Album available here http://bemuzic.bandcamp.com/
I kept things very simple and stripped back on this, so the songs would sound like they do when I play them busking (minus the noise of lorries reversing, large groups of chattering tourists, bagpipe players, builders drilling and banging, town criers shouting etc, etc!!)
I know I hate it if I hear someone live, then buy a CD and it doesn't have the same feel at all, as it has loads of tracks and effects.
I used a Red Dog Cigar Box Guitar on the first track, and a Cigar Box Guitar strummer by tinyguitars on track five.
On the other ten songs I used instruments I've made myself : -)
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Sneaky but real life of that music....a beautiful homemade guitar and a nice voice for a nice result...
(Phill Hill Billy)
It's a great poetic work...with YOUR SWEET sound, YOUR NICE voice... i enjoy it...°<[:-) [---]==={
whoops sorry, won't call you Mr again : -/
Love the lyrics... powerful and poetic!! Very strange reading them. I particularly like this verse
Skinny girl walks through the market with her box,
Levitating from her life on a string -
A wonderful balloon, freely floating through a tune
All the fretting and regretting that it brings.
...and it reminds me that a while ago I had an idea for a video in which I would float above Cambridge Market playing and singing!!
Hey, don't you Mr. me! Mister was my father.
BTW, Friend request gladly accepted.
Also, the lyrics to "Skinny Girl;" it was inspired by the drawing above, a video you posted awhile back of you busking on a Cambridge street corner, and, of course, the sound clips from the album - nothing more than that:
Skinny girl stands on a corner with her hands
Wrapped around the narrow neck of a box.
Skinny girl sings and slides with her fingers
For the lonely boy who lingers when she talks.
He'd like to tell her, through the rain and umbrellas,
That the crowd would not recover, could they hear
All her reverent refrains, but the screaming from the trains
Leaves him shaking with emotion from the fear.
But the Skinny Girl sings him peace:
For the moment he feels released.
There is nothing left in his world
But the Skinny Girl.
Skinny girl walks through the market with her box,
Levitating from her life on a string -
A wonderful balloon, freely floating through a tune
All the fretting and regretting that it brings.
All she ever asks from the passersby that pass
Are the moments held together by a tone
That can make the senses tingle, like the sweetly ringing jingle
Of the silver coin that kissed a cobblestone.
And the Skinny Girl starts to feel
That the rhythm could now reveal
A reflection to all the world
Of the Skinny Girl.
Skinny girl dreams of a thousand different schemes,
Never knowing if the lorry drivers see
That the emptiness inside could be taken for a ride,
Could be filled by all the music she can be.
So the Skinny Girl shuffles home
To a room bedecked with the bones
Of the flagging breath she unfurls
For all the Skinny Girls.
thanks a lot Mr Oily Fool : -)
@ Ed thanks...mmm I love the Blues but variety is the spice of life and all that! Anyway I don't really choose what style to do the songs in, they just kind of happen,lol!
@ Keni, thanks for your comments, It means a lot : -)
Lovely. Nice Folk Revival feel. I am very impressed with your efforts. I believe you will inspire others to take their builds and playing skills to higher levels. I know my Mother will enjoy this CD too. I look forward to it's release. Break a string. Enjoy.
Couldn't resist adding a +1 to Silent Jim's comment on it being refreshing it's not exclusively blues you're doing.
Nothing wrong with blues mind you. But I feel the much the same way about blues as I do about ale. I like it just fine - but I'd rather not live on it.
And I-IV-V gets more than a little...umm...tiring after the first three hours, no matter how good it is. Or at least it does for me. ;-)
thanks Mark...yeah hard work, but fun sums it up : -)
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