WANNA BUY SOME SNAKE OIL?

It's been a while since Neil had a song posted on the blog, but here is the latest, just in time for the US election.  Click HERE to listen.

What needs to be said? 

An antipodean response to the lunacy that is the Trump "campaign". 

Peter Reid on drums, 

Mick Nadin on harmonica, 

Kerry Hynes on vocal 

Neil Porter on vocal, bass, guitars and production 

Snake Oil 

©2016 Neil Porter 

Mean Mr Mustard 

Got his foot in the door 

I don’t understand 

What you opened it for 

Drop your guard 

And he’ll walk right in 

Oozing that snake oil 

On everything 

Chorus: 

Snake oil, snake oil 

Come and get your snake oil 

And you’ll stay alive 

Til a hundred and ten 

Snake oil, snake oil 

Buy my fine snake oil 

Gonna make you richer 

Than you’ve ever been 

Mass hypnosis 

Wild tirade 

He’s got all the skills 

Of the snake oil trade 

Big on slogans 

Small on hands 

Gonna make America 

Snake again 

Chorus

Money on the counter 

He’ll give us all a case 

Snake oil man 

In a snake oil race 

Drop your guard 

And he’ll walk right in 

Oozing that snake oil 

On everything 

Chorus

Gonna make you richer 

Gonna make you richer 

Gonna make you richer 

Than you’ve ever been 

Snake oil, snake oil 

Gonna make you richer 

Than you’ve ever been

KERRY HYNE'S SWEET DEBUT........'SUGAR'

'Round about August 2016 Kerry Hynes strolled into The Shed. We knew Kerry as one of the regular crowd who used to hang out at Figz Gigz at the fabled Cheeky Mango. 

Anyway, in she came, and before long was fronting up to a mic adding backing vocals to this and that. 

Next thing we knew she came in with some lyrics for a song she called Sugar. We added a pinch of blues, a spoonful of swing, and it started rising. Tasted pretty sweet. Mick added a dash of harp, Dawson threw in a dollop of the old Resonator, and we thought we pretty much had the ingredients ready to cook. As it happened, groovemaster Ken was lurking. You want swing ? 

We set a date for recording, and figured that we should have a crack at a totally live take. And that is pretty much exactly what happened..........a warm up, then one shot, two shots, and THIS is what came out - second time through. Sugar ? Sweet !! 

Well done Kerry ! Great debut. Welcome to the PBGB Family ma'am ! You nailed it. You can read a bit about Kerry's past musical exploits by clicking HERE