ORIGINAL MUSIC

GROOVY GOD EP


​​Released Easter Sunday, ​March 31, 2024!
​​CDs available now at live shows
​& at the following locations:

Island Guitar, Key West
Unity of the Keys Spiritual Center, Key West
The Shop at The INN, Paradise, Michigan

Or call to mail order:  (517) 331-0888
This full production 5 song EP 
features 4 original tracks,
including the remastered single,
​"Exude Through My Entity",
full lyrics booklet with groovy artwork, 
27 minutes playtime, 
laughs & inspiration!

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Groovy God EP© 2024 Emily Springsteen (BMI)
All songs by Emily Springsteen except Way Maker (Milagroso) by Osinachi Okoro © Integrity Music o/b/o Integrity Music Europe
Production, Artwork & Design by Emily Springsteen
All Songs Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Chris Calleja at Northern Tracks Recording Co. in Michigan’s EUP www.NorthernTracksRecording.com

EXUDE THROUGH MY ENTITY

Single released August 28, 2023
​Available on your favorite streaming service
& included in the "Groovy God" CD above!

​


​"Exude Through My Entity"
Written & Produced - Emily Springsteen
Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, & Keyboard - Emily Springsteen
Lead Guitar - Adam Engelman
Bass - Chris Calleja
Drums & Percussion - Andrew Dunham
​Recorded, Mixed, & Mastered - Chris Calleja at Northern Tracks Recording Co. in Michigan's E.U.P.
Artwork - Emily Springsteen
All Rights (C) 2023 Emily Springsteen

TV & Radio Songwriter Interviews

90.7FM WKGC 
NPR Public Radio, Panama City, FL
Interviewer Mike Thompson features
Emily Springsteen's original music 
Broadcast on Panama City, FL's
​Comcast TV Channel 6 & Online at wkgc.org 
​Thurs 7/15/2021, 9:00pm CST, ​Panama City, FL

The Ten Cent Bottle Law

​A Song for Recycling

​Released January, 2020

​​"...Turn your trash to fast cash
You see, it's very feasible
'Chi-CHING!' you will hear
If the bar code is readable!..."
Written & Performed by Emily Springsteen
​Recorded by Lance Taylor, Key West
Mixed by Ian Shaw, Warmfuzz, Key West
Mastered by Denis Blackham, Isle of Mann, Scotland
Artwork by Emily Springsteen
All Rights © 2016 Emily Springsteen
​A NOTE ON "THE TEN CENT BOTTLE LAW"
I grew up in a state that has had a highly effective recycling incentive program in place since before I was born. The well-established “Michigan Bottle Deposit Law” allows for the culturally accepted norm that empty carbonated beverage bottles and cans are the equivalent of cash money! High school students run fund raising drives, collecting “empties” for athletic departments and school enrichment trips. Broke young adults can count on a few bucks for gas money if their parents offer them the stash of “returnables” piling up in their garage. You can bet that after a college football game, opportunists, motivated by their own financial benefit, will scour the campus, removing any “ten-centers” left by tailgaters and leaving a cleaner environment for all!

After moving to the Sunshine State of Florida, I found myself gigging in venue after venue where hard-working and well-intentioned bar staff perpetually cleared their countertops by dumping valuable bottles and cans into the landfill basket. I cringe every time I see that cash potential lost and the recyclable material wasted.

At the time of writing this, 11 out of 50 US states have a bottle return practice in effect. My song, “The Ten Cent Bottle Law,” argues that cash for trash isn’t just a good idea, it’s a way of life where I come from. If you live in a Can State, you get it. If you don’t, you’re missing out on a lucrative opportunity that really works! Let’s spread the word to our friends and our legislators, and get everyone on board! In song or in action, please promote, "The Ten Cent Bottle Law"!
song lyrics
Hey, listen up, People! I'll tell you a truth,
About a practice performed in the land of my youth!
There's a policy, functioning, forty years strong
All the states in the Union, they ought join 'long

When Michigan voted, with foresight, they saw
The benefits of ​the Ten Cent Bottle Law
Well our countryside's fine, less aluminum glitter
Our folks have incentive to withhold their litter!

          Oh how I long to return to the land
          Where a kid gets corrected for crushing a can!
          Turn your trash to fast cash, you see,
          it's very feasible,
          "Chi-CHING!" you will hear,
           if the bar code is readable!

Have you ever wanted a savings account?
Put your cans in the corner,
Your funds, they will mount!
In Michigan, residents never go broke
If money gets tight, they'll go find an old Coke

To the states left without it,
Your systems are glitched!
In Michigan you can find cash in a ditch
In the spring, in particular, after the thaw
Lies the promise of wealth
From that old Bottle Law!

