...written and recorded on cheap tablet utilising the Fruity Loop app, mixed and mastered @ le manse......this first quartet of demos from the forthcoming album Whatever Happened to Ragland Parks coming soon on rfsOriginals are all in DADGAD tuning, "a tuning made famous by my fave rave Davey Graham, i had always found it a difficult tuning to get into until one day these songs started to pour out, and i started to sing, and here they are now...
...overproduced by Enrique Che Pelligro...

...hey folks, Ragland here to tell you sessions have finally started on my new album, produced by the inimitable EC Pelligro. We got hoe-downs and showdowns, 3 chords and some truth, meanwhile, have a li'l sneak peek at a noo choon we got called BlueTooth and Bluebeam, bout some known's that are known and some that are unknown, and a few unknown unknown's, set in a galaxy just like our own...
Bluetooth and Bluebeam (instr) by Ragland Parks

...Bluetooth and Bluebeam and spirals in the sky, H. A. A. R. P. Why?...

Letter to hip-hop by the Fonkeez
...opening salvo from the fonkee/Jaam project is an open letter to hip-hop featuring Bridget Gray on vocals and the band musing on a Love Supreme...

...this ere little ditty is set to a tune ol' reverend jazz taught to me, it's sort of a backwoods downhome yearns to be twelve but only got seven 'til friday bar blues, musin on blue sky abuse and the prevalence of those lines in the sky seem to hang there all day...


woke up this morning

white line in the sky

i'm wondrin where they been

an figurin why

the line that they're leavin

is still hangin high

an while i been dreamin

it's grown a thousand miles wide


i got the barium blues

what are they doin to my sky

i got the harium scarium barium flu


woke up this mornin

white cross in the sky

said millions a people

be fixin to die

looked up this evenin

an what did i see...
1. Breathing difficulties
2. Increased blood pressure
3. Heart rhythm changes
4. Stomach irritation
5. Muscle weakness
6. Alterations in nerve reflexes
7. Damage to your brain, liver, kidney and heart
an' it's coming for me



i got the barium blues

raining down from the sky

i got the harium scarium barium flu


what are they doin to the sky now mama...


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...there's a piece of the song in mungo shoddy's short infomedy, Chemtrail Games pt2...


...another SHODDY product...

...for more information, try the cloud appreciation society, or barium blues, or look it up in google or jes' plain look up...

...this here's a little ditty i wrote last summer up zingey round, ruminatin on the similarities of the names osama/obama and the lack of any evidence to support the existence of a terrorist network called al qaeeda (or whatever), it's a singalong, well, everybody gets a chance to yell each verse, now, take it easy, but take it!...


allah osama where are you?

if you're against bush then i'm with you

if ya wanna throw the madmen out

then i wanna give y'all a shout, HEY!!!


allah be with you obama

can you find your al qaeeda

in your eyes i'm terrorised

but freedom fights shall rise, RIGHT!!!


allah what would jesus do?

if he was here with me and you

he'd wanna tear down the state

form an army and storm the gates, NOW!!!


...anyway, it gives me a smile everytime i hum it, 'specially now barack's in the white house...

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