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Episode #055 – Walkin’ Down a Country Lane

Going places in the coming season? A little traveling music then, perhaps.

Links to lyrics for this episode
• Some Distant Town
• Open Road
• Another Everyday
• Fiction of a Real Life
• Walkin’ Down a Country Lane
• One More Year
• Here Comes the Rain

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE hour of songs (original with occasional covers), stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

Episode #054 – Glorious Ordinary Day

A stroll thru the city – a walk down a country lane + more moments in motion on a glorious ordinary day in May.

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE hour of songs (original with occasional covers), stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

CAN we ALL just get along? Maybe we gotta take a ride on the bus…

Going “folkie” this week – featuring several J Oscar’s songs written for The Folk Bros.

The Ones Who Didn’t Help
by Seth Godin

If 2% of a population takes coordinated action, it makes a difference. If 5% do, it can change everything….

– Read the entire quote at Seth Godin’s blog
https://seths.blog/2022/05/the-ones-who-didnt-help/

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE hour of songs (original with occasional covers), stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

You and I are
Drifting nearer
After traveling far and wide
Stars and fireflies
Light the path to the River of Delight

— River of Delight, J Oscar Bittinger

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE hour of songs (original with occasional covers), stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

Episode #060 – “On Holiday”

We can see some sights
Talk for hours at cafes
If we stay up all night
We’ll siesta in the shade
Don’t plan for anything
Gonna ride the river’s flow
Down at the pub they know

Strolling along the shore
To see what we can find
Seashells and creatures from the brine
Anywhere we go is fine
We’ve got time
We’ve got time…..
We’re on holiday… (3x)
Follow the sun down to the sea

From “On Holiday”
— J Oscar Bittinger

Shorter length (30-min) episodes for Summer – songs to hum while looking for shooting stars!

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE half-hour of songs, stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

Episode #059 – “Every Summertime”

Road trip to a beach barbeque
Playin’ ball on a long afternoon
Plenty of time to have nothing to do
In the summertime

There’ll be music every where
And warm sunshine
You can feel it in the air
Every Summertime

From “Every Summertime“
— J Oscar Bittinger

Shorter length (30-min) episodes for Summer – songs to hum while looking for shooting stars!

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE half-hour of songs, stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

Episode #058 – “Sideshow”

I could be your clown
When the roller coaster’s got you down
I could be your Fortune Telling Gypsy
Is the Lion Tamer out
With the burly Roustabout?
We’ll both disappear, Magician and Beauty…

From “Sideshow“
— J Oscar Bittinger

Shorter length (30-min) episodes for Summer – songs to hum while looking for shooting stars!

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE half-hour of songs, stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

Episode #057 – “Like Kerouac”

“Call me Jack! Like Kerouac
Forget the map
Let’s just drive
Windows down
Music loud
Ain’t it good
just to be alive”

From “Like Kerouac“
— J Oscar Bittinger

Shorter length (30-min) episodes for Summer start tonight – a short set, then get outside to look for shooting stars!

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE half-hour of songs, stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

Episode #056 – “Open Road”

Hey, friend – I want to get away
Amen – if just up the way
And then – a better day might be waiting
Out on the Open Road”

– J Oscar Bittinger

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE hour of songs (original with occasional covers), stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

Episode #064 – “Last Summer Before”

Café talk was serious
We could not make sense of it
Didn’t matter to us
Anyway
The joy of red wine kisses
Your polka dot dresses
My army coat on the sand
Beside the bay

Last Summer Before…

Lyric from “Last Summer Before”
— J Oscar Bittinger
https://www.joscarbittinger.com/lyr-last-summer-before/

Shorter length (30-min) episodes for summer.

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE half-hour of songs, stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

Episode #063 – “On A Wonderful Night”

It’s a carnival life, under twinkling stars
Laughing strangers, get in and out of cars
ON A WONDERFUL NIGHT
July don’t last long
Not too old
Not quite young
We could spit Shakespeare
We could hold our tongues
ON A WONDERFUL NIGHT
Feelings like this don’t last long

Lyric from “On A Wonderful Night”
— J Oscar Bittinger
https://www.joscarbittinger.com/lyr-wonderful-night/

Want to be in on a LIVE Troll for Trout recoding THIS Friday, July 22?

Get your ticket for Sandy Point Beach House – GRAND RAPIDS, at the link below:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/troll-for-trout-tickets-356664070837

Shorter length (30-min) episodes for summer.

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE half-hour of songs, stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

Episode #062 – “Ocean of Sky”

Looking up into
A vast velvet sky
In the middle of Michigan
In the middle of July…

…At the bottom of an ocean,
An ocean, an ocean…
Of sky…

Lyric from “Ocean of Sky”
J Oscar Bittinger

Shorter length (30-min) episodes for summer.

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE half-hour of songs, stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

Episode #061 – “Hot Night”

High Summer
Too warm in the kitchen
To sit and listen to the radio
Night comin’
Wipe the sweat from your neck
That you get
Even when you’re moving slow

On a hot night
A hot night
A hot night like this

From “Hot Night“
— J Oscar Bittinger

Shorter length (30-min) episodes for summer.

