Mideast Midwest
Recorded live and totally improvised...I introduced guitarist, Erkan Ogur, to the violin player, Randy Sabien five minutes before the performance.  Randy had never heard any of the songs before...  I just told him what key it was...we all had a musical conversation that night!

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Night Rider  copyright 1979 Robert 'One-Man' Johnson
I travel by the stars moonlight lights my way / I travel by the stars moonlight lights my way / I'm a nightrider can't stand the light of day?When you ride by night you don't see where you been / When you ride by night you don't see where you been / So there's no regret when the passion passes on again / chorus:  / I come sneakin', creepin' slippin, slidin' silently on my way / Gonna grip you, grab you, gonna stun you, gonna stab you / ‘Til the sun lights up the day / I'm a night rider you're never gonna see my face / Make no mistake...it was me, / I spent the evening at your place / You'll never see me when I go sneakin' by / You'll never see me when I go sneakin' by / but you'll feel my touch know my mournful cry / chorus:

Iki Keklik (Two Birds) Instrumental  copyright 1989 Erkan Ogur

Crazy With the Blues  copyright, 1986 Robert 'One-Man' Johnson 
Crazy with the blues I'm so mixed up because I'm / Crazy with the blues / Can't be fixed up because my love you have refused / I'm going crazy with the blues / Crazy with the blues you got me crying cuz I'm / Crazy with the blues / There's no denying it's your love I hate to lose / Tonight I'm crazy with the blues / Time is passin' on I'm gettin' older had to / Put some glasses on / It's getting colder, looks like / winter's comin' on / Tonight I'm crazy with the blues / Such a pain inside I'd like to run, / I'd like to find a place to hide / I've never had the blues this deep, this long, this wide / Tonight I'm crazy with the blues

Poison Love  copyright, 1984 Robert 'One-Man' Johnson
Poison love / Danger in the touch of  Poison love / Caught within the clutches / No one thinks of safety first / Can't quite seem to quench their thirst  for poison love /Poison love / People runnin' scared from Poison love / People in despair / It brings the world down to its knees / A one-track mind on the disease poison love called Poison love  / Even young-in-heart find  Poison love / Stopped before they've started / There's no way to ease the pain / All to lose what can you gain? Poison love

Streamlined Baby  copyright 1988 Robert 'One-Man' Johnson
Baby is streamlined deadly to the touch / Baby is streamlined you can touch but not too much / Such a low coefficient of drag makes me do that rag, rag rag / Baby is streamlined skin as smooth as silk / Baby is streamlined sweet like malted milk
Such a low coefficient of drag / Makes me do the streamlined rag
  / Techni-co-logically she's state of the art / Aer-o-dynamically an arrow to my heart / Baby is streamlined every brick in place / Baby is streamlined like a ship from outer-space / Such a low coefficient of drag / Makes me do that rag, rag, rag / Top-i-co-graphically her contours are divine / Ecstatic electricity bout to make me lose my mind / Baby is streamlined skin as smooth as silk / Baby is streamlined sweet like malted milk / Such a low coefficient of drag / Makes me do the streamlined rag

Mor Daglar (Purple Mountains) Instrumental  copyright 1989 Erkan Ogur

Ancient Aegean  copyright 1985 Robert 'One-Man' Johnson
Ancient Aegean western wind blowing / Wavewash my mind clean new thoughts are flowing / Ageless Aegean castle afire / Youthful renewal revive my desire / Immersed in your water nourished by what you will give me / On your shores I'm delivered, deliciously shivered / And cooled in the heat of the day / Ancient Aegean ghosts of your footsteps / Mingle with madness in the wine of your blue depths / Ageless Aegean amphorae lie waiting / Filled with the past tense in all you're creating / As I lie in your seascape my mind keeps escaping the present / Drifting backwards and forwards and spiraling downwards, / I sink in the sands on the shore of the shore / Ancient Aegean cloudless yet star full / Ageless Aegean catching your net full

When?  copyright, 1987 Robert 'One-Man' Johnson
When? when they gonna get it together? / When? when they gonna cut the conflict? / Just like you and me all people should be free / But lines on maps get drawn the madness lingers / On and on and on and on / When? When they they gonna trust each other? / When? When they gonna join their hands? / The leaders of this world have battle flags unfurled / They make a lotta noise / Play with deadly toys and boys are dying daily / When? When they gonna see the future? / When will they see what's going down? / A time of tribulation between the mighty nations / Petrol jets are flying / Watch the third world die, as children cry with hunger / When?

Istanbul Gray  copyright, 1985 Robert 'One-Man' Johnson
Another day, Istanbul gray I wish the gray would go away / I wish the sun would run the clouds from the sky / One more minute, one more hour a hint of sun then a shower / Just when I thought there was a chance to dance in the street / Muddy streets, Istanbul gray I need to leave, there's no way / Trapped indoors with these four walls closing in / But wait a minute, something's new / Sweet fresh breeze blowin through / My mood has changed from sour to sweet / Someone walkin' in the street / Rain has washed the dirt away / Kids have all come out to play / I think I'll go outside for a while / But wait a minute, feel that wind / A Russian cold front rushin' in / Black Sea blues are comin' down / A brutal breeze is freezin' up this town / Another day, Istanbul gray / The weatherman says it's here to stay / The sky is black, and I'm back in the blues once again

Dancing Through Life  copyright, 1988 Robert 'One-Man' Johnson
Eagle rockin' down the road  / Contemplatin' seeds I sowed / Eagle rockin down the road / Soft-shoe shufflin' up and down the street / I smile at everybody that I meet / Soft-shoe shufflin down the street / Gonna dance the clouds out of the sky  / Gonna smile a smile / And wink an eye  / And dance the clouds from the sky / chorus: / If you want to be free here's what you gotta do / Consider the things I am singin' to you / But if you disagree with the things that I say / Choose your own blues, but don't get in my way / Gonna walk the dog, gonna do the do / Gonna strut my stuff, gonna hootchie koo / Gonna walk the dog and do the do / Gonna live my life, gonna sing my song / And light some lights and right some wrongs / Gonna live my life and sing my song / chorus:

Freeway Madness  copyright, 1981 Robert 'One-Man' Johnson
My mind is spinnin' round and round I don't know what to do / Been out on this road so long, gotta get back to you / I got that freeway madness freeway madness / Freeway madness feeling like a fool / Gotta get back, gotta get back home to you / I don't know why I left my home to head out on the road / Was it a wild goose callin or some oats I had to sow? / No it was freeway madness freeway madness / Freeway madness feelin like a fool / Gotta get back,gotta get back home to you / Gotta get backgotta get backgotta get back get back gotta get back / Gotta get backgotta get back get back home to you / Gotta get back gotta get back gotta get back get back gotta get back / Gotta get backgotta get back get back home to youTurnpike hitchhike/headlight/redlight /flashlight in my eyes / Broken law and a broken jaw state trooper twice my size / It was freeway madness freeway madness / Freeway madness feelin like a fool / Gotta get back,gotta get back home to you / Gotta get backgotta get backgotta get back get back gotta get back / Gotta get backgotta get back get back home to you / Gotta get backgotta get backgotta get back get back gotta get back / Gotta get backgotta get back get back home to you / Mommy daddy sister brother what am I doin here? Shut my mouth I'm headin south I realized the fear, the fear of / Freeway madness/ freeway madness / Freeway madness, feelin like a fool / Gotta get back, gotta get back home to you