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    Not How I Was Planning It

    July 31, 2024 /

    By Joy Lynn Clark 7/31/2024 The whole plan was to have a beat store. For now, there’s a license available. Most of its negotiable (exclusive, non exclusive) since I am the writer/publisher and, I can run it though ASCAP and PPL. LMK. Update 8/17/2024 I had such a hard time updating this track because I am by an airport. I first uploaded it with alot of the sounds muted. It was a simple task, unmute the bass (that I played originally) and the breakdown drumloop (which I have a license from Splice and paid good money for). Boy has this been hard. People said their names and now, I think…

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    Things

    June 17, 2024 /

    By Joy Lynn Clark 06/17/2024 I wrote this song sixteen years ago as I was watching the tale of the “infamous” Burr Oak Cemetary scandal https://daisyfriday.net/burr-oak-on-the-colored-side/ unfold on the local Chicago news. I still had not known that I had ancestors buried there but I was asking around. As I heard the story, my mind drifted off about vampires, zombies, and grave robbers. Things is part of a larger work that I was going to make a, “rock opera”. I never managed to finish it but, there are a few more tunes. I also arranged the original duet to a solo. I never got my settlement. Below is a palatable,…

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    The Same Name Cover Band

    March 11, 2024 /

    March 11, 2024 By Joy Lynn Clark Back in February I went to a live music venue not far from my place called Banners. I had gone there right when I first arrived in Lexington to see a cool jazz band in the past. This time however the place was packed with colored folks as well as what I normally encounter in Lexington. It almost seemed as if the entire black UK alumni Association was there and half of them had on the blue and everything! Even though I am a Flame, Go Wildcats! I asked the bartender to place my order and he replied, “would you like to start…

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