Planxty Irwin

This is a Southern fiddle tune, a hoedown, recorded by James Gideon Tanner, and his band the Skillet Lickers, on RCA Records back in 1924.

Music for a Friend

Georgia Railroad

Georgia Railraod

Another Fiddle tune, a hoedown.  My guess is this piece was in connection with Ms. Annie Taylor's descent of Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel in October 1901.

Over the Waterfall

Over The Waterfall

A really sweet melody, you gotta hear this!

Opus 35 # 17

Op. 35 # 17

First composition by Turlough O' Carolan, the Bard of Ireland.

Si Baeg Si Mor

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Si Beag Si Mor

Variation on la Folia

Variation On La Folia

In the Form of a Minuet; composed by Francisco Tarrega

Study # 5

Tarrega Study  # 5

Composed by Johan Sebastion Bach
Arranged by Frederick Noad

Prelude-Cello Suite in G Major

Prelude

Lagrima

Hoedown from the Canadian Maritime Provinces

Whiskey Before Breakfast

Country Blues Medley: Empty Pockets Blues; Key of B Blues

Composed by Frederick Noad
All guitars by Brian Higgins
Video by Brian Higgins
Northwest Branch of Anacostia River
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuKL1Uw9UXI

Exercise 39

Box picker Blues/ Lonesome Freight Train Blues

Box Picker Blues /  Lonesome Freight Train Blues

Composed and arranged by Fredrick Noad
Theme by  Tomaso Albinoni
Photo by Charles Steck, RIP

Exercise 40

Open E Blues

Duet, Irish folk song

From The Hand Editions, a curator on Spotify: Hi Brian, thanks for the submission! I listened to your track and found it very interesting. I particularly liked this very delicate and lulling progression. The duet of the two guitars (beautiful the position so stereophonic!) conveys strong emotions. This is also thanks to a very airy and catchy theme where I also very much appreciated its melodic evolution. Excellent! On 29 February, I will include it in my playlist dedicated to peaceful music! A warm greeting!
Ciao Brian, I listened to your song, the song is very nice and sweet and the simple arrangement highlights the melody. Thanks bye

Sally Gardens

Selected works from Fernando Sor's Opus 60
Engineered by Steve Steckler at Asparagus Media

Selected Works

Study # 20

Study #20

The Runaway

Lines After 'edwardsville before sunrise'

Lines After ‘edwardsville before sunrise'

Interstate 270 West

In the Storm Tossed Sea

In The Storm Tossed Sea

For Pamela

A Hurricane Named Fred

Born in Virginia, raised in Maryland; survivor of an alcoholic  family; graduated High School and Union Carpenters Apprenticeship; a student of Algebra, a student of Life, a  brown belt Samurai Chess Player; gave up clarinet in 2nd grade because he was too young to understand;  gave up French class 5 years later because he could not speak the language; turned down Ms. Maria Blautzig for the Sadie Hawkins Dance because she had turned  down his request earlier in the school year; walked out of typing class on day one, hell HOUR one, because he could not handle the stress of it;  walked out of Oklahoma State University because he really needed help at that point and did not know how to ask for it, so ‘tear it all down and blow it up’ seemed to be the only way to find any; experienced the deepest loneliness of his entire life to date out on that highway, with no direction anywhere.  He has worked as a ditch digger, a grass cutter, a TV Guide door to door salesman; he has been a farm worker, carpenters’ helper, apprentice, a Journeyman carpenter in Local 132, a Home Improvement contractor and a Facilities Maintenance Engineer.  He has passed up more opportunities than cars on a freight train; he has hitchhiked, hobo’ed and walked across tens of thousands of miles of America's roadways, and a few in Canada, for good measure.

By virtue of  a chance encounter one snowy January night in 1993, when he met and eventually married the revolutionary communist, aspiring novelist, multi instrumentalist soprano and as yet unheralded expert at fitting leftovers into the refrigerator, the  beguiling, and sumptuous Ms. Juliana; this union subsequently created the talented, smart, bubbly, and eye-catching Ms. Sophia, she of the musical pipes.
Mr Higgins first picked up the guitar at age 23, the harmonica at 57, and wrote his first book at age 5, or 6. It shall remain forever unpublished, as the only handwritten master of it is lost to the dustbin of history.


Numerous of the photos here are by my friend Charles Steck, who recently unexpectedly passed away. Thank you so much Charles, we are missing you .


Thank you for listening to my music.  Voting link for Distrokid/Spotify playlisting
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