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I hope you enjoy the Ezra & Others CD(s)

NOTE: When I first put the photos on this web page, I had enlarged them quite a bit. But just last night, February the 17th, 2016, I noticed that it was impossible to see the previously enlarged sections of the photos outside the normal text-photo column. Sorry about that. So now, I am working on reducing all the photos back down to the standard text-photo column size, so that the complete photo may be seen. This might take a while. Sorry about that too. So for the photos I have downsized to their original format, and for the ones I have yet to do so, follow these instructions-- To enlarge the photos & text, hold down "Ctrl" & press "+" one or more times as desired. To reduce the photos & text, hold down "Ctrl "& press "-" (to left of "+" key). Then, click on scroll bar at bottom of screen & drag it all the way to the right to see complete photos. I can enlarge 5 times on my widescreen laptop & still be able to see entire photo & text. It may be different for your computer screen.—

 The following is a list of some of the people mentioned in the credits / performing on the CD(s) / mentioned in the & extra material /or all of the above.  March 10-17, 2013; updated 12/27/13, 2/25/14, Rising Sun, MD.           

Tommy (nephew)-- Born May 1, 1993, Wilmington, DE. Tommy, Wilburn & Patty (my brother & his wife) currently reside in Lititz, PA, near Lancaster. Tommy sings & plays guitar on the Ezra & Others Vols. 1 & 2 CDs.

Micah (son)-- Born Aug. 22, 1980, Gainesville, FL. After getting his PhD from Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., in 2011, Micah is now teaching philosopy classes at McDaniel College & Mount St. Mary's University, both in MD. He is also an author, having most recently completed the draft of a text book titled Philosophy in Four Questions: A Thematic Introduction to Philosophy for High School & Beyond. Micah & wife Ruth live in Mt. Ranier, MD, near D.C. Micah sings & plays guitar on a song on the E&OV.2 CD.   

Nathan (son)-- Born Nov. 24, 1983, Gainesville, FL. Nathan got his masters in history from the U of DE, then received a certificate to teach ESL (English as a Second Language). Since September, 2012 he's been teaching ESL at Soonchunhyang University, about 50 miles south of Seoul, Korea. He was home on break for 3 weeks in February, 2013, during which time, we recorded 3 songs on the Ezra & Others Vol. 3 CD. He is currently back in Korea at his ESL teaching job. Nathan also sings & plays guitar on the Ezra & Others Vol. 2 CD.

Joanna (daughter)-- Born July, 28, 1986, Lakemont, GA. Joanna taught liturature & art at Mt. Sophia Academy in Newark, DE, and also works for Hamilton Photography, Annapolis, MD. as photographer & photo editor. She also has her own photo business on the side. She no longer teaches at Mt. Sophia, but is still working for the photo company, & in addition, has recently begun working at West Annapolis Art Works, an art gallery in Annapolis. Joanna & her husband, Justin, live in Annapolis, MD. Joanna sings & plays keyboard on a song on the E&OV.2 CD.

Justin Jolley (Joanna's husband)--  Born Nov. 2, 1984, Ashland, OH. Justin is a radio-telephone operator in the U.S. Navy, & is stationed at   Ft. Meade, MD; he also has a degree in music recording. Justin plays guitar & tambourine on a song on the E&OV.2 CD.

Ezra (son)-- Born Sep. 9, 1989, Wilmington, DE. Ezra is in his final year at Lancaster Bible College, Lancaster, PA, in education & intends to be a middle school teacher (he lives at home & commutes to classes--LBC is one hour away). During March 10th - 17th, 2013, Ezra, along with 17 other LBC students, were a missions team to a Pueblo reservation near Albuquerque, NM. After working at McDonald's, he now has, for several years, been working at the North East, MD Walmart, first as a cashier, then as a service-desk person. He still cashiers when needed, & at times, pushes shopping carts in from parking lot to store. Ezra completed his class requirements in December, 2013. He begins student teaching grades in January, 2014 (5th grade at a Christian school & 8th grade at a Public School). He graduates from LBC in Spring, 2014. After graduation, he'll be certified to teach grades 4 - 8.

