Bitcoins & Gravy
A weekly podcast about anything and everything having to do with Bitcoin! For access to all of my past episodes via the Let's Talk Bitcoin Podcast Netword, Go here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ltb/BAG Thanks y'all! John Barrett
Episodes
February 6, 2024 • 3 mins
You Make The Rain Go Away - The Valentine's Song.
Play this song for the one you love and enjoy the love you share!
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December 5, 2023 • 2 mins
I was fortunate to be able to record this track a few years back on my trip up to the North Pole. It features Santa Clause on vocals accompanied by the North Pole Big Band featuring Hermey the dentist on bells. It's a timeless recording for a timeless technology.
NOTE: I was also very lucky to get this photo of Santa auditioning a new reindeer named Bitzen.
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September 26, 2023 • 3 mins
I wrote this one over 20 years ago and just recorded it at Studio 45B with the amazing instrumental and engineering talents of Grady James. Steve Stokes (formerly of the band Alabama) is featured on fiddle. Hope y'all enjoy it!
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December 6, 2022 • 3 mins
Cool Blue Water
Words & Music By John Barrett
Copyright 2022 – BMI Nashville
I was wishin I could disappear
Go fishin where the water’s clear
So I loaded up my truck and drove
A hundred miles to the Gulf Coast
Out on A pier with a cold beer
My fishin pole and my fishin gear
I cast out - as far as I could
I said a prayer - I hoped it was a good one
Kickin back when the line jerked
Lord I guess my little prayer worked
I reeled i...
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December 4, 2020 • 3 mins
The Way of Happiness is about Drinking. In this song the main character sees a light in the window of the house where his true Love lives. He knows he should go to her to show her his affection and for the comfort of them both. Instead he is drawn by the pint there in his Father's old flask and for whatever irrational reason, he would rather get drunk alone than explore Love.
The Way of Happiness
Words & Music by John Barrett & JW...
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December 2, 2020 • 4 mins
I wrote this song back in 2000 when I first moved to Nashville. I was living in a tiny basement on 17th Avenue South - or Music Row Junior as I call it. The woman who lived upstairs had a little white dog that did nothing but bark. It nearly drove me crazy. But instead of losing my mind, I wrote Thinkin' About Home, my very first Nashville composition.
I have an old studio recording of it with some great pickers including Dave P...
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November 4, 2020 • 3 mins
I wrote this song on piano many years ago when I was feeling pretty low about being single for so long. It's an expression of genuine Thankfulness for all I have in my life. It's also a musical prayer sent up to the Heavens asking for Love to come my way. So far I'm still single though I've had a few minor train wreck relationships in the mean time.
I hope you enjoy the guitar version of this song.
Thankful
Words & Music by John ...
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November 4, 2020 • 2 mins
This song was written many years ago in a way that surprised me at the time. I remember sitting down with the guitar and my little cassette tape recorder. I pushed record and then began to play. This song came out almost exactly like you'll hear on this recording. One of the few times when I felt like a song was given to me instead of written by me.
It's a simple little song that always makes me smile.
Love to all of you!
JB
Whe...
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November 4, 2020 • 3 mins
I wrote this some some years back when I was suffering greatly from depression. I lived alone and in a place where I didn't know many people. At that time my guitar was my best friend and one day this song just came out. I polished it and cared for it and turned it in to what you find here.
These days I still live alone but not really. I have a great dog named Maxwell and he is like a son to me. The only child I've ever had.
Wh...
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November 4, 2020 • 56 secs
This is one of the shortest songs I've ever written. However, there is a 2nd part to it that requires a big band (really). The melodic theme is perfect for a big band and if I had the money right now, I'd hire the Duffy Jackson Big Band. They're here in Nashville and one of the best Big Bands in this part of the country.
This song is a call to all young people who have a crush on someone. If you want her, need her, feel like you ...
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November 4, 2020 • 2 mins
I wrote this song many years ago and it's still one of my favorites. I do miss the podcast, but am enjoying immersing myself once again in my music. I've never had children or a family of my own and I guess these songs are the closest thing to children I have in my life - other than my beautiful dog Maxwell of course! Each of these songs means a lot to me and each represents a part of my self and my journey.
Love’s The Finest Thi...
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July 8, 2020 • 3 mins
I wrote this song back in 1985 when I found out my parents were getting a divorce.
Hold On
Words & Music by John Barrett
Rain falls - no one calls
But nothing lasts forever
Meanwhile oh child forget about the rain
Just Hold On to your beautiful ways
And darling if you need, Hold On to me
Darling if you need, Hold On you’ll see
I can be your goodness try to bring you up
I can be your holding on
Goodbye’s - someone always c...
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May 13, 2020 • 1 min
I wrote this song some years back as a Valentine's Day present for my dearest Friend in the world. I still plan to record it one day with some nice cello parts and maybe a harpsichord solo. The secondary title for this song is: "Connie's Song"
You Make The Rain Go Away (Connie’s Song)
Words & Music by John Barrett & JW Brown
You are the fairest girl here in Eden
You are the loveliest flower in bloom
A sunny day You Make the Rain ...
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December 23, 2018 • 2 mins
Get Yourself a Little Bit of Bitcoin
Lyrics by John Barrett
Copyright 2018 RJM Publishing – BMI Nashville
[To the tune of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas]
Get Yourself a Little Bit of Bitcoin
Let your heart be light
And in time the value will be out of sight
Get Yourself a Little Bit of Bitcoin
Make your Yuletide cool
Those who hesitate will be the only fools
Here we are with the markets down
Don’t you wear a frown my f...
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October 8, 2018 • 18 mins
In this episode, in celebration of Columbus Day, I reveal the true Christopher Columbus - the world famous mariner, explorer, murderer, rapist and slave master guilty of genocide in the early Americas. We’ll dig a bit deeper than our public school history books to find out the truth about how the early Spanish were some of the true early terrorists in the Americas.
For more detailed information about the Genocide committed by C...
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August 19, 2018 • 56 mins
On today’s show I am privileged to be speaking with Luke Arthur Sykes, the co-owner of Platforms Virtual Reality and Gaming Café right here in Nashville, Tennessee. Luke helps bring us up to speed about what a VR/Gaming Café has to offer and about how it’s much, much more than most people think it is. He also invites the Nashville community to come try a VR experience and a great selection of craft beers on tap. Bring your paper mo...
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April 24, 2018 • 42 mins
On today’s show I am honored to have with me here in the Tree House Studio Michael Lentz. Michael has been actively involved in the rapidly growing Nashville Bitcoin Community and now he’s taking it to the next level with his new business, Cryptocurrency Basics.
Join me listeners as we learn about Michael’s beginnings and how he found his calling as a Bitcoin/Blockchain educator here in Nashville, Tennessee, the Athens of the Sout...
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March 4, 2018 • 61 mins
On today’s show I introduce the world to the very first crypto board game – that’s right The Bitcoin Board Game is here! Well it's close anyway. Joining me in the Tree House Studio in this episode of Bitcoins and Gravy is Skooter, the lead developer of The Bitcoin Board Game and joining Skooter is Sam, a local tech guy who has all but mastered this new game. Join us as we learn together about the continuing development of The Bitc...
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February 19, 2018 • 43 mins
On today’s show I am privileged to be speaking with a very enthusiastic group of Bitcoiners who get together every Tuesday night for Bitcoins & Beer! Join us as we talk about Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, financial technology and the future of the world here at the Dawn of the Age of Cryptocurrency. That’s right Cryptocurrency – the new asset class that enables decentralized applications.
Come on out and join us each Tuesday night fo...
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