SONGS FOR MERCEDES by Alan Lewis Silva

Please Comment, Like, and Follow as you wish. Alan Lewis Silva's musical style is like lyrical folk, rock, blues, fado, and reggae. His songs are original compositions of lyrics and music he performs. https://t.me/ALANLEWISSILVA https://sdbiblestudy.org/index.php/2023/04/01/alan-lewis-silva-musical-shadows/ MUSICAL SHADOWS BY ALAN LEWIS SILVA Musical Shadows is a book of my songs from 2003 to 2016, which corresponds to 20 albums of my music. Musical Shadows is over 50,000 words of poetry arranged in alphabetical, alphanumerical order. It collectively tells the story of the millennial generation adapting to the climate of southern California in the information age. It is indie folk music, with elements of rock, blues, fado, and reggae. Many of the songs feature an 6/8 rhythm, which is uncommon by contemporary music standards. The 6/8 is where some of the reggae influence comes from. The songs are highly lyrical and intended to create mental images by the listener’s own imagining and interpretation of the words in a story. Some songs have a grunge and alternative rock feel as well. Musical Shadows has stylings of fado culture, blues, and the singer-songwriter mantle. Alan Lewis Silva's complete music catalog of original albums have been chronologically published from 2004 to 2023 in the following sequence: Boa Sina, Ao Vivo, Carlos Terceira, Mystery House, Rose Blood Volumes I & II, Gypsy Songs, Big Green Country, Mountain Stairs, Changing the Guards, Aviary Tomb, Hunters and Hunted, Numas Estrelas, Golden Palace, Flower People, Beach Songs, California Authors, I Been Living, Alan Silva, JESUS, J2C 1-7, Songs for Mercedes, Ash City, Hot Cow, The Moon Was Blue, Escapade, Glint Art, Blues Change, Playland California, and Summer Girls. Musical Shadows in the 20 album format and book format further includes songs previously unreleased, such as previously unpublished songs, songs from EP’s, and live recordings. My albums beyond Musical Shadows include Summer Girls, Playland California, J2C 1-7 Soundtrack, The Moon Was Blue, and Blues Change, and more to come.

Please Comment, Like, and Follow as you wish. Alan Lewis Silva's musical style is like lyrical folk, rock, blues, fado, and reggae. His songs are original compositions of lyrics and music he performs. https://t.me/ALANLEWISSILVA https://sdbiblestudy.org/index.php/2023/04/01/alan-lewis-silva-musical-shadows/ MUSICAL SHADOWS BY ALAN LEWIS SILVA Musical Shadows is a book of my songs from 2003 to 2016, which corresponds to 20 albums of my music. Musical Shadows is over 50,000 words of poetry arranged in alphabetical, alphanumerical order. It collectively tells the story of the millennial generation adapting to the climate of southern California in the information age. It is indie folk music, with elements of rock, blues, fado, and reggae. Many of the songs feature an 6/8 rhythm, which is uncommon by contemporary music standards. The 6/8 is where some of the reggae influence comes from. The songs are highly lyrical and intended to create mental images by the listener’s own imagining and interpretation of the words in a story. Some songs have a grunge and alternative rock feel as well. Musical Shadows has stylings of fado culture, blues, and the singer-songwriter mantle. Alan Lewis Silva's complete music catalog of original albums have been chronologically published from 2004 to 2023 in the following sequence: Boa Sina, Ao Vivo, Carlos Terceira, Mystery House, Rose Blood Volumes I & II, Gypsy Songs, Big Green Country, Mountain Stairs, Changing the Guards, Aviary Tomb, Hunters and Hunted, Numas Estrelas, Golden Palace, Flower People, Beach Songs, California Authors, I Been Living, Alan Silva, JESUS, J2C 1-7, Songs for Mercedes, Ash City, Hot Cow, The Moon Was Blue, Escapade, Glint Art, Blues Change, Playland California, and Summer Girls. Musical Shadows in the 20 album format and book format further includes songs previously unreleased, such as previously unpublished songs, songs from EP’s, and live recordings. My albums beyond Musical Shadows include Summer Girls, Playland California, J2C 1-7 Soundtrack, The Moon Was Blue, and Blues Change, and more to come.

