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bluegrass in the backwoods
an old Kenny Baker tune. it just really needs a guitar.
HONKY-TONK COUNTRY SINGLE “THAT ONE LAST ROSE”
"That One Last Rose" is an original, traditional honky-tonk country song, in the style of Buck Owens, Ray Price, Dwight Yoakam. Playing on it (and on the album it comes from, Last Rose) are some incredible, truly legendary musicians. Byron Berline, Dan Dugmore, and, on other songs on the album, Jason Carter, and Kristin Scott Benson. See my website for more information. [more inside]
I Am Not A Lawyer & This Is Not Legal Advice
A result of the "make a request" thread I posted here a couple weeks back! I recorded the banjo, and greenish supplied the signing. This is for a presentation at a conference I'm part of in July. [more inside]
Red Haired Boy
A standard fiddle tune on mandolin with backing guitar.
More Fiddle Tunes for a Friday
Some fiddle tunes on the mandolin. Medley in A of Old Joe Clark, Red Haired Boy, and June Apple.
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]
Keep On Stumpin'
Getting drunk in the woods with some MeFites led to jokes about songs on a fictional country/bluegrass album called Keep On Stumpin', which led this afternoon to writing and recording the title track. Find a stump to dump the junk in your trunk on! [more inside]
Blackberry Blossom
A traditional fiddle tune, recorded live at the Rainspout festival in Yachats, OR, November 2015. [more inside]
Dark as a Dungeon
An old Merle Travis song that I learned years ago when I first started getting into bluegrass. Another chance to break in the new resonator guitar, and do some fun chorus harmonies. [more inside]
Fiddle tunes for a Friday
Fiddle tunes on mandolin, that is.
Just a little medley of some fiddle tunes I know in the key of D.
Whiskey Before Breakfast/Soldier's Joy/St. Anne's Reel/Liberty/Whiskey Before Breakfast
Evening Prayer Blues
My quick little take on Evening Prayer Blues by Deford Bailey. I originally came to this by way of Bill Monroe, Mike Compton and Alan Bibey mandolin arrangements of it. [more inside]
Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies
The classic bluegrass hymn. [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]
Mistake
Quick little ditty about dusting yourself off. [more inside]
Another Brick in the Major
Take Another Brick in the Wall parts 1, 2, and 3, jam 'em all into one quick bluegrass shitkicker, throw it into a major key, and you get this. [more inside]
Bury Me Beneath the Willow Tree
A very short bluegrass banjo piece I multi-tracked in 2005 and just now unearthed on my hard drive. [more inside]
Big Brown Bottle
Drunken country-jazz jamboree, in reverie. A song about commiseratin' and never hatin'. To Whisky. [more inside]
Everything I Do (I Dun Fer You)
Some rollicking bluegrass as a spoon to the heart of Bryan Adams, Kevin Costner, and basically that whole period of the early 90s. [more inside]
Blitzkrieg Bop/Old Home Place
My bluegrass band's trying to learn how to use one mike! [more inside]
Trials, Troubles, Tribulations
The one allotted cover for Nasoalmo: a cover of E C Ball's Trials Troubles Tribulations.
You Got It (bluegrass cover)
Roy Orbison gets the lofi FourTrack treatment. This is pretty rough stuff, but has convinced me that with some care You Got It could be a fucking tremendous bluegrass number. [more inside]
Last Known Photo
Banjo + Trombone = Awesome? I'd love your feedback on this new project I am a member of (trombonist). Kind of "new wave bluegrass." I hope you like it.
Keep On The Sunny Side
A ridiculously happy bluegrass song, which you may recognise from the "O Brother, Where Art Thou" soundtrack. Arranged for ukulele, bass and three vocal parts. [more inside]
Buttsex
Another naughtybilly song from Courtney McClean and the Dirty Curls, this time about ... um .. a self-evident subject. [more inside]
Suck a Ring
An old-timey, shitkicking, jug-banding, bluegrassy number about oral sex from Courtney McClean and the Dirty Curls, a band in which I play jug, jew's harp, harmonica, and sing harmony vocals. [more inside]
The Plan
I love this song! Upbeat, dancy, kind of weird. [more inside]
Hillbillujah
This is the soundtrack to a movie about Leonard Cohen going on a rafting trip in rural Appalachia. [more inside]
Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifters
First track off our new album, "Heirloom."
