I don't need a sticker but this is great, love the sound of teh banjo and good to hear something new from you!

Hola Libre, it's been a while since we've heard from you!  This tune's a little beauty, and I'm fond of that "tubby" sound here.

Girl Scout Cookies Are Fucking Cool

This is a tune a friend of mine wrote on mandolin. This recording was done on a fretless banjo I bought several years ago but haven't played much recently. I dusted it off the other day and this morning decided to try recording it to see how it sounds. I think it sounds a little "tubby" on the low end, but not too bad. This was the first and only take on the tune. The intonation on the high part isn't great but it will do for now.

This is standard tuning but tuned down to roughly Eb. 

North & West

Samurai Cowboy Song

The Joe Policastro Trio interprets the theme from Twin Peaks on "Screen Sounds," the third release by the band on JeruJazz Records.  Led by bassist Joe Policastro and featuring guitarist Dave Miller and drummer Mikel Avery, the album highlights the singular approach of the trio on a unique assemblage of movie and TV themes.

Screen Sounds

Twin Peaks Theme

From the 45rpm record featuring dance tracks by two of Cambodia’s most celebrated singers: Sinn Sisamouth and Ros Serey Sothea.

Available on April 22, 2017 in participating shops. More info at http://www.dust-digital.com/old-pot/

Sinn Sisamouth - Navy A Go Go

A long-held dream of mine has now been realized with my recent purchase and assembly of a gourd banjo kit from Carver Banjos.  It was cheap, easy and fun, and who doesn't like that?  Learn more about Brian Carver's quest to ebanjelize the world: http://carverbanjos.com/

So now, I've got little Ranger Gord (any Red Green fans out there?) standing by when I get a break in afternoon chores and want to blow off a little musical steam...which is what this is.  Being new to a fretless instrument, my intonation is a little dodgy, and my fingernail keeps hitting the gourd with an annoying click, but I'm having fun.  Hopefully, you will, too.  If not, don't despair--it's only a minute-and-a-half, and I'll be outta here in no time.

The name of this monkeying around comes from an epithet my grand-dad used to hurl at me whenever I played a trick on him or got the upper hand in one of our wrestling matches (which I always did, of course).  "You cockeyed monkey!", he'd say, in fake(?) exasperation.

My other grandfather called me a "cooteroo".  There's a simple tune for that, as well: https://soundcloud.com/hanklebury/cooteroo

Cockeyed Monkey

Sounds from Thursday evening

See what happens when you hold her to the light and shake her
She changes forms and flits around the room
I do not make her
Suddenly I felt heavy and warm all over
Like an evening in the sultry Summer hideaway
All sober

Like the angels holding congress with the crows
Up on Silver Hill where even God don't go

Skittering 'cross the surface like some water on a hot range
There you were in florid glory
Tellin' stories, raging
Like someone lightin' up the powder with a spark
Seems that no one knows the nature of the dark
Though it's all around us

If just one instance up and flies
Through the dark into the light
The prison ain't a prison anymore, is it?
(Is it) push or pull or tug or shove?
How to know which one to love?
The leaving or the staying cup I pour

Leaving Cup

The New England New Music Ensemble (NENME) performing live at The Newtown Arts Festival on September 15, 2018
Robert Rabinowitz - Flute
Gregg Baimel - Clarinet
Kristen Provost Switzer - Cello
Scott Aaron Provost Switzer - Bassoon
Phil Crevier - Piano

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N.E.N.M.E. is a chamber group that performs both original compositions along with arrangements of songs you wouldn't normally associate with chamber music. From The Beatles to Yes to David Bowie to Metallica... from Duke Ellington to Bobby Vinton to Frank Zappa to Steve Reich... from Genesis to Emerson Lake & Palmer to Pink Floyd to Star Wars and even Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies!

From its earliest beginnings in the Medieval period to the present, chamber music has been a reflection of the changes in the technology and the society that produced it. Because of its intimate nature, chamber music has been described as “the music of friends.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe described chamber music as “rational people conversing.” This conversational paradigm has been a thread woven through the history of chamber music from the end of the 18th century to the present and plays a strong role in our music.

Watermelon In Easter Hay: The New England New Music Ensemble Plays the music of Frank Zappa

a lil am cover for the nocturnal animalz (*....*)! Thank you ween for an amazin song ! ty for listenin !

SARAH (WEEN COVER)

I've been playing banjo for about 12 years. I should spend more time learning traditional tunes and songs but when I pick it up I usually want to mess around with songs like "Beat It" and things I make up.

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