About 35 yrs ago I was hired to write some music for a television show about a young girl and her horse- it was called Letting Go and it was produced and broadcast as a regional prairie drama back when CBC did such things. A week after the broadcast they passed a letter from a fellow in Montreal who wrote in to say how much he liked this theme. With that as encouragement, I wrote some lyrics for it, and a little while ago performed it for the first time at a concert in Duncan.
Here is the video from that event- I hope you like it. It’s an old fashioned country waltz called Be Seein’ You
I wrote and recorded the title track of my album Good Fair World in 2008. This was long before covid, proud boys, or the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
I wrote and recorded the title track of my album Good Fair World in 2008. This was long before covid, proud boys, or the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
My thinking was, world problems seem simple enough to solve, so why don’t we? Is that naive? We never seem to have enough facts to be sure of anything. This was true then and now that trust in the news and our leadership seems to be a trending problem all over, I feel like this little song is sadly gaining in relevance. But am I being sarcastic or optimistic? Both, obviously.
Good Fair World
Music and Lyrics- Jan Randall
All we need is a good world Good world’s all we need All we need is a good world Good world’s all we need
Read your book on the beach Drink not too far outa reach A good world is really all we need.
All we need is a fair world A fair world’s all we need All we need is a fair world Fair world is really all we need
Where night is night And day is day Do your work and Collect your pay A fair fair world is really all we need
So let an inch be an inch And a pound be a pound Let Up be up And Down be down When you join the game And ya pay your dues Let the winners win Let the losers lose
All we need is a nice world Nice world’s all we need All we need is a nice world Nice world’s all we need
We’ll keep square as square And round as round Keep our heads in the air And our feet on the ground We’ll never never let the good guys fail Make all the bad guys go to jail We could heal the sick We could feed the poor Tie dye our shirts Make love not war
A fair world is really all we need A nice world is really all we need A good good fair fair world is really all we need.
The fine line between naive optimism and an endless eternal cloud of doom
Jan Randall was proud to be featured in the rhythm section for this stellar award winning blues act.
Jan Randall was proud to be featured in the rhythm section for this stellar award winning blues act. Canadian blues treasures Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley with special guest Eugene Smith at Victoria’s legendary Hermann’s Jazz Club this coming Thursday May 5th.
Multi-blues award winners deemed “Masters of Old School Blues” by Blues Revue Magazine with an all star band: Jan Randall on Piano, Jack Lavin on bass, and Ross Hall on Drums, this show will feature more songs from their exciting collection of classic and original blues favourites. Highlighted by Diana’s authentic blues vocal sound and legendary multi-instrumentalist Chris Whiteley on slide guitar, harmonica and trumpet, this promises to be a memorable night of great music. Special guest – the legendary vocalist Eugene Smith! A rare Victoria performance by this unique entertaining singer who has shared the stage with BB King, Gordon Lightfoot, Bo Diddley and K.D. Lang to name just a few! Throughout his lengthy career, Eugene toured with ‘Rompin’ Ronnie Hawkins to Memphis, Alabama and many southern states and also led his own successful band for many years.
Jan Randall 
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