Please Comment, Like, and Follow as you wish. Alan Lewis Silva's musical style is like lyrical folk, rock, blues, fado, and reggae. His songs are original compositions of lyrics and music he performs. https://t.me/ALANLEWISSILVA https://sdbiblestudy.org/index.php/2023/04/01/alan-lewis-silva-musical-shadows/ MUSICAL SHADOWS BY ALAN LEWIS SILVA Musical Shadows is a book of my songs from 2003 to 2016, which corresponds to 20 albums of my music. Musical Shadows is over 50,000 words of poetry arranged in alphabetical, alphanumerical order. It collectively tells the story of the millennial generation adapting to the climate of southern California in the information age. It is indie folk music, with elements of rock, blues, fado, and reggae. Many of the songs feature an 6/8 rhythm, which is uncommon by contemporary music standards. The 6/8 is where some of the reggae influence comes from. The songs are highly lyrical and intended to create mental images by the listener’s own imagining and interpretation of the words in a story. Some songs have a grunge and alternative rock feel as well. Musical Shadows has stylings of fado culture, blues, and the singer-songwriter mantle. Alan Lewis Silva's complete music catalog of original albums have been chronologically published from 2004 to 2023 in the following sequence: Boa Sina, Ao Vivo, Carlos Terceira, Mystery House, Rose Blood Volumes I & II, Gypsy Songs, Big Green Country, Mountain Stairs, Changing the Guards, Aviary Tomb, Hunters and Hunted, Numas Estrelas, Golden Palace, Flower People, Beach Songs, California Authors, I Been Living, Alan Silva, JESUS, J2C 1-7, Songs for Mercedes, Ash City, Hot Cow, The Moon Was Blue, Escapade, Glint Art, Blues Change, Playland California, and Summer Girls. Musical Shadows in the 20 album format and book format further includes songs previously unreleased, such as previously unpublished songs, songs from EP’s, and live recordings. My albums beyond Musical Shadows include Summer Girls, Playland California, J2C 1-7 Soundtrack, The Moon Was Blue, and Blues Change, and more to come.

Please Comment, Like, and Follow as you wish. Alan Lewis Silva's musical style is like lyrical folk, rock, blues, fado, and reggae. His songs are original compositions of lyrics and music he performs. https://t.me/ALANLEWISSILVA https://sdbiblestudy.org/index.php/2023/04/01/alan-lewis-silva-musical-shadows/ MUSICAL SHADOWS BY ALAN LEWIS SILVA Musical Shadows is a book of my songs from 2003 to 2016, which corresponds to 20 albums of my music. Musical Shadows is over 50,000 words of poetry arranged in alphabetical, alphanumerical order. It collectively tells the story of the millennial generation adapting to the climate of southern California in the information age. It is indie folk music, with elements of rock, blues, fado, and reggae. Many of the songs feature an 6/8 rhythm, which is uncommon by contemporary music standards. The 6/8 is where some of the reggae influence comes from. The songs are highly lyrical and intended to create mental images by the listener’s own imagining and interpretation of the words in a story. Some songs have a grunge and alternative rock feel as well. Musical Shadows has stylings of fado culture, blues, and the singer-songwriter mantle. Alan Lewis Silva's complete music catalog of original albums have been chronologically published from 2004 to 2023 in the following sequence: Boa Sina, Ao Vivo, Carlos Terceira, Mystery House, Rose Blood Volumes I & II, Gypsy Songs, Big Green Country, Mountain Stairs, Changing the Guards, Aviary Tomb, Hunters and Hunted, Numas Estrelas, Golden Palace, Flower People, Beach Songs, California Authors, I Been Living, Alan Silva, JESUS, J2C 1-7, Songs for Mercedes, Ash City, Hot Cow, The Moon Was Blue, Escapade, Glint Art, Blues Change, Playland California, and Summer Girls. Musical Shadows in the 20 album format and book format further includes songs previously unreleased, such as previously unpublished songs, songs from EP’s, and live recordings. My albums beyond Musical Shadows include Summer Girls, Playland California, J2C 1-7 Soundtrack, The Moon Was Blue, and Blues Change, and more to come.

