My first album "Playing (No Rules)" is OUT NOW!!!

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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Comment by Les Fabuleux Blousy Bone Shakers on November 20, 2011 at 10:47am

Sneaky but real life of that music....a beautiful homemade guitar and a nice voice for a nice result...

(Phill Hill Billy)  

Comment by Phill Hill Charlie on November 20, 2011 at 10:36am

It's a great poetic work...with YOUR SWEET sound, YOUR NICE voice... i enjoy it...°<[:-) [---]==={

Comment by bemuzic on November 20, 2011 at 6:40am

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!!

Comment by Ron "Oily" Sprague on November 19, 2011 at 8:29pm

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.

 

Comment by bemuzic on November 19, 2011 at 9:16am

thanks a lot Mr Oily Fool : -)

Comment by Ron "Oily" Sprague on November 19, 2011 at 8:03am
Belinda,

Whoa! You have progressed amazingly. I will definitely pick up a copy when it's released. Your voice has a combination of timbres from Joni Mitchell and a number of sweet girl folkies from the mid-60's. You'd do well at Lilith Fair.

Now that I've heard this, I'm inspired to write lyrics to this title:

Skinny Girl
Comment by bemuzic on November 18, 2011 at 6:02am

@ 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 : -)

Comment by Keni Lee Burgess on November 18, 2011 at 5:06am

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.    

Comment by eK on November 18, 2011 at 4:44am

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. ;-)

Comment by bemuzic on November 18, 2011 at 1:57am

thanks Mark...yeah hard work, but fun sums it up : -)

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