Bobby Angel
IS IN SESSION!
Third is a charm
A major milestone
For as quickly as my first two albums appeared …
The third one has become bogged down.
Listen to Album No. 2
The reason? For one I’ve been bogged down by other projects, with the most notable of those bringing Nature Folk Inc to life. And I’d like to say I’ve been working on big picture items, but it truth it’s always the little hiccups and roadblocks that consume most of my time. But recently, I feel like I’ve made major strides on a number of fronts. And yes, even better I’m working on a new song. The thing about this one: It stands a chance of becoming my big breakthrough. Or more than likely it will be just another forgettable song … until the musical landscape changes years from now and finally my music get’s its proper day in the sun. Here’s to dreaming!
Songwriter’s secret
There is no secret
Everybody asks me:
“Bobby Angel what’s your next song?”
Sometimes you just go with it
The truth is: I don’t know. It’s whenever the muse strikes. As for the topic? That too is anybody’s guess. For example, I’m currently working on a one hit wonder. I know what you’re thinking: Isn’t that being presumptuous? Actually, it’s the point of the song. How I got on the topic I’m not even sure other than I know if I don’t run with it, I’ll never get it done thus relegating it to the great dust heap of good ideas never acted upon. I’m not saying I’m a great song writer or even less a good musician. But I do think when this song is done it will be the cornerstone of my next album, tentatively titled One Hit Wonder Machine.
Songs – Deluxe Editions
Stay tuned in to hear the backstory after the song
Smash Hit
One-hit wonder homage
There’s one hit wonders …
And then there’s a smash hit.
Stay on to hear the interview after the song
Welcome To Big Cypress
A throwback song from 1999
What took me so long …
To record this song I’ll never know.
What I can say is it’s withstood the test of time.
Don’t Need to Know
Where You Are Tonight
Riding solo …
A cowboy arrives into town.
Or is he just passing through?
Very talented pilot
AKA The Eye in the Sky
People are always amazed …
How clear everything is whenever they fly.
The stories add up over time
Then there are the pilots that fly all the time.
The Lusitania
Titanic gets dethroned
More than just a major maritime disaster …
It’s my first anti-war protest song.
Song and interview
Not that it’ll ever knock the Titanic off the front page.
Her and There
And whatever happened to both
Life was simple …
When she was there.
And then somehow both are gone.
Tear Down
Built to be torn down
What happens when your life’s work …
Is all but set to be torn down?
Bobby Angel makes a stand in this song.
If We Knew Now …
What We Knew Then
Bobby Angel brings down the house …
With this sprawling masterpiece of the Everglades.
This song both inspires and haunts.
Midstream
Many artists spend weeks in a studio …
Trying to refine a song to the nth degree.
Bobby Angel’s philosophy, on the other hand, is to get a first draft out.
Anniversary Homage
Sometimes you have no intention …
Of penning a song.
Anniversary song is a raw and unscripted campfire ballad
Ballad of a Florida Panther
Bobby Angel tells a tale of how a panther …
And a transportation engineer teamed up to fix a road.
Preserved
End of the swamp frontier
This song chronicles bittersweet journey …
To reclaim what is left of a world gone by.
A victory for nature, it also meant a loss of freedom for the frontier way of life that was shut down.
Wrong Side of a Dream
This Bobby Angel song explores …
One man’s attempt to salvage his dream.
Downtown in Tivoli
Bobby Angels ode …
To small riverside towns everywhere.
Hobo Camp
Bobby Angel’s ballad of a hobo …
Who took a stand for the woods at the edge of town.
We Burned It Down
Bobby Angel explores seasonal change …
And our connection to natural cycles.
Preserved
This Bobby Angel song explores the sense of place …
And loss behind one man’s relationship with the land.
Triple Rudolph
Why three Rudolphs?
Bobby Angel’s pivotal last verse explains.
Ugliest Forest
When is a forest so ugly, it’s tragically beautiful?
Bobby Angel explains:
North Wind
Bobby Angel’s ode to the North Wind …
And why it makes him feel so good.
Full Length Albums
The same LP sound produced as a YouTube playlist
The Green Album
Like the "White Album," but "Green"
Released in 2021,
The Green Album is a tribute to nature.
The full album
It also features Bobby Angel’s first anti-war protest song.
New Pangaea
Bobby Angel's debut album (2020)
This debut LP explores …
The meaning of saying goodbye.