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE half-hour of songs, stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

Episode #068 – Home From the Fields

Birds flock to trees
Bees return to the hive
Working folk take the shady lane homeward
Gather at the table side
Glad to be…
| . Home from the fields
| . The work is done
| . Home from the fields
| . In the setting sun

Lyric from “Home from the Fields“
By J Oscar Bittinger & Lauran Hardin

Shorter length (30-min) episodes for summer.

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE half-hour of songs, stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

Episode #067 – Take a Step with Me

Do they envy us
Little bride and groom atop the wedding cake
Faces and feet fixed
While we whirl all ‘round the place
Partners slide and glide
Touching, learning to trust
First steps feel unsteady
Never really ready enough
For us
And the changing days/ways of love

From TAKE A STEP WITH ME
© 2020 J Oscar Bittinger

Shorter length (30-min) episodes for summer.

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE half-hour of songs, stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

Episode #066 – In Michigan
Route 66 doesn’t start here – but episode 66 does – 8:00 PM EDT…

“Found secret towns
Swam in sacred lakes
I’ve seen the Milky Way and Northern Lights
Right in front of my face
I don’t know where I’m bound
Sometimes that brings me down
But there’s open sky I’ve found
With my feet on the ground
In Michigan”

Lyric from “In Michigan“
©2021 J Oscar Bittinger

Shorter length (30-min) episodes for summer.

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE half-hour of songs, stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

Episode #065 – “Chase”

Shorter length (30-min) episodes for summer.

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE half-hour of songs, stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

Episode #073 – “Now!“

Took her down to the quarry on my motorbike
Jumped in the water on a steamy night
We laugh and tease, talk out on the sand bar
Tells me ‘bout all the places she’s gone so far

CHORUS
Where she don’t fit in…
A small town sin
Loves her kin
But she ain’t like them
There’s no do doubt
She’s a diamond found
But she’ll get ground down in our hometown
She’ll be ground down in our home town

Lyric to Down in Our Hometown
©2014 J Oscar Bittinger

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE half-hour of songs, stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

Episode #072 – “Down in Our Hometown“

Took her down to the quarry on my motorbike
Jumped in the water on a steamy night
We laugh and tease, talk out on the sand bar
Tells me ‘bout all the places she’s gone so far

CHORUS
Where she don’t fit in…
A small town sin
Loves her kin
But she ain’t like them
There’s no do doubt
She’s a diamond found
But she’ll get ground down in our hometown
She’ll be ground down in our home town

Lyric to Down in Our Hometown
©2014 J Oscar Bittinger

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE half-hour of songs, stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

Episode #071 – Big Blue Sky

It’s a Big Blue Sky
Perfect Autumn day
Sun is high
Headed on our way
‘Neath a Big Blue Sky
Golden autumn day
Troubles blow out the window
Like leaves they fall away

Lyric from Big Blue Sky
©2009 J Oscar Bittinger

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE half-hour of songs, stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

Episode #070 – Film Strip

A show from past shows!

Shorter length (30-min) episodes for summer.

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE half-hour of songs, stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

Episode #069 – When Summer Leaves Town

She leaves in September
And though I know that she’ll return
This town shuts down till Springtime
Like it’s got no fuel to burn
It’s a lonely sort of feeling
Cold coffee, bittersweet
It moves in like a storm front
Blows the sand across your feet
WHEN SUMMER LEAVES TOWN

Lyric from “When Summer Leaves Town“
© 2010 J Oscar Bittinger

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A medical fundraiser

Shorter length (30-min) episodes for summer.

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE half-hour of songs, stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

077 – 2022-OCT-27 | “The Waiting Garden“

In the garden when the light shines
From the moon down on the stream
In the garden in the nighttime
I am waiting there for thee
In the garden where you promised
That your light would shine for me
I am waiting in the garden
But it’s getting late
I see

Lyric from “The Waiting Garden“
© 2002 J Oscar and Lauran Hardin

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE half-hour of songs, stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

#076 – 2022-OCT-20 | “Longing and Loss”

“When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart and you shall see that, in truth, you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
― Khalil Gibran

“Tears are words the heart can’t express”
― Gerard Way
author of The Umbrella Academy, lead singer of My Chemical Romance

“Even a painful longing is some form of presence.”
— Anna Kamienska

“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
― Carson McCullers

“It’s weird to feel like you miss someone you’re not even sure you know.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
C.S. Lewis

“The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.” – Amy Bloom

“I wish for you the wisdom to realize that it’s okay to miss something, but not want it back.” – Steve Maraboli

“When we think of the past it’s the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.” – Margaret Atwood

“Even a painful longing is some form of presence.”
— Anna Kamienska

“For the body at best Is a bundle of aches, Longing for rest; It cries when it wakes.”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.”
— Laura Lippman

“Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God.”
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE half-hour of songs, stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

#075 – 2022-OCT-13 | “DuShane Avenue”

