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All I Have To Do Is Dream
A quick finger style arrangement of the Everly Brothers' classic for baritone guitar. [more inside]
The End of the World
Music: Arthur Kent
Lyrics: Sylvia Dee
Originally Recorded by: Skeeter Davis [more inside]
Elvis Presley Slow Down
A little finger style Elvis Medley. As slow as I could manage.
Phenakistoscope
I wrote this instrumental fingerstyle song half a life ago, but I wanted to try out the electric piano and drum set that I bought recently, so I pulled it out of the vault. [more inside]
Lilly Polka
A lovely little early fingerstyle composition for the banjo by Frank B. Converse, from his 1865 New and Complete Method for the Banjo With or Without a Master.
Darling Nelly Gray
Fretless recording of an 1868 James Buckley finger style banjo arrangement of a tremendously popular song written in 1856 by Benjamin Hanby. [more inside]
Particle Man
My little old-timey number for the TMBG Flood covers project. [more inside]
ShH 5t: Angel's Hymn
Arrangement of Angel's Hymn, No. 5t in the Shenandoah Harmony. First verse by Isaac Watts 1706, Second verse by Thomas Kelly, 1802. Original composition by Orlando Gibbons, 1623. [more inside]
John Irwin
My version of Turlough O'Carolan's tune John Irwin, for fingerstyle guitar. [more inside]
March of the Rainy Days
Mississippi John Hurt- and John Fahey- inspired fingerstyle guitar tune. [more inside]
Falling
working title, not sure about that just yet, I've been playing a lot in this modal C tuning (CGCGCD) and this tune came out over the past few days. [more inside]
Baking Powder Blues
Acoustic fingerstyle blues instrumental.
My first effort at writing a riff blues, and also my first effort at recording. Completed as a final assignment for a Berklee Music MOOC. [more inside]
Black Mountain Blues
This is a little fingerstyle blues thing I've been working on for a while, indebted to Mississippi John Hurt and a little bit of John Fahey. [more inside]
Critters Are Food
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. [more inside]
Only Dessert.
Alternative nutritional advice. Ask your doctor if Only Dessert is right for you. [more inside]
My Country 'Tis of Thee - Fingerstyle
That, or God Save the Queen. Your choice. [more inside]
Bad Romance & Pisgah
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). [more inside]
Auld Lang Syne, ragtime fingerstyle arrangement
It's been five years since my last attempt at arranging Auld Lang Syne. I thought I might try to start a small fire under it this year. [more inside]
Way Down in the Hole
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. [more inside]
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
A ragtime arrangement of one of the most ear-wormy, riffiest songs I know. [more inside]
Boots Of Spanish Leather
Another "get me out of this musical funk" cover. The more I hear Dylan sing this, the more I think this may be his most beautiful song. Here's my try. [more inside]
Tonight You Belong To Me
A quick arrangement I did for guitar and musical saw of "Tonight You Belong To Me" by Billy Rose and Lee David. You might remember it from here.
The Church's Desolation (and Old Hundred)
Guitar, banjo, and vox arrangement of the shapenote tune, The Church's Desolation, number 89 in The Sacred Harp. A quick fingerstyle arrangement of Old Hundred (49 on the top) was tacked onto the front. [more inside]
Wedding Song
Committed years ago for newly committed friends.
Girls on Bicycles
Myself on nylon. [more inside]
Red-handed
False clawhammer on a true J-45.
My Voice on Carl's Home Answering Machine
Does what it says on the box, with guitar. Solve the Limerick Challenge! [more inside]
Sunburst
Another instrumental in a tuning I can't even remember.
*D* Rain
I lived for a time in a shed with one of those corrugated fiberglass roofs. It rained. Then it stopped. Then started again. Etc. [more inside]
Cowboy Song
I had some downstairs neighbors for which I was the semi-regular entertainment. [more inside]
Redwood City Blues
An old track that a kid recently digitized off the cassette tape. [more inside]
My Heart Will Give You Up
The third and final installment of my 2009 Valentine's day project. Celine Dion + Rick Astley, as if the internet needed another rickroll. [more inside]
Saint V. Massacree
Guitar Rag, with banjo. [more inside]
Hail Poetry
A short arrangement for solo banjo of the stunning Gilbert & Sullivan tune from The Pirates of Penzance. [more inside]
Let It Snow
This is as close to the original melody as I could get while in a minor key. Imagine being on a holiday getaway where everything goes terribly because of the weather.
Chiefest Microns
Instrumental banjo waltz, written this afternoon. [more inside]
Oh! Susanna
Classical banjo and fingerstyle guitar arrangement of the Stephen Foster tune. [more inside]
Wave
boing
hubris in E major [more inside]
Hard Times Come Again No More
Just installed new strings and set up my new 3-mic stand; I figured I'd test drive 'em both. [more inside]
noodling
More 12-string fingerstyle. This time the tuning is DADDAD. [more inside]
Cheese Whiz
I have no idea why I decided to choose that name half a life ago. It is a 12-string fingerstyle barnburner played with pinky slide. [more inside]
sonic youth vs. john fahey
To rock or to pick? That seemed to be struggle that played out on this old cassette that I recently dug up and digitized.
This is another 12-string fingerstyle tune in an alternate tuning (Cc Gg Cc gg gc ce). I played around with tuning the double-coursed strings to different notes.
cgcgce
Another fingerstyle tune from the cassette time capsule. This one was recorded on a six-string with my friends backing me up on cello and percussion.
Stay
cover of the song by Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs. Fingerstyle guitar, vocals, banjo. Created for the 2008 Songfight! Gift of Music sidefight.
Night Terrors
Written to satisfy both a Songfight challenge and the mefi music challenge. Who says you can't spook two horses with one chestnut? Featuring three buttons on my accordion.
Take this Hammer
Cover of a Leadbelly tune. [more inside]
Beat Guitar (or, Rags to Rags)
Raw bedroom recording of a song that will eventually end up on an album. Lyrics inside. [more inside]
Imogen Heap "Hide and Seek" Arrangement for the Guitar
Rough arrangement of Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek" for the steel-string guitar. I put this together about a month ago, after the SNL "Dear Sister" sketch introduced me to the song.
The Parting Glass (Fingerstyle w/ Violin)
Fingerstyle arrangement of a trad tune, features backing violin by Gretchen Lohse.
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