Final version
Day 28
Anyone else still writing songs?
this is the result of trying to listen to too many mixes in one day. Sometimes it's just easier to record something else.
Final version
Day 28
Anyone else still writing songs?
this is the result of trying to listen to too many mixes in one day. Sometimes it's just easier to record something else.
Final version
it needs a fiddle but it has a mandolin, a chicken banjo and some excellent backing vocalists
my third demo for RPM 2011
The cat's in the window and
the rabbit's in the hutch
goat's in the meadow just
a-chewin on the…
Final version
it needs a fiddle but it has a mandolin, a chicken banjo and some excellent backing vocalists
my third demo for RPM 2011
The cat's in the window and
the rabbit's in the hutch
goat's in the meadow just
a-chewin on the…
I'm finally happy with this track - v1 was too much of a nothing song and it's been bugging me all the way to the last night of the challenge.
1 more to mix
Final version
Day 28
Anyone else still writing songs?
this is the result of trying to listen to too many mixes in one day. Sometimes it's just easier to record something else.
EDIT final version now posted and the page turning is gone but i left this intro as is in case anyone is reading the comments. Does anyone read the comments? or the intro?
i turn a page somewhere in the middle of all this - you'd think i would…
it had got a hold of me by 15 sec... oooh yeh the wind did blow......just like the rest....a fantastic album.... if i was king ..... i would give you a tital...arise Sir Gumbo.....master of guitar and vocal
Final version
Guitar, mandolin and voice.
this doesn't fit with my rpm project AT ALL so i may not use it but i like the way it came out. I recorded the music for Bethan Mathis' RPM project but she didn't have time to use it (her album is…
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Every so often when i'm thinking of something else a western song pops up as if there is a soundtrack to a movie running in the back of my head. I might have to gather em all up into a playlist some day.
track nine, or at least…
Brilliant, Gumbo! Just love your effortless, genius song-writing! (Apologies for the short comments, am cooking and shamefully not listening with headphones.)
Final version
RPM 2011 - my first track recorded and the opening track for the CD
A kind of Old Time gospel number, which, if you listen to those pre-war guitar playing preachers, are virtually indistinguishable from blues. Except for the lyrics…
Final version
Day 28
Anyone else still writing songs?
this is the result of trying to listen to too many mixes in one day. Sometimes it's just easier to record something else.
i held off listening to too many of your demos so i could just sit down and have my mind totally blown at one time. and it is. your one of most talented fellows doing this free music stuff. your last two rpm's are in a master class that has few members.
Final version
An unaccompanied song about bedtime. Not a lullaby though. Oh no!
What does anyone think of the 'cat's moustache' line - it seems like that's a make or break call right there and i like it when i read it but it's hard to sing without…
Final version
Day 28
Anyone else still writing songs?
this is the result of trying to listen to too many mixes in one day. Sometimes it's just easier to record something else.
Final version
Day 28
Anyone else still writing songs?
this is the result of trying to listen to too many mixes in one day. Sometimes it's just easier to record something else.
EDIT final version now posted and the page turning is gone but i left this intro as is in case anyone is reading the comments. Does anyone read the comments? or the intro?
i turn a page somewhere in the middle of all this - you'd think i would…
Final version
I wanted to have a banjo fiddle tune but i still haven't learnt to play either instrument, so this is my famous 1 string banjo technique, with mandolin and guitar. It's style is inspired by meeting Morgan O'Kane and Ferd 4 last…
I'm finally happy with this track - v1 was too much of a nothing song and it's been bugging me all the way to the last night of the challenge.
1 more to mix
Guitars/Mandolin/Pennywhistle: Doug Sparling
Fiddle: Brent Hoad
Bodhran: David Shaughnnessy
Composer: Doug Sparling
Recorded: 2005
Set of three tunes I wrote in 2005. Well, I guess they're hornpipes of sorts...
Guitars/Pennywhistle: Doug Sparling
Bodhran: David Shaughnessy
Composer: Doug Sparling
Recorded: 2005
A couple of jigs I wrote after spending time on Inishmore in the Aran Islands.
More stuff from the ancient archives rescued from the same cassette tape as Last Nights Fun. This time a set of 3 Irish reels Live at a concert back around 1992
Just messing around on a Saturday morning. A
rough cut at best, but I get a kick out of it.
This is a song by the great Jimmy Dean - 1961
I used to spin this 45 RPM record way back when I
wore a young boy's clothes. I always wanted to
cover…
My submission for the Woody Project.
I started this jam in A minor then found out it was in C. So I figure I got as close as a guess can get.
I left it as is because it's a jam, and this tune should be jammed 300 million ways.
