Tag: music video
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What a lot of people forget about the 80s
For nearly a year there smack in the middle of that decade of excess nobody was permitted to mess with anybody’s toot-toot. Jello remembered, thirty years later…
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We all got drownded
Playing around with short clips, I recorded the first verse of “Moses” a capella, the second with just percussion, the next few on acoustic ukulele, the few after that on the same acoustic plugged into an app, and the final verse on my electric uke. Recorded over the course of several days and then stitched…
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Dirty ol’ lie
Quick reel from October 4 with my electric ukulele and a looper.
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It’s not about you, man
Then on September 30, I recorded this live version of “Saint Lucifer,” which started off (and still is, when I play it solo) a Dylanesque folk song with a hook vaguely reminiscent of Casey Jones. It has evolved, on the record, into more of a rocker.
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News is fake and the world is flat
and a junkie’s in the alley with a baseball bat! (Sep 26 2024)
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Cigarettes and Skoal
For the record, I know the signature drink at Pedro’s was the kamikaze, but hurricanes scanned better. (Recorded September 22, 2024.)
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He didn’t get it from the wind
This is one of the last tunes I wrote for the album and in some ways it’s my favorite, in that it doesn’t really imitate a specific stye or other type of song, exactly, though the other day I wondered if maybe it was a bit influenced by mid-70s Floyd stuff like “Wish Your Were…
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Don’t tell me all your secrets, talking crow!
This song, “Down to the Mountain,” is made from some of the oldest ingredients. On the album it has developed into a kind of secular gospel tune but when I play it solo, as I did here on September 19, 2024, it’s still bog-standard string-band stylee:
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Verdigris and indigo
I was in the midst of writing”The Long Haired Kings” when I first went into the studio to start working on the album, so we tackled it first. Here’s a live version from September 16, 2024:
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A scientist’s dream
Since “Giving Zoo Wolves Lessons in Music” is something of a jam-oriented song, I thought it would be fun to work up a loop (with a bass ukulele, then a baritone ukulele, then an amplified acoustic concert ukulele) before singing and playing the song and taking some solos on an electric ukulele. It’s long enough…
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We spent divine nights
Lyrics by Peter K. Hirsch, music by me. (This one recorded September 12, 2024.)
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No one does it solo only
Then on September 11, I posted this live take of “All I Know (Finn’s Song)“:
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Before I ever wrote a real song
A live take of “Sham Song” from September 9:
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Some other version
OK, got a new version of this new song ready to share:
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Some of the time…
I’ve got two recording sessions coming up by the end of the month on the album project, and another at the end of July, so that’s moving as fast as it can, but “can’t stop won’t stop” when it comes to the wooosh of songwriting, so after Ghost Door has come an interesting melody that…
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Wish Y’all Were Here
So, so you think you can tell…
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Down to the Mountain (Please Set Me Free)
Seems like the chorus has a mind of its own and has settled out into something like: Let me beSet me freeLet me be me, oh please, pleasePlease, set me free though we’ll see what happens once the Kincaid get their greasy mitts on it.
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Down to the Mountain
Set me free