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"MIXO RITA" AIRED ON WHYS RADIO BLUEGRASS PROGRAM "SMOKIN' GRASS"

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and a sinus infection...both are fine. doin fine.

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PANTS WETTING EXCITEMENT

Sounds Of Bamboo EP tracks

We're gonna be posting some songs that didn't make the cut. That will be assembled onto an EP titled Sounds Of Bamboo

Listen:
Bamboo Overture

Duke doing well in baseball after completing album...

Duke Leads Pirates Past Mets

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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: June 2, 2009

Filed at 9:43 p.m. ET

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Duke pitched seven effective innings and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat Johan Santana and the New York Mets 3-1 on Tuesday night.

Jason Jaramillo hit his first major league homer for the Pirates, who have won three of four. Freddy Sanchez and Nate McLouth each had two hits.

Duke (6-4) allowed one run and eight hits to lower his ERA to 2.62. He has allowed two earned runs or less in eight of his 11 starts.

Santana (7-3) gave up three runs and seven hits in six innings for New York, which has lost three of four. The Mets have scored two runs or less in five of Santana's 11 starts.

New York again was without All-Star outfielder Carlos Beltran, who is dealing with a stomach virus and stayed at the team hotel.

John Grabow followed Duke with a perfect eighth and Matt Capps retired the Mets in order in the ninth for his 12th save and third in the past four days.

Odd Category in the New York Times

Boom Boom Pow (Black Eyed Peas cover) video

Track List and Album Art Work

Out 5.26.09

original artwork by Lori Chilefone

Track List:
1. Venison Jerky
2. Intro
3. In The Bamboo Forests Of Pennsylvania
4. A Memory and A Nap
5. Tré Melo
6. Honeydipper
7. Motel Maids
8. Skinny Dipping With Your Hot Sister
9. 3rd Night
10. Mixo Rita
11. Vitamin Y
12. Pitchfork’d (palette cleanser)
13. Soggy Shoes In Hammock
14. Water Down The Pipes
15. Tré Melo (Reprise)

Website: www.CoconutandtheDuke.com

Website Is Live

Pay a visit to our website for six audio streams from our album - In The Bamboo Forests Of Pennsylvania - due out in a month.

new album likely out mid June

Playing around with video

Working On That New Website

Get a preview here.

Polaroid photos of The Duke's Basement Studio (plus new pre and IKEA rack)

Polaroid photos of Coconut's Wisconsin Studio

"Magik Papa" Studios - looks a lot smaller than it is. TONS of storage.

Partition which seperates Music and Visual Art


View of Eau Claire River from the studio...a golden grime awaits...coming this spring!

Duke has a Preamp Coconut likes...

Presonus Eureka

Milestones

Venison Jerky...and Third Night...New Drum section for Vitamin Y

...and added new instrument to our projects too, called a Dukulele

Another New/Old Song In The Works: Water Down The Pipes

Lyrics about:

OPEN LETTER TO MINNESOTA GOV. PAWLENTY

Feb. 10, 2009

Governer Tim Pawlenty
130 State Capitol
75 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
St. Paul, MN 55155



Dear Governer Pawlenty,

I am requesting that you reconsider the decision to cut State Arts Board funding from the budget. While art is often associated with “self expression” the broader thinking skills that come from creating and developing art are overlooked.

I spoke with a gentleman today that credited arts education for development of ‘out of the box’ thinking that is required in his role as an air traffic controller. Once employed as a designer for over 15 years, he is currently is employed at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International airport. He mentioned he is not the only one working in the control tower with this background.

I am a landscape architect and urban designer and have returned to my home in Minnesota after living in New York City the last 6 years. I love this State and will be working to make it greater. As an urban designer I design city spaces, create site grading and structures, all the time looking for connectivity in human and ecological environments. I credit the arts education I received early on as a necessary human tool which mediated language and built form.

I think you would find that many responsible adults in many fields have the arts as a part of their overall education. It is my firm belief that cutting the arts can only hinder the efforts to make this state a truly great place to live in. Considering that the funding is already a small portion of the overall budget I urge you to reconsider its reinstatement. It is our best tool to guarantee we get through this budget crisis and back on our feet.

Respectfully yours,

Joseph Maurer
Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota

TO WAKE in the works

A song which suggests, I, we, everyone literally and figuratively WAKE up...

what is obvious to the the eyes of children...

adults so often forget...

love, play and share...

time to wake, time to wake, wake, wake UP

Screenprint by Jef Aerosol available at:

http://www.blindangle.co.uk/blind_angle/artist_pages/jef_aerosol/Wake_Up_screenprint.html

New/Old Song In The Works

(I Love Those) Motel Maids

This Song Is Starting To Take Shape (And It's Goning To Be A Great One)

PenofPaper

Cheat Sheet

Verse
Dm

Chorus
Dm
F no 3rd



Also, I think I might stretch it out to about 2:20ish and add some soloing space = I'll send a new track soon...

