New original from me, hot off the old wotsit. When it was half written yesterday, I was considering binning it as a throwaway exercise - I do that quite often. But I played the songwriting demo to someone else and, er, apparently I should finish…

This track is from the 1986 Scartaglen album "The Middle Path". The first tune "Jezaig" was composed by Breton musician Gilles Le Bigot. The second tune is one of the "Cantigas de Santa Maria" and is attributed to King Alfonso X of Spain Roger…

my father was airborne 82nd on June 6th Normandy. like so many others he rarely spoke about it, just did what he had to do, and moved on. here's to all who have made the world a little better (this is a re post of a piece i wrote for rpm 2013

One from Bethan's 2015 RPM. Enjoy!

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I really like Sonny Sharrock's approach to the guitar. It's hard for me to play totally "free" like he could.

Bits and Pieces

The local songwriters were in my living room earlier this week, and we had a great night. We recorded a live version of this song I posted earlier this month, and I thought you'd enjoy hearing Colin W, Greg C and Scott Z playing and singing too!

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A tribute to my good friends Saturn's Return from Southport, ME. A great hard punk/metal band. The first three parts were instrumental songs, so I felt I could offer my playing this way. Check em out on Facebook!

Well, its that time of year again and all 4 of the ladies have something to say to you this Christmas. I used Wrinkled Shirt's tune, Skydroll, as a frosty backdrop and brought them all along for the sleigh ride. In order of their appearance…

"Autumn Leaves" is a much-recorded popular song. Originally it was a 1945 French song "Les feuilles mortes" (literally "The Dead Leaves") with music by Joseph Kosma and lyrics by poet Jacques Prévert. Since then it was translated into English…

"On Green Dolphin Street" (originally entitled "Green Dolphin Street") is a 1947 popular song composed by Bronislau Kaper with lyrics by Ned Washington. The song, composed for the film Green Dolphin Street (which was based on a 1944 novel of the…

The final version, at last!

Completed 1 minute to midnight on February 29th 2012. RPM, we are win! Sandbags took some of Savage's homemade stems and grew this in the closing hours of the RPM Challenge.

Including the following sample from Freesound.com: http://www.freesound.org/people/sleep/sounds/1375/ deep it can be stowed away it can be remembered it can't be thrown away when it's deep hurt it can be cherished it can be channelled…

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I am learning a bit more each day about how to write/compose for guitar ,, quite fun. This RPM piece is dedicated for our 16 and 1/2 year old mini red Dachshund,, Howie.. though blind and mostly deaf, and recovering from illness, he still…

Psychonaut -- Psychonaut adrift in the hazy realm of confusion When you come back to us won't you please do your best to remember where you've been to remember what you've learned Psychonaut, o psychonaut adrift upon…

Improv, March 7, 2015

Classic hip-hop beat. Sampled on Maschin (Native Instruments).

At last... I've managed to finish something. This was written months ago. I was about to try recording it with one or two others when this year's decorating started. With various buggered fingers, back muscles, etc, etc, I wasn't actually able…

This was the result of a recent EM class. We had to combine audio and digital instruments. The two classical guitar tracks are of course the audio portion. Used Logic X for the other instruments. Hope you enjoy.

Bits And Pieces

I wrote this song for my sister who got married last June. I performed it at her wedding reception. It's about going through dark times, depression, and the power of love that gets you through the pain.

It was really cold the winter I wrote the main guitar arpeggios for this. It was cold again the winter we arranged and recorded it. So far, this winter's been fairly mild.

Produced with the awesome help of my friend, John Davis, who I think is on AloneTone.

More from the archives. This was the opening cut on Scartaglen's 1986 album "The Middle Path". A double jig, a slip jig, and 2 reels. I played bouzouki and Uilleann pipes on this cut

A small project using LogicX instruments. Love, Peace to all of you!