i made this song wen i was......

i had the idea of having a strong drum track through something...a drum track that built up through the track...but then i started to mess with the track and ended up with three different versions that i am rather attached to...other versions…

Guitars/Keyboards/Pennywhistles: Doug Sparling Composer: Doug Sparling Recorded: 2005 This was my "signature" track several years ago. I wrote this on guitar in the mid-90s while I was getting divorced, but later renamed it and recorded it…

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…

Here we go again over to you Vais.

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.

Guitars/Pennywhistle: Doug Sparling Bodhran: David Shaughnessy Composer: Doug Sparling Recorded: 2005 A couple of jigs I wrote after spending time on Inishmore in the Aran Islands.

Guitars/Mandolin/Pennywhistle: Doug Sparling Fiddle: Brent Hoad Bodhran: David Shaughnnessy Composer: Doug Sparling Recorded: 2005 Set of three tunes I wrote in 2005. Well, I guess they're hornpipes of sorts...

Pennywhistle, Low Whistle, Bar Stool (w/ drums ticks): Doug Sparling Bodhran: David Shaughnessy Composer: Traditional Recorded: 2005 Set of traditional Irish jigs. Don't ask me the names of them, I don't remember (are you seeing a pattern here…

Pennywhistles: Doug Sparling Bodhran: David Shaughnessy Composer: Traditional Recorded: 2005 A set of reels (the first being "For the Sake of Old Decency," picked up from a Michael Tubridy album of the same name) I put together one evening. You…

Guitars/Mandolin/Pennywhistle: Doug Sparling Composer: Doug Sparling Recorded: 2006 Nothing special, the last track I wrote and recorded for this unfinished CD.

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I'm still getting around to re-upping everything I took down last October.... this is one of them, and if I recall correctly, this is the track that was the impetus for Paul & I to start collaborating. (Something I've been missing a lot…

Wyn looks at the way Peter commands us to be prepared in 1 Peter

Jonathan Thomas

From my album Freewheeler

a bass monster