The Songwriter's Scrapbook

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I could ask the same question that Leonard Cohen poses to Hank in Tower Of Song. I too would await his response.

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“You’re hard to describe and categorize. You’re a burst of color and then a surprise.” Jack Charles and the Musical Partners In Crime performing Love You Strange, a tune that fuses Rock and Tango.

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A love song for the dystopian world we live in.

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I wish you could hear what this sounds like. Perhaps we will come together and soon make the sound and vision one.

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A teaser excerpt from the lyric of my upcoming new single Let You Shine

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I’ll allow my songs to speak for me.

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Excerpt from “Somewhere In The Universe”

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Portion of the “ I Want You Free “ song lyric

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An artist ultimately expresses what’s inside at the moment of creation. And right now I just can’t write a happy song.

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“I dragged the corpse across the sand. 

I drew a line across this land.

Somewhere between the living and dead 

I tossed the crown upon my head.”

Excerpt from “The Line” by Jack Charles

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Life is the ultimate countdown.

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Music is the heartbeat of human culture.

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Truth is everywhere but so very hard to find.

Jack Charles

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Watch the new live performance video for my BURN single. https://youtu.be/5e-eg0h9PAY If you like it please subscribe to my YouTube channel 

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David Bowie introduced me to Sorrow by The Merseys on the Pinups album long ago. Here goes my cover of his cover complete with a whistled version of Bowie’s sax solo.

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“There’s a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”

Leonard Cohen