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True Love Will Find You In The End (Daniel Johnston Cover)
If you know of him, you may have an opinion that Daniel Johnston is a outsider genius, a troubled victim of hipster exploitation, or simply a not-so-typical independent musician who found his audience. If nothing else, his work is irrefutably full of sincerity and emotion.
This little piece of his is one of the great American songs. [more inside]
Birds
Long time no tunes! A simple tune on the classical guitar, sketched out after my daily struggle to learn Chopin & Satie songs. Birds, for interest.
Starving (Cover)
"Something inside me's changed—I was so much younger yesterday." I learned and recorded this cover of Hailee Steinfeld's "Starving" in a half hour one afternoon last month. [more inside]
Death Would Be Unkind
Instrumental country death song
Spotted Pony
The old-time tune "Spotted Pony", played at a jam session at the 2016 Portland Old-Time Music Gathering. [more inside]
2016 Buh Bye!
I, for one, welcome our new 2017 overlords. Written and recorded on a Zoom H4, New Year's Day 2017.
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding
[Cover] Sentimental and simple, but a good reminder of what matters. [more inside]
Pig Ankle Rag (Practice)
Work in progress, a classic fiddle rag with some new old time fun. Words and arrangement by Mr. Corwin Bolt, played by the Wingnuts. [more inside]
Chimes & Oatmeal
Here's my submission (finally) for the assignment I got for the Great Raffle Request Challenge a few years back. The request: "Record a song (cover or original) on an instrument you don't really know how to play."
This one's for Secretariat! [more inside]
Objective Truth
For Leonard.
Deserts 2 - 11_4_16, 8.32 PM
Acoustic guitar improv + desert sounds from Freesound.
Much longer and more free form than my normal way of doing things.
Disquiet0250 Soother - 10:15:16, 10.13 AM
Acoustic guitar improv with ambient desert sounds.
On the guitar I was trying to do bells by letting strings ring against one another.
Recorded late Saturday night in the woodshed the the Soundcloud app on my Android phone. The guitar was my National Estralita.
The ambient sound tracks are from Freesound -
"A can rolling into the wind, in the desert of Atacama (Chile)." by felix.blume.
"The Australian Desert at night." by "kangaroovindaloo"
felix.blume
Chile, desert » A can rolling into the wind, in the desert of Atacama (Chile)
Limes from Lemonade (lo-fi demo)
This is a lo-fi demo of a new song I wrote recently. It was an experiment in seeing what I could sketch out with the least effort just using my phone. I doubled and harmonized with my own vocals in the chorus, but didn't have any multitracking software on my phone to do it, so I used a freeware app that let me record and mix a second vocal as input to the waveform of my original performance. [more inside]
I wanted to
Another acoustic song! I'm really digging this thing where I limit myself to two strings, probably because I'm lazy.
Angeline the Baker
Improvised acoustic guitar / singing. Recorded on phone.
A bluegrass standard, but I'm playing it as a stream of consciousness improvisation. Usually these days my playing is pretty much by the book, but here I was thinking about ecstatic / outside players like John Fahey and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
No patching in. Only one take. No overdubbing. Get it right in the moment. Be real and accept flaws as long as they don't spoil anything important. [more inside]
The Difference
I've been listening to a lot of riot grrl and wrote this for a friend
Kicking up the Dust (original)
Acoustic folk heartbreak. [more inside]
Going Nowhere
This mp3 was converted from a video I made, recording stereo audio straight into my phone. It's a rough draft with minimal instrumentation and arrangement I'm hoping to develop further with a group that recently started coming together called The Wishing Well Divers. [more inside]
Optimist (Acoustic Demo)
First demo for RPM2016.
9 songs to go! [more inside]
All Right Here
A thinly veiled apology to a woman I hurt 15 years ago. [more inside]
Oh For Certainty
I really love JJ Cale - I'd like to think he would have enjoyed this quick song I wrote about our home in southern California, fate and love. [more inside]
Elegy
An elegiac and somewhat wistful acoustic guitar instrumental [more inside]
Blackberry Blossom
A traditional fiddle tune, recorded live at the Rainspout festival in Yachats, OR, November 2015. [more inside]
76t Doomsday
Zombie Hymn. Tune arranged from Abraham Wood, 1789; words by Joseph Hart, 1762. [more inside]
distant empty futures—touching on the past
About missing people. It's not 'till the end when I realize that my songs and stories are just shadows of reflections of feelings, lost intentions and devoid of useful meaning. [more inside]
nice small plate
Percussive acoustic guitar through tape echo, with processed vocal. I don't know what you call this kind of music.
My friend goodnight
Why didn't we all get another thousand years with you? Well I guess I know. Goodnight my friend.
Kensington
I wrote this with my brother back in 1993 on a night we were thrown out of home and had no where to go. We spent the night sleeping on the steps of McPherson library in Philadelphia. [more inside]
negative man
To Don Joyce. Acoustic.
Cuando Viene El Mal
A song from my new acoustic band Love Monkee, from our set at the His Lai Buddhist Temple last month. Special thanks to drlith, who translated the chorus for me in this AskMe. Video of the last half of the set. [more inside]
Jackson (Lucinda Williams Cover)
My entry for the May/June 'City Songs' challenge. [more inside]
Matt's Bathroom
My friend remodeled his bathroom, so I had to record a song denigrating his efforts. Pretty goofy and NSFW. [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]
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
A traditional bluegrass arrangement of the classic spiritual by my band, Green Mountain Bluegrass Band. From our new (and first studio) album, City Limits. [more inside]
Liza Jane 2
A second version of the traditional tune Liza Jane, on clawhammer guitar . . . [more inside]
Go Away
Acoustic guitars, a little slide, singing, breathing room. [more inside]
Tiny Tangled Trainwreck
I play mandolin and haven't written anything new in entirely too long. Today I remedied that while also facing my fear of writing/playing in the key of F.
Just A Veneer
Snarky Americana. Mostly about a girl I dated once who just lovvvveed reaching into my wallet.
Salt Water ~circa 2004
It was 2004 and I was staying with some new found friend in California, sleeping on his couch while I filled a Production Asst. for a straight-dvd-movie filming in Hollywood, Ca. He had this Digital multi-track recorder handed down to him by a friend, which he told me didn't work. It worked off a Zip drive disk, where it stored what you recorded. I believe the drive was probably failing frequently (wasn't that the case with all of those zip drives?)... [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]
Sandy Boys
Old-time traditional tune, done clawhammer style on guitar. [more inside]
Don't Walk Away
Heavy
Literally just finished this so I'm sorry it's so sloppy [more inside]
Above the Tree Line
The first song from my new EP, In Truth, available for free download.
An Americana acousticish song about getting lost.
Ferguson, Missouri
This song addresses the situation in Ferguson and the frightening militarization and violence of today's police forces across America. I made a video for it, which you can view here.
raining
when it rains, it pours [more inside]
The Devil Walks the Earth
Here's a live recording of a song I premiered at a gig two nights ago (July 18, 2014). The bassist accompanying me is Keigo iwami, from the Swamp Root Jimmies. The song is anti-war, anti-greed, anti-death. Video here.
Mystery Intergalactic Radio Burst Detected
A fun composite/mishmash of song ideas (and some narration) originally created in response to a sound track idea request for an eccentric little animation a friend of mine was trying to get going. Not sure if the animation will ever come about but here is what I put together for it.
We'll Sweep Out the Ashes in the Morning
Who doesn't like a song about forbidden love? An acoustic cover for a Wednesday. [more inside]
Chocolates For Sarah
A waltz written by a friend of mine in honor of our fiddle teacher, Sarah. [more inside]