I'm playing fiddle an jawharp. [more inside]
Silver Dollar
Bluegrass song about what sometimes happens with sons and dads. (In a bluegrass/country world.)
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All Day Long
Very short and perhaps sweet. I've been working on this kind of music for a while and this is a good example of where I'm at with it right now.
Two Chord Challenge!!!
ENJOY! [more inside]
Man of Constant Sorrow
Standard bluegrass ala The Soggy-Bottom Boys. I thought the song might be cool if I darkened it up a bit. It began life as a 12-string and vocal live track, then I flew in some harmonies, extra guitars and bass. This was recorded in my living room on a cheap laptop. I'm not a guitar player or singer. Enjoy!
Wheel in the Sky (bluegrass cover)
As requested by uncleozzy. I'd like to think this is a song sung by a hard-travelin' man dreaming of his girl—a girl with beautiful long black hair, and a high, soaring voice; Old Man Perry's daughter, Stephanie. [more inside]
Fashion Victim Blues
Whiskey Pearl
Mostly an experiment in banjo, trying to apply the clawhammer style to a more bluegrass style song. [more inside]
Sierra Madre Breakdown
Deliberate Strangers - from Hog Wild and Pig Bitin' Mad [more inside]
St. Anne's Reel
A classic. On mandolin. What more could you want? Nice and short to boot. [more inside]
Trego Mountain
My first attempt at country/bluegrass. Timing is a little off here and there. Based on many trips out to the Nevada desert. No banks were robbed. Send me a note if you like. Peace.
My Bones
Further Than a Stone
Written by the mando player, Hamdog. I'm playing fiddle - everyone had a blast with this. [more inside]
Janie in the Lake
More banjo / fiddle stuff. [more inside]
Blessed Every Day
I was fooling around with a dropped "D" and found this little thing there. Ended up writing some kind of lyrics and sang a little bit. Enjoy!
Fume [Beck]
I've seen a few covers recently and decided to dig up this bluegrass version of Beck's Loser B-side masterpiece. Warning: contains the word "fuck", stark depictions of inhalant abuse, and piping hot banjo rolls.
Sailor's Psalm - 5-piece acoustic
I wrote this awhile back. This is the band performing it at our buddy Todd's house (I'm the fiddler player). I was trying to go for something like a ballad, early 19th century U.S. south, maybe. I think it's pretty. He's singin about drownin hi'self, if you were wonderin.
You Are My Sunshine
Let's call it EMOldtimey. Or, really, let's not. It's not a damned clean rendition, but with this old heartbreaker you don't have to be. My pre-verbal niece was purported to love it, and that's good enough for me.
Banjo Lullaby
On preview, this sounds at least 1/4 slower than it should be. Posting anyway. It's my best so far.
LIttle Birdie
Played by my Grandpa. Super Crap recording and he was a bit out of practice, but this is real old timey music from long ago in Western Appalachia. Please overlook the pops and cracks, this is the real deal.
Flatpickin'
As I'm still in learning/practice mode, here's something I recorded to help me practice banjo, harmonica and jew's harp.
Anyone interested in bluegrass/old-timey (or whatever) music feel free to add tracks to this and post them. This is such an open-ended practice piece that it could really go anywhere, so be my guest to use it anyway you please.
Abraham Holmes
More low quality, drunken Bluegrass with The Failsworth Pilgrims. Recorded the same night we recorded Diamond Joe - only slightly more sober. We always opened our shows with this one because it lends itself to soundchecking so well. Another rough mix, although we did go back later (drunker) and add the super-camp backing vocals
There's a chicken in the house
Just a little chunk of banjo to take your mind of your Monday.
I'm Going Away
By god, it's a bluegrass song! Thought of it because of this superlative Williams interpretation.
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