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  marklberry


JOINED:1 year ago
PROGRESS:9  9 songs
LOCATION:St. Louis, MO USA
WEBSITE:www.pushingleavestowardsthesun.com
INFLUENCES:80's Indie Folk Rock, if there is such a thing.

 
BIO:

Some of you know me already. I'm an airline pilot and a creative writing grad student entering my last semester to obtain an MFA this winter. I write stories and the lyrics to companion songs, then turn to you all, my musical genius friends, to write the music and record the finished tunes. I have dabbled on the music side as I love all forms of art. 10 songs I've co-written with FAWMers were published with my stories in issues of Airways, AOPA Flight Training, and TARPA Topics magazines.

I will be attending this August's FAWMstock and looking forward to meeting a bunch of you in person.

Let's make some more success together!

Cheers! MLB

Songs: 9            ( + = Songs posted by a different Songwriter that you Collaborated on.)
Title Collaborators Comments Post date
1 A Secret Between You and Me
Lyrics Only
NSFW
 1 46 weeks 10 hours
2 My Tequila (for Cleveland Brown's screenplay...
Donated Dreamscuba 1 45 weeks 4 days
3 Cathedral Steps
linkfav
 Errol 7 45 weeks 2 days
4 Anaphylactic Shock Reaction
Demo
Donated kristian
adamhill
 4 43 weeks 1 day
5 Dirty Cop
link
 segers41 1 41 weeks 6 days
6 You Laugh When you Cry
feast
 2 39 weeks 3 days
7 + ALL FOR MORE DILITHIUM (a future pirate's...
YouTubefav
Donated Eric Distad
Donated Das Binky
Donated john crossman
DonatedWinner sapient
adamhill
Negasi
subjectzero
Donated Jen Distad
Donated marklberry
FAWMstock

Debs 		14 39 weeks 1 day
8 + How crazy you make me
Demo
 Donated marklberry
plainwhitetoast 		3 37 weeks 5 days
9 + The Secret the Darkness Completely Concealed
Demo
 Donated marklberry
plainwhitetoast 		0 34 weeks 3 days

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Fellow Fawmers, I'm here to help you reach your 50/90 goals by providing lyrics. As usual, I'm writing stories to go with each song I co-write and working hard to see that the story and companion song get published somewhere. Looking forward to working with my FAWM friends and making new ones!
Cheers! Mark L Berry
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Donated  Dreamscuba
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34 weeks 3 days ago

Hi Mark,
Apologies for not recording the collab yet...I will be travelling tomorrow till Friday..will try soon.
Thanks,
Simon.

Comment by marklberry
Cool amigo. Check out Toast's and my latest collab "The secret the Darkness Concealed" Cheers! MLB
DonatedWinner  plainwhitetoast
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37 weeks 3 days ago

Howdy!

I just posted up a demo for "How crazy you make me." The liner notes explain what I did with your lyrics. Please add your commentary to the liner notes. Thanks for the lyrics!

Oh, and I haven't had a chance to sit down with "The Secret the Darkness Completely Concealed" but I envisioned it more in a country-death, murder-ballad kind of style. At least that was my feeling after my first read-through. It would make for kind of a long-form punk song... but I'll scrutinize it while listening to "Chainlink" and see. I just think it will work better with a more Americana feel. I'm thinking full-band arrangement though (get drums, bass, lap steel and 6-string guitar in there), not just guy and guitar (though that may be the first demo).

Cheers!
toast

Donated  airbagtester
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38 weeks 3 days ago

Hey Mark, thanks again for the book; I'm about halfway through now (they're at the toll booth in the Jeep) and really digging it. It's neat to read a book starring two fictional musicians instead of having them play second fiddle (sorry for the cheesy play on words :)

Comment by marklberry
Cool. Let me know when you finish it. FAWMstock was a total blast. Cheers! MLB
Debs
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39 weeks 5 days ago

Hi Mark,

One song from the album was posted because it was written during 50/90. The others wouldn't qualify and we wouldn't want to reveal everything prematurely :)

Debs

Donated  Dreamscuba
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43 weeks 3 hours ago

Thanks very much for the comments on Club 339...

Donated  Valerie Cox
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43 weeks 8 hours ago

Mark. Hey! Thanks for taking a little peek at my lyrics. I could probably post a fairly crappy demo of that song, but since it was a collab, I'd hate for for someone else to look bad with me. :)

DonatedWinner  Billy Sea
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43 weeks 13 hours ago

Hey Mark, the bad thing about travel is I get way behind on my songwriting, the great thing is I get to catch up on my song listening and commenting :)

Errol
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44 weeks 4 days ago

Allooo Mark! I will get to singing that. I will! :D

Donated  Dreamscuba
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45 weeks 6 days ago

Hi Mark, thanks very much for the comments on the collab with Monty!! I'll look at the song...ma need to put new music to it...

Winner  musicsongwriter
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46 weeks 7 hours ago

Thank you very much Mark for your beautiful comments on my compositions :)

Donated  Dreamscuba
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46 weeks 1 day ago

Same same...

Winner  musicsongwriter
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46 weeks 4 days ago

Hi Mark. Looking forward to reading your lyrics.
Nadia :)

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