Please Comment, Like, and Follow as you wish. Alan Lewis Silva's musical style is like lyrical folk, rock, blues, fado, and reggae. His songs are original compositions of lyrics and music he performs. https://t.me/ALANLEWISSILVA https://sdbiblestudy.org/index.php/2023/04/01/alan-lewis-silva-musical-shadows/ MUSICAL SHADOWS BY ALAN LEWIS SILVA Musical Shadows is a book of my songs from 2003 to 2016, which corresponds to 20 albums of my music. Musical Shadows is over 50,000 words of poetry arranged in alphabetical, alphanumerical order. It collectively tells the story of the millennial generation adapting to the climate of southern California in the information age. It is indie folk music, with elements of rock, blues, fado, and reggae. Many of the songs feature an 6/8 rhythm, which is uncommon by contemporary music standards. The 6/8 is where some of the reggae influence comes from. The songs are highly lyrical and intended to create mental images by the listener’s own imagining and interpretation of the words in a story. Some songs have a grunge and alternative rock feel as well. Musical Shadows has stylings of fado culture, blues, and the singer-songwriter mantle. Alan Lewis Silva's complete music catalog of original albums have been chronologically published from 2004 to 2023 in the following sequence: Boa Sina, Ao Vivo, Carlos Terceira, Mystery House, Rose Blood Volumes I & II, Gypsy Songs, Big Green Country, Mountain Stairs, Changing the Guards, Aviary Tomb, Hunters and Hunted, Numas Estrelas, Golden Palace, Flower People, Beach Songs, California Authors, I Been Living, Alan Silva, JESUS, J2C 1-7, Songs for Mercedes, Ash City, Hot Cow, The Moon Was Blue, Escapade, Glint Art, Blues Change, Playland California, and Summer Girls. Musical Shadows in the 20 album format and book format further includes songs previously unreleased, such as previously unpublished songs, songs from EP’s, and live recordings. My albums beyond Musical Shadows include Summer Girls, Playland California, J2C 1-7 Soundtrack, The Moon Was Blue, and Blues Change, and more to come.

Please Comment, Like, and Follow as you wish. Alan Lewis Silva's musical style is like lyrical folk, rock, blues, fado, and reggae. His songs are original compositions of lyrics and music he performs. https://t.me/ALANLEWISSILVA https://sdbiblestudy.org/index.php/2023/04/01/alan-lewis-silva-musical-shadows/ MUSICAL SHADOWS BY ALAN LEWIS SILVA Musical Shadows is a book of my songs from 2003 to 2016, which corresponds to 20 albums of my music. Musical Shadows is over 50,000 words of poetry arranged in alphabetical, alphanumerical order. It collectively tells the story of the millennial generation adapting to the climate of southern California in the information age. It is indie folk music, with elements of rock, blues, fado, and reggae. Many of the songs feature an 6/8 rhythm, which is uncommon by contemporary music standards. The 6/8 is where some of the reggae influence comes from. The songs are highly lyrical and intended to create mental images by the listener’s own imagining and interpretation of the words in a story. Some songs have a grunge and alternative rock feel as well. Musical Shadows has stylings of fado culture, blues, and the singer-songwriter mantle. Alan Lewis Silva's complete music catalog of original albums have been chronologically published from 2004 to 2023 in the following sequence: Boa Sina, Ao Vivo, Carlos Terceira, Mystery House, Rose Blood Volumes I & II, Gypsy Songs, Big Green Country, Mountain Stairs, Changing the Guards, Aviary Tomb, Hunters and Hunted, Numas Estrelas, Golden Palace, Flower People, Beach Songs, California Authors, I Been Living, Alan Silva, JESUS, J2C 1-7, Songs for Mercedes, Ash City, Hot Cow, The Moon Was Blue, Escapade, Glint Art, Blues Change, Playland California, and Summer Girls. Musical Shadows in the 20 album format and book format further includes songs previously unreleased, such as previously unpublished songs, songs from EP’s, and live recordings. My albums beyond Musical Shadows include Summer Girls, Playland California, J2C 1-7 Soundtrack, The Moon Was Blue, and Blues Change, and more to come.

