John Gil Faelan

For the past 5 decades, I have been writing songs. It began when I attended Indiana University’s music school with Malcolm Brooks, a friend and neighbor, who was already well on the road to becoming an accomplished songwriter. During the years in The Michael Band, through my years performing as a solo artist, and mostly in the subsequent decades, I wrote the songs that told me they needed to be written. Along the way, I documented my collections (albums), as if I had a singer-songwriting career (while going in various different non-musical directions professionally). I recorded all those completed songs at my home studios in work tape format: Lead Voice, Harmony Voice(s), Piano, Drum Machine, and compiled them into various collections, chronologically curated over the many years. With the exception of one fully produced studio CD (see “Six Years in Exile”), all of the material is in work tape form.

This year, I decided to release My Work Tape Career for posterity, so that folks who need (or want) to find my music will do so, and with the hope that my music will both inspire and entertain.

These 15 collections (My Work Tape Career) comprise what would have been my albums beginning with “The Dawning” (1970s) chronologically through my tribute to “Family” (2020s).

John Gil Faelan, 2023

Before I Go – a collection of all-new original songs, written during the past two years, and recorded in work tape style this August (2024).
Six Years in Exile Original (work tape) Versions – the original versions of the ten songs on my fully-produced cd, in their unadulterated work tape format.
The Best of Original (work tape) Versions – of 15 original songs written and recorded between 1973-1993. Very excited to present these newly-discovered rare gems from the early years, as they represent the very first (and often better) takes on songs previously presented on my website.

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Welcome to Gil Faelan Music, Featuring

MY WORK TAPE CAREER