This is a live recording of a set I did with guitarist Mike Levine on a University of New Hampshire radio show. This is one of the 'songs' we did. It is a 5-tune Irish fiddle set that was previously done by the great Irish fiddle player Martin…
Back to enjoy this once again!
i just got home to find a mandolin on my doorstep ( i ordered it ;-) a bit of a risk but i needed it for RPM).
So it is most fortuitous to remember this magical recording. Hup!
Recorded at an oceanography meeting in Salt Lake City this February (2012). The Ekman Spiral is a phenomena that describes the vertical change in ocean current from wind at the surface, which is in a spiral decreasing with depth. The spoken…
a song that just evolved during RPM 2013...it was my new RPM strategy - record what happens, try to build it, move on, don't think too much about it...keep moving! It was a different approach for me this year...
An RPM 2009 song. Well, this was a personal story for me that came about when your past intersects (briefly) with the present.
Lyrics:
20 years running through time and I remember
all the magic lines
that in our younger days
we drew…
Named by a friend, there is a little island that appears and disappears with the tide. We go there sometimes in the Great Bay in New Hampshire.
Bob Kordas on dobro.
My last rpm song - based on the police log in a local paper. The writer must have been feeling poetic - more than half of these are word for word and the rest were slightly changed to fit the rhyming scheme.
My incomparable musicians:
Dobro…
I wrote this in Feb 2012 - I've been getting into watching documentaries on the NASA Apollo program and also having fun with a Telecaster. The Sea of Tranquility is a place on the Moon.
I was planning on doing a theme-based rpm this year on outer space, but didn't manage to get all the rpm songs to fit. I've been reading a lot of Stanislaw Lem - probably my favorite science fiction author - and dedicate this to him. His books…
My last rpm song - based on the police log in a local paper. The writer must have been feeling poetic - more than half of these are word for word and the rest were slightly changed to fit the rhyming scheme.
My incomparable musicians:
Dobro…
Named by a friend, there is a little island that appears and disappears with the tide. We go there sometimes in the Great Bay in New Hampshire.
Bob Kordas on dobro.
Messing around with a Korg. Part of my outer-space theme - the Apollo program ended with Apollo 17...imagine if they had 51 missions! Also, a subtle link to Area 51.
great stuff here! nice overall sound on this album. this song reminds me of ...odd to say, but music played during old school hockey games...angry men indeed!
My first completed 2013 RPM track. Thanks to Kavin for turning a simple acoustic song into what you hear today.
ONE LAST DANCE
I never got to tell you what's been on my mind
It might be just as well now that we're running out of time…
This song is about the RPM Challenge; having 28 days (yes, I cheated, this year we get 29) to write and record a 10 song album. The illustrious Ghost Tea (http://soundcloud.com/ghosttea) added some rhymes to make it extra special!
Written By Greg Connor
Lyrics:
I’m just about as lucky as a man can be
I got the voice of an angel that’s guiding me
Once in a while I don’t hear a sound
That’s when I know I’m going all the way down
I remember those times I lost my…
All first take improvisations. 8 tracks of madness for your enjoyment. Ear goggles will put you inside this piece. Not recommended for the faint of heart!
Recorded between 9AM - 7PM on the 26th of February.
featuring Mathias Kom on trumpet, horns and backup vocals
Black Widow
Black Widow don’t hesitate
Lock the door, draw the shades
In your web I have been caught
Not enough to fill you up
Leave me a skin
A shell of the man that I was…
Another experiment...
This time in Spanish
2/25/12: Somehow the original file got broken, so I had to re-upload this... nothing new here, except I lost all my nice comments :(
In the year 2000 I had my little girl visit me every other weekend. This song was written then and is sung from a child's needs perspective, keeping the bonds of love between daughter and father alive. It is sad, and hopeful, and explores the…
Another cut from the 1988 cassette tape of a live performance by Scartaglen on the NPR show Mountain stage. This time some tunes from County Kerry.
Kirk Lynch- Uilleann pipes and whistle. Becky Pringle- Fiddle. Mike Dugger- Fiddle and guitar…
Final version
RPM 2011 - my first track recorded and the opening track for the CD
A kind of Old Time gospel number, which, if you listen to those pre-war guitar playing preachers, are virtually indistinguishable from blues. Except for the lyrics…
Comments on Vegetable Man's stuff
Back to enjoy this once again! i just got home to find a mandolin on my doorstep ( i ordered it ;-) a bit of a risk but i needed it for RPM). So it is most fortuitous to remember this magical recording. Hup!
puts me in mind of laying in the grass after a lazy hazy day in a foreign country
Lovely.
I love songs about snow, they're nearly always gentle like the falling flakes. Loving this.
Lovely picking there!
Groovy! TASTY TOO!
Love the album, congratulations to an RPM conquered.
Shades of Garcia/Grisman too. Like it!
Oh Yeah! I'm hungry for more now.
it's the approach i use all the time....like the Mando acoustic sound....like your voice....shall be back for more...
I love it, and I can definitely relate to it. This is getting to be a long winter. It's nice to hear a mandolin around here.
Still love this one! So lovely to have met you the other day!
Nice writing! Love the dobro
Yup this ol,Mountain Yankee likes this fine.
Very well played and most tranquil too.
Very touching!
A wonderfully gentle and well played instrumental.
I especially loooove the music on this one. So well thought out and played. Hark, can that be a mandolin?
Really pretty. Ah,love the music too. Sounds like a perfect place for a picnic. Hang on, I'll pack the hamper!
Wonderfully ethereal atmosphere. I love the way it floats away into space at the end.
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great stuff here! nice overall sound on this album. this song reminds me of ...odd to say, but music played during old school hockey games...angry men indeed!
nice tune...good vibe to it..
love your tunes, man..very rich
tremendous
this tune rips...great guitar playing, and a big thumbs up to cats
this is great - love it..such an interesting blend of sounds
nice tune...the lyrics are really good and i love the chorus
nice rpm album that captures a mood - i like the atmospherics
good stuff - i definitely hear a vocal melody over this so i offer encouragement ...
jam on! sounds like a like a fun on was had on this rpm recording...
whoa...i've been transformed to a green slimy smoldering puddle on a chair..nice one
sounds like your cellar is a cool place to hang out...
wow...awesome album this year...really rich throughout...i always look forward to hearing what you guys are going to come up/out with...
nice rpm project...see you at the listening party in portsmouth...
nice old time sound
party time...i'm grooving to this
good tune!
hey man! thanks for the comments...i really dig all your stuff....great sound, songwriting style and mixing...1965 was a magical year!
...wow...love it
awesome tune!