Please Comment, Like, and Follow as you wish. Alan Lewis Silva's musical style is like lyrical folk, rock, blues, fado, and reggae. His songs are original compositions of lyrics and music he performs. https://t.me/ALANLEWISSILVA https://sdbiblestudy.org/index.php/2023/04/01/alan-lewis-silva-musical-shadows/ MUSICAL SHADOWS BY ALAN LEWIS SILVA Musical Shadows is a book of my songs from 2003 to 2016, which corresponds to 20 albums of my music. Musical Shadows is over 50,000 words of poetry arranged in alphabetical, alphanumerical order. It collectively tells the story of the millennial generation adapting to the climate of southern California in the information age. It is indie folk music, with elements of rock, blues, fado, and reggae. Many of the songs feature an 6/8 rhythm, which is uncommon by contemporary music standards. The 6/8 is where some of the reggae influence comes from. The songs are highly lyrical and intended to create mental images by the listener’s own imagining and interpretation of the words in a story. Some songs have a grunge and alternative rock feel as well. Musical Shadows has stylings of fado culture, blues, and the singer-songwriter mantle. Alan Lewis Silva's complete music catalog of original albums have been chronologically published from 2004 to 2023 in the following sequence: Boa Sina, Ao Vivo, Carlos Terceira, Mystery House, Rose Blood Volumes I & II, Gypsy Songs, Big Green Country, Mountain Stairs, Changing the Guards, Aviary Tomb, Hunters and Hunted, Numas Estrelas, Golden Palace, Flower People, Beach Songs, California Authors, I Been Living, Alan Silva, JESUS, J2C 1-7, Songs for Mercedes, Ash City, Hot Cow, The Moon Was Blue, Escapade, Glint Art, Blues Change, Playland California, and Summer Girls. Musical Shadows in the 20 album format and book format further includes songs previously unreleased, such as previously unpublished songs, songs from EP’s, and live recordings. My albums beyond Musical Shadows include Summer Girls, Playland California, J2C 1-7 Soundtrack, The Moon Was Blue, and Blues Change, and more to come.

https://t.me/BretHarteFictions BRET HARTE by Alan Lewis Silva American author, Bret Harte (born Francis Brett Hart) was born in Albany, New York, on August 25, 1836. His father, a professor of Greek at Albany College, died during his boyhood. Harte was mostly of British, particularly English ancestry, with the meaningful exception of his Jewish paternal grandfather. After a common-school education, Harte at seventeen relocated with his mother to California in the mid-1850s. Afterwards Harte worked as a teacher, miner, printer, express-messenger, secretary of the San Francisco Mint, and editor. He married Anna Griswold in 1862, and they started their family in California in the San Francisco Bay area of California and having four children together in the course of life. Bret Harte’s first published literary endeavor was poetry, particularly sentimental and pro-Union Civil War era poetry. Some of Harte’s spiritual ideas were influenced by his friendship with Thomas Starr King, a pro-Union Unitarian minister, his friendship with Samuel Clemens, and his great fondness for the novels of Charles Dickens and British literature, which he shared with his parents. Harte’s first major literary venture was a series of Condensed Novels (parodies of popular fiction by well-known authors), which he, while also serving as editor, published in The Californian, a weekly periodical). Harte subsequently reissued these writings in book form in 1867. Writing fiction for The Overland Monthly, the earliest considerable Anglo-American literary magazine on the Pacific Coast, established in 1868 with Harte as chief editor, is how Bret Harte became known to large audiences interesting in exotic stories of far-flung California. His sketches and poems appeared in The Overland Monthly’s pages during the next few years and attracted attention in the eastern American states and in Europe. Bret Harte was an early master of the short story, and his Californian tales were regarded as introducing a new genre into fiction. “The Luck of Roaring Camp” (1868), “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” (1869), the later sketch “How Santa Claus came to Simpson’s Bar,” hundreds of stories, multiple novels and novellas, major novel Gabriel Conroy (1875), and collected poetry such as the narrative verses entitled “Plain Language from Truthful James,” combined to great effect his literary voice and uniqueness. With humor, pathos, sympathetic treatments of the outsider, elegance in language and description, and power of character portrayals, Harte parlayed familiar motivations and archetypal scenes in a manner that combined and transformed these inputs to an entertaining and imaginative realm, regaled of mining-gulches, gamblers, settlers, pioneers, displaced and unassimilated, oddballs, Old West society, and the predominately picturesque, varied landscape of California. In popularizing the American short story as a professional fiction writer, in Bret Harte we find a rare delineator of California and storytelling lore to the remote and varied audiences of the globe. Harte, a sort of California Author, preceded also in kind the equivalent of many conventional elements of cinema and audio-visual broadcasting subject to the claims of identity ongoing. Bret Harte’s forty-four original books were published between 1867 and 1898, with numerous uncollected stories and poems located in periodicals from 1861 to 1902. After a year as professor in the University of California, Bret Harte lived in New York, 1871–1878; was United States consul at Crefeld, Germany, 1878–1880; U.S. consul at Glasgow, 1880–1885; and after 1885 resided in London. He died in Camberley, England, on May 5, 1902. * * * Thank you for attending this humanities outreach of SDBIBLESTUDY CHURCH. Humanities is the creative art of intelligence. Peace and best regards, Alan Lewis Silva Minister SDBIBLESTUDY CHURCH https://sdbiblestudy.org https://t.me/sdbiblestudy

