Chris Pendergraft Music Rss

©2022 Chris Pendergraft demo track for new record. We Are Starlight words and music by Chris Pendergraft

©2022 Chris Pendergraft What kind of world is this world coming to? Got no time for love gotta hussle on through Wakeup The nation is waiting anticipating make the bacon Ham and eggs Get through our day make just enough rent to make our way Everybody Knows We in that Hussle aint nobody need that money more than they need to find somebody aint nobody needs that money more than they need to find somebody write that down…in your heart

Awake In Tomorrow by Chris Pendergraft

That's Alright -Hendrix Tribute by Chris Pendergraft

Dragonfly - A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix by Chris Pendergraft

©2021 JC Pendergraft

©2021 JC Pendergraft words and music by chris

for all of my friends who are feeling alone and down I love you all, we will get a better world from all of this chaos.

©2021 Chris Pendergraft for Off-Planet Record Co. words and music written and recorded by Chris Pendergraft SLIP TOO LOW I know you know that these times they are as hard hard as stone, I know you know sometimes we all get down so low so very low deep down to our bones Before I slip to low please just let me know i'm the one you're needing i'm the one you're needing Before I slip to low please just let me know i'm the one you're needing i'm the one you're needing We all get the feeling when the wall keep closing in that this world it is ending some say so be it But we got half a chance to make it out alive But when we're fighting we get paralyzed When up is down and confusion is our bride WE just sit around and think

©2021 Chris Pendergraft for Batu Kura Kura written for the country that bore me, and the world it must become a part of. Revolution Love -words and music by jcpendergraft, offplanet record co. CAN YOU BE READY FOR A CALL SO STRONG THAT IT CHANGES THE SHAPE OF YOUR SOUL CAN YOU BE READY WHEN LOVE CALLS YOUR NAME WHEN YOU KNOW THAT YOU’VE GIVEN CONTROL SOME PEOPLE WAIT FOR A SIGN FROM A MAN WITH A GUN WITH BLOOD ON HIS HANDS SOME PEOPLE WAIT FOR A SIGN THAT NEVER COMES AS ALL THEY LET THE DARKNESS MARCH IN LOOK AT ALL THE PEOPLE MARCHING IN THE STREETS NO ONE IS FR EE UNTIL EVERYONE IS FREE FROM MANY THERE IS ONE A PROMISE WE MAKE TRUE WE CANT TELL OURSELVES THERE IS NOTH ING WE CAN DO The tyranny of this moment can not be overstated As these men throw gas on the fire of hatred They say America was meant to be free as They take our breath, But when we can breath, It is liberty’s death And the fat cats just keep Counting the stacks, Stacks of bones, stacks of cash But we are more then just stats, yah man And as the dead pile up We see that leadership Is not just absent But absence is the plan Absence is the plan And in the absent of a plan we are left on our own Yet we are together in need To fill in the gap that hate could not fill For love is our path For love of our brothers our sisters that is a revelation a light of change OF LOVE to guide us Through this valley of death We will not wander FOR LOVE IS THE REVOLUTION FROM MANY WE ARE ONE

©2021 Chris Pendergraft for Batu Kura Kura So it starts. New album inbound. this song is about LOOOOOOOOVE. https://youtu.be/nQ0NFOauM_M shitty video we did.

©2021 Chris Pendergraft I wrote this Jan 7.

Hey, I know its been a while. 2020 is BS! I have been using my time to finish a novel, to paint and to spend time with my kids and my wifey. I am struggling just like this earth, but in my country 50 million children are food insecure. This really kills me, because my country has no shortage of wealth. This song is about how the current government is burning down the government as they leave. We spend 50% of each tax dollar, and future dollar on defense of the country, yet we don't see this as a national emergency. FEMA will not help, even though this is a natural disaster, that is compounded by some of the worst misinformation that one could imagine coming straight from the top down. ITs INSANE. to live here, now, to watch people refuse to mask, to avoid aggregation, is insane. FAT CATS fat cats, in double dark glass smoking in the dasrk, cuz they know it won't last burn it down down to the ground by the time they put it out we'll be half way out of town. this is the end of the beginning of the world there is no time for us to walk away These are the children see how many mouths that we must feed These are the children We act as though we can't even see Fat cats making off with your stash shaking hands making friends with the money you paid in Can’t win no matter if you grin your teeth are falling out like uncle sam he is a sin Fat cats with double dark glass they smoking in the dark they know it won’t last burn it down down to the ground By the time they put it out we’ll be half way out of town

