2021 RPM Challenge

A whole 10 song album in under five minutes. Why? Just because we can. Is it good? Heck no.

John wrote this in 1972. 9 years earlier, as an 8th grader living in West Virginia, he knew the day would come when he would "set sail" to other parts of the country/world. That day came in 1975 with a journey that ultimately landed him in New…

This mixtape features wizkid fireboy skibii tekno davido and other A-list artist in the afrohiphop music industry

Fawm prompt about 40 minutes

A song for people with a sense of humor.

(Remastered 22/10/2021) I found this one while I was digging through the shoe-box for the 1994 songs. Apparently I wrote it on 10th November 1995. Foolishly, I thought it would only take a week or so to record... I was originally expecting…

Another Thumbjam thing inspired by Japanese Gagaku music

Music written and performed by Mike Smith, also known as Dragonsong. When Mike first asked me to read this poem, he believed it was written around the time of the Spanish Flu...but, our sources say no. It was most likely written by Kitty O…

A simple one-track mandolin tune. In fact it's the first tune I ever made on the mandolin. I think it would be better with a bodhran drum accompanying it, but I don't know how to play those! Maybe someday this will work its way into something…

This is for my MT Bottles, it's a bit naff , ( British slang ) but I love it.

This is a love song for Idaho. Funny thing is I've never even been to Idaho, but I dreamed the chorus and the happy little riff some years ago, and it's stuck with me ever since. So, I filled it in with some verses and an outro that capture the…

Back on the wurlitzer... 

Millions of years ago... Before the dawn of history... I was a in a school band. I couldn't play an instrument then so I was the vocalist. This tune was one of the band's originals. Now, bear in mind this was the 'Ay-deees' so it was mullets…

Shaku-shaku dancehall track

A new twist on an old favorite (or two!). In the dumpster fire that was 2020 during Wisconsin's shut down orders for the coof, I was involved with a Facebook group called Jump Around Wisconsin. For those who don't know, between the third and…

Hey, I just improvised again this night and wanted to share what came out. Usually I'm such a perfectionist and have to get every detail right, with the effect that I don't share a lot of stuff that I do. Here I recorded the first voice…

The last 6 months, I've been sight reading a Bach Chorale each morning (there are 400 of em!) and occasionally one sticks out that I really like. This one sounded great on the Wurlitzer, which is literally note for note playing the chorale…

This is my 2nd Piece that I "wrote" in a pretty simple fashion. I started with the 2 pizzicato tracks and then Improvised 3 voices on top of that. It started as a test if I can plug in my audiointerface into my phone and it kind of worked out…