The album features 10 songs and interviews
Farewells are both an end and a new beginning.
Bootleg Interview Album
Bobby Angel bares his soul
Bobby Angel discusses his origin story …
And the role his muse plays in lighting his path.
The full album
Not that most of his process isn’t groping around in the dark.
Song Lyrics
Follow along with the lyrics as you listen to the song
A medley to remember
Her and There Words and Music by Bobby Angel Maybe you saw me maybe you didn’t the best part of life is always hidden you and me we’ll find that treasure take it to a higher level you and me we’ll never settle check it out check it out check it out we’ll be flying we’ll be rising over top of the horizon past the pain and all the dying finally we are arriving we are there we are there yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I met her at the picnic table a cup of coffee in her hand…
Not getting there
Midstream Words and music by Bobby Angel Midstream midstream that’s where I’ll always be. Midstream midstream that’s where I’ll always be. Don’t want to go to the other bank I’ve been there before so no thanks and I don’t want to return to the other shore there ain’t nothing for me there anymore. Midstream midstream there’ ain’t nothing for me there anymore. Midstream midstream it’s where I want to be. Midstream midstream midstream it’s where I want to be. Midstream midstream midstream midstream. Don’t care if I get washed away sounds better than having to stay and maybe it’s not…
Feline adventure
Ballad of a Florida Panther Words and Music by Bobby Angel Step right up I got a story to tell. It takes place in Old Florida near a wishing well. The names and places may be re-arranged. But what went down is more or less the same. It was midnight in Salt Lake when she got the fateful call about a missing footprint of a Texas Panther paw. It sounded so peculiar, she packed her bags and sent her money in for a Florida Cougar license tag. Turns out Tamiami’s too fast for our liking, gonna hafta ban all the…
Dream revisited
Wrong Side of a Dream Words and music by Bobby Angel Its good to be out, but I aim to get back in. Then she walks across the floor, ain’t nothing more than I want than her, I’ll do what it takes to win. My money ain’t what it used to be but the men at the table don’t breath ’cause they know I got an ace up my sleave. “Ma’am if you don’t mind, I got something to say. You know I’m sort of thinking out loud, but in this crowd my words won’t come. It didn’t used to…
My small town
Downtown in Tivoli Words and music by Bobby Angel Valerie’s in the store, she’s sweeping up the kitchen. Honey stays at home, if he ain’t biting then he’s itching. Everybody’s doing whatever they’ve done before, balancing the books, evening the score. Stewart’s out back, he’s splitting wood for the winter. All he’s got is bare hands, he ain’t worried about no splinter. Somebody somewhere is reading his words, dividing by time and multiplying in thirds. Way downtown in Tivoli, you can almost see the Hudson. The zebra mussels came and cleaned the river, so you can stop all your fussin’….
Hobo Hero
Hobo Camp Words and music by Bobby Angel Hobo camp hobo camp I’m gonna build me a hobo camp. Hobo camp hobo camp I’m gonna build me a hobo camp. Found me a good spot at the edge of town. Cleared me a path and cleared me some ground. Not to close and not too far so I can still fetch me some food from the country bar. Hobo camp hobo camp I finally got me a hobo camp. Hobo camp hobo camp I finally got me a hobo camp. Life in the woods it’s pretty neat. I get my…
Land remembered
Preserved Words and music by Bobby Angel Across the Windmill Prairie there was a place my Grandpa knew, a cabin on the isle of pines not far from the dried up slough. He built a place, my dad and him out of old scrap metal and wood where they were free to hunt and just be back in the days when time were good. We get it, this modern world, it’s a place of compromise, but we can’t forget it either, how they tore it from our lives Cause a man can build a cabin, and a man can shake…
Tragedy in the woods
Ugliest Forest Words and music by Bobby Angel Some people said it looked obscene. That it had all the wrong types of trees. Other people drove by it and didn’t notice it at all. The road was the only thing they saw. Rumor was it had hobo camp or three. Not exactly a nice place to be. But if you listen closely you can hear the bird call. It was the ugliest forest you ever saw There was old two track that went to a foundation that somebody said used to be a service station. Long ago the owners up…
Faith finds a way
Let Your Light Shine Through Words and music by Bobby Angel In the world where we live You have got to forgive And let your love shine through Theories abound how it all went down And everybody runs to a side (and hides) But when the truth is let loose it will ring like a proof Of mathematical metaphysical resound Refrain Some things don’t change no matter how much you rearrange That don’t demean what you’ve done (or do) ‘cause when the day it grows dark them angels they hark haleluhia to the good news that you brang Refrain Whispered…
Fair winds
North Wind Words and music by Bobby Angel When the north wind blows in, when north wind blows in – I can feel it down in my toes. When The north wind blows in, when the north blows in, I feel it down in my toes, down in my toes. The sky is blue my mind is clear. I feel a hundred percent here. I’m feeling so good. Feeling just like I should. When the north wind blows in when the north wind blows in. The palm fronds are blowing, my mind is glowing. The world is all in my…
Interviews About The Songs
Every song has a backstory
Smash Interview
It’s amazing how one song …
Can generate so much discussion.