©2020 JC PENDERGRAFT MUSIC FOR AUDIOBOOK FOR MY NOVEL THE SHADOW KEY

©2020 Redshift, Oakland CA Music by Eric, Chris, Mike and Jonathan Me and the the boys did this shit all remote, have not seen my mates live in 2020, maybe one rehearsal in Jan. Hope you can dig it.

Never Been More Beautiful Words and Music ©2020 Christopher Pendergraft For my wife of 21 years, Kimberly, same last name. She is a true kind-hearted inspiration to me, who has been there for me like I could not even imagine. When we started, we were juts dreams and will, and to see that get shaped into a family is more than this guitar player could have ever dreamed of. Now having a family is not an easy task, the luckiest people still deal with stress, as the Buddha said, life is suffering, but as a young man, I saw no way forward as both an artist and a family man, and thank God I was wrong about my own capabilities. Last night my son told me he wanted to minor in art, he is already teaching himself music now, and that is how it goes, we pass our dreams down like we do our virtues and failings and that is life. So the other day, while working on our front garden next to my studio, I was sure that Kim was more beautiful than the first moment I saw her, because now there is so much more, so much trust and a willingness to take chances, explore options and see the next stage of our lives and our love open up. Same team, same bad, dark sense on humor, same friendship. We are both shit out on work, because of covid 19 and I dont think we have ever spent more time with each other; and its really good. So take a chance on love if it presents it self, It works out if you bet the right horse, it pays out triple. Tripple!! Never Been More Beautiful Words and Music by Christopher Pendergraft for Torchfireheart You and I traded in our youth for a child then there was another Out of the whole cloth of dreams and perspiration we carved a life with each other We left the envy and the smalltalk at the door so we could learn each other And on this fine spring day It this warm clear light Its so clear to me You are like no other You've Never been more beautiful to me take a minute wont you sit by my side You've Never been more beautiful to me take a minute wont you sit by my side I know where I was before I was not lost but you brought more More than my life could ever hope to be You were what I was searching for We built a life Who could need much more more than anyone could ever need You've Never been more beautiful to me take a minute wont you sit by my side You've Never been more beautiful to me take a minute wont you sit by my side

©2020 words and music by Chris Pendergraft Paper route this song is a time/space warp between my current self and the earliest self I can still relate to with in me. Paper route is the visual reference that I need to form a spacial idea that can push time. Its kinda tripy but I need a picture to start a songwriting journey. Those early mornings formed a work ethic I never lost, but it has taken from me more than it has given me as I have missed important moments in the live of my loved ones in pursuit of my career. Ageless story told by a million hallow men and women, Its not worth it. There is no security at the end, it can all be upended, and if we can prove that in this moment, is work what we should really use to define our worth? Has the money ever brough health, or love or anything really important? No. Companies will always, in almost every case, seek profit over people. Time for a world wide rethink on the almighty dollar and its true value. Paper route Ice on the road newspaper morning under the light of a thousand torches As clear as this moment I remeber that sky The stars so bright the moon just a sliver orion the hunter Drifts to its center my and my bicycle sail under the sea of infinity aint’t nothing that clear these days shit drives on fear these wish you were her these days Guess Im doing this anyways Time on my side the wind just a wisper the air so clear it smelled like the winter Nothing in front to ever get in my way on this brand new day aint’t nothing that clear these days Do it right or walk away thats what you used to say Guess Im doing this anyways I used to throw the papers on the poarch for all the people so when they woke them selves They could know of all their evil But they must have never read it because nothing ever changes in this tiny world that is missing perfect places