In our mystery spot north of 30 South
Pretty white fences to keep people out
None of that at our house
. Ball game on the radio
. If you needed somewhere to go

Welcome to
DuShane Avenue
Glad you came
To DuShane Avenue
Laughing, talkin’ and bitchin’
Always something cooking in the kitchen
At DuShane
DuShane Avenue

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE half-hour of songs, stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

074 – 2022-OCT-06 | “One More Year”

ONE MORE YEAR (On Your Way)

Many of the games we learned
Get different rules as time goes by
Chase and catch, hide and seek
We learn to play and are still surprised
When sometimes we walk home — with the prize

So one more minute passes by you
One more minute of one more day
I’m here to tell you
That I. Love. You.
And sing you “Ha-ha-ppy Birth-day”
To celebrate – one more year
On your way

Lyric from “One More Year (On Your Way)” – v1, 1975 – v4, 2021
©2021 J Oscar Bittinger

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE half-hour of songs, stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).

TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb

BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger

FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar

#08x – 2022-NOV-24 | “Episode SKIP for Thanksgiving“

Lyric from “First Snow”

No episode of Freewheelin’ with J Oscar this Thanksgiving Thursday (Nov 24).

Wish you a delightful and delicious gathering with family and friends!

Freewheelin’ will return with more music December 1, 2022!

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE half-hour of songs, stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.

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#080 – 2022-NOV-17 | “Day Before the Snow Fell“

On day before the snow fell
Strung up Holiday lights
Took seats and chains
Off the old swing set
Oiled and hung up the bikes
On the day before,
The day before
The day before the snow fell

Lyric from “Day Before the Snow Fell“
©2013 J Oscar Bittinger

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#079 – 2022-NOV-10 | “Heading Into Winter“

Lyric from “Heading Into Winter”
©2021 J Oscar Bittinger

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078 – 2022-NOV-03 | “Face of Change“

Who you gonna see in the morning
The morning, the morning
Who you gonna see in the morning
In the early morning light
Will you recognize in the morning
The morning, the morning
Will you recognize in the morning
Who you saw last night

Wake up to the FACE OF CHANGE
Disregards your fortune and your fame
Morning mirror
Make things clearer
When you wake up to the FACE OF CHANGE

Lyric from “Face of Change“
©2022 J Oscar Bittinger

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#084 – 2022-DEC-29 | “Snow Day“

Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar – #084 – “Snow Day“Snowstorm came at the rush hour height
5:30 snake of red taillights
Every thing starts to s-l-o-w d-o-w-n n – o – w
Heat on high, the wipers work hard
It’s a whiteout! Can barely see the very next car
Makes you wish you were behind a big snowplow
But once you’re home, it’s beautiful
Starry flakes, big and cold
Stomp your boots off, come in where it’s warm

[CHORUS]
It’s snowing outside
Looks like it’s going to stay
It’s snowing outside
(Could be) It’s a SNOW DAY

Lyric from “Snow Day“
©1998 J Oscar Bittinger

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#083 – 2022-DEC-22 | “Holly Jolly Holiday“

Greet folks ‘neath the mistletoe
Kiss a cheek red from the cold
Steve and Edie, Frank and Mel Tormé (we’ll play)
Faces glow in candlelight
Talking ’bout who’s been naughty and nice
Leave behind the worries of the day (OK, yeah!)

CHORUS
Friends and lovers we’ll be toasting
The old chestnuts we’ll be roasting
Even though the sky is mostly gray
(We still sing) Deck the halls
And oh, by golly
We’re going to have a Holly Jolly Holiday
We’ll sing these blues away

Lyric from “Holly Jolly Holiday“
MUSIC ©2012 J. Oscar Bittinger
LYRICS ©2008 J Oscar Bittinger & Lauran Hardin

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#082 – 2022-DEC-08 | “Bright Winter Blue“

People rush down snowy streets
They got a hundred things on their minds
They move deliberately
Me? I got a little cafe to find
Gonna take it all in for awhile
Pull off mittens from back home
Unwind the thick wool scarf from my sis
They said this town was big
But nothin’ quite prepares you for this
It’s a heady drink, with a twist!

CHORUS
Sometimes
There is magic in the air
Sometimes
Though the snow is everywhere
The sun breaks through
Into BRIGHT WINTER BLUE

Lyric from “Bright Winter Blue“
©2008 J Oscar Bittinger

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#081 – 2022-DEC-01 | “A Winter’s Tune Pt.2“

These snow scenes can only be seen in there season
Got to make the best of what the weather blows our way
And when times get tough
We trust what our hearts believe in
Cause it can all get piled up in a snow drift heap
Gotta help each other shovel out before it gets too deep| . I know it’s true
| . If you catch the blues
| . Winter loses its wonder…
| . Though cold and wind can chill you, baby
| . You’re not alone, not even maybe
| . Some silver going to sparkle the dark
| . You’ll see…

Lyric from “A Winter’s Tune, Pt.2“
©2020 J Oscar Bittinger

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