Asha ~ Guitar Boy

Track Listing

1. As tears go by 2.37
2. Bring it on home to me 3.24
3. Black is the colour 4.12
4. Don't think twice 3.58
5. Dust in the wind 3.39
6. If I had a hammer 3.12
7. Tomorrow is a long time 2.33
8. Hallelujah 4.29
9. My old pain 3.28
10. Nights in white satin 4.20
11. Where have all the flowers gone? 4.16
12. When a man loves a woman 3.47
13. Scarborough fair 3.44
14. Please don't me be misunderstood 3.33
15. Riding in my car 3.05
16. The ballad of the crystal man 2.31
17. Bird of paradise 3.45

Total running time 60.33

I have composed and recorded over 30 albums of my own songs since 1987, originally new-age instrumental pieces and piano vignettes, but mostly higher love songs in a folk-rock style!

I have also produced several albums of cover versions in that time, where I sing some of my favourite songs by other artists. All of my songs are available on my website (www.ashaquinn.com), and many are on Spotify, Bandcamp, Soundcloud, Amazon, i-tunes etc.

I also make my own YouTubes, and, currently in 2024, have made over 550 films to these songs! With this album, though, I just wanted to sing ‘raw’ and unplugged, and film them like that, too! So I took my acoustic guitar, and occasionally a mouth-organ, foot-tambourine and a simple foot-tap into the studio to record, and out into nature to film!!
Invariably (but not exclusively) these are songs that inspired me as a kid, and there are many more... enough for a volume 2 and beyond! Bob Dylan & Leonard Cohen were particular inspirations for me, and it’s taken all this time for me to feel bold enough to just ‘do it raw’ like they did originally, as opposed to fully orchestrating the songs in the studio... just to do Picasso line drawings in music, as it were.

As a kid, I’d sit on my bed and try to work out how to play the guitar and sing like they did, and that’s what began a great musical adventure! I was never into ‘sounds’, genres or styles, it was the minstrel thing that got to me, to be a story-teller in song, like the troubador amongst the Grail Knights... the poet, bard or chronicler of the day’s events!
Music has an immense spiritual, healing power; the power to move mountains in the soul! I could never simply be a consumer and listen. Music moved me so much I had to respond! I tended to like the more melancholy major-to-minor ballads, but also stirring anthemic, feel-good songs!

As a song-writer myself, I write to heal my own heart and simply to share. I do it for God, love and art... to imprint beauty, goodness and truth into the Akashic records. These great song-writers that I cover are themselves poets of the moment... signposts to beauty along the endless trail.