©2020 Chris Pendergraft for Batu Kura Kura Another one from the lockdown. This is all about the distance we are all feeling right now, My mind is a flood of memories and fear, my wife lost her job, I got put to half time, our government is a joke. All kinds of reasons for people to drink and stay high, but that shit dont work for me and its all about getting past the mind-fuck that is fear. Been married to my girl since 1999, and we have worked through some shit, kids, jobs, deaths and health issues. But this is a crazy kinda shit we have never seen, personally, so we just deal with it like I did my 1st of my 13th back surgeries, or how panicked I was about my first kid, the unknowns are real, but you all made it through every first trauma. So fuck it, be real about how you are feeling, write a song so you can say what it is you fear, and then let the fuck go of that shit. So shit is crazy-beyond measure, and we need to know what we can and can not control, or fear will take over our minds. Peace be with you and may we lose as few people we can. The Earth is some serious shit, its not all MALLS and CAFEs, sometimes its all about just surviving the evil of the day that is here and now. love, Chris

Words and Music ©2020 Chris Pendergraft for BATU KURA KURA So, just like you I've been inside, missing everyone, thinking about what a lesson of interconnection this all is to us. To me, I look at a common, free, healthcare system as the first defense of a nation. Then when you connect that idea to the world, its easy to see this idea should be a global one, not just a national idea. We all need help and I know we are not doing enough to help each other, not everyone of us, some do nothing but sacrifice to others, but a collective just needs to change its priorities to change its course. I live in the United States and the private healthcare we have supported cant support the homeless, and the poor are very unlikely to seek care even when it can be found in the bureaucracy. I know you all know it, but now its not an abstraction, we can see out health is built on the collective health and welfare of all others; we are a colony and we need to take care of each other, not create weapons in space. It's true, we are making weapons in space a priority and we see what happened with a simple virus. We spend half of every tax dollar on defense and we can't get our shit together to help each other right here and now. So the states bypass the feds and its all such a mess, and that comes out of not really taking the health of others as our own health. We are one planet, we must see that or we are doomed like the dinosaurs.

LIVE AT ELECTRIC SPARKEYLAND JUST A STERO ROOM MIC. BOUT TO RECORD THIS RECORD ON SUNDAY 2.16.2020

LIVE AT ELECTRIC SPARKEYLAND JUST A STERO ROOM MIC. BOUT TO RECORD THIS RECORD ON SUNDAY 2.16.2020

LIVE AT ELECTRIC SPARKEYLAND JUST A STERO ROOM MIC. BOUT TO RECORD THIS RECORD ON SUNDAY 2.16.2020

LIVE AT ELECTRIC SPARKEYLAND JUST A STERO ROOM MIC. BOUT TO RECORD THIS RECORD ON SUNDAY 2.16.2020

LIVE AT ELECTRIC SPARKEYLAND JUST A STERO ROOM MIC. BOUT TO RECORD THIS RECORD ON SUNDAY 2.16.2020

LIVE AT ELECTRIC SPARKEYLAND JUST A STERO ROOM MIC. BOUT TO RECORD THIS RECORD ON SUNDAY 2.16.2020

LIVE AT ELECTRIC SPARKEYLAND JUST A STERO ROOM MIC. BOUT TO RECORD THIS RECORD ON SUNDAY 2.16.2020

LIVE AT ELECTRIC SPARKEYLAND JUST A STERO ROOM MIC. BOUT TO RECORD THIS RECORD ON SUNDAY 2.16.2020

©2020 Chris Pendergraft WIP sans vox.

