http://www.tjmcfarland.com TJ McFarland Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:57:06 +0000 http://www.tjmcfarland.com en http://tjmcfarland.com/MUSIC http://tjmcfarland.com/following/tjmcfarland.com/MUSIC Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:57:06 +0000 TJ McFarland 649649 LYRICS CHOOSE AN ALBUM APOLITICAL BLUES<img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/649649/Ablues2by2.jpg" width="144" height="144" width_o="144" height_o="144" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/649649/Ablues2by2_o.jpg" data-mid="3027844" border="0" align="left"/> HOWLIN' WILD<img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/649649/Howlin2by2.jpg" width="144" height="144" width_o="144" height_o="144" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/649649/Howlin2by2_o.jpg" data-mid="3027841" border="0" align="left"/> http://tjmcfarland.com/VIDEO http://tjmcfarland.com/following/tjmcfarland.com/VIDEO Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:56:39 +0000 TJ McFarland 519498 http://tjmcfarland.com/BIO http://tjmcfarland.com/following/tjmcfarland.com/BIO Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:42:54 +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 http://tjmcfarland.com/PIX http://tjmcfarland.com/following/tjmcfarland.com/PIX Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:56:07 +0000 TJ McFarland 519495 {image 28}<img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tjcmt2.jpg" width="502" height="500" width_o="502" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tjcmt2_o.jpg" data-mid="8349306" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/yellowlightstjpic.jpg" width="562" height="500" width_o="562" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/yellowlightstjpic_o.jpg" data-mid="8349310" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/dblshowtjpic.jpg" width="480" height="500" width_o="480" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/dblshowtjpic_o.jpg" data-mid="8349314" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tj_billups_atolin600width.jpg" 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" data-mid="7637544" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tjlights.jpg" width="539" height="500" width_o="539" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tjlights_o.jpg" data-mid="8323205" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/haymanloft600width.jpg" width="600" height="343" width_o="600" height_o="343" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/haymanloft600width_o.jpg" data-mid="7640298" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tj12th-porter2.jpg" width="466" height="471" width_o="466" height_o="471" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tj12th-porter2_o.jpg" data-mid="8322588" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/IMG_0983.JPG" width="407" height="512" width_o="407" height_o="512" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/IMG_0983_o.JPG" data-mid="8085284" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tjpicdark.jpg" width="490" height="500" width_o="490" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tjpicdark_o.jpg" data-mid="8323193" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/download-2bostons600width.jpg" width="600" height="510" width_o="600" height_o="510" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/download-2bostons600width_o.jpg" data-mid="8085134" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tjbullock.jpg" width="485" height="500" width_o="485" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tjbullock_o.jpg" data-mid="8323211" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tjbw2.jpg" width="502" height="500" width_o="502" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tjbw2_o.jpg" data-mid="8323222" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tn_jet_mp_400height.jpg" 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" data-mid="8085299" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tj12th-porter1.jpg" width="494" height="500" width_o="494" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/34204/519495/tj12th-porter1_o.jpg" data-mid="8322482" border="0" align="left"/> http://tjmcfarland.com/LIVE http://tjmcfarland.com/following/tjmcfarland.com/LIVE Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:55:35 +0000 TJ McFarland 519600 UPCOMING PERFORMANCES: 5/4 (Friday) - Jenks, OK - Elm Street Pub - 8:30pm Solo Acoustic Show 5/23 (Wed) - West Siloam Springs, OK - Cherokee Casino - 7pm Full Band Show 5/25 (Fri) - Pocola, OK - Choctaw Casino - 9pm Solo Acoustic Show 6/20 (Wed) - West Siloam Springs, OK - Cherokee Casino - 7pm Full Band Show 6/22 (Fri) - McAlester, OK - Trophy's Bar & Grill - 9pm Full Band Show 6/30 (Sat) - Durant, OK - Gilley's - 9pm Duo Electric Show 7/18 (Wed) - Shawnee, OK - Firelake Casino - 7pm Solo Acoustic Show 11/9 (Fri) - Watertown, SD - Dakota Sioux Casino - 8pm Full Band Show http://tjmcfarland.com/FREE http://tjmcfarland.com/following/tjmcfarland.com/FREE Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:31:41 +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" 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" data-mid="8400626" border="0" align="left"/>