Seth (son)--  Born Dec. 2, 1996, Elkton, MD. Seth is in the 12th grade. He is the member of a band called In Retrospect, recently renamed Melatonin. He began teaching guitar on March 4, 2013. He had 2 students.  He's in the praise band at his church, & works in the kitchen (mainly washing pots & pans) at Sandy Cove Conference Center, North East, MD. Now that school has started, he continues to do all the above, as well as singing in the Tri-State Homeschool Choir & Madrigals.                                                                                                                  ***

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The EZRA & OTHERS, VOL. 3 CD

Technical Information

The master cassette tape containing the songs recorded from Aug. 24-Apr. 27, 2013, for the Ezra & Others Vol. 3 CD was made with dual mics: one is a Shure SM58, close-range, which picks up my vocal & guitar; the other is a Realistic 33-1060 broad-range, which picks up mainly Ezra, Nathan, Seth & their instruments. These 2 mics are plugged into our AKAI GX-F25 stereo cassette tape deck; the resulting master tape recorded from the AKAI onto a Free Sound Recorder 9.2.7 software program on my Toshiba Satellite L355D laptop, which puts the song onto Windows Media Player; then the songs were recorded onto CD using Windows Media Player on the Toshiba laptop.

Ezra's instrumentals & songs were recorded from the Ezra's Early Songs master tape--recorded by him on his White-Westinghouse mono WPC-9538 portable cassette recorder with built-in mike.

Explanation of Terms, etc. in the Credits

"Keyboard" = Ezra's Radio Shack synthesizer. I believe he can "lay down" up to 6 tracks of sound on one song.

"Arr.--" = arranged by.

"D" = Danny.

"Rec." = recorded onto whatever master cassette tape from which it was then recorded onto this CD.

Instruments:

Nathan plays his Takamine GS330S acoustic guitar

Seth plays his Behringer electric guitar on "Ev'rybody's Talkin' (2)"; on the other songs, when he plays guitar, he uses Nathan's

Ezra, & sometimes Seth (tho' not on the same song), play Ezra's keyboard (Radio Shack General MIDI Custom Tone Synthesizer)

D plays his Epiphone FT-145 LH Texan acoustic guitar.

This CD was recorded at 960 Calvert Rd., Rising Sun, MD.  --danny 

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This is NOT a professionally-engineered CD. In this, our 3rd CD, I still haven't been able to record all the songs at a nearly-equal volume & balance. (My recording system may never be able to do any better ; I'll keep trying.)  --D

  ACTUALLY, THE BEST WAY TO LISTEN TO THIS CD IS WITH EARPHONES. Earphones put the sound from both tracks directly into your ears, so that even if a cut is low, you can still hear it pretty well--at least in my experience. 

For those of you who do not have a CD player, but do have a DVD player, you may put this CD into your DVD player & listen to it over your TV speakers.

EZRA & OTHERS VOL. 3 CD

Dedicated to Daddy &  Mother (Rufus & Mary Tillman), Wilburn (Brother) , Jane & Judy(Sisters)& celebrating 25 years plus of Songs to Us

Songlist

1. Joanna Speaks                                           0:06

2. Find You Again (Part 1)                             0:22

3. I Don't Know What I Would Do (1988)     1:44

4. Find You Again (Part 2)                             1:44

5. He's Ev'rything to Me                                4:32

6. Find You Again (Part 3)                             0:40

7. There's Just Something (ca. 1989)            4:30

8. Find You Again (Part 4)                             1:40

9. There's Just Something (2012)                 3:34

10. Ezra's 16th Song                                      1:30

11. Step by Step (1988)                                 1:52

12. Ezra's 17th Song                                      0:56

13. Poor Wayfaring Stranger                       5:05

14. Ev'rybody's Talkin' (2)                             4:57

15. Travel (Instrumental)                              3:28

16. Daddy's Song                                           9:16

17. Ezra's 18th Song                                      1:15

18. Climb Ev'ry Mountain (1)                        3:04

19. Ezra's 19th Song (Part 1)                         1:44

20. People Need the Lord                              5:50

21. Ezra's 19th Song (Part 2)                         1:47

22. Wildfire                                                     5:57

23. Loops                                                        2:07

24. Father                                                       2:06

25. You Wash Us Clean (1988)                      2:01

26. Aquit Me                                                  1:44

27. You Wash Us Clean (2013)                      3:48

28. Play Today Ukuley                                   1:17

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 CREDITS

 Notes:

