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Good Karma (YouTube)
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Good Karma

We created this Janice "performance" video to support a small local park that is focused on creating and maintaining a habitat for butterflies and other pollinators. The park was created and is maintained by a wonderful group of volunteers. While we shot the videos of Janice ALL of the photos were taken by the park’s volunteers and they include some great photographers.

Their motto is “Celebrating Nature Brings Wings to Your Spirit & Peace to Your Soul.”

The tune is a remix with new vocals (including harmony) of “Good Karma” that we posted five years ago. Thanks to PG Music for all and PeterF for the guitar tracks. We appreciate your time to watch - hey it’s only 3 minutes smile

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A great idea and relaxing sound.
Wonderful.

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Originally Posted By: vicarn
A great idea and relaxing sound.
Wonderful.

Vic


Thank you Vic!

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Awesome all the way around! Was that a trained bumble bee buzzing around Janice?

Thanks for sharing your talents with us, Janice, Bud, and Peter!

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Good Karma, yes
Great video, yes
Outstanding vocal, yes
Super guitar leads, yes

Did I thoroughly enjoy this, yes!


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great job by everyone.


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The appearance of the flutterby says it all really.
Sweet, sweet narrative with a great message, cool smooth lilting melody, succinct arrangement & Peter's lead lines.
Love it.


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Janice & Bud,

I remember this song. Beautiful music and a beautiful video...

Bob

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Hey this is really nice!!

Great parks and rec video too!!!

smile

Everything about this is good.

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Hi janice & Bud

Very nice video and relaxing music. It's well done and full of tenderness. I appreciated.


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Nice piano intro, good blues tune. Guitar sounds so sweet, great mix and production. Vocals fit like a silk glove.
NICE JOB!


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Hi Janice, Bud and Peter,

As robert wrote I also remember this song, but the remix is wonderful!
The piano gives a special mood to the song.
Janice and her doubles are great in it (as always)
I got some very good karma from it too.

What more can I say, beside saying I'm getting a bit sentimental listening to it.

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Originally Posted By: Dewey_MI
Awesome all the way around! Was that a trained bumble bee buzzing around Janice?

Thanks for sharing your talents with us, Janice, Bud, and Peter!

Dewey


Thank you! No training required but it did ask to be in the video. smile

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Very comforting soundtrack for the beautiful video. Great photos, I know it is not easy to capture a flying butterfly. I wish that good karma will bless all those people who work hard to keep nature flourishing by giving pollinators a place to do their daily chores. And Janice is a shining singing flower in that park smile

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A beautiful song and the voice is very good.
Bravo les amis
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Originally Posted By: MarioD
Good Karma, yes
Great video, yes
Outstanding vocal, yes
Super guitar leads, yes

Did I thoroughly enjoy this, yes!


And we enjoyed your comments!

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Good stuff you three, enjoyed the song and great work on the video!

Always nice to see Janice do her thing smile

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Man, you guys are always on my playlists. Outstanding as always. My dogma was run over by my karma. This is such a wonderful treat. Surely putting you three together always makes for the best music. [Well, right after your song played on YT, Bela Fleck and Billy Strings showed up --they're pretty good too.] Love the video too. Mix, performance --heck, everythoing about this is quality that can only come from good karma.


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I feel like the saying "you make beautiful music together" was a phrase specifically coined for you three!

Music is, obviously, beyond the scope of any one part. It always astounds me when people manage to make everyone of those parts work so well together that you kind of forget they are separate pieces at all.

In my opinion music comes down to one thing. Emotion. That may seem overly simplistic, but ultimately I feel that is what it is.

I only say that because this song left me with the best of emotions. It even gives me hope for humanity, a giving freely spirit and gratitude. I think these are needed now as much as maybe some of the worst times.

Thank you for creating a wonderful environment to feel that way. smile


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J&B...great track...super vocals and mix...I love the piano intro and accompaniment...though I am neither Buddhist or Hindu (the philosophies from which the concept of karma comes) I do believe that the principle of sowing and reaping is at work in everyone's life...your projects are always so professional sounding and so well performed and produced as usual! I always love hearing them.


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