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Too Little Money Not Enough Time
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This up-tempo bottleneck Blues is played on a self-made resophonic junk/art guitar. The recording is a single-take "live" mono capture via an iPhone and edited to a stereo file.
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Folk/Blues songwriter/singer/storyteller/fingerpicker/bottleneck slider/harmonica huffer/sawplayer/washboard scrubber/Gadget maker
Reggie Miles... Songwriter, Singer, Storyteller, Slide Guitarist and Sawplayer Turns trash into musical treasure, his own homemade Nobro resophonic guitars, constructed from repurposed junk culled from garage sales, swap meets, thrift stores... Earthy vocals, Delta style bottleneck slidin' and the rhythmic moans of harmonica combine, while foot stompin' abounds, to create an Acoustic Roots Blues sound as authentic as you'll hear north of the Mason Dixon Line. An aficionado of storytelling, tall tales are intricately woven effortlessly into the fabric of music and songs A Folk/Blues fingerpicker of whimsical found and self-penned songs A virtuoso in the musical folk art of bowed hand saw melodies. An award winning songwriter, recording and performance artist who has gained multinational media attention via recent compositions like, "Wall Street Bailout Blues". Featured in a half dozen documentary film and video projects, on the recordings of more than a dozen Northwest artists, in addition to 21 self produced recordings since 1995. What others are saying about Reggie Miles... "Channeled Bukka White, Furry Lewis, Robert Johnson, Ken Kesey, and Salvadore Dali." (Brian G) "Traditional bluesie - brilliant... A mixture of Bluesey, jazzy, juggy, eclectic stuff... Solid" (Rick Fielding) "Shel Silverstein meets Leonard Cohen" (Anon) "Country blues with a novelty twist....a down home gravely voice and a driving slide guitar." (Chris Lunn, Victory Music Review) "I've been to LA. I've been to New York. I've been to San Francisco, Chicago, Memphis, Kansas City and New Orleans and I have never heard anybody like you!" (Anon) "Tom Waits meets Screamin' Jay Hawkins. Great music!" (Chris) "Reggie Miles in my humble opinion is great! It just does not get any better than this. What a talent! Oh, and by the way, I love the sound of that 'resonator guitar' he uses!" (Ron Ryan, Ghost writer for The Dave Clark Five) "One part Sonny Terry, one part Tiny Tim, three parts Mister T" (Amos Jessup) "Extremely entertaining and downright fun! Wonderfully wacky... Reggie Miles has succeeded in capturing the vaudevillian essence of depression era blues. Amazingly eerie, bizarre, interpretations featuring Reggie playing a saw." (Diane Wells)
Song Info
Genre
Blues • Acoustic Blues
Charts
#425 today Peak #8
#62 in subgenre Peak #3
Author
Reggie Miles
Rights
2022 Reggie Miles
Uploaded
November 14, 2022
Track Files
MP3
MP3 7.1 MB • 320 kbps • 3:06
Lossless
WAV 68.1 MB
Meta Data
Beat
4/4
Key
E min
Vocals
Male
Character
Energy
relaxed, cool
high-energy
Danceable
coffee-place
dancefloor
Story behind the song
With the economy being plagued by gougers, wage stagnation, supply-chain issues, and change being held hostage by gop obstructionists, the vast majority of Americans suffer from too little money and not enough time. The national minimum wage of $7.25 an hour has forced more and more workers to take second jobs in order to survive, leaving workers with too little money or not enough time. A national minimum wage increase is desperately needed.
Lyrics
Too Little Money, Not Enough Time 2022 Reggie Miles Too little money not enough time I can't seem to balance this crazy rhyme When I'm rich in one I'm poor in the other That's the story of my life I'm a tellin' you brother Too little money not enough time Too little money not enough time I work hard t’ make my way It keeps me busy every day Don't do much when I get home Just try to rest my weary bone But when my work’s in short supply I often sit and wonder why Don’t mind the extra time on my hands But without any money I can’t make plans Too little money not enough time Can't seem to balance this crazy rhyme When I'm rich in one I'm poor in the other That's the story of my life I'm a tellin' you brother Too little money not enough time Too little money not enough time Too little time and not enough money I know this rhyme may sound kind o’ funny But when you’re stuck with one or the other You ain’t goin’ nowhere brother Too little time not enough money Too little money not enough time Just like spinnin’ wheels caught in a mire I can’t move ahead to my desire So I can balance this crazy rhyme Of too little money, not enough time Too little money, not enough time I can't seem to balance this crazy rhyme When I'm rich in one I'm poor in the other That's the story of my life I'm a tellin' you brother Too little money, not enough time Too little money, not enough time So, I patiently wait for a change in the tide A good samaritan to offer a ride So I can balance this crazy rhyme Of too little money, not enough time Too little money, not enough time I can't seem to balance this crazy rhyme When I'm rich in one I'm poor in the other That's the story of my life I'm a tellin' you brother Too little money, not enough time Too little money, not enough time Too little money, not enough
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