My Angel - David T Carter

My Angel
Carter/Bazeley 2005
davidtcarter.com

My angel is a naked light,
Inside a misty window,
Surrounded by the bitter truths,
That make us small and shallow,
A sweet reminder of the past,
A vision of tomorrow,
She moves around inside my soul,
But sleeps so very still,

One by one, you hear them come,
The robbers to her window,
The meek, the mild,
The lonely childs,
All tugging on her pillow,
Like pilgrims drawn,
Into a myth,
They holler and a bellow,
While my angel sleeps,
So very still.

I've seen her in a million dreams,
I felt her in an alter,
I stumbled to and from these lands in every place I heard her,
A haunted melody that never leaves,
And never heats you,
While my angel sleeps,
So very still,

To think of all the lonely men,
Who beg to taste her honey,
The things that I could do to her,
If I just had the money,
Still I must not speak,
Such impurities,
While my angel sleeps,
So very still.

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A Strange Kind of Blue – David T. Carter

Moving into yet another musical style, David T. Carter’s debut album, “A Strange Kind Of Blue” takes from the lounge, jazz, “cocktail hour” music of the 50’s & 60’s, the decades he seems to reminisce on a lot, even the album cover has a visual similarity to one of Carter’s favorite films of the 60’s “The Swimmer” with Burt Lanchaster.

This album features the beautiful female voice of “Alison Harris”, a local folk singer from Sonoma County doing harmonies throughout the entire album, also footwork from Local Flamenco Artist “La Fibi” and a host of other great Sonoma County musicians, a very elegant album, once again drawing from the elegance of the 50’s & 60’s and putting a modern cool to it with an always subtle edge that keeps the music fresh at all times.

A Strange Kind Of Blue was produced by UK Producer Gavin Monoghan , who has a near 40 yr career with local and international artists such as Scott Matthews , Robert Plant, Editors, The Twang, The Blinders and worked in studios such as Abbey Road, BBC Maila Vale, Olympic Studio. Gavin tracked the album at Carter’s NorCal Studio and mixed the album back at his own Magic Garden Studios in Bristol, England. Gavin who was quoted after hearing Carters music for the first time as saying, “I love the, I’ve lost the map & don’t care anymore feeling I get when I listen to your music”.

Missing My Baby’s Smile
Honeymoon in Las Vegas
Helpless Child
Montana, New Orleans
Whitey Ray
My Angel
One Step, Then Away
Baby Your The Life Of The Party
I’m Sewin’ Time
California