George Dance wrote:
>Will Dockery wrote:
>> "Rob Evans" wrote:
> >>Will Dockery wrote:
>
> > > > We just finished the new song last night, with guest vocals by Sand=
y
> > > > Madaris, now on the player at the "Will Dockery & Friends" SpaceFac=
e
> > > > page. Comments & Critique are, as always, most welcome:
>
> > > >http://www.myspace.com/shadowvilleallstars
>
> > > I'm listening to it now. There's a nice 60's vibe running through the
> > > 3 songs I've heard so far. I especially enjoyed hearing "She Sleeps
> > > Tight" -- it had a pop sound that I was not expecting. Not that I
> > > pretend to know what the main stream wants, but I think that it has
> > > "airplay", if not "single," written all over it.
>
> > We're pretty much thinking the same thing, at least on a local level.
> > Sandy says a single needs a "b" side to do it right, so we wrote
> > "Ashes & Justice" last night, which is coming along pretty nice, also.
> > The fun thing would be to go the Beatles route and have a double "a"
> > side single. I jest in comparing us to Beatles, O'course... we sound
> > more like the "Paint It, Black" Stones.
>
> Well, I'm just a listener, when it comes to music, but the first song
> that came to my head, simply because of Mallard's guitar sound (not
> the tune, just the sound, if you know what I mean) was the Beatles'
> "And your Bird Can Sing." Of course that prejudices me: I still
> remember hearing that as a lad and thinking it was the best guitar I'd
> ever heard. (Of course, I'd never even heard of Hendrix or Clapton
> back then.)
I'll have to pass that on to Mallard, and thanks for that praise of
the highest order.
> I just had an idle thought; if you and Mallard are producing the
> track, you should probably give yourself a name. "The Duck Bros."
> would be a good one, being (in your case) an in-yr-face to a few
> people.
Exactly... and it turns out that a couple of the 140 known variations
of the name "Dockery" are exactly what these Usenet pranksters use to
try and insult me... but as I've said before, I'm fond of ducks, as
well as most any of God's creatures... although I more respect the
rattlesnakes and cottonmouths rather than hold them in fond regard.
As I wrote elsewhere:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3D2585524&l=3D5aaeda8eae&id=3D6204093=
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"...Stretching pretty close to the Celtic days is mine, =D3Dochartaigh,
which has resulted in something like 140 different spellings they've
counted so far, with two meanings, which I have no comment on:
Meaning 1: 'The Destroyer', or 'Obstructive', understood to have been
earned in battle.
Meaning 2: 'People of the Oaks'
http://www.odochartaigh.org/genealogy/name.html
Origins:
Cennfaeladh (pronounced: cenn falla) - Prince of Tyrconnell about 800
AD
Fiamhain - early 800's
Maongal - son of Fiamhain
Donal - son of Maongal, earned the title 'Dochartaig'
Maongall - son of Dochartaig
Donoch - grandson of Dochartaig, therefore: =D3Dochartaig
=D3Docartaig - 890 to 1550
=D3Dochartaigh - later Irish
=D3Dougherty, =D3Dogherty - use by Cahir Rua about 1600
=D3Docherty, Docherty - Scoticized
Introduced into foreign lands as:
Daugherty - went to North America before 1800
Dougherty -majority landed in the USA after 1800
Daugheetee - out of West Virginia mountains
Darity - into the southern seaboard, USA
Dority - same name further West, USA
Daughtry - used in deep South and West, USA
Daughtrey - derivation of the previous, especially popular in Texas
Doherty - modern Anglicization, popular since 1800, found in North-
central USA [and the East & West coast of Canada]
[Dogherty - found in Spain]
Dorrity - found in Derry, Cork and a few areas of the USA
[...]
DU... Duarte
Ducker
Duckry?
USA: NC
abt. 1860 [7] . . . .
> Thanks for having a listen and throwing some good commentary at me,
> > George... gotta make this quick, I'm running late for the Sunday night
> > Ladonia show... on the deck, under the stars! See y'all back here,
> > soon.
>
> > > She Sleeps Tight
>
> > > > Sleeps so tight
> > > > she has a marksman's eye.
> > > > Maker's mark
> > > > tattoo firewater smile.
> > > > Leather shoes
> > > > but nowhere to go.
>
> > > > Dice and coins
> > > > scattered in the snow.
> > > > Dice and coins
> > > > scattered in the snow.
>
> > > > Won't be long,
> > > > until I see her face.
> > > > She's waiting
> > > > in an undisclosed place.
> > > > I've been conspired
> > > > banned from my muse.
>
> > > > This won't stick
> > > > poor boy's all confused.
> > > > This won't stick
> > > > poor boy's all confused.
>
> > > > In Salem town
> > > > she keeps her chin so high.
> > > > Darkened breeze
> > > > she smiles as I roll by.
> > > > Step inside
> > > > she looks for tables left.
>
> > > > Wink at time
> > > > nothing lasts except yourself.
> > > > Wink at time
> > > > nothing lasts except yourself.
>
> > > > Like a Steamboat
> > > > she plans to roll on down.
> > > > To the Gulf
> > > > out of this dirty town.
> > > > Copper mesh
> > > > kept stuffed in a jar.
>
> > > > Sharp cold hit
> > > > turning wine to water.
> > > > Sharp cold hit
> > > > turning wine to water.
>
> > > > We know him
> > > > eye deed by his ship.
> > > > In a trap
> > > > a kind of goosechase trip.
> > > > Whiskey fumes
> > > > and stale gunsmoke.
>
> > > > Sunk and drowned
> > > > with all her knives and jokes.
> > > > Sunk and drowned
> > > > with all her knives and jokes.
>
> > > > Sleeps so tight
> > > > she has a marksman's eye.
> > > > Maker's mark
> > > > tattoo firewater spine.
> > > > Leather shoes
> > > > but nowhere to go.
>
> > > > -Will Dockery (words)
> > > > Brian Mallard (music)
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"She Sleeps Tight", vocals by Will Dockery & Sandy Madaris, guitars by
Brian Mallard. Paintings by George Sulzbach:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D9uGY157cpiU
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> > The new song, "She Sleeps Tight", with Brian Mallard & Sandy Madaris,
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