Cheatin Side of Town, Kelly James Barker and Kinley Taylor Rice

I really enjoy listening to songs from my friend Kelly James Barker. Nice easy-listening with good Country Music!

Amy Carver and Kelly James Barker, Truman Lake Opry

Old favourites given the Kelly James Barker treatment.

The Honkytonk Man, Kelly James Barker

Kelly Lee James, She Called Me Baby All Night Long, Country Classic,

It's always a real pleasure to listen to songs from my friend Kelly James Barker and his band. Good Country Music!

We All Need Our Heroes Colin Gordon Farleigh

This is the song that I'm planning to sing at my audition for Britain's Got Talent on December 8th. The next few weeks will be spent pushing the words into my memory! (LOL)

We All Need Our Heroes Colin Gordon Farleigh

Please help me to promote this video by going to YouTube and checking it out. This is one of the songs from my new album "SECOND CHANCES" 

Thank you! 

Second Chances Promo

We All Need Our Heroes Colin Gordon Farleigh

Darren Mullan Forever Friend

This is my song which won the Akademia Music Award for "Best Country Song" for April 2018. A great job made of my song by Darren Mullan​ who also produced and recorded the song in Adelaide.

What Did You Mean - Lauralei

Another great song from song-writing duo Colin Gordon-Farleigh and Greg Scheer, sung by the fabulous Lauralei. This song is one of eleven great songs from her debut album, "Questions" which is available to download from CD Baby, iTunes and Amazon. Check it out today.

'Momma Knew How To Pray' - Gary McCray

Like Country Music? Well, here's a gteat song from my good friend Gary McCray for you to enjoy, over and over again.

Wild Horses (Beneath the Raging Moon) - Byron J Bryce

Time to enjoy a bit of real Country Music and set your feet a-tapping! A great song for line-dancing to.

THE HAPPY SONG

Have a really happy day today!

'QUESTIONS' sung by Lauralei

Requiem for a Friend

I recently lost my good friend, Barbara, for whom I was named as next-of-kin, as I also was for her late husband Gordon, who passed away almost four years ago. She was quite severely disabled, and I was her main carer, along with my wife, for the last few years. In that position you get very close to folk, and so you can imagine the huge loss that my wife and I have felt over the demise of them both.
Recently I wrote a requiem for Barbara to record my feelings and help in the grieving process. Today I would like to share it with you all. 
Maybe it will help someone else who is grieving for a lost loved one. I hope so.

Lauralei: Latest News! Just 5 more days to the release date!

Only five more days to the release date for Lauralei's debut album, "Questions" which is being released on the SJM label next Tuesday, 31st March.
Likened to Norah Jones, Lauralei sings with the soul of a jazz singer, with songs that will reach down into your heart and make you sigh for more. What an amazing talent this singer has! Watch out for the promo video here, next Tuesday.
In the meantime, here's another track from the album to give you a taste of what's to come.

Lauralei sings "Where Did You Go?" from the album "Questions"

Lauralei to release debut album, "Questions", on the SJM label.

Beautiful young woman, beautiful voice, beautiful soul. Keep a watch out for the debut album being released on 31st March by Lauralei. Eleven love-songs with lyrics by Colin Gordon-Farleigh and music by Greg Scheer, the album has been arranged and produced in Nashville by the talented Dave Demay at Song City Studios.

St John's Presbyterian Church, Runcorn, now a building site.

On the Demise of St John’s, Runcorn

Here, in the sepulchred silence of the dying day,

A hundred years of passing saints have trod;

Some walking proud, some falling on their knees,

But all of them to spend some time with God.

Here, amidst the glory of pitch-pine and lofty height,

They worshipped in the morning and at night.

Where, Sunday by Sunday,

The people prayed,

And the organ played;

Where hymns were sung in unison,

Supported by the choir in their stalls ―

But that’s not all.

Out on the Bowling Green

Where once at Summer Fete

The woods were seen,

It’s now a JCB that tears the soil.

Roses, daffodils, forget-me-not,

Have all fallen to the metal scoop

And lie discarded in a dying heap.

Yet I recall, and not so long ago,

The times I stood in crow-black gown,

And looking down

Upon those worshippers who congregated there,

In pew after pew, where saints have sat and sin has trod,

I shared the Word of God.

© 2013 Colin Gordon-Farleigh

Epilogue

The Church has left the building;

And all that now remains

Are memories of those who worshipped here.

Their sadness and elation,

From poor and happy days,

Consigned to conflagration

Or to heaven’s lasting praise.

No more the doors will beckon strangers in

Nor see a white-gowned bride upon the step;

No more the final journey of a friend

Carried shoulder-high at their life’s end.

I stand amid the dust and desolation,

Where pitch-pine pews once gleamed;

And gaze at the vacant windows

Where once the morning sunrays beamed

Upon the people praying to their God.

Yet now, in all its shattered glory,

There is a strange twist to this story,

Where once were Easter bonnets, gloves and hats,

Residing in the sanctuary of the tower

Is a colony of bats.

© 2014 Colin Gordon-Farleigh

Aberystwyth: My Theological "Alma Mater"

I attended the Theological College at Aberystwyth prior to entering full-time ministry with the Presbyterian Church of Wales. The College is to the left (see arrow) of the picture above, the buildings to the right being University of Wales buildings.

 Before breakfast, after lunch and in the evening, we would invariably stretch our legs walking along the seafront promenade, walking to the end where we would "kick the bar."

 Some days, especially if we had made the mistake of eating college 'Spotted Dick & Custard' at lunchtime, we would need a greater amount of exercise and would climb the hill, which was quite a strenuous climb, but worth it once you got to the top. 

At night the front was brightly lit by the light streaming from the hotels that hosted the town's holiday visitors.

 Turning left out of the college and walking a short distance along the promenade, you come to the ruins of Aberystwyth Castle, a pleasant place to sit and contemplate the days instruction. 

My memories of my college days are amongst the best memories that I have, partly because of the reason that I was there, partly due to the people whom I was at college with, and partly because Aberystwyth itself endeared herself to me.