Augie and Al’s blog

There you go…this is pur song list…71 songs!!!!

1. 9 to 5*
2. At last
3. Bésame mucho
4. Blue Kentucky girl
5. Born to lose
6. Break it to me gently
7. Cold, cold heart
8. Cold, cold heart/ Born to lose
9. Come rain or come shine
10. Cow cow boogie
11. Crazy
12. Crazy arms *
13. Cry me a river
14. Desperado
15. Do I ever cross your mind
16. Don’t it make my brown eyes blue
17. Don’t know why
18. Dream a little dream of me
19. Dreaming my dreams with you
20. Easy living
21. Faded love *
22. For only you *
23. Good morning heartache
24. How’s the world treating you
25. I fall to pieces
26. I really don’t want to know
27. I wish you love
28. I’ve got a crush on you
29. I’ve heard that song before
30. It doesn’t matter anymore
31. It’s imposible (Somos novios)
32. La chica de Ipanema
33. La vie en rosa
34. Love me tender
35. Love with all your heart
36. Lucky old sun
37. María Elena
38. Mean to me
39. Midnight at the oasis
40. Moondance
41. My romance
42. Nobody knows you
43. On a slow boat to China
44. Once in a very blue moon
45. Only a papermoon
46. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps
47. Polkadots & moonbeams
48. Ribbon in the sky *
49. Scotch & soda
50. Sentimental journey
51. Since I fell for you
52. Song for you
53. Summer samba
54. Sway (Quién será)
55. Tennesse Waltz
56. That’s all
57. That’s what I like about you *
58. The grass is blue
59. The nearness of you
60. This masquerade
61. Walking after midnight
62. Wayfaring stranger
63. What’ll I do
64. When you wish upon a star
65. Yellow days (la mentira)
66. You belong to me
67. You belong to my heart
68. You don’t know me
69. You took advantage of me
70. You win again
71. You’ll never know

We We have practiced a new song today…always nice. There is something magic to me in that. You don’t know if it’s going to work out fine…let’s find the key…hmmm…too low…and there you go! Augie always finds out the best key for me. And everything with the best smile.

I have to write about my influences. Uff…difficult thing. Ok, I’ll try.

At home, in Spain,  I grew up listening all kinds of music…Country (Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson…) SouthAmerican and Latino stuff, Jazz Standards…then, my choice…John Denver, Carole King, Paul Simon,  Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Wonder, Carly Simon, Linda Ronstadt… and James Taylor…always James Taylor…then and now…always.

I started to play the guitar when I was 13, so I used to play folk stuff…John Denver, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and so. Then, much later, I started to sing for people and was pretty eclectic. I chose mainly the songs I wanted to sing…Jazz Standards, folk, pop…later I sang with a blues and soul group. Two electric guitars, bass, keyboard and drums. That was a lot of noise and a lot of fun. Aretha Franklin, Bonnie Raitt, Robben Ford stuff. Then I learned to sing.

After that, I had a Jazz trio, with a guitar and a bass. Standards and Boleros.

And then I came to America and I found Augie, a finger style guitar player….a really talented one. And here we are, doing pretty much what we want to…Jazz, Latino stuff, Country…everything with our personal touch. We really love what we do.

These are us. Augie and Al. Augie Peters and Almudena Aguirre. We do music…all kinds of music that can be done with a guitar and a voice (well, more or less). I will be posting and updating our performances, videos…if you enjoy listening to us half as much as we enjoy doing it….great.