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.
Cave Street posted a track recently, their contribution to the Woody Guthrie Project, organised by Akron Family.
http://akronfamily.com/woodyproject/W.G.A..html
I wanted to take a shot at this too, so here's my demo. It was really just half…
Again i'd love some feedback
I like the feel and the mix
do the lyrics work?
recorded t'night in an hour after trying all day to get the verse lyrics rammed into another tune
This one is a personal favorite of mine, though it got savaged on Garageband.com. Ah well...
It has a lot of parts, lots of gtrs, and boatloads of harmonies. Actually, one guy on Garageband loved it. Maybe some day I will buy him a drink.
Listen…
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…
Gumbo, you are right...those are the correct song titles. I am a huge fan of Martin Hayes..and Dennis Cahill. What a combo...love the dynamics between the two. I encourage everybody to check them out.
This is a total remake of an earlier posting.
Lead vocals courtesy of fellow Alonetoner, Dana.
In the lyrics, I was trying to capture a sense in which there is something else beyond -
something which draws me as it were homeward. A son…
This is from our album, "When I Was Your Age," recorded entirely in the month of February for our third year participating in the RPM Challenge. "When I Was Your Age" is a collection of 13 songs looking back at when we were kids.
thanks for these childhood memories that you've managed to completely capture - i have freed the repressed photomat booth man that was locked within and he is now running wild like a cave man in the 21st century
you tell me what you want
you tell what you need
i cant give you nothing honey
but this pretty little seed
where has the sun gone
and is it gone forever
will it come back someday
should we just give it some time
i ask you what…
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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 old timey feel...right out of woody's boot heel
man, i want to jam with you guys!
awesome...i got into your stuff last year, and its good to hear your new tunes...
i love this one - classic gumbo - you have a great sense for lyrics and melody
its 8am here in new hampshire, and i'm ready to party...
glu takes down w in 4, but i see w reaching out to tag cheney...i'm looking forward to glu vs. cheney...
i never know what to expect to hear from a glu song, but its always good stuff and pleasantly surprising in many ways...
another great tune by am/fm dreams
the blue meanies are on the run
Gumbo, you are right...those are the correct song titles. I am a huge fan of Martin Hayes..and Dennis Cahill. What a combo...love the dynamics between the two. I encourage everybody to check them out.
this is a cool tune
cool tune
gumbo, i am a big fan of yours - i love your tunes. this is real stuff.
hey rob, love this tune. it hits me in just the perfect way.
thanks for these childhood memories that you've managed to completely capture - i have freed the repressed photomat booth man that was locked within and he is now running wild like a cave man in the 21st century
hey man, great tunes...like the style and arrangements...like m.ward meets greg brown thanks for your comments too
great tune...nice trippy undertow to it