-All guitars are acoustic (Seth plays Nathan's & D plays his own), EXCEPT in "Ev'rybody's Talkin' (2)" where Seth plays electric guitar.

-"Rec." = Recorded.

-"Arr.--" = Arranged by.

-"D" = Danny.

-Songs recorded onto master cassette tapes at 960 Calvert Rd, Rising Sun, MD, unless otherwise stated.

-Most of the photos were taken by D, unless otherwise credited. Photos of Judy are by Cousin James Mixson. The photographer of Daddy & Mother is unknown to me. Photos of  D were taken by Ezra, Nathan, & Seth.  --danny 

 1. Joanna Speaks on the Ezra's Early Songs tape, beginning of Side B. Sounds like Joanna says "Hop, hop (or "Ah ah" or something)--perfect." Recording date unknown.Ezra told me that Saints & Children (Micah, Nathan, Joanna, Ezra & Alayna) were using his Ezra's Early Songs tape as a "practice" tape to record a CD  (via the AKAI tape deck) onto the "Cakewalk" software program on the desktop computer. At the time, it was the method they were using to record their songs onto CDs.

2. Find You Again (Part 1),by Ezra, probably 2007, but before 2009. Ezra-- keyboard.                              

3. I Don't Know What I Would Do (1988), from Songs to Us master cassette tape 2. Words, Jan 1988, selected randomly from Bible by Vicki, Micah, Nathan, Joanna, & D; the tune, & some of the words in addition to the scripture selections, were written by D, Jan 20, '88. D-- vocals. Rec. Jan, '88, at Aunt Aggie & Uncle Joe Hannah's house, Micanopy. For Vicki.  

4. Find You Again (Part 2), by Ezra, probably 2007, but before 2009. Ezra-- keyboard.

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5. He's Ev'rything to Me, by Ralph Carmichael, early 1960s, from the movie For Pete's Sake, 1964. Ezra-- keyboard; Seth-- lead guitar. D-- guitar; harmonica; vocals. Arr.-- Seth & D. Rec. Aug 24, 2012.

 HE'S EV'RYTHING TO ME Photos--                         

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6. Find You Again (Part 3), by Ezra, probably 2007, but before 2009. Ezra-- keyboard.

7. There's Just Something (performed by the DVT Family Singers), by D (some words are from Bible), ca. 1987 (original version,  played & sung by D, was on Songs to Us tape 1, which was lost). Micah, Nathan, Joanna-- kazoos; vocals. Vicki-- vocals. D-- guitar; harmonica; vocals. Rec. ca. 1989, at 1528 Bonwood Rd, Wilmington, DE. (Originally recorded by D ca. '87, at Aunt Aggie & Uncle Joe Hannah's house, Micanopy, on Songs to Us tape 1, now lost.  For Jesus.                                                                                                        8. Find You Again (Part 4), by Ezra, probably 2007, but before 2009. Ezra-- keyboard.                              

9. There's Just Something (2012), by D (some words are from Bible), ca. 1987; words to verse 2 & chorus 2, by D, Aug 27 & Sep 2, 2012 (original version, played & sung by D, was on Songs to Us tape 1, which was lost).  Ezra-- keyboard ("Drawbar Organ"). Seth-- guitar; vocals. D-- guitar; harmonica; vocals. Arr.-- Seth & D. Rec. Sep 21, 2012. I forgot to take photos of the recording session. On that evening, Joanna bro't Nathan's cats, Diana & Venus, to live at our house. For Jesus.

