Recordings that are fresh - no practice, no retakes, no fooling around with filters and controls, often are best.  They are never perfect, of course.  Often they are better than that.  This is just sitting down with a guitar and a mic, playing it for the first time.  Rough but, well, pretty good.  Like I say, fresh.

MY FRIEND

Jim Croce tune, long out of circulation, delivered with southern bluesy funk.  I reckon it might buff up to be a good bar room crowd pleaser.

WORKING AT THE CARWASH BLUES

I've never had the nerve to play, much less record, this Sam Cook Classic.   But I thought I'd give it a shot today.

A CHANGE IS GONNA COME

LOUISE

I'M COMING HOME

Wilson Picket classic, but played really differently.

634-5789 (That's My Number)

YOU REALLY GOT A HOLD ON ME

Written by Tampa Red, this was a big hit for Elmore James and is a standard blues tune now.  But Karen Dalton, solo with a 12-string, is wonderful and haunting.   I'm looking for her vibe.

IT HURTS ME TOO

R&B, soul and country all rolled into one.

Telecaster/Fender Deluxe, drum machine, acoustic fretless bass, mic

WASTED DAYS AND WASTED NIGHTS

RAINY NIGHT IN GEORGIA

Night time is the right time

Sculptor and musician, originally from South Carolina, with a lot of time in Memphis New Orleans and Minneapolis.

IT HURTS ME TOO

Alex Wilds

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