Good Things

Written during the shutdown of the spring of 2020. I had been reading about the clear skies around the world, communities coming together, about how Mt. Everest was visible through the smog for the first time in a generation, Good things are coming

Recorded remotely with Steve Dawson and his crew at the Henhouse Studio. Steve Dawson is playing dobro and electric guitar from Nashville, Gary Craig on drums in Toronto, Jeremy Holmes in Vancouver on Bass and Mando, and I’m playing from my home studio on the Sunshine Coast. And it was all put together by Steve.

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This is an, “in the works” page, with updates weekly, sometimes daily, even hourly. My hope is that this site can become an insight into the process, and the presentation and performance of music in the on line universe.
Come on in and join me in the joy of making music.

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With live music venues closed during the Covid 19 Pandemic of 2020. Performances have moved to online formats, and this is a page of music from Joe Stanton, some new some old,
but all put out here in this great experiment of experiencing music in on line formats.
You’ll find videos documenting the stages of growth of songs, from demo recordings to the finished master, and insights into the writing and inspirations behind the songs.

Thank you to The Canada council for the Arts and FACTOR for financial assistance

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Up above is a live version of “Spies” from my backyard, and below is the version from the CD, ” Passenger Stanton “ available on i – tunes and amazon

” Where the asphalt meets the rubber and steel, that’s the voice of the wheel ”

Passenger Stanton

This is a truck driving song. Writing it, and every time I play it, I picture the drive out of Calgary, heading west. Heading into the setting sun, into the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

But it also celebrates the philosophy that Life is about moving, we have to always keep moving forward. Learning from mistakes, and carrying on.

"One day you haul a full load
down a hundred miles of 
bad road
you steer around the pot holes
and carry on"

“I see the colours, on the horizon, welcome the coming day, we are together, this that’s between us, our reason for being. “

And this is the new version of True, at this time it is an on going project. Being recorded at Al’s place in Sechelt. Jay Johnson is on the drums, and Boyd Norman on bass, and I get to play the guitars