Comments on: Folsomlujah

Folsomlujah

chococat — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:34:39 -0800

Cohen, prison style.

I'd originally intended to do a bit more of a serious thing. But then I decided that it was more fun to jump on the jokey "done in the style of..." bandwagon. The following crowd noises were obtained from freesound and licensed through Creative Commons: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

By: Corduroy

Corduroy — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:07:21 -0800

This is executed masterfully. Well done!

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:10:18 -0800

Fun is good. Nice job! It just goes to show, Johnny's trademark sound works with anything

"yew don't really care fer myoozic, do ya?" Fabulous. Great crowd noises, too, that's a really good touch. Thanks for those links.

By: l33tpolicywonk

l33tpolicywonk — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:11:05 -0800

I love how you take full ownership of this song, just like most of your music. I've really enjoyed havin' you on the portable music player the last few weeks, chococat.

By: askmeaboutLOOM

askmeaboutLOOM — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:31:09 -0800

A nice groove picked on the guitar, smooth bass, and a solid shuffle start of the song quite nicely, but yeah...your croaked vox really sell it. Very nicely done.

By: barnacles

barnacles — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:17:33 -0800

This is awesome.

By: mexican

mexican — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:47:01 -0800

i thought i recognized some of those folks in the crowd. there's lots of good ambient sounds to be had at freesound.

By: abc123xyzinfinity

abc123xyzinfinity — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:00:48 -0800

Did someone already say masterful? Yeah, I agree.

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:53:43 -0800

That's a load of fun, and agreed about the crowd noises: nice touch. The huuuuge reverb almost makes it sound like a crowd is singing along. I dig the way the harmonies kind of float in, too. This is good.

By: chococat

chococat — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:08:33 -0800

Thanks.
It's pretty goofy. My voice just doesn't go that low so the singing is pretty rough...I just tried it once because I didn't think I could do it again.
I forgot to include a link to the original by Johnny but I guess pretty much everyone knows the song.

By: Jofus

Jofus — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:13:55 -0800

Flagged as "Would totally have sex with this song."

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:54:06 -0800

Holy butts, dude. Spot on. And, yeah, my voice doesn't go that low either, but the gravely struggle of it works.

The crowd noise is a wonderful addition; a straight up Cash take would have been fun enough on its own but giving it the Folson treatment is brilliant.

If I had one wish, it'd be for some extra, June-ish harmonies pushing in on the choruses. But I can never get her to sing on my recordings either.

By: micayetoca

micayetoca — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:56:33 -0800

Great fun. We should get a fakeconcert tag for stuff like this and this.

By: snsranch

snsranch — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:22:02 -0800

(In Johnny Cash voice) Damn, son, if this was any tighter it might bust wide open!

This is great man, everything works brilliantly.

(In sns voice) HOT DAMN!!!

By: es_de_bah

es_de_bah — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:44:41 -0800

i think his is my favorite one so far. good show.

By: Danf

Danf — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:16:28 -0800

And the inmates even let you live, after that!

It's great!

By: desuetude

desuetude — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:08:32 -0800

"yew don't really care fer myoozic, do ya?" Fabulous.

Oh, gods, agreed.

By: haunted by Leonard Cohen

haunted by Leonard Cohen — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:52:32 -0800

Had your posts playing in the background to see if I missed anything new and all of the sudden I hear THIS SONG! Pulled me right out of homework mode and into this page to tell you how much I love it. Well done sir!