Free Friday (“FL&R”) – January 27

     Free and Legal Downloads? Yes, at least temporarily. Bands often temporarily permit free downloads of their releases.  The end of an offer is usually based on the expiration of a set period of time.  But at least for now, here are songs that qualify as Free, Legal and Recommended (FL&R) downloads.

     Finding songs that can be legally downloaded is easy. The difficult task is to find legally downloadable music that we recommend. The hope is to post at least one FL&R song each Friday.

     Son of the Velvet Rat includes a wife-and-husband team from Austria. Songwriter Georg Altziebler and his wife Heike Binder have relocated to Joshua Tree, California. “Blood Red Shoes” is a single from their album “Dorado,” which is due for release on February 17, 2017. 

     “Blood Red Shoes” is a no frills track, even after the trumpet is added in the final minute of the song. The instrumentation is not demanding, but it works well with the emotion of the vocals. The anguish in the female voices (Victoria Williams is included in this song) is particularly effective in its cooperation with the troubled male vocals. 

     “Blood Red Shoes” by Son of the Velvet Rat

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Lyrics of “Blood Red Shoes”

I can hear your bulldogs howling in the middle of the night

Sounds like they’re hungry

Then again, it sounds like a fight

Sounds like they hate one another

And they hate me & you

You can hear it in the wind

You can hear it in the music too

Fingers snapping

And I see you sway on your dancer’s feet

Fingers snapping

And clapping hands to the Mersey beat

I see you follow me

And I’ll follow you anywhere

From the killing floor

All the way to the county fair

You got blood red shoes

Blood red shoes

You got blood red shoes

I can hear your bulldogs howling everywhere I go

And I know they’re always around

But they never show

There’s a band on the bandstand

And ladies in line at the bar

I got nowhere to go

If I can’t be where you are

And it’s fingers snapping

And I see you sway on your dancer’s feet

Fingers snapping

And clapping hands to the Mersey beat

I see you follow me

And I’ll follow you anywhere

From the killing floor

All the way to the county fair

You got blood red shoes

[Repeat 2x]

     Ocean Flaws is a band in Essex, England. While their song “Silver Screen” is interesting throughout, it’s the energy toward the end of the track that sets it apart. The members of Ocean Flaws are Callum Quirk (vocals, bass), Hamish Monk (guitar), Sean Heaney (guitar), and Alex Pattle (drums).

      “Silver Screen” by Ocean Flaws (If your browser doesn't show the download arrow, go to the Soundcloud site - CLICK HERE.)

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