9 posts tagged with ukulele by cortex.
Displaying 1 through 9 of 9.

Halle Hula - live from Hāpuna Beach

Sat down yesterday with my new uke, at a beach on the west cost of the Big Island, to revisit my Cohen/Elvis parody from several years ago.
posted by cortex on Sep 22, 2016 - 4 comments

Young Blood

A short song on a new ukulele about a thing I saw from a helicopter in Hawaii. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Sep 22, 2016 - 6 comments

Always On My Mind (cover)

Resonator and baritone uke, trying to channel Willie Nelson though maybe via John Darnielle a little it turns out. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Jul 24, 2015 - 5 comments

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]
posted by cortex on Jul 16, 2015 - 4 comments

(I'm Gonna Drink A) Fifth Of July

Twitter joke that turned into an actual country song an hour later. I'm in Huntsville with nothing but my ukulele, so this didn't get the full band treatment I'd otherwise do, but it works pretty well like this.
posted by cortex on Jul 4, 2015 - 9 comments

Complicated (Avril cover)

I still don't know why exactly I just did this, but here is a deeply lo-fi cover of Avril Lavigne's Complicated, from vague memory and sight-read lyrics, on an iPhone using the Sonoma Wireworks/retronyms application FourTrack. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Apr 15, 2010 - 12 comments

Drunk Again

Uke-driven boozer's lament. One of the demos I recorded yesterday for my album-in-a-month. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Feb 9, 2010 - 8 comments

Hillbillujah

This is the soundtrack to a movie about Leonard Cohen going on a rafting trip in rural Appalachia. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Jun 18, 2009 - 15 comments

Halle Hula

When Elvis Met Leonard. Nothing but uke, vox, and questionable taste. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Jun 17, 2009 - 44 comments

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