A cover of the seminal blues artist Charley Patton's tune with Idris Davies and his personal choir.

(https://soundcloud.com/idrisdavies)
 
I sent Idris the resonator guitar part and he kindly allowed me to have some fun mixing his vocals and guitar with my track. As usual he has blown me away with his voice and his great feel for the blues. 

I really love the way he used my simple guitar part as a platform to approach this cover in a unique way and make it his own.

Banty Rooster Blues (collaboration with Idris Davies)

Taking out a bit of frustration on my guitar with a sloppy improvisation in C# Vastopol tuning. 

Venting in Vastopol

Just a simple, sloppily played arrangement of Silent Night to say Merry Christmas to all.

Merry Christmas Soundclouders!

Sloppy slide in F# Spanish tuning.  Instrumental only for the time being.  

The guitar in the photo is a 100 year old Dyer that has been refurbished to almost original condition.

I am not the owner but I have played it and it sounds incredible.

Freddy's Groove

A cover of an old tune written nearly a century ago. A big thankyou to Idris Davies for doing the vocals and providing some tasty second guitar work. This tune is in the public domain.

Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning - Traditional (vocals by Idris Davies)

A very old spiritual. I learnt this tune by listening to Corey Harris' version, so my arrangement is fairly similar. A very big thankyou to http://soundcloud.com/idrisdavies for once again agreeing to transform my guitar part into a song with his amazing vocals.

Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel (Traditional - Vocals by Idris Davies)

A bit of a twelve bar blues ukulele jam from a few years ago. The slide ukulele is my mate Pete, I'm just playing rhