This was the first time I'd fired up my telecaster and amp for a recording and it felt like sitting in Sun Studios or something. Amazing sound after playing just acoustic instruments for a year. It's the first take and I loved it!
This is now…
all and all this album really hangs together very well. it has been nice to hear your first demos to the finished project has been important and i feel as if i have been somewhere thanks stu
tim
A grief song. You know this place. If you don't then move on while you still can. Seriously. Don't click ..
This is a tidied up version, I managed to get rid of some of th noise and rebalance the vocals 18/3/09
i sure know this place. as with any music like this the story is key and you do such a good job telling what seems to be a personal one, or at least i hope so.
This is really a true story.
No, really...
And our holiday gift to you & your friends. (Feel free to download it and share it with anyone who you think might enjoy it.)
Oh... by the way... acl is finally waking from a very deep slumber…
A tune I wrote and recorded last year as a result of a good friends hungry teenage daughter sitting in the dance tent at the Sunrise festival chanting 'pizza, pizza!'. Working on a new album if yer interested. New tracks soon with any luck.
Tis a true story about a friend, I was fascinated by the concept of friends sharing one black "funeral" dress passing it along like it was a hip handbag
She went to work like any other day
It didn't hit her till that package came
The first…
I wrote this song at a bowling alley in my small hometown in the Panhandle of FL/Lower Alabama
She blew into town on a one night Stand
Over eggs there was no one holding her hand
Just like the sauce
She became a mystery
Just like the…
Well Reg got to thinking about his Hippie past and that its nearly time to go mushroom picking again before that first frost............i had nothing to do with it by the way....i'm innocent your honor ......Honest "Guv"....
Picking the Shroom…
Sassy Nation version!
Sister Savage and Mr Sandbags collaborated on the original of this wonderful heartbreaker of a song. I've been playing it on the guitar the last few days and it always seemed to come out with a grittier tone, so i asked…
Cave Street posted a track recently, their contribution to the Woody Guthrie Project, organised by Akron Family.
http://akronfamily.com/woodyproject/W.G.A..html
I wanted to take a shot at this too, so here's my demo. It was really just half…
A new original from me. Another one-voice, one-guitar, "live" performance in my broom-cupboard. This time it's the good ole tin guitar.
I wrote this one in 2002 during the "dark years" lol. I've ummed and aahed over the years on whether to…
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Oh My, Oh My...what a joy this CD is...it just made me smile, smile, smile...
all and all this album really hangs together very well. it has been nice to hear your first demos to the finished project has been important and i feel as if i have been somewhere thanks stu tim
i love the drum and the harmonies.
i sure know this place. as with any music like this the story is key and you do such a good job telling what seems to be a personal one, or at least i hope so.
you have such a great tone. i should have known jim was on this, it has his stamp all over it tim
slow quick, quick slow... i love that line. nice to see you here. was wondering when you would get here
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Jeez. Fabulous. Makes me wanna jump up and down and bash my head off the ceiling!
Solid as an effing ROCK!
that's the good stuff!
Playing again only louder!!
Love it! fabulous eerie harmony!
haha - glad I finally got to this one! Schweet!
that transition into 6.15 is gorgeous.
thankee fer listening - there has been lots of music in my life this last year but not much writing. That'll come. maybe february ...
lovely is it a theremin?
Beaut! I love how you nailed the slow and lazy and slightly manic feel for the band.
Oh yes!
I volunteer!!
Dilly dally ay!
Love it! Such great imagery in this one and my favourite of these three vignettes
Would you like a cup of tea?
.. and so you should, Tess. the pair of ye came up with a cracking tune that was a joy to cover.
Happy Birthday Woody! 100 years ago today!
that's a damn nice groove and that totally rare thing - a believable vocal! faved
Wicked harmony! makes a nice song special!
Great drum guitar sound. Solid. The vocal is a little swamped but what the hell - rockin'