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Kingsfold
The English folk tune
Kingsfold rendered very simply in synths. Incidentally, it is also the tune to the hymn
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say, and almost identical to the Irish folk song,
Star of County Down. The melody occurs elsewhere in European folk music, I believe.
posted on May 14, 2008 - View this thread
Shady Grove
This Town
Not so different from anything else I've done, but I'm proud of the production of this one.
posted on Apr 15, 2008 - View this threadAll My Hearts (Are Belong To You)
Love More
Title song from my self-produced record last year.
posted on Apr 7, 2008 - View this threadLied
Blankets and Pillows
Recorded last summer sometime, was on a solo album I produced.
posted on Apr 3, 2008 - View this threadNo Going Back
This is not the happiest song I've ever written.
posted on Apr 1, 2008 - View this threadMarie
Song I wrote and recorded recently when thinking about how thankful I am for my friends.
posted on Mar 31, 2008 - View this threadSunday Front Porch
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.
posted on Mar 29, 2008 - View this threadTry to act surprised
A song about accepting that bad stuff sometimes does, and will, happen. Written after the untimely death of a relative a year ago. It's not about him per se, but it does make me think of him every time I play it or hear it, just because the song came together at around the time of his passing.
posted on Mar 25, 2008 - View this threadKissinger's Diaries
A folky ditty about a perceived lack of love in the city.
posted on Mar 20, 2008 - View this threadYou Said
A little folk ballad from Kristy London & The Other Halves, a band from Brisbane, Australia.
posted on Mar 16, 2008 - View this threadsunflower - vampire deer
track 9 of 10 from the rpm album wolf moon
posted on Mar 9, 2008 - View this threadwolf moon - vampire deer
song 8 of 10 for the rpm album wolf moon - tuning dgddad
posted on Mar 8, 2008 - View this threaddread captain - vampire deer
song 3 of 10 - for the rpm 08 album wolf moon
posted on Mar 1, 2008 - View this threadLouis Collins
Quick 'n' dirty cover of Mississippi John Hurt's old song played on my resonator guitar. Levels are a bit off, volume jumps up and down a little... but here it is anyway.
posted on Feb 14, 2008 - View this threadThe Punisher
A little acoustic guitar ditty that sounds like something that would be perfectly suited for a front porch.
posted on Feb 13, 2008 - View this threadEngine
The Coat Hanger Song
Another song off of the new People Will Blink record. We wrote this in 2003 and it has been a fan-favorite ever since. Every time we ask Azeem what the lyrics are about, we get a different response. From what I can gather, a pirate is appearing to someone in a dream. I am the voice of said pirate.
posted on Feb 7, 2008 - View this threadOh, Johanna
More Songs About Oven Mitts
This is a song about a decommissioned Killbot, forced to work in a kitchen baking and whatnot. He is pretty angry about it.
posted on Feb 1, 2008 - View this threadStay
cover of the song by Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs. Fingerstyle guitar, vocals, banjo. Created for the 2008
Songfight! Gift of Music sidefight.
posted on Feb 1, 2008 - View this threadGhosts and Robots
Or "Hooray for the Humans"
a meditation in Post-Apocalyptic Folk-Rock!
Every now and then, someone favorites (or unfavorites) this little line, which I dropped as a comment on a great post about the world after humans. It's actually the opening line to a song I've been mean to post forever. Here's the cleanest version I've got so far.
posted on Jan 28, 2008 - View this threadAt The Airport
Another song from my forthcoming album "Save You From Yourself", featuring my buddy Michael Spaly on mandolin.
posted on Jan 13, 2008 - View this threadFurther Than a Stone
Written by the mando player, Hamdog. I'm playing fiddle - everyone had a blast with this.
posted on Jan 10, 2008 - View this threadJanie in the Lake
Blue Train
Old-timey / bluesy ditty from our new album. That's me on fiddle. :D
posted on Jan 3, 2008 - View this threadStoryline
Pulling Hard Against the Stream
Someone wondered what I'd sound like with instrumental backing. Here you go.
