This is the first tune for my 2010 RPM Challenge. A bit short...my first attempt earlier in the evening (completely different tune) I ended up scrapping at 1:30 a.m., so this one was done in just a few minutes... Written and Recorded: Feb…

Guitars, mandolin, keyboards, penny whistle: Doug Sparling Arranger: Doug Sparling - 2005 Composer: Shaker Hymn Old demo from the basement. I love this tune and someday I'll do it justice... IIRC, I recorded and mixed this thing with a…

Guitars, mandolin, keyboards, penny whistle: Doug Sparling Arranger: Doug Sparling - 2005 Composer: Shaker Hymn Old demo from the basement. I love this tune and someday I'll do it justice... IIRC, I recorded and mixed this thing with a…

Guitars, mandolin, penny whistle: Doug Sparling Composer: Doug Sparling Recorded: 2006 From an out of print, self-released CD I put out in 2006 (titled "The Old Stone Bridge" - not the same one as the Old Stone Bridge tracks I've released…

Guitars, mandolin, penny whistle: Doug Sparling Composer: Doug Sparling Recorded: 2006 From an out of print, self-released CD I put out in 2006 (titled "The Old Stone Bridge" - not the same one as the Old Stone Bridge tracks I've released…

Written after reading John Filson's The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucky (1784).

A tribute to jazz vocalist and interpreter, Suzannah McKorkle

The chorus is adapted from "O Death Rock Me Asleep", by Anne Boleyn, while imprisoned in the Tower of London, waiting for her execution. (Tolar & Savigear 2010)