Joe

OH CRAP, the PROSONUS BROKE!!!!

New/Old Song In The Works - Venison Jerky

Looking forard to hearing your take on this one, Coconut.

Not Too Late

Singing this line "The Song Has a Mind of It's Own"

New track: Vitamin Y Finished!!!

If you don't get it you'll surely die! Great work man.

Holiday Single

Since today marks the beginning of the “official” holiday shopping season, the time has come to unleash Coconut & The Duke’s holiday classic: Jewish 4 Xmas.

The song brings a new perspective to this ultra-stressful time of year. Take a break from your Black Friday shopping spree and spend four joyous minutes with Coconut Joe and The Duke of Straw.

Coconut & The Duke ∞ Jewish 4 Xmas

Song to Paul

Christmas is coming (as is this song)

Jew 4 Xmas

Intro: Driedel Song

Chorus:
C F
I Never was religious but I’m a Jew at Xmas I never was quite like that
C F G C
But the holiday season has given me reason To wear that Chanukah hat

C C/B Am G F G C G
Egg nog makes me sick and I’ll just bicker with my in-laws
Every single store has one more fate and jolly Santa Claus
Oh those bright blinking lights ties my retinas in knots
The smell of pine cracks my mind what was that I forgot

Chorus

I have a fear of Santa’s reindeer running me over in the street
Hoofs knock me down snow on the ground Xmas dinner I won’t eat
Under mistletoe wouldn’t you know no one gives me a kiss
Carolers outside I start to cry I can’t wait ‘til the 26th

Chorus

On the TV is that old Frosty I wish he’d just melt away
Holiday time I drink my wine at a party I don’t wanna stay
No pork just fish now I’m Jewish I celebrate in my cap
I light 8 candles now this I can handle spin the dreidel and clap

Chorus

Closer Each Day

It's Coming...

Soggy Shoes in Hammock complete

Cheat Sheet for Developing Song

Honeydipper

Break:
D# B A

verse:
Dadd2/F# Bb F Am A7 (x8)

Chorus:
C9 Fdim (x4)
Is that a honeydipper?

Tre Melo and Tre Reprise Done!

Thanks to the Duke of Straw. Managed to keep me from going nuts mixing the thing.

Whew!

A beautiful thing to share...

Bamboo Overture is nearly complete

We wanted to make an overture for the album, compiled of parts of songs and demos we did for the album. We hope you like it.

Coconut & The Duke ∞ Bamboo Overture (demo)

Cheat Sheet6

Skinny Dipping With Your Hot Sister
by Coconut & The Duke

Verse:
Gm Gm D7 Gm (x4)

Chorus:
Gm D7 Gm D7 (x4)

Bridge:
Eb F (x3)
Eb F F#dim

Songs structure (i think) = verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus, bridge, verse.

Cheat Sheet5

Skinny Dipping With Your Hot Sister
by Coconut & The Duke

Verse:
Gm Gm D Gm

Chorus:
Gm D Gm D

(i think these are right...)

Try This Sometime (Half Diminished C)

kind of whole tone-y

Cheat Sheet4

Waltz for Ada
by Coconut & The Duke

Section A:
D D D Eb

Section B:
A D A

FINISHED! TO SLEEP

Cheat Sheet3

Tre Melo
by Coconut & The Duke

INTRO (CLARINET HEAD)
I DM9 I F#7 IA9 I G#7 G7 I

I Dadd9 I G7 I F#7add4 I B7add4 I

VERSE
C#m7 F#
We rattle for mountain streams…
B
A bottomless creek by a willow tree
C#m7 F#
In the ripple of the moonlight glow
B
Toes first nude swimming in the glassy warm current (I trust you)
B no 5 G# A D B
…swim until the break of dawn, and we’ll go, to the canyon, in the Bodhi tree
G# F# B
When we first spied in, no more sour streams…Gone are the doubts that stall dreams!
C#m7 F# B
The hollow bear searching in the canyon who will guide us a draw with carol barrel shaped Buddha with the….

BREAK INTO CHORUS (MANDOLIN/CLARINET)
I Eb I G# I C# I Bb A I

CHORUS
Eb C# Ab
What a beautiful thing to share!
Desire without pain, Love that isn’t vain…
Eb C# Ab
Don’t let them see in there!
Abandoned camel mines, our own secret lair…

BREAK INTO SOLO (CLARINET)

I Eb I C# G# I C# G# I A I A I Bb I

SOLO (SAX)

I Bb7b5/B I B13 I A9 I DM9 I F#7 I X 2 BACK TO VERSE



VERSE
We battle through a broken read
Bottomless speech and we’re lost in sleep

Buried poem in a compost bin

Carrots, turnips eggs and bread, golden garden greens
Swim through the living soil and we’ll go…to the canyon in the Bodhi tree

Two years back in, no more sour streams
gone are the doubts that stall dreams!