10. Ezra's 16th Song, by Ezra, probably 2007, but before 2009. Ezra-- keyboard. 

11. Step by Step (1988), fromSongs to Us master cassette tape 2; words, Jan 20, 1988, selected randomly from Bible by Vicki, Micah, Nathan, Joanna, & D; the tune, & some of the words in addition to the scripture selections, were written by D, Jan 20, '88. D-- vocals. Rec. Jan 20, '88, at Aunt Aggie & Uncle Joe Hannah's house, Micanopy.  

12. Ezra's 17th Song, by Ezra, maybe 2008 or '09. Ezra-- keyboard. Rec. Apr 5, 2010.

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13. Poor Wayfaring Stranger, American Spiritual/folk song, likely originating in early 19 c. (according to Wikipedia). Words courtesy of Wikipedia, Johnny Cash, & Cyberhymnal. Nathan-- guitar; harmony vocals. D-- guitar; harmonica; melody vocals. Arr.-- Nathan & D. Rec. Feb. 3, 2013. I accidentally turned my mic off & didn't realize it till after we'd recorded the song. So the tape recorded Nathan & me (over Nathan's mic) on one channel only. But for some reason, there was a low hissing sound in my "silent" mic channel. To get the music to come over both speakers on the CD, I had to first re-record the song from the master tape onto another tape, & it came out sounding fuzzy, like a really old recording (you can still hear the hissing sound--kinda like wind noise).          For Daddy & Mother.

POOR WAYFARING STRANGER Photos--

Photo of Mother & Daddy, courtesy of Wilburn, who got it from a collection of photos at Mother's & put it in a Power Point display for Mother's funeral reception at Flemington Baptist Church, Jan. 12, 2013. Photo taken in 1960s  before July 23, 1966, at Old Feaster Home Place, Micanopy ; don't know who took the photo.

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Note:  Photo below was taken (probly by me) 'cause it was the picture before I took the one of Nathan above. Don't know what happened to make it look like that. I was about to discard it, then realized it looks like hills or mountains & dark clouds--quite appropriate for this song.

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14. Ev'rybody's Talkin' (2), by Fred Neil, 1966. 

Wikipedia says-- Fred Neil (March 16, 1936, Cleveland, OH – July 7, 2001, Summerland Key, FL), raised in St. Petersburg, FL, was a folk singer-songwriter in the 1960s and early 1970s. He did not achieve commercial success as a performer, and is mainly known through other people's recordings of his material--particularly "Everybody's Talkin', " which became a hit for  Harry Nilsson after being used for the film Midnight Cowboy. Tho' highly regarded by contemporary folk singers, he was reluctant to tour (something he shared with Nilsson), and mainly spent the last 30 years of his life assisting with the preservation of dolphins.      

Seth-- lead/rhythm guitar.   D-- guitar; vocals.           Arr.-- Seth & D.  Rec. Feb 6, 2010. For Mother.

15. Travel (Instrumental). This tune, by Ezra, 2008 or earlier, was later put to the words of the poem Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson (date unknown), 'tho Ezra didn't have this poem in mind when he wrote the music. 

Ezra thinks we may've used this "Travel" sound track when he sang the words of the poem accompanied by Seth & D, Mar 26, 2010, on the E&OV.1 CD.              

Ezra-- keyboard. Rec. 2008 or earlier.                           For Daddy &  Mother.

16. Daddy's Song, by D, July 7, 2012 - Feb 10, 2013. Nathan-- guitar; harmony vocals on intro & coda. Ezra-- keyboard. D-- guitar; vocals. Rec. Feb 11, 2013. (Note: In chorus 4, I forgot to mention Camp Blanding as one of the places Daddy worked--didn't think of it till after we'd recorded the song. And since Arlington is actually a section of Jacksonville, if we ever recorded the song again, I'd sing chorus 4 like this: "Working hard each day at Jacksonville, Camp Blanding, Cecil Field & Green Cove Springs.") This song tells pretty much a true story as best as I can remember. (Louise = Daddy's sister.) For Daddy..                                                

DADDY'S SONG Photos--

To be continued...