Released Albums
RiderByMySide is a Bend-based acoustic band performing Roots music ranging from traditional folk and bluegrass to country soul. They blend 3-part harmonies with guitar and fiddle into both hand-crafted originals and timeless covers.
Barn & Marken
I see you out on the street with your shoulders hanging low.
I wanna get by but your moving too slow.
Let me slide you hear what I’m talkin’
I’ll take you down to the barn & Marken
Jimmy’s hanging out but he’s not fitting in
Rolling into town, but not like Quinn
He’s lookin real tired, ragged, and worn
Jimmy must get down to Marken and the Barn
It’s a world away trying to feel like home
It’s the same old chords, but no the same tone
It’s a different singer. You hear what he’s barkin?
Four walls and a roof ain’t no Barn & Marken
When your problems staying over and your worries creeping in
When you’re not feeling fat but no one’s calling you slim
You need something thats not gonna do you no harm
Won’t you head on down to Marken and the Barn
It’s not like candy but it sure is a treat
It ain’t no manger but its barely got heat
I’ll slam in home like Daryl Dawkins
Get yourself down to the Barn & Marken
Shadow of a Man
I’m standing here with my arms wide open
I’ve got nothing to sell except the words unspoken
Carry me away to where my heart remains unbroken
Cause I’ve got nothing to sell except the words unspoken
With the sun through your hair, I can barely make out your face
I tell you I love you, so you know, just in case
Carry me home, let everything be in its place
I tell you I love you, so you know, just in case
If it seems like I’m not trying, know I’m doing all I can
If I seem distant, know I’m just a shadow of a man
Carry me in your heart, you know I’m your biggest fan
If I seem distant, know I’m just a shadow of a man
I want to wrap you up in velvet
I want to lie about my conquests
Carry me gently
When You Cry
Might’ve been a night I can’t recall
I rack my brain just thinking
just remember always remember
my successes are yours
when I win you win too
If I smile, you know i’m smiling at you
And, when you cry, I cry too
You’re my favorite one of all
you’re my oldest and best friend
I pray that doesn’t ever change
I hope you’ll be around for me to tell you in the end
On the porch sipping tea
rocking chairs and kids on the lawn
in my mind that’s you and me
it’s my dream and i hope i’m not wrong
Sun Does Shine
My truck won’t start and my money’s all gone
Late to work and the boss gets mad
Didnt get much school but sure which I had
Every now and then the sun does shine
I change my way of thinking it’ll all be fine
I’m walking down that long dirt road
Humming a tune and carrying a heavy load
I’m tired of doing things just like I been told
I want to start living before I get old
Every now and then that sun does shine
I change my way of thinking it’ll all be fine
Every once in a while in the middle of the night
I wake up thinking it will be alright
I used to have a girl come visit on the sly
She stopped coming and I’ll never know why
I await for longer days
If for no other reason than it’ll change my ways
I still dont understand what I did wrong
And why two good people cant get along
It’s hard to believe that it ain’t all wrong
When your day starts off like a country song
It’s hard to believe that it ain’t all wrong
When your day starts off like a country song
Late Nights – Early Mornings
It was an early morning sunrise
That showed me the light of day
I tried my best to chase it
But it just ran away
It was a lie night come down
That made me regret my past
Things were said and things we’re done
Dispersions that were cast
Late Nights and early mornings
Seem to come without a warning
Hard to see through a shadow’s haze
Of a late night’s end or the break of day
Sometime’s your up when you want to get down
Sometimes you get turned around
Either way it just don;’t seem right
Early morning or late at night
Could be the curse of the cold grey moon
When the darkness hurts your eyes
The daylight couldn’t come too soon
Listen to the rooster cry
Wandering around around the house
Down the hall room to room
Half lit like the candle burning
Strung up like a balloon
It was an early morning sunrise
That showed me the light of day
I tried my best to chase it
But it just ran away
But it just ran away
But it just ran away
Footwear at a Funeral
Blood red moon shows the fire in the sky
