Craig Cothren's Reel

Rock song about the joys of getting off work and on your Harley. Music video being shot on September 11, 2014. Then will be edited with special effects using Adobe After Affects

Many of us in the Mercy Sakes Band know we will not have much luck getting into human heaven so, as a group we decided maybe we can get into doggie heaven so, I wrote the lyrics and our producer, 5 time Grammy nominee Fred Bogert of BriarPatch studios here in Louisville, KY agreed to sing it as well as recorded. Being a band of liars, cheats and thieves we told them we all had the flu.

Ok so the Mercy Sakes Band was going through a phase of writing songs that are fun to perform but a little to out there to make on the radio. What do you think? Does it make you laugh. Picture a Harley guy being ordered around to get where we were coming from one day when we recorded this. It is on our album on iTunes and cdbaby.com album, Fun Songs for Fun People.

Written melody for a possible car chase?

Romantic melody

Blue grass song by almost everyone in the studio band, Mercy Sakes Band. Our album, Fun Songs for Fun People is on iTunes, CDbaby, Spotify, Pandora, Rhapsody etc. On iTunes or CDbaby.com just type in Mercy Sakes Band in the store and you will be taken to a page where you can listen to some of the songs we have done for free.

Banjo County, tennessee is an example of a "all hands on desk" song. Just about everyone involved with the Mercy Sakes studio band played or sang on this one.Country artist Vince Gil's former fiddle player also played on Banjo County. Even though recent articles say Louisville, KY is one of the ten most miserable cities to live in because of 1. poor economic out look, 2.our humid summer weather and 3. very cold winters, we do produce great music. This is a song we did for the Blue Grass music market.

Klein and I were seeing how many different things we could use as slides while playing a Banjo. We tired jumper cables, lug wrenches of different sizes, glass milk bottles, all sorts of items. Wwe did not have any interest in learning how to play a banjo. So we bought a Bangar. A Bangar has a guitar neck and a banjo bottom. We were able to stay ignorant and still get the banjo sound we wanted for the song Banjo County, Tennessee .

Banjo County is a song I wrote lyrics for while fellow producer Fred Bogert of Briar Patch Studios, Louisville, created a great melody plus hired the female session singer. My frequent co-song writer Klein Thornton also helped with the lyrics. No, Banjo County is not a real place. It is just a place I made up early one Sunday morning.

Harley-Time is a song about how great it is to just get on your Harley and ride.