway to Car Wheels, Heartbreaker, GP...eyes closed...swinging hard as I could...livin'...learnin'...Headed west down 40 in '05...made a record, wore out The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan and read East of Eden...never felt more at home than the three years I lived in Los Angeles...Taking chances...trusting too much...spent a lot of time and money on "experience"...learned "perfectionist" and "artist" are contradicting terms... Wrote a record about California and recorded it in about 24 hrs in a beautifully dingy basement studio in Nashville, TN... And things are changing fast and everyone's just trying to hold on. I've realized music is being made mostly for people who don't listen to it... disposable...irrelevant. I feel an obligation. We have to re-instill and demand value in this occupation. Music must inspire, uplift, console, befriend, make you want to take risks...break...expose...face...things... Passion is a commodity....and you can't sell it if you don't have it. Staying the course... -TJ PIX http://tjmcfarland.com/PIX http://tjmcfarland.com/following/tjmcfarland.com/PIX Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:41:52 +0000 TJ McFarland 519495 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tjcmt.jpg" border="0" width="491" height="500" width_o="491" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tjcmt_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tjcmt2.jpg" border="0" width="502" height="500" width_o="502" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tjcmt2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/yellowlightstjpic.jpg" border="0" width="562" height="500" width_o="562" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/yellowlightstjpic_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/dblshowtjpic.jpg" border="0" width="480" height="500" width_o="480" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/dblshowtjpic_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tj_billups_atolin600width.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="399" width_o="600" height_o="399" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tj_billups_atolin600width_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tjlights.jpg" border="0" width="539" height="500" width_o="539" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tjlights_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/haymanloft600width.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="343" width_o="600" height_o="343" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/haymanloft600width_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tj12th-porter2.jpg" border="0" width="466" height="471" width_o="466" height_o="471" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tj12th-porter2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/IMG_0983.JPG" border="0" width="407" height="512" width_o="407" height_o="512" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/IMG_0983_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tjpicdark.jpg" border="0" width="490" height="500" width_o="490" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tjpicdark_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/download-2bostons600width.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="510" width_o="600" height_o="510" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/download-2bostons600width_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tjbullock.jpg" border="0" width="485" height="500" width_o="485" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tjbullock_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tjbw2.jpg" border="0" width="502" height="500" width_o="502" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tjbw2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tn_jet_mp_400height.jpg" border="0" width="533" height="400" width_o="533" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tn_jet_mp_400height_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tj12th-porter1.jpg" border="0" width="494" height="500" width_o="494" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tj12th-porter1_o.jpg" align="left" /> HOME http://tjmcfarland.com/HOME http://tjmcfarland.com/following/tjmcfarland.com/HOME Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:01:58 +0000 TJ McFarland 1542624 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/1542624/TJWEBFRONTPIC700W.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="395" width_o="700" height_o="413" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/1542624/TJWEBFRONTPIC700W_o.jpg" align="left" /> LIVE http://tjmcfarland.com/LIVE http://tjmcfarland.com/following/tjmcfarland.com/LIVE Sat, 04 Jun 2011 08:45:15 +0000 TJ McFarland 519600 UPCOMING PERFORMANCES: 12/29/2011 - Tulsa, OK - Bobbisox - Duo Electric - 8pm 12/30/2011 - Jenks, OK - Elm St Pub - Solo Acoustic - 8pm 12/31/2011 - Pocola, OK - Choctaw Casino - Solo Acoustic - 8pm 2/17/2012 - Shreveport, LA - CMT Crossroads - Full Band Show - 8:30pm 2/18/2012 - Shreveport, LA - CMT Crossroads - Full Band Show - 8:30pm