Words and Music & Illustration ©2019 Chris Pendergraft Hand Me Down Blues - Jimi Hendrix Tribute Jimi inspired this track. He is always, and will always be, my guitar teacher. I heard 'Red House' as a teen, facing my first rejection by a girl and he spoke to me like no one had ever spoke to me. From that moment I was hooked and it was that moment I took my music studies with a serious vigor. This song is all about the shit we all carry, that which brings us down is the burden that we carry, and knowing what to carry is the difference between happiness and sorrow. Yah, you can love, but that love can let you down, worse you can let yourself down, so not matter whether you got the world in your hand or not, you got to carry your burden. Sorrow can feel like chaos, screeching guitars and howling wind. So many thoughts swirl round until you can make no sense of your own sense. That's when we are overwhelmed with self, and that is a bad place to stay; so when the burden is too great, it is only us that can throw the dead weight overboard, and give away what makes us sink. Just make sure you don't throw out what is most important to you because you think you are not worthy of the gifts and challenges that the universe has bestowed upon you. The first sections represents the burden, the weight we carry, the chaos it produces. When we focus on the whole we see the problems are sometimes self created, perceptual and even driven by well intended truth seeking. The second section of the song is the realization that we often carry the burdens of others, the expectation of those outside of us. The blues are often the the result of social, financial burdens that we assume to take on a position of a productive member of society, but not ever person fits in a hive mold, and that can cause people to take on work that they have no desire to do, and that can lead to disempowering growth of the soul. Someone working hard to do what they want at the same time helping society brings balance to the energies of life so the right work life balance can be achieved. The third section is the release of those burdens and the feeling of peace and hope for the future that brings. If you think humans need just food and water and air, then you ignore the need for purpose and a life filled with hope. Hope is what we really live on. Seek hope, not happiness. Peace in your lifetime, Christopher Pendergraft

words and music ©2019 CHRIS PENDERGRAFT for BATU KURA KURA (STONE SEA TURTLE) Goodbye To The Sun She is a ghost that I can see that it is her standing in the scene Turn on the spotlight to center stage she is dancing inside a golden cage Had a lover who could not love me But in the end I think I gave her everything I gave her Goodbye to the sun as I watch it drown it sinks so deep into the sea Goodbye the to the light That burned so deep Inside of me

©2019 Chris Pendergraft Out There Waiting

©2004-©2019 Rootbeer Waking Up From the American Dream Michael Blodgett -Drums Danny Simon - Bass Chris Pendergraft - Vocals and Guitar written after the start of the Iraq war. A dark and contemplative album, that was recorded to CD but never released until tonight. My son was just born, a lot of deeper meaning in here now that I have some distance. Thinking in album format starting to develop. Barfight, its music, was really a Danny song. He had left to get his PhD in American history, so we recorded it, and he came back into Oakland to record with Mike and I. Was before Michael had a control booth, total bedroom recording at the vulcan, early protools, very cool, All guitars are models in amplitube. Still use amplitube now live on my iStomp. Anyway thanks for listening.

©2004-©2019 Rootbeer Waking Up From the American Dream Michael Blodgett -Drums Danny Simon - Bass Chris Pendergraft - Vocals and Guitar written after the start of the Iraq war. A dark and contemplative album, that was recorded to CD but never released until tonight. My son was just born, a lot of deeper meaning in here now that I have some distance. Thinking in album format starting to develop. Barfight, its music, was really a Danny song. He had left to get his PhD in American history, so we recorded it, and he came back into Oakland to record with Mike and I. Was before Michael had a control booth, total bedroom recording at the vulcan, early protools, very cool, All guitars are models in amplitube. Still use amplitube now live on my iStomp. Anyway thanks for listening.

©2004-©2019 Rootbeer Waking Up From the American Dream Michael Blodgett -Drums Danny Simon - Bass Chris Pendergraft - Vocals and Guitar written after the start of the Iraq war. A dark and contemplative album, that was recorded to CD but never released until tonight. My son was just born, a lot of deeper meaning in here now that I have some distance. Thinking in album format starting to develop. Barfight, its music, was really a Danny song. He had left to get his PhD in American history, so we recorded it, and he came back into Oakland to record with Mike and I. Was before Michael had a control booth, total bedroom recording at the vulcan, early protools, very cool, All guitars are models in amplitube. Still use amplitube now live on my iStomp. Anyway thanks for listening.

