Just a slide tune. More about the sound of the National than the vocals.

I just got back from a weeks worth of sailing in Duluth MN. Perfect week.

Something for a Lazy Sunday.......

Wildgeas sent me over this excellent backer and in return i sent him back a garbled vocal and a jumbled lead guitar and out of the pigs ear that i sent him ….the Surgeon that he is…cut and pasted and he has created a silk purse…i even sound…

Final Version If in doubt write more songs with Kazoo solo! and heckling! this is as close as i got to some hokum jug band

I'm finally happy with this track - v1 was too much of a nothing song and it's been bugging me all the way to the last night of the challenge. 1 more to mix

Use-ta be a almost tale of remembrance.

HE STILL LIMPS A song by James Michael Taylor On the CD FONTANELLE TWO HE STILL LIMPS EEEEBB/DDDDAA (2) C# (4) C# It was his birthday. He got a puppy. She took a hold of his heart B C C# C# I’ll call you Princess. You’ll be my buddy…

It started again tonight....the haunting of Big E ....he wouldn't leave me alone until i played him this one.....i said to him...i said "now Elvis i'm not quite the guitar man yet but give me time ....20 years or so"...He said don't give me no…

Some places (like Salisbury Beach in Massachusetts) are just sacred ground. "This tide rolls out and in my life."

A simple as it is musically, this song pretty much sums it all up for me. What started as the simple appreciation of a hiking t-shirt evolved into this song about the duality of this domesticated artist who recognizes the importance of wandering…

So I'm watching Ken Burns' documentary on the National Parks and realize that I'd never written that John Muir song I had been meaning to get to... So I got to it. Tim Alexander (Letter Seventeen) mentioned that he thought the song needed a…