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Isto - Beware (from my new album 'Let's Face the Silence and Dance)

When your wife starts looking at you funny
And it's close to bulk collection day
Beware
Beware

When you get in a sedan with three other men
And they've left you the right front seat
Beware
Beware

When you're looking in a hole and you can't see a thing
And someone says bend over just a little bit more
When you're selling vacuum cleaners door to door
And a voice starts screaming from below the floor

When the undertaker calls you on the telephone 2025-12-20 03:38:26 +0000 UTC View Post

Lesson: Carol of the Bells (Ed Vollmer Arrangement)

Isto - Wonderful Things Everywhere

One of the songs from my new album, "Let's Face the Silence and Dance."

Well I feel like Howard Carter
Every Christmas morning
Well I feel like Howard Carer
Every Christmas morning
Well I feel like Howard Carter
Every Christmas morning
Well I feel like Howard Carter everyday

When you're walking down those stairs
You don't know what you'll find there
When you open up that door
You don't know what you'll find there
When you're looking at your phone
...

Isto - Let's Face the Silence and Dance

Hi, everybody. Here's a new Isto album:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4ZFv6qnzgiyk7C4Zq9GKE7?si=RhEo1RT2TD2zlpPiGkFRuQ

Let's Face the Silence and Dance | Isto

Isto - Somebody Loves Me (Gershwin/MacDonald/DeSylva)

One of the arrangements that will appear in my forthcoming book, Fingerpicking the Great American Songbook.

Fingerpicking the Great American Songbook

Hi Everybody,

I'm excited to announce that my first book, Fingerpicking the Great American Songbook, is being published by Acoustic Guitar Magazine and is expected to be available in February. You can read more about it and pre-order copies from Acoustic Guitar here:

2025-12-12 04:52:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Isto & Micho - Masterpiece

Christopher "Isto" White and Kyle Micho perform Kyle's song "Masterpiece." Help support these videos/access video lessons: http://patreon.com/istomusic.com

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Can I take you by the hand
And show you to my door?
I've got every s...

Lesson: Frosty the Snowman

Isto - Black Friday (Becker/Fagen)

Isto & Son - Simple Gifts

By Elder Joseph Brackett from Alfred Shaker Village (1848)

Isto - I Get a Kick Out of You (Cole Porter)

Isto & Micho - Long Goodbyes

Words and Music by Christopher Frank White ("Isto")
This song comes from my 2022 album, "Orpheus of the Midnight Kitchen."

I'll be performing at the next Sub Rosa Session at this Pink Rock Culture Co-op in Syracuse, NY this Thursday 11/20/25. Tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/sub-rosa-sessions

Sometimes I feel like a relic from a bygone age
Like the phone booths on West End Avenue
...

Isto - Theme from Cheers (Where Everybody Knows Your Name)

When I was a kid, back during the original run of Cheers, I remember imagining that it was Woody Harrelson singing this song. Anybody else? The series finale was the first time in my life that a television episode felt like a major event. It seemed like such a big deal that this tv show, which had always been on, was ending. It felt important that I tape it when it aired in order to save it for posterity. I'm looking just now at the date it aired, and realizing that it was about a month befor...

Lesson: Dayton, Ohio - 1903

Lesson: If I Fell

Isto - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (Blind Lemon Jefferson)

Also known as "One Kind Favor." Tablature available here: Tab - See That My Grave is Kept Clean | Patreon

Isto - The Addams Family (As Sung by Cookie Monster)

Them cookie and them cookie
Them cookie and them cookie
Them altogether cookie
The Addams Family

Lesson - The Girl from Ipanema

Isto - The Girl from Ipanema (an alternative interpretation)

"Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl from Ipanema") by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinícius de Moraes (English lyrics by Norman Gimbel).

Isto - Mary Had a Little Lamb/In the Hall of the Mountain King

Isto & Kyle - If I Fell (Lennon/McCartney)

Christopher "Isto" White and Kyle Micho sing "If I Fell" by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

Isto - Since You Said We're Through

This song comes from my 2016 album, "A Fool at Large."

I've been lonely here in my bed
Icicles forming all around my head
It's so cold, I don't know what to do
Since you said we're through

Just can't move a muscle, can't sit up straight
Paralyzed from head to toe, that's my fate
I'll be here for a while and I know that's true
Since you said we're through

I don't know what's happening in the world anymore
The papers just pile up at my door 2025-10-10 01:49:38 +0000 UTC View Post

Isto - Squeeze Box (Pete Townshend)

Isto - Dayton, Ohio - 1903 (Randy Newman)

Isto - Corrina, Corrina (Traditional)

Isto performs "Corrina, Corrina" by John B. Traditional.

Isto - California Girls (Wilson/Love)

Lesson: My Old School

How I play Steely Dan's "My Old School."

Isto - From This Moment On (Cole Porter)

Isto - September in the Rain (Warren/Dubin)

Lesson: You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go