          CHORUS

Save the refuse from landfills, put dough in your pockets
It just makes cents, 'fore you try it, don't knock it!
It's not an anomaly, a fifth of our nation's
On board with this eco- win- win situation!

          CHORUS

Well, the Bottle Law works as a stimulus plan
And not just from the currency swapped for the can
Recycling consumers go back to the store
Returning their empties and shopping for more

Jerry Seinfeld established the right state of mind
Write your congressmen, folks,
You don't have to be blind
To the fact that your profits are there in your hands
Gather money, what's better? 
And clean up the land!

         CHORUS

Stop Seismic Blasting!

​A Song for the Oceans

Premiered Earth Day, April 22, 2022

This song was written during the Covid lockdown.  The tone is consequently brooding, but the message is important. The song brings light to an oil-hunting practice that is torturous to undersea life.

Official Music Video by Commodore Productions, a student organization at Gulf Coast State College, Panama City, FL​
​Filmed at Panama City Beach, FL & ​​Studio812, Lynn Haven, FL
www.CommodoreProductions.com

Written & Performed by Emily Springsteen
​Audio Recorded & Mixed  by Studio812, Lynn Haven, FL
Audio Mastered by Denis Blackham, Isle of Mann, Scotland
Video Recorded & Edited by Commodore Productions, Panama City, FL
All Rights © 2022 Emily Springsteen
A Note on "Stop Seismic Blasting!"
The purpose of this song is to educate the public about the disturbingly widespread damages caused by the practice of underwater seismic surveying as a means to detect oil deposits, and to persuade the public and policy makers to stop this practice globally.  Seismic blasting is inhumane. It should be illegal and internationally enforced as such.

What is "seismic blasting"?
This is a process by which seismic air guns are compressed and exploded underwater, then used as sonar to find oil beneath the seafloor. The shockwaves from the blasts are so loud, they are detectable up to two-thousand, five-hundred miles away. The noise from these explosions is indiscriminate and detrimental across marine ecosystems, from the smallest to largest lifeforms. Whales and dolphins listen with their ears, using sonar to "see" their food and generally survive. Seismic testing painfully blasts out their eardrums, deafens them, and ultimately kills them. Occurring undersea, most people are not aware this is happening. The crew-person hired to run the blast boats may not be aware of the far-reaching effects of each explosion. Law makers, trying to appease increasing demands for fossil fuel, may not be aware of the widespread damage of their policies and blast permits. Oil dependency is a system problem, and the first step toward positive change is education. The US Dollar has been backed by oil trade agreements (see OPEC) since the 1970s. Our systematic financial dependence on oil has become a global problem.

Please have a heart and share the message of this video. The ocean is not a toilet. It is the life-blood of our planet. I extend my deepest thanks to all those who assisted in video production.
song Lyrics
If you knew, you’d be aghast
At the effects of the Oil Men’s seismic blasts
Air guns in ten second pulses
Sea floor surveys, life convulses!

Splitting ears of the ocean’s creatures
Humans don’t sit by in bleachers
Shady business, undisclosed,
Under water, unexposed!

The Volume’s up way past eleven
D’you think we’ll see these folks in Heaven? 
​Whale(s) and dolphins’ ear drums bleed
Deafened, now, they cannot feed

Do tell, how would YOU feel, my dear,
If dynamite blew out YOUR ear?
Even little tiny krill
Are not immune to the fall out kill

STOP SEISMIC BLASTING!
STOP SEISMIC BLASTING!

What good is money when the food-web tanks?
Dolphins’ ear blood’s backing banks! 
Yes, my friend, these seismic blasting
Damages are EVER LASTING

Twenty-five hundred miles these sound waves travel
Watch out! The food web will unravel!
Deafening all those in ear-shot
We must stop these wicked despots!

Trump’s roll-backs to the E.P.A.
Light the lampstand, this I pray!
In federal waters, offshore drilling
‘Round the clock, just keeps on killing.

For those who have an ear to hear,
Almighty, make this loud and clear!
​Now, you hold this information
Share it with all earthly nations:
​
STOP SEISMIC BLASTING!
STOP SEISMIC BLASTING!

Oh, the Oil Men echolocate
No plans in place to incriminate
Allow me to elaborate:
Shock waves don’t discriminate
No, the humpbacks can’t evacuate
No fish left for your dinner plate
How much will they obliterate?
This message, I can’t overstate,
Speak out! Or they’ll accelerate! 
​Resound this, don’t procrastinate:

STOP SEISMIC BLASTING!
STOP SEISMIC BLASTING
YEAH, WE’VE GOTTA STOP SEISMIC BLASTING! STOP SEISMIC BLASTING!
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