©2004-©2019 Rootbeer Waking Up From the American Dream Michael Blodgett -Drums Danny Simon - Bass Chris Pendergraft - Vocals and Guitar written after the start of the Iraq war. A dark and contemplative album, that was recorded to CD but never released until tonight. My son was just born, a lot of deeper meaning in here now that I have some distance. Thinking in album format starting to develop. Barfight, its music, was really a Danny song. He had left to get his PhD in American history, so we recorded it, and he came back into Oakland to record with Mike and I. Was before Michael had a control booth, total bedroom recording at the vulcan, early protools, very cool, All guitars are models in amplitube. Still use amplitube now live on my iStomp. Anyway thanks for listening.

©2004-©2019 Rootbeer Waking Up From the American Dream Michael Blodgett -Drums Danny Simon - Bass Chris Pendergraft - Vocals and Guitar written after the start of the Iraq war. A dark and contemplative album, that was recorded to CD but never released until tonight. My son was just born, a lot of deeper meaning in here now that I have some distance. Thinking in album format starting to develop. Barfight, its music, was really a Danny song. He had left to get his PhD in American history, so we recorded it, and he came back into Oakland to record with Mike and I. Was before Michael had a control booth, total bedroom recording at the vulcan, early protools, very cool, All guitars are models in amplitube. Still use amplitube now live on my iStomp. Anyway thanks for listening.

©2004-©2019 Rootbeer Waking Up From the American Dream Michael Blodgett -Drums Danny Simon - Bass Chris Pendergraft - Vocals and Guitar written after the start of the Iraq war. A dark and contemplative album, that was recorded to CD but never released until tonight. My son was just born, a lot of deeper meaning in here now that I have some distance. Thinking in album format starting to develop. Barfight, its music, was really a Danny song. He had left to get his PhD in American history, so we recorded it, and he came back into Oakland to record with Mike and I. Was before Michael had a control booth, total bedroom recording at the vulcan, early protools, very cool, All guitars are models in amplitube. Still use amplitube now live on my iStomp. Anyway thanks for listening.

©2004-©2019 Rootbeer Waking Up From the American Dream Michael Blodgett -Drums Danny Simon - Bass Chris Pendergraft - Vocals and Guitar written after the start of the Iraq war. A dark and contemplative album, that was recorded to CD but never released until tonight. My son was just born, a lot of deeper meaning in here now that I have some distance. Thinking in album format starting to develop. Barfight, its music, was really a Danny song. He had left to get his PhD in American history, so we recorded it, and he came back into Oakland to record with Mike and I. Was before Michael had a control booth, total bedroom recording at the vulcan, early protools, very cool, All guitars are models in amplitube. Still use amplitube now live on my iStomp. Anyway thanks for listening.

©2004-©2019 Rootbeer Waking Up From the American Dream Michael Blodgett -Drums Danny Simon - Bass Chris Pendergraft - Vocals and Guitar written after the start of the Iraq war. A dark and contemplative album, that was recorded to CD but never released until tonight. My son was just born, a lot of deeper meaning in here now that I have some distance. Thinking in album format starting to develop. Barfight, its music, was really a Danny song. He had left to get his PhD in American history, so we recorded it, and he came back into Oakland to record with Mike and I. Was before Michael had a control booth, total bedroom recording at the vulcan, early protools, very cool, All guitars are models in amplitube. Still use amplitube now live on my iStomp. Anyway thanks for listening.

©2004-©2019 Rootbeer Waking Up From the American Dream Michael Blodgett -Drums Danny Simon - Bass Chris Pendergraft - Vocals and Guitar written after the start of the Iraq war. A dark and contemplative album, that was recorded to CD but never released until tonight. My son was just born, a lot of deeper meaning in here now that I have some distance. Thinking in album format starting to develop. Barfight, its music, was really a Danny song. He had left to get his PhD in American history, so we recorded it, and he came back into Oakland to record with Mike and I. Was before Michael had a control booth, total bedroom recording at the vulcan, early protools, very cool, All guitars are models in amplitube. Still use amplitube now live on my iStomp. Anyway thanks for listening.