Typical of Bobby Angel, his interviews are longer than the songs.
Vintage Throwback
Why some songs age well
I’m not saying this is my best song …
But it has withstood the test of time.
The reason?
Hope to despair
The ballad's backstory
When does one’s biggest regret …
Transform into their only hope?
Bobby Angel explores that and more in his new song.
About Her and There
The art of the medley
Life’s biggest challenge
is working outside your genre.
It’s also the biggest reward.
That’s where this medley comes in.
Demolished
Interview about Tear Down
So the saying goes:
You can’t take it with you.
But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be able to leave a little behind.
About Pretend
Fun to see the lake overflow into the Glades
For as long as this song is …
I wrote it in a day.
As for what it chronicles, it took about two centuries to unfold
Stopping midstream
Usually when you’re in the middle of a roaring river …
The imperative is to get across.
Or is the crossing the best part?
Anniversary explained
Bobby Angel explains "Anniversary Song"
The obvious question is …
Anniversary of what?
Maybe it’s a relationship, or maybe it’s something else.
Behind Panther
Here’s the inside story …
Behind the Ballad of a Florida Panther.
About Preserved
What was gained and what was lost
Bobby Angel gives the inside scoop … on the anchor (i.e. final) song to The Green Album. He didn’t know he had an album until he wrote this song, and…
An artist is named
The thing about an artist …
They rarely choose their name.
Behind Wrong Side
When it all slips away
Bobby Angels sits down for an exclusive interview on his song “Wrong Side of a Dream.” Set in the Old West, the ballad recounts the tale of a man who is caught in limbo between chasing down his dream and facing the reality it’s all slipped away. Or has it? Bobby Angel explains …
Down by the river
Time passes slowly then fades away
Among life’s greatest rewards …
Being connected to a community ranks high.
Being close to a river is icing on the cake.
Behind Hobo
Here’s the inside story …
Behind Hobo Camp.
Ode to the Muse
Behind every great artist …
There is the muse that inspires them.
Quadruple Rudolph
Rudolph is an incredible song (and story),
Especially in light of its economy of words.
Pen and Paper
Pen in hand and a blank page is how all songs start
Last song of 1st album
Draft song sheet for New Pangaea
Getting every last one
One man's fight against a rogue forest
Listen to the song here
Demo versions
Practice makes perfect
The Rambler
Bobby Angel spellbinds his audience with a vivid cowboy ballad of a wanderer caught in time between what was and what will never be. Set in the Old West, the backstory of this Bobby Angel original counterbalances hope and despair, love and loss.
Neither bank
Forget about getting to the other side …
It’s being midstream that counts.
It’s called learning to go with the flow!
Built to be torn down
This song laments the plight of a man …
Who discovers his house is a “tear down.”
Does that mean all that sweat equity was for naught?
Backroom Boiler
Not that I was negotiating deals …
but I was trying to work through a few technical glitches.
Down by the river
Never mind the untuned guitar
Bobby Angel performs perhaps his most poignant and revealing rendition of Downtown in Tivoli yet, an ode to small town life, change, the nearby flowing river and love lost yet ultimately retrained by way of memories that can never be erased.
New Dawn (of 2021)
Just when we needed it most …
A new dawn is here at last.
How dreams live on
Bobby Angel sings "Wrong Side of a Dream"
Bobby Angel records his new original song “Wrong Side of a Dream.” It’s a complex tale of dreams imagined and dreams lost, but somehow – despite all – the dream living on.
Audience of one
Who needs a stadium filled with fans …
When you can rock your office at the end of work.
Demo of The Lusitania
Bobby Angel sings his first antiwar protest song
Songs are written … But they only get perfected singing them over time. It’s in performance that songs evolve to a higher plane.