Cricketbows

"The sun is melting, it's not an illusion..."
-Cricketbows

Cricketbows is a psychedelic rock band from Dayton, Ohio. The band's second album, "Mycocosmic Transmission" is available at Bandcamp.com by clicking HERE. The album features keyboards by Roger Joseph Manning Jr. (Jellyfish, Beck, Imperial Drag, Moog Cookbook). CD's and Downloads available now at iTunes, Amazon.com, CDBaby, Bandcamp.com, eMusic, etc. Also listen on Spotify and all the other net radio providers!

LITTLE COMMENTS: THE MUSIC BLOG: Free Download Of The Day #17: Cricketbows - Mycocosmic Transmission

Read the whole review at the link above!

”It’s fantastic. Full of guitar riffs that sound far away yet keep my attention directly on them, vocals that fit in extremely well with the dimension-bendingly futuristic sound. It’s just an impressive album that allows you to let your body go limp and sway with the music, as it will capture you in its creativity. I can’t wait to hear more from Cricketbows and Mycocosmic Transmission is great.”

A Song for the Raggedy Hillside | Cricketbows



Super excited about the new songs that are becoming the new album, “III” (due out Summer 2012). This song is available as a “name your price” download and yes, that price can be $0 if you’d like (though you’ll have to give up an e-mail address).

If you like the tune please download it and share it with friends and if you’d like to support Cricketbows by throwing some money down it will be greatly appreciated.

We don’t make music for the money, we make music for LOVE. So every dime that comes our way goes right back into the music.

Please check out our other releases here on Bandcamp - they’re both available for the same deal here - “Mycocosmic Transmission” is also available on CD as well as at all your favorite download spots like iTunes, Emusic, Amazon and of course on Rhapsody, Spotify, etc.

This track was inspired by watching my Junior High School being torn down recently as well as the local GM plant and watching shopping malls and restaurants choke out all those old fields and hillsides I used to walk through as a kid.

lyrics

A Song for the Raggedy Hillside
©2012 Rev. Chad Wells/Cricketbows

This one is for the raggedy hillside
A song for the fields where I played
So young and I’m never going back there
Too late to visit them again

This one is for my backyard airport
Where I learned to throw a boomerang
And all the clay pigeons I collected
And the schoolyard in Summer I’d escape

And this one is for the people that I left there
The old lady who lived across the street
The sign painter who lived down in the basement
And the girls who thought that I was sweet

This one is for the raggedy hillside
This one is for the babbling creek
This one is for the billowing skyscape
This one’s for my childhood memories

This one is for my innocent girlfriend
And her mother’s grey Dodge Dynasty
This one is for my traveling companions
And all the hoodlums who were my family

This one is for the raggedy hillside
This one is for the babbling creek
This one is for the billowing skyscape
This one’s for my childhood memories

Where are all the raggedy hillsides?
They look like a neighborhood to me
With all of their cookie cutter castles
Perched atop my childhood memories

Looking out my window
At a peppermint shadow
And a field of bricks where the cars used to grow
Looking out at the street
Where my friends and I would meet
And the pile of bricks where my book bag used to go

This one is for a raggedy hillside
This one is for the babbling creek
This one is for the billowing smoke cloud
Where I left my childhood memories
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.] Track: A Young Man's Woe
Album: III
Artist: Cricketbows

Cricketbows - A Young Man’s Woe (unfinished preview).

A photo of me and Dad - he’s around 20 years old in this one, I’m around 3 years old. The song is an unfinished track from the next Cricketbows album. There will be a solo (guitar? keys? flute? who knows…) in the middle between 2:35 and 3:45. The mix may change as well. This one’s a fresh one, folks! Enjoy.

Cricketbows - I Wanna Be Free - in Memory of Davy Jones of The Monkees 2/29/2012 (by ReverendWells)

Within an hour or so of hearing about Davy’s passing, with tears still in my eyes I grabbed my guitar for a heartfelt performance of one of Davy’s signature numbers. The Monkees were in my life before The Beatles… Before ANYONE! My earliest memory is watching re-runs of the show with my Dad on a Sunday afternoon and drinking orange juice with ice cubes. My Mom was such a Monkees fan that I think I may have been a fan pre-birth. They were also the shared love between my wife and I way back in the earliest stages of our teenage love. You’ll be with us forever, Davy. Everyone please excuse my fumbling through this and my cracking voice.