Enjoy Woody…
Abakua refers to a secret, Afro-Cuban, male society of percussionists - as I understand it, one had to be initiated into this society before they would be taught how to play percussion in their style. One of their hallmarks is to impose what I…
Abakua refers to a secret, Afro-Cuban, male society of percussionists - as I understand it, one had to be initiated into this society before they would be taught how to play percussion in their style. One of their hallmarks is to impose what I…
lovely - my only connection to this kind of polyrhythm is thru the Grateful Dead whose two drummers used to explore and experiment thusly.
I like that you can say it has 4 beats AND 6 beats to the measure and then say that it has 180 bpm ;-)
First done by Dock Boggs back in the 20s, it's a great piece of melancholy parafunalia. Eerie to think it's a suicide note and reassuring to know he was still a tough old bird 40 years later.
Just messing around on a Saturday morning. A
rough cut at best, but I get a kick out of it.
This is a song by the great Jimmy Dean - 1961
I used to spin this 45 RPM record way back when I
wore a young boy's clothes. I always wanted to
cover…
I remember the orange label! And i came across a version of the B side recently and it's been bugging me where i heard it before, til i saw this. Now i know lol
good fun!
A song that has it all. Two chords, great energy, positive lyrics and a punk meets reggae vibe. This is a cover of Stiff Little Fingers version. Original was written by Bunny Wailer after he left Bob Marley's Wailers.
Love like a salt river washing away
Love's like sunshine evaporate
Love like floating candles blowing away
Watch out for the way you'll compensate
When I've seen all you have to give
When I'm still hungry
I need more than this
Tell me how…
Kind of a Sonic Youth version of the old folk tune. This was with my band Lincoln The Chain. Our vision was to create new and weird versions of tunes from the old timey days. Traveling music for post apocalyptic underground railroad...
Welcome to the Beauty and Truth Lab. Describe what you want more than anything else.
The song is part of the soundtrack from my book, "PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings," which…
Comments on Gumbo's stuff
thanks for the comment, MEJ I feel the same way sometimes but Hey! could you be more specific about what you think needs to be different?
Don't publish this. Not ready MEJ
You know... this is exactly the way I picture your life. Love this one.
Listening to this track right now with my daughter... Outstanding track!!! She says "it's silly, I like it, it makes me giggle!"
What a hoot! Love it!
this is so good...catchy rustic goodness!
Stormin' album! Totally loved it. I'd be begging for swapsies if I had one to swap this year.
it had got a hold of me by 15 sec... oooh yeh the wind did blow......just like the rest....a fantastic album.... if i was king ..... i would give you a tital...arise Sir Gumbo.....master of guitar and vocal
Failsafe of lovely.
Brilliant, Gumbo! Just love your effortless, genius song-writing! (Apologies for the short comments, am cooking and shamefully not listening with headphones.)
Classic Gumbo!
Settling in for Gumbo's RPM album...definitely in for a treat! Gumbooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i held off listening to too many of your demos so i could just sit down and have my mind totally blown at one time. and it is. your one of most talented fellows doing this free music stuff. your last two rpm's are in a master class that has few members.
this has the quintessential "Gumbo" sound. love it.
very skillfully done and oh so soulful.
LOL Bethan - that is turning out to be true ....
Oh Gumbo, you know there is no such thing! Ha, you are the best!
Oh my, superb playing! Love your tone also. Totally smooth, Gumbo! One of those songs that gives you that "this is a classic" feeling instantly.
*swooooooooooon* Great music, Gumbo! 1 string or otherwise!
I think you were blown there from N'orleans! Cracking track!
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a friend recently explained that you can recognise a hornpipe by imagining you are dancing and one of your legs is shorter than the other!
I like that second jig, Doug - lovely
kickin' ! what does she say at the end?
mellow grooves, Alex. very enjoyable - this is my fave
Jimmy Dean just passed away, which is one of those things that happen to people after a while, and well worth remembering.
I can't look !! lol good fun!
Nice work Bri, i actually enjoyed listening to this and i don't particularly like my version. The bass gives it a lovely roll.
nice groove (tra-vell-in) i like the (tra-vell-in) bass line (tra-vell-in) especially (tra-vell-in)
thanks for explaining the count btw - that helps a lot
lovely - my only connection to this kind of polyrhythm is thru the Grateful Dead whose two drummers used to explore and experiment thusly. I like that you can say it has 4 beats AND 6 beats to the measure and then say that it has 180 bpm ;-)
thanks guys kavin. - there's a good Folkways collection of Boggs' 60s recordings and you can hear a few of his 78rpm sides at the Archive.org
I remember the orange label! And i came across a version of the B side recently and it's been bugging me where i heard it before, til i saw this. Now i know lol good fun!
Effin GREAT!
Peter Gabriel eat your heart out!
you got some gems in this new batch - i love this one too!
Classic!
lovely 1am music and the starlings in the rafters like it too
great riff and it's pretty cool to keep the energy going like that
there's a nice sense of space in this - Summer Goth if i might be so bold Bring on the lyrics
Yay Salamanders! Yay Toasters!