voice and 10 string slide/pipe thinking bit about Jolene and Dolly in thought but really rural Appalacha

created just now for the weekend Sound-In event. I haven't been doing much creating of music of late so this is sparse and scenes of upstate NY and other places.

quick improv in open room

Recording in my room...

Early morn improv, the lyric Rice Farmer popped in my head while improving losing around a feeling of a momentary groove that finally locked in.

Recorded on Saturday Mar 14, 2015

improv on the 10, thinking about Leo

Improv at 2am with Sound-In theme of beats in mind...

Before the door closes on this weekend's Sound-In event this one is in!

Think this will be the last track on 2015 RPM solo record for the rpmchallenge. Still assessing. Recorded on my hacked slide 12 string.

Recorded about 3am today, will be one of the tracks for my solo RPM 2015 release February. Exploring slide technique a lot right now on guitars I altered.

Third of the 3 improv. With the news of the slaughtered Jordanian pilot by the Islamic terror sect, many thoughts about that and at the same time a feeling of floating in an orbit.

Next of the 3 from all one setting improv using hacked slide/dobro style guitar I rigged up with Radio Shack transducers ala pickups.

First of 3 improvs recorded around mid-night last night after a much too long and over-stressed work day. I started making experimental slide guitars ala dobro/lap steel things couple weeks ago and am enjoying. These 3 trax are done with a Fender…

This one done on the other guitar I have altered a 6-string parlor style, again raised nut and saddle area and playing with a glass slide, tuning as in the other piece sort of found.

Continued experiments with 1 of 2 guitars that I have altered with raised strings at nut and saddle to do slide style pieces, using glass like slide, brass nut and saddle on the guitar in this piece which is a Fender 12 string minus two strings.

another improvisation after raising the strings via found objects about the same height to make a slide guitar out of my parlor guitar. Tuning is fairly low tension though the string raise nut and saddle are raising pitch. Shot glass for slide.

adapted parlor acoustic to slide guitar. An improvisation reflecting on awaking to a roof leak in my recording room from an overnight snow.

another piece done with Jeff Larson's Mobius looping software. The idea here was minimal akin to Robert Fripp frippertronics of many years ago.