The hollow bear searching in the canyon will he guide us a draw with carol barrel shaped Buddha with the….

CHORUS AND SOLO (CLARINET AND MANDOLIN) END

Cheat Sheet2

VITAMIN Y lyrics and chords
by Coconut & The Duke

A A DM7 Csus4 Bb
Daily dose of vitamin Y If I don't get it I'll surly die
Daily dose of vitamin Y if I don't get it I'll surly die

Julie's got a itch, she can't scratch Bent over, and broke her back
Daily dose of vitamin Y If she don't get it, she'll surly die.

1 measure of Bdim transitions to Chorus (repeat once):
C Caug C#M7 D# C#7/D D
(I keep my) Pills in a pint glass Sha na na na na nan ana
(you keep your) Pills in a pint glass Sha na na na na na na na


Farmer Jon-jon burned his barn Now he's living in a hole in the ground
Daily dose of vitamin Y If he don't get it, he'll surely die

Albino Sam burned his feet again (ouch!) Now they look like honey ham
Daily dose of vitamin Y If he don't get it, he'll surely die

Chorus (repeat once):

Skinny Amy forgot to apply the brake drove her car in a lake – glug glug
Daily dose of vitamin Y If she don't get it, she'll surly die.

Danny M went hunting for goose All he shot was his left shoe - oh my!
Daily dose of vitamin Y If he don't get it, he'll surely die

Chorus (repeat once):

Clyde The Boxer threw in the towel all to the cries of foul fowl
Daily dose of vitamin Y If he don't get it, he'll surely die

Chip-in Charlie missed the putt lost the match, fell on his butt
Daily dose of vitamin Y If he don't get it, he'll surely die

Chorus (repeats and turns into one big, loud, rowdy party)

Cheat Sheet1

This will come in handy if I should ever forget:

In The Bamboo Forest Of Pennsylvania
by Coconut & The Duke

A Section
G Bm Em
In the bamboo forest of Pennsylvania
G Bm Em
I dream of you
G Bm Em
In the kudzu jungles of West Virginia
C/G Dadd2/F# Em G Em
I dream of you

(mando Solo)

In the stilt grass prairies of Tennessee
I dream of you

On the hydrilla rivers of the Delaware
I dream of you

(Trombone solo)

(repeat all four verses with no break)

Bamboo shoots in my stir fry
Gonna take a deep breath and mediate
I’m gonna find the answer When I go out I’ll see!
What is the question?????? Fourteen years!

B Section
Gm7 Dm7 C9 (spoken word repeat chords x4)


Stand still, I hear it, Cicadas beneath the crimson ball
Acer platanoides, tall and bold
An armature for a net of green invaders

Bb F Gm7 Am7
Bb F Gm7
Bb F Gm7 Am7
Bb F Edim


In the valley gorge you’re barely visible
In the moonlight glow you’re barely visible
So we kiss the edge of time, knowing change is so slow
(guitar and mando break notes: D, C, Bb, A then Edim)

Bb F Gm7 Am7
Bb F Gm7
Bb F Gm7 Am7
Bb F Edim
Repeat and end the song with weird notes

End Chords

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More Progress On Our New Songs

We finished Another Track from that UPcoming alBUM

At work in the studio

Completed new track "In the Bamboo Forests of Pennsylvania"

The title track of the upcoming album

Here's roughly how it was made:

I love this photo - I think it would make a great album cover - or at least an insert

Don't Touch Your Ouchy

Got a new song for ya which will be on our kids album - Songs To Annoy.

Coconut & The Duke ~ Don't Touch Your Ouchy

Water Down The Pipes

A new song featured in this week's Contrast Podcast! Click, listen, enjoy.

Thanks Tim!!!

We'll All Be Homemade Boats Someday Download Links

1. Space Dogs

2. On The Horizon (my ideals)

3. Walking The Dog

4. No Jazz

5. Not All Models

6. Extra Pale Dorian

7. The Sound of One Dryer Clapping

8. There's Gonna Be Some Change Coming

9. Patch Adams Brand TM (A1 Sauce)

Zipped up in one file just for you.

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EP Release Date AND Track List

To coincide with April Fools Day, we'll be releasing our 9 song EP "We'll All Be Homemade Boats Someday" on Tuesday, April 1st.

Look for downloadable tunage then


Track List:
1. Space Dogs
2. On The Horizon (my ideals)
3. Walking The Dog
4. No Jazz
5. Not All Models
6. Extra Pale Dorian
7. The Sound of One Dryer Clapping
8. There's Gonna Be Some Change Coming
9. Patch Adams Brand TM (A1 Sauce)

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Doggie Eat Noodles

Coconut and I have decided to start a blog to showcase the music we create. First track is one of Duke Jr.'s favorite.


Doggies Eat Noodles