©2004-©2019 Rootbeer Waking Up From the American Dream Michael Blodgett -Drums Danny Simon - Bass Chris Pendergraft - Vocals and Guitar written after the start of the Iraq war. A dark and contemplative album, that was recorded to CD but never released until tonight. My son was just born, a lot of deeper meaning in here now that I have some distance. Thinking in album format starting to develop. Barfight, its music, was really a Danny song. He had left to get his PhD in American history, so we recorded it, and he came back into Oakland to record with Mike and I. Was before Michael had a control booth, total bedroom recording at the vulcan, early protools, very cool, All guitars are models in amplitube. Still use amplitube now live on my iStomp. Anyway thanks for listening.

©2004-©2019 Rootbeer Waking Up From the American Dream Michael Blodgett -Drums Danny Simon - Bass Chris Pendergraft - Vocals and Guitar written after the start of the Iraq war. A dark and contemplative album, that was recorded to CD but never released until tonight. My son was just born, a lot of deeper meaning in here now that I have some distance. Thinking in album format starting to develop. Barfight, its music, was really a Danny song. He had left to get his PhD in American history, so we recorded it, and he came back into Oakland to record with Mike and I. Was before Michael had a control booth, total bedroom recording at the vulcan, early protools, very cool, All guitars are models in amplitube. Still use amplitube now live on my iStomp. Anyway thanks for listening.

©2019 BATU KURA KURA A Track the band wrote as a unit.

The Forgotten Moment At The Edge Of Knowing pt.1 words and music and performance by Chris Pendergraft ©2019 OFFPLANET RECORD CO. Dedicated to David Gilmore, who I adore as a person and as my teacher. Thank you David. Take some comfort in the sun Now that the rain has come Everything is beautiful The cloud I say they tell no lies The sing a song of sunset's perfect light and along we stare back in laughter Light and Shadow in perfect balance At the edge of evermore Time it seems our only teacher As we walk towards fading shadows

Words and Music ©2018 Chris Pendergraft

Words and music ©2018 Chris Pendergraft She fights a fight That only a few shall see In a world gone mad She is sanity Its not what they say Its only what they see Angels on a pin, in every shadown of history Hand Me the skeleton key Open the doors I’ve burried so deeply Ordinary men are drawn into her light Every mother knows her name in every language for all of time She is love She is love Its not what they say Its only what they see Angels on a pin, in every shadown of history Hand Me the skeleton key Open the doors I’ve burried so deeply Hopelessly waiting for yesterday’s promise but the car never came up the drive But there still time to unlock the future But you must remember to drive drive drive

Words and music ©2018 Chris Pendergraft

©2018 Chris Pendergraft for Torchfireheart for one of my most dear of friends.

©2016 Chris Pendergraft Dig Down Deep She sits upon her stoop Stuck in memories that she'd never faced Once were thorns But now are butterflies She tries to let them go, up above Across The setting sky Once were thorns but now are butterflies What it me? was it me? what it just a bad dream? Will it overtake me like some disease? Will it break me? Once were thorns but now are butterflies I can see I can see that its all within me but only the truth can set me free I'm big enough to climb from here to Hell I used to think, That memories Were like razorblades, The deeper that you dig, the more you gonna bleed But now I see the truth will set us free From repeating' all our History That's why we all gotta dig down deep That's why we all gotta dig down deep

©2018 BATU KURA KURA BATU Rehearsal 4-17-18 1. She's A Killer 2.Circle of Stars 3.Can't Cut Deep Enough BATU KURA KURA is: Kyle Pesonen on Drums Steve Davy on bg vox & Bass Michael Blodgett Lead guitar Chris Pendergraft Vox & Guitar