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Where Have All The Flowers Gone?
In memory of Pete Seeger, a two-uke rendition of one of his best-known tunes. Video here if you're interested. [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]
You and Your Sister
Cover of the Chris Bell song. This song was one of three assigned to me in a music challenge on another site. [more inside]
I Am The Cosmos
After flaking on too many challenges I was determined to get this one in under the wire, despite whatever life threw up in the meantime to distract me (quite a lot as it happens, but in a good way).
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Wheel
A wheel out of balance is a dangerous thing. [more inside]
So Much More
Just got a new zoom h6 to record with. Guitar, vocals, whistling, and a 1930's Dogherty pump organ. [more inside]
js theme
Another quick 'jazz' tune recorded during the week.
Never Took a Dollar from a Dead Man
This is S&H, from a show we did just the other night here in Tokyo. I'm so digging working with percussionist Habu Hiroshi, he's really bringing the groove. Video here.
To Kill the Pain
Parental Guidance: Adult Themes, Adult Language, Dobro [more inside]
Moonage daydreaming
For the Bowie challenge, finally. [more inside]
Paint
Quiet guitar for a quiet afternoon. [more inside]
Oh Death (by S&H, live, April 2013)
Well it isn't the first time I've posted this song to Metafilter Music. Nor is it the second, third or fourth. But, in my defense, I'd say that all of these versions are, well, rather different from each other, in their various ways. This fifth one is from my duo band S&H, and was recorded live at a little African restaurant in Shinjuku. Video here.
Mistake
Quick little ditty about dusting yourself off. [more inside]
You Never Laugh
Weird little acoustic whisper-sing experiment from a few years ago. Born of legitimate frustration. [more inside]
Friday Harbor
Sailing Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands [more inside]
Midnight Improv #3
The third installment. [more inside]
Still Flying
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]
River Town
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. [more inside]
Face of Appalachia
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. [more inside]
Calm Lil Tickle
Fiddling with some down tempo piano [more inside]
Gotta Get A Message to You
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. [more inside]
Practicalities
Acoustic tune for this month's challenge [more inside]
Walk Into De Funeral Parlor Jig
Minor variation on an old minstrel tune. Fretless tackhead banjo, marginally played tambourine and bones. [more inside]
High and Dry
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. [more inside]
The Lonely Karmic Cop
Cover of Radiohead's "Karma Police" for the major/minor challenge. [more inside]
Midnight Improv #2
Another midnight noodling session before bed. [more inside]
Parable Of The Prodigal Son
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.
St Paul's
A folk-song mainly about St Paul's Cathedral and its history, with themes of love, hope and continuity. [more inside]
Rest Ye Merry
Vaguely medieval and dirge-like. [more inside]
No Favors
Acoustic guitar, some words. [more inside]
Harpies at the Bar
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. [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]
Native Tongue
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.
Annie Took the Money
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.
Hobo Blues
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.
Couldn't Tell You Why
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.
In The Curve
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. [more inside]
Dust Samples
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. [more inside]
Earlier Than Expected
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. [more inside]
Couch
Another ditty for the baritone uke
will you still love me tomorrow (cover)
I like this song, so I sang it in a room by myself.
3 Legged Dog
A very short and simple ode to my dog who I love. [more inside]
belladonna
I don't think it meets the bar MajorDundee set, but I gave it a shot. Adapted the words from Belladonna. Learned a lot! [more inside]
A Thumb Piano Song
Late night twiddling. [more inside]
Hardly
This is the first song I ever wrote. It's also perhaps the saddest?
we have to leave
I wrote this.
you
Sorry about the whistling.
John & Tanya - Werewolf Night
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!
In Your Eyes
This song was inspired by our singer's video chats with her long distance beau. It is on the new Red On Strike album Her Own Little World, now available for download on Bandcamp. [more inside]