Please Comment, Like, and Follow as you wish. Alan Lewis Silva's musical style is like lyrical folk, rock, blues, fado, and reggae. His songs are original compositions of lyrics and music he performs. https://t.me/ALANLEWISSILVA https://sdbiblestudy.org/index.php/2023/04/01/alan-lewis-silva-musical-shadows/ MUSICAL SHADOWS BY ALAN LEWIS SILVA Musical Shadows is a book of my songs from 2003 to 2016, which corresponds to 20 albums of my music. Musical Shadows is over 50,000 words of poetry arranged in alphabetical, alphanumerical order. It collectively tells the story of the millennial generation adapting to the climate of southern California in the information age. It is indie folk music, with elements of rock, blues, fado, and reggae. Many of the songs feature an 6/8 rhythm, which is uncommon by contemporary music standards. The 6/8 is where some of the reggae influence comes from. The songs are highly lyrical and intended to create mental images by the listener’s own imagining and interpretation of the words in a story. Some songs have a grunge and alternative rock feel as well. Musical Shadows has stylings of fado culture, blues, and the singer-songwriter mantle. Alan Lewis Silva's complete music catalog of original albums have been chronologically published from 2004 to 2023 in the following sequence: Boa Sina, Ao Vivo, Carlos Terceira, Mystery House, Rose Blood Volumes I & II, Gypsy Songs, Big Green Country, Mountain Stairs, Changing the Guards, Aviary Tomb, Hunters and Hunted, Numas Estrelas, Golden Palace, Flower People, Beach Songs, California Authors, I Been Living, Alan Silva, JESUS, J2C 1-7, Songs for Mercedes, Ash City, Hot Cow, The Moon Was Blue, Escapade, Glint Art, Blues Change, Playland California, and Summer Girls. Musical Shadows in the 20 album format and book format further includes songs previously unreleased, such as previously unpublished songs, songs from EP’s, and live recordings. My albums beyond Musical Shadows include Summer Girls, Playland California, J2C 1-7 Soundtrack, The Moon Was Blue, and Blues Change, and more to come.

Please Comment, Like, and Follow as you wish. Alan Lewis Silva's musical style is like lyrical folk, rock, blues, fado, and reggae. His songs are original compositions of lyrics and music he performs. https://t.me/ALANLEWISSILVA https://sdbiblestudy.org/index.php/2023/04/01/alan-lewis-silva-musical-shadows/ MUSICAL SHADOWS BY ALAN LEWIS SILVA Musical Shadows is a book of my songs from 2003 to 2016, which corresponds to 20 albums of my music. Musical Shadows is over 50,000 words of poetry arranged in alphabetical, alphanumerical order. It collectively tells the story of the millennial generation adapting to the climate of southern California in the information age. It is indie folk music, with elements of rock, blues, fado, and reggae. Many of the songs feature an 6/8 rhythm, which is uncommon by contemporary music standards. The 6/8 is where some of the reggae influence comes from. The songs are highly lyrical and intended to create mental images by the listener’s own imagining and interpretation of the words in a story. Some songs have a grunge and alternative rock feel as well. Musical Shadows has stylings of fado culture, blues, and the singer-songwriter mantle. Alan Lewis Silva's complete music catalog of original albums have been chronologically published from 2004 to 2023 in the following sequence: Boa Sina, Ao Vivo, Carlos Terceira, Mystery House, Rose Blood Volumes I & II, Gypsy Songs, Big Green Country, Mountain Stairs, Changing the Guards, Aviary Tomb, Hunters and Hunted, Numas Estrelas, Golden Palace, Flower People, Beach Songs, California Authors, I Been Living, Alan Silva, JESUS, J2C 1-7, Songs for Mercedes, Ash City, Hot Cow, The Moon Was Blue, Escapade, Glint Art, Blues Change, Playland California, and Summer Girls. Musical Shadows in the 20 album format and book format further includes songs previously unreleased, such as previously unpublished songs, songs from EP’s, and live recordings. My albums beyond Musical Shadows include Summer Girls, Playland California, J2C 1-7 Soundtrack, The Moon Was Blue, and Blues Change, and more to come.