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This is my twentieth recorded project created in my home studio. Just like the equipment and technology in my studio my music has been constantly growing, expanding, and changing with each passing year. I have gone from a practicing musician to an evolving producer and engineer and I can honestly say I don’t know which role I love the most I simply know I’m very fortunate and blessed to have the opportunity to exercise both aspects and to create music.

Saints & Angels of the Electric Blues Church came about through my guitar practice sessions, which I try to have five days a week in the evenings without fail. Although I love Power Pop Rock I have practiced my instrument to blues music nearly my entire life. From Big Joe Turner to Rick Derringer and every kind of electric blues in-between, I have used this type of music as the backdrop to drill my scales and develop my technique such as it is. Along the way I have written a few blues based songs with some Texas swing thrown in for good measure and this is the project I decided to showcase some of that material on.

There is no need to examine these songs or for me to offer any in-depth analysis about them because they are exactly what they are – Fun! I had a lot of fun writing them and even more fun recording them. Most important to me this is the first project I’ve generated where I could stretch out on my primary instrument, the guitar, and allow it to take the lead role in the structure and execution of the music.

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It’s My Thing To Give
©Jerry Axson

Baby keeps tabs -
when I am and I am not alone,
I'm on a tight leash,
I don't roam too far from home,
She tells me I'm hers,
and that's just how it is,
but I say it's my heart -
and my thing to give...

Baby tells her friends –
she keeps herself a good man,
when she walks in the room,
that’s my queue to stand,
She tells them I’m hers,
and that’s just how it is,
but I say it’s my heart –
and my thing to give…

Baby keeps score -
in the night when we make love,
she don't settle for less -
than the best of my very best of,
She screams out I'm hers,
and that's just how it is,
but I say it's my heart -
and my thing to give...

Baby got schooled -
now she's learned something new,
she can't have it her way all the time,
it’s gonna’ take two,
for me to be yours,
well that's just how it is,
it takes two hearts -
two hearts to give...

For me to be yours –
well, that’s just how it is,
it takes two hearts –
two hearts to give,

You can play those games –
like it’s nobodies biz,
but it’s gonna’ take two –
two hearts to give…

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from Saints & Angels of the Electric Blues Church, released January 1, 2019
All songs written and composed by Jerry Axson
All instrumentation performed by Jerry Axson
Engineering and production by Jerry Axson
Recorded at Lonesome Dog Studio
Graphic design by Lonesome Dog Art

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Jerry Axson Columbia, South Carolina

To me simplicity is the root of all great thoughts. The secret thrill for me, the architect, is delivering that thought with unobtrusive complexity. Writing songs and composing music satisfy my soul and because of this I know exactly what I am designed to do, it’s just that simple. - Jerry Axson ... more

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