I’ve written a new song and have been learning how to play it. This is the first demo version I’ve felt comfortable enough to share more widely:
Ain’t No Sunshine
· Ain't No Sunshine, Layers of Meta, MusicologyQuick new demo by dBx:
carry that water of love to me
· MusicGot on a Dire Straits kick recently and started teaching myself to play “Water of Love,” one of their first hits. Here is a sort demo mixdown of a draft arrangement (experimenting with a new way to embed audio):
Bertha trainwreck
· Music, the Dead, man...Bertha trainwreck by Christian Crumlish & co.
This ain’t no cocktail you buy in a bar
· Music, Musicology, Songs for Beginners, The Reuben Kincaid, ukulele storiesOne of the songs I’ve been playing the longest with the Reuben Kincaid is an original by Cecil Vortex about prison booze called “Pruno.”
In fact, before the Kincaid even got together Pruno was one of the first tunes Cecil taught me and that we played together, and it was one of the first songs I recorded myself playing with Cecil, when I started to get the idea that this playing music together thing is actually pretty cool. At the time we were playing it on piano and uke but not TRK plays it in our current power trio format, with Cecil on guitar (sometimes acoustic, sometimes electric), the Reverend So-Called Bill on bass, and myself on ukulele, of course. Vocals on the “I don’t want to be right” chorus by hillbilly leprechaun Shmuey, who would himself never make or consume pruno.
Over the last few years we’ve played the song scores of times, usually with some major or minor flubs. The version I’m posting today is done in the slow epic/anthem mode, and has its share of clams, but is also a fairly representative demo of how we play “Pruno” today:
UPDATE: Shared with the gracious permission of Cecil Vortex!