posted on Dec 3, 2007 - View this threadNight 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.
posted on Oct 26, 2007 - View this threadTake this Hammer
Out of It (singalong demo)
This is the title track for my next album and I need some backup vocals!
posted on Sep 28, 2007 - View this threadThe Silk Road
Something a friend and I made awhile ago
posted on Sep 26, 2007 - View this threadBeat Guitar (or, Rags to Rags)
Raw bedroom recording of a song that will eventually end up on an album. Lyrics inside.
posted on Sep 17, 2007 - View this threadGaoth Barra na dTonn
My take on this wonderful Irish Gaelic song, which I learned from Clannad, and which was written by Diarmuid MacDiarmada. Donegaler Mefites, please don't kill me if I've mangled the pronunciation!
posted on Sep 13, 2007 - View this threadSong for the Mira
Let It Go or Give In
I wrote this very recently and decided to record it while it was still fresh. It still needs a lot of work instrumentally, and structurally as well. I'm thinking about working with some musician friends to spruce it up a bit. I would love feedback!
posted on Aug 29, 2007 - View this threadMelody
Featuring Daniel Johnston (yes,
that Daniel Johnston), Jad Fair, and item. Contains a bit of 'Bridge Over Troubled Water', and may hold the world's record for the most number of musical bridges ever in a song.
posted on Aug 29, 2007 - View this threadSudenpolkka
If someone would just make a damn album that sounds like this already then I wouldn't have to be swiping vocals and doing it myself.
posted on Aug 28, 2007 - View this threadRideau Ramble
You people are dangerous for my ego. Something a bit different now; a song in praise of my hometown of Ottawa, Ontario. This song was written for the 175th anniversary of the construction of the Rideau Canal. The tune is by a well-known local Irish musician, Frank Cassidy. This tune has a two-octave-and-a-note range, folks. Don't try this at home.
posted on Aug 24, 2007 - View this threadThe Private's Lament
The companion piece to the Turret Gunner's Farewell. This one's about my other great uncle, who fought in WWI and lived to tell the tale. (A bit more downbeat than TGF, and a bit of creative licence taken regarding his hometown.)
posted on Aug 20, 2007 - View this threadThe Turret Gunner's Farewell
A song I wrote a couple of years ago as a tribute to my great uncle Bernard, who went down in a Halifax III during WWII. Oh hell. Just listen to the song to get the story.
posted on Aug 17, 2007 - View this threadprama says
Until You Sever The Snake
Written and recorded for the serpentine challenge now underway. My buddy Ken Kawashima brought in the North Mississippi blues riff and yours truly did the rest.
Apologies to animal rights advocates, but some snakes were severed during the recording of this song. Had to be done. [lyrics inside]
posted on Jul 17, 2007 - View this threadangel turning into stone - vampire deer
10 of 13 - herby and the polar bear club ... after which it's really hard for them to fly
posted on Jul 7, 2007 - View this threadthe River Girl
A song by my band, the Notes and Scratches, kind of about Vivian Eliot and featuring a bunch of water. I sing and play the acoustic and the harmonium.
posted on Jul 5, 2007 - View this threadUsed To Ride That Train
There must've been hundreds of times over the years that I've tapped out a rhythm on a pan full of water while doing the dishes, the pitch woozily shifting as the h2o sloshes about. At those times I've almost always thought, hey, I should put this on a track sometime. Of course, I never did, until the first MeFi Music Challenge, with its "water" theme. Along with the big metal bowl full of troubled waters, you'll hear jawharp, talking drum, bombo drum, bell, shaker and vocal.
[Lyrics and more inside]
posted on Jul 5, 2007 - View this threadYou Promised There Would Be Girls [demo]
I wrote and recorded this today - it's basically a stream-of-consciousness account of one of the stranger and more entertaining parties I've attended.
posted on Jul 4, 2007 - View this thread« Older songs
