Colab with my buddy multi-instrumentalist Jim Goodin. Jim sent me his improv oud track and I played some slide mandolin over that.

A mando improv for Doc Watson, who left this week. For the improvFriday event "blues" theme. http://www.docsguitar.com/

A mando improv for Pete Cosey, who left this week. For the improvFriday "blues" theme. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Cosey

I thought it would be fitting to post this today, on Memorial Day, as a tribute to my friend William Easley, as well as all who have fought and died in wars, American or otherwise. Sometime back in the 60's William (Billy from here on) heard…

Mando improv with some looping at the end.

Hard to say who did what here, suffice to say I did NOT play guitar. Thanks Tipu!

An outtake from the Uthemandi project. I laid some guitar and fretless bass synth over Will's drum/synth track.

The theme for Improv Friday this week is "variations". So here's an improv reconstruction of the one classical piece I know, Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring.

Ditty #9 for the RPMC album "Bones". I'd had this rolling around in my head for about a year now, and even played it live with the SD&Q trio. Didn't quite turn out as planned, which is not unusual.

Ditty #10 for RPMC. I really had a hard time trying to come up with the final track, so I fell back on the old loop/delay/ebow improv formula, which I had hoped to avoid on this album. Kind of acoustic Breaking Light. Well it crossed the finish…

Ok here's the whole enchiada. Consists of the tracks Alnilam,Alnitak and Mintaka.

ditty #5 for the RPM Challenge. Alnitak is the left star in the belt of the Orion constellation. This is part 1 of the Orion's Belt Trilogy.

#4 for the RPM Challenge. Have you heard this melody before? This is one of those where I wonder if I've unconsciously "borrowed" something from someone. Translation: the Fly Boat, like the tourist boats that ply the river Seine and their bright…

third tune for RPM chalenge. DGDGBD

Song #2 for the RPMC. My goal is to have 12 short tunes (1-3 minutes long), so I need to pick up the pace. Again, quartal tuning on the top 3 unison pairs of the 12 string. I've been listening to Ralph Towner's Blue Sun, hence the title.

My RPM challenge this year: acoustic guitar instrumental album with no more than three tracks on each tune (ok, maybe four!) This one is a single track with no overdubs. On the 12 string, the 4th,5th and 6th string pairs are tuned a fourth apart.

A rambling acoustic improvisation. Recorded the day that the Curiosity rover was launched to Mars, hence the title.

A live one from the vault.

acapella vocal loop In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan Earth stood hard as iron Water turned to stone Snow had fallen Snow on snow on snow In the bleak midwinter Long, long ago - Christina Rossetti 1872