With all the fuss going on about the
Jayne Hats from Firefly, thought it might be fun to share the first song from our Firefly-inspired music project,
Leaves on the Wind. [more inside]
posted by platinum
on Apr 12, 2013 -
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Sometimes various musical genres blend together to create something fresh and brilliant - the old with the new, analogue with digital, with styles and sounds intermeshing to create a new fabric. That is what we were after with this song, which has got to be the Ummagma song that leans most towards folk-rock. A little hiatus from dreampop.
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posted by Brodyaga
on Apr 11, 2013 -
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Discovered that my new Focusrite will covert old cassettes to digital. This is from around 1978, my friend Karen and I covering a Lowell George and John Sebastian song that I learned off a Valerie Carter album.
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posted by Danf
on Apr 1, 2013 -
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I thought I had uploaded this 1998 live living room recording but I guess not. Yet another example of my old band's Bee Gees fixation.
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posted by litlnemo
on Mar 8, 2013 -
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Minor variation on an old minstrel tune. Fretless tackhead banjo, marginally played tambourine and bones.
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posted by usonian
on Feb 27, 2013 -
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A cover of Radiohead's H&D on resonator guitar in open G, for the minor/major challenge. I originally intended this to be a shitkicking country stomper but it turned into something quite different.
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posted by unSane
on Feb 23, 2013 -
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From a
new album of songs adapted from an old Baptist hymnal written by my great-great grandfather, who was deacon of a church in Weatherford, Texas many years ago.
posted by swift
on Jan 4, 2013 -
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A folk-song mainly about St Paul's Cathedral and its history, with themes of love, hope and continuity.
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posted by howfar
on Dec 31, 2012 -
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This is a song about what a serial murderer might feel like after he's been at it for so long he can hardly stand it anymore.
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posted by Pecinpah
on Sep 29, 2012 -
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Einstein is reported to have said, "Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
This song presents a counterargument. Warning: may be offensive to critters.
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posted by Sing Or Swim
on Sep 20, 2012 -
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Demo of a new song! This is the first one I've written on my own (outside my band) in a long time. Recorded in my living room this morning.
posted by Maaik
on Aug 31, 2012 -
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Last of the tunes recorded earlier this month in a little house in the mountains. Vocal and stick dulcimer. A very prolific songbird who was just outside can be heard throughout this performance. Video
here.
posted by flapjax at midnite
on Aug 25, 2012 -
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Ever since I first saw John Lee Hooker's utterly captivating, almost terrifyingly powerful
performance of it, I've been a lover of this song. RL Burnside
covered it as well. This is my humble (and following those two performances, I
really mean that) offering, from a little house in the hills of Nagano prefecture, Japan. Video
here.
posted by flapjax at midnite
on Aug 20, 2012 -
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Another tune recorded the other day at a little house in the woods. Just vocal and stick dulcimer, and a little bird outside that joins me for the very last note. Video
here.
posted by flapjax at midnite
on Aug 18, 2012 -
1 comment
I did a youtube recording of this lovely tune. Decided to give it a pass through the iPad, since I'm on a roll lately. Folky ballad.
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posted by lazaruslong
on Aug 6, 2012 -
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Back on the horse! Here's a song I wrote and recorded tonight. The idea was a laid-back, french café sort of sounding tune. It's about interstellar exploration.
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posted by lazaruslong
on Aug 5, 2012 -
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This is a Posies cover a few of us did for a Dear 23 list (Posies fan list) compilation in the late 1990s. Personnel: Me, vocal and maybe guitar; Chris Otto, background vocal, guitar, autoharp; Terri Doherty: bass.
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posted by litlnemo
on Aug 2, 2012 -
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Another ditty for the baritone uke
posted by pugh
on Jul 6, 2012 -
1 comment
I like this song, so I sang it in a room by myself.
posted by pugh
on Jul 5, 2012 -
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This is the first song I ever wrote. It's also perhaps the saddest?
posted by pugh
on Jun 3, 2012 -
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This is from our JUST released album, The Story Is Everything. We're trying to beat a crazy deadline and sell 17 CDs before the end of the day tomorrow (Thursday, May 17). If we do it, we can bring physical discs to the Kerrville Folk Festival next weekend.
Here's the link, should you happen to feel generous. Thanks for listening!
posted by soundacious
on May 16, 2012 -
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A trace of various examinations of questions I have had about melody, beauty, tradition. This is not the degenerate case, but rather it is about the degenerate case.
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posted by idiopath
on May 4, 2012 -
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I've always had a soft spot for this Postal Service song, so here's an acoustic cover featuring resonator guitar, pump organ, and ten copies of me. Lighters out for the last chorus, please.
posted by unSane
on Mar 25, 2012 -
21 comments
One-take before-pants demo of a cynical little song that's been buzzing round in my head recently. Video
here.
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posted by unSane
on Mar 11, 2012 -
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Short instrumental with multi-tracked acoustic guitar. I apologize for how quiet and fuzzy the recording is. This is my first upload on MetaFilter but I have other stuff posted under the same username on Youtube if you care to listen to anything else. Thanks!
posted by djsosharp
on Feb 23, 2012 -
2 comments
Best Friends Forever - we always will be.
Best Friends Forever. Just you and me....
Written and performed by Julian Mount (aka: JtJ)
posted by JtJ
on Feb 19, 2012 -
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For Valentine's Day, 2012, a ragtime arrangement of two unlikely bedfellows: Lady Gaga's Bad Romance and the 1817 JC Lowry tune Pisgah (58 in The Sacred Harp).
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posted by The White Hat
on Feb 14, 2012 -
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This is a dark folk song about Depression-era New Orleans. It's a collaboration between my wife and I.
posted by soundacious
on Jan 22, 2012 -
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My friend John has a Victorian-style punchcard music box. We put the punched strip for a well-known Christmas carol in upside down, and this is what we got.
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posted by Pallas Athena
on Dec 17, 2011 -
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After seeing the Muppet Movie this weekend, I was reminded of a project I led back in '08 called Doctor Teeth. This Tom Waits arrangement is one of a few recordings we made, despite having never played a show.
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posted by The White Hat
on Nov 28, 2011 -
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