Shreveport House Concert Series Presents

moonlight revisited

lyrics by 

david love lewis

music and performance by

alan dyson

the

Shreveport House Concert Series

presents

Alan Dyson

and

Lip Service Trio

Live in Concert

Fairfield Studios

June 16th
7:00 p.m.

1510 Fairfield Avenue 

please make your reservations at the following link

http://shreveporthouseconcerts.org/

broken glass

broken glass

lyrics by

poet 

david love lewis

music and performance by

alan dyson

a dysonfinearts production

all rights reserved

falling off the edge of the world

falling off the edge of the world

lyrics by david love lewis

music and performance by alan dyson

2011

all rights reserved

moonlight revisited

moonlight revisited

lyrics by david love lewis

music and performance by alan dyson

2011 all rights reserved

sail away

sail away

written by randy newman

these are the drawings of louisiana artist leonard maiden

they reminded me of the newman song, so i produced a version of my own as a backdrop for some of leonard's amazing work.

to learn more about leonard and his work go to:

firebirdlbm@yahoo.com 

or

leonardmaiden.blogspot.com

Cafe Du Monde

cafe du monde

original song written and performed

by

alan dyson

new orleans / shreveport louisiana

2011

live performance

an informal performance of poetry and song by

david love lewis

and

alan dyson

come as you are, bring what you wish, prepare to listen.

please rsvp.

 780-4454
salandyson@comcast.net

al & dave's american songbook

turns out we've been collaborating on this work for nearly a decade.

it all started when david gave me a short collection of his poems, two of those became songs that landed on my 2003 compilation called SKYSCRAPER.

david then gave me a stack of his poetry, and over time some 

eighteen songs have come forth. 

the photo above is where i work on creating the songs.

currently working on recording this body of work

the link below takes you to a you tube video of
"i used to dream"
please enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO7xKLy4dFg&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

al & dave's songbook....live performance

original poetry by david love lewis

original music and song by alan dyson

performed live

"broken glass"

'glass house' - debbie buchanan engle (work in progress)

'broken glass' - poetry by david love lewis, music and performance by alan dyson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOI7-YC0Krc&feature=mfu_in_order&playnext=1&videos=4jgrRwetI10

'broken glass"

i'm so glad your soul
belongs to jesus, lately your good manners
and much else have eluded me;
we promised no more nukes,
no more point-blank sights, but you
need to zero in, to wield the cerem0nial knife:
a feral child thrashing away with occam's razor.

that's why i had to get out
and see the world or at lest the plush
mamas on the other side of the street.
naked and forked, i forked my way
to the other side of lonely avenue;
sure all the time you saw me from
your lighted window and disapproved.

and when they left me bruised and bleeding,
as hungry for death as death in life can be,
you scolded and screamed and called me lost
and wrote me off.

by god's mercy i didn't die; step by step
on the muddy road back i called distance
from you a good thing' a thick clot hearsay
poisoned what was left of your milk's kindness.

we had one more run in us, and made it;
pilgrims dazzled with our brilliant runs---
fast eddie and calamaity jane dance in
quick time and promised each other more.
and if the songs stop now, i will be blamed,
pilloried in a sheet of fire for some real slight
or some imagined neglect: i have called too much
or not enough.

there's only one thing left i'd like to know---
can you still trip the lightning and catch
its glow in your clear smooth jar and hold
it up like a child, as surprised as anyone
with its brassy glow?

these others catch their fireflies and are satisfied;
and i would be too if i didn't know,
hadn't always known
better.

david love lewis

skyscraper

dyson | skyscraper | CD Baby

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Listen to and buy dyson music on CD Baby. Buy the CD skyscraper by dyson on the independent record store by musicians for musicians

this collection of original songs features legendary bassist joe osborn as well as other excellent louisiana musicians and poets.

poet collaborators include: david love lewis, rumi, alana l. dyson, and carol bailey.

musical collaborators include:
darren, joe, and chris osborn, denise greenhaw, greg williams, richard harold, michael reed barker, john peck, henry edwards, ron lynn, alana l. dyson, blue martin, chris allen, brian basco, direy red crenshaw, kevin maloney, robin vosbury, michael westbrook, scott griffin.

recorded at sandbox recording studio