I wrestle with the truth, he prepares to die
8 hours of highway radio helps to pass the time em
But it’s Papa Staple singing about Luke, that fills my mind
It’s just all footwear at a funeral
But the guest of honor don’t care at all
Your 15 cent shine that you got down the line
Won’t carry you home when you fall
60 years is short enough for the questions in your mind
36 years is long enough to be careful with what you find
But Mr Soul really knows exactly how I feel
Helpless in my earphones, helpless for real
It’s funny about a gathering of the people that you know
Neighbors, friends, and good friends, best wishes the bring to show
A collective sigh, a tear in the eye, a low murmur of rest in peace
And me, I’m in the corner singing I shall be released
As You Lay Sleeping
I think about the things I do I do for you
Just about anything you want me to
In numbers that are great and few
With a smile and if you only knew
As you lay sleeping
As you lay sleeping
I think about from where I came in my search for fame
Now I don’t care if they know my name
There should be someone who feels the same
Or at least someone to share the blame
As you lay sleeping
As you lay sleeping
I think about the things you dream do you know what I mean
Are they as real as you think they seem
Do they show you where you’ve been
Or do they just tell you what you’ve seen
As you lay sleeping
Better Than I Want
It was on a walk on a Sunday aft-er-noon
Walk down
In the park we were holding hands
My mind was thinking that we met-too-soon
And how you made me a better man
I remember the flowers were-in-bloom
And a loud mariachi band
By the sun it must have been-late-June
But the wind blew just like a fan
Damn this is better than I want it to be
I hope I don’t look like a fool
Damn this love’s got a hold on me
And I really hope she feels it too
I was talking to another friend-of-mine
I told him I was in too deep
He said relax and have-a-time
And when you’re done get you some sleep
Some people live life like a ball-n-chain
Others just want to be free
But me I’ll take the sun with-the-rain
If I’m with you and you with me
It was on a walk on a Sunday aft-er-noon
In the park we were holding hands
My mind was thinking how we met-too-soon
And how I made you a better man
Storm A Comin
Better batten down the hatches, they’re closing up the shops
Listen to the radio they’re calling for more cops
Kids don’t go to school today and parents stay home too
Everybody’s running in circles there’s nothin else to do
Aunt Rita’s crying cause the winds are blowing the vane
Uncle Sam’s driving everyone crazy yelling “Here comes the hurricane”
All shelters are opened up to give everyone a place to go
Who’s gonna warn the poor, as if they don’t already know
Hear the sirens in the distance feel the thunder in the sky
See the people getting worried catch the fear right in their eyes
The sea’s gonna get angry my friend and throw waves 50 feet high
I ain’t gonna see none of it I’ll meet you by and by
We got a storm coming
There’s a storm coming
White clouds floating off the beach have turned black and rolled on in
While the flags that flew high on the pole are tangled up in the wind
Weatherman comes on the radio to warn we’re right in its path
While the preacher man yells to the streets “Be ware of god’s wrath!”
Mama turns and whispers everything’s gonna be alright
Daddy tries to reassure, let’s just make it through the night
Ain’t I Been Good
I am a bad bad man
Whatever you want, honey, you know I do more
Because a bad man, will do all he can
For someone like you
I am a bad bad man
I know I’m one of the few
I am a bad bad man
Ain’t I been good To you
I hang the clothes, out on the line
I won’t forget, honey, to say you’re looking fine
Because a bad man, will do all he can
For someone like you
I am a bad bad man
I know that aint nothing new
I am a bad bad man
Ain’t I been good To you
Anything you need, anything you desire
I’ll start the stove, honey, I’ll light your fire
Because a bad man, will do all he can
For someone like you
Because a bad man, will do all he can
For someone like you
Three Chords and the Truth
Recovering Monkeys
Avada Music
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Upcoming Albums
Stay tuned for Four Tragic Deaths, the 2nd Volume of music to accompany the upcoming novel The Many Lives and Four Tragic Deaths of Miguel Jones de la Fortuna, by Gregg Morris.