Guitar/Mandolin: Doug Sparling Fiddle: Brent Hoad Composer: Turlough O'Carolan Arrangement: Doug Sparling Recorded: 2005 A couple of Planxties by O'Carolan. For the life of me I don't remember the names of them...one may be Charles O'Conor…

Guitars/Keyboards/Shaker: Doug Sparling Composer: Doug Sparling Recorded: 2005 I believe there's a demo version of this tune that I've already uploaded to alonetone. Originally written as a piano piece.

rabbits eating your toes because you own a lawnmower.

Being as I am in something of a musical trough of despair (it's not as much fun as it sounds) right now I thought I'd try messing with my TMA-2 Reaktor instrument and try and coax some better results from it. From a promising beginning TMA…

It's a 100 degrees F in the shade here. Covering a John Fahey tune, which was inspired by Charley Patton.

It's a 100 degrees F in the shade here. Covering a John Fahey tune, which was inspired by Charley Patton.

If you have the fever and the only cure is more tambourine, here it is. MORE TAMBOURINE SOLOS!! (But you should probably wait until you have the house to yourself...)

It's a 100 degrees F in the shade here. Covering a John Fahey tune, which was inspired by Charley Patton.

7 1/2 minute space dance jam. Full of marquee rhythms if marquee is even a rhtyhm term.

This is a 3/16 Bembe on tuned congas, played with mallets. I've arranged it (at the very kind suggestion of Vaisvil & ReefWalker) in a verse/chorus/bridge/capo fashion to get away from a straight pattern - I think this sort of arrangement…