Name: El Dorado
Duration: P00H03M38S
Description: I was going for a Mexican sound with trumpets and violins and a bit of Mariachi, but I ended up with this. This is what demos are for... finding out where it should go. Not sure if it worked, or didn't, but tabla rasa is cleaning the slate.

El Dorado

from Some Songs in the Key of Poe by Mike Lawson & Friends

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I was going for a Mexican sound with trumpets and violins and a bit of Mariachi, but I ended up with this. This is what demos are for... finding out where it should go. Not sure if it worked, or didn't, but tabla rasa is cleaning the slate.

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With gaily bedight,
An old gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.

But soon he grew old—
This knight oh so bold—
And o’er his heart a shadow—
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.

And, then as his strength
Had failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow—
‘Shadow,’ said he,
‘Where can it be—
This land of Eldorado?’

‘Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,’
The shade it replied,—
‘If you seek for Eldorado!’

Words by Edgar Allen Poe
Music by Mike Lawson
Copyright 2019 Psychotronic Music - BMI

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from Some Songs in the Key of Poe, released September 13, 2019

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Mike Lawson & Friends Nashville, Tennessee

Mike Lawson has, over 30 years, recorded and/or performed together with Merl Saunders, Vince Welnick, Vassar Clements, Pete Sears, Gary Talley, John McEuen, Bob Welch, Dennis Robbins, Joe Louis Walker, Jorma Kaukonen, Phil Keaggy, Jack Casady, Scott Guberman, Dianne Davidson, Noah Wall, Tyra Juliette, Bill Vitt, Rob Wasserman, Michael Cleveland, Phil Madeira, and a host of other amazing friends. ... more

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