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Montreux Part Trois


Montreux Part Deux


Live in Montreux, Part 1


I’m Not Very PC

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I am not very PC. In fact my father used to say of me that I only opened my mouth to change […]

Apples and Lemons

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The Apple Don’t Fall

Over the years I have been a sucker for the slick sales pitch. I guess I am habitually  looking […]

What’s in a Name?

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I Want to Be Like Jesus
Linda McCrary introduced me to this song about 15 years ago. She and her family would […]

HMJ or Robbo Part 2

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When I moved to America I saw myself as a singer-songwriter/bluesy guitar player. My songs were about life…. […]

WWLD

What Would Love Do?

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Have you ever seen those bracelets WWJD? I hate those things. It’s a bit like having a fish sticker […]

Who’ll Save Elliott?

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“I get no satisfaction when I see a good man fall, one who was so tall.”
This week, in the US we […]

True Champions

True Champions

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Walking with You (c) 2007 Chris Falson
I wrote and produced this song for the Avon Foundation to help promote the […]

Treasure?

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 It’s funny how sayings or proverbs get lost in translation….. or intentionally misconstrued to win an argument.Like….. “for money is the root […]

The Making of a Man

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There are some things…. incidences….. accidents….. circumstances over which we have no control or say. There are words […]

The Moment

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(c) 2007 This Amazing Grace, Chris Falson
Early 2007 a writer/producer with whom I often work called to […]

Purple Moon on Clouds

Purple Moon on Clouds
(c) 2007 Chris Falson

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One night, laying in bed, my wife and I looked out through the frame […]

Writer’s Block?

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How Long (c) 2007 Chris Falson
Being a writer, whether it’s music or other could seem like a glamorous way […]

Use Words if You Have To

Use Words if You Have To
(c) 2007 Chris Falson

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Saint Francis in Prayer, by El Greco 1580 C/O Joslyn Art Museum
Saint […]

I am of No Faith

Faith
(c) 1997 Chris Falson

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I am of no faith….. no faith in particular that is.
I remember the first day at school (aged […]

Season for Goodbye

Season for Goodbye
(c) 2003 Chris Falson
During the fall of 2003 I was writing one piece of music after another (songs, themes, stings etc) for a music publisher who had a deal with the networks. I was churning them out, often writing one or two a day…. I am not saying they were all ‘good’….. […]

The Climb

The Climb
There is an old saying that goes something like this….. “Consider it a gift when tests and challenges come at you from all sides because under this kind of pressure the real you is forced out into the open…. and your faith, your real faith, (not what you say you believe) will be […]

Unconditional Love

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It is said that “love covers a multitude of sins”… or wrongs….. or mistakes….. or errors in judgment….. or words ill spoken […]

A Brief History

A Brief History
I was born and bred in Sydney, Australia and after an unsuccessful tertiary education I was ‘apprenticed’ by my father into the music business. This was 1977. Over the next 14 years, playing guitar, bass (and some trumpet and keys) in clubs, theaters, orchestras pits, recording and TV studios, schools, concert […]

Not Feeling Myself

Several years ago Disney produced a remake of Freaky Friday starring Jaimie Lee Curtis. The music supervisor was having trouble obtaining the rights to a John Mayer song and so the call went around to songwriters and artists (like me) who had a JM vibe. The premise of the movie (just in case you […]

A jack of many trades, master of None

Chris Falson is an Australian born singer-songwriter living and working in LA. He is, in his own words “a jack of many trades, master of none”…..making a living as a songwriter, studio musician, touring artist, published author and teacher, father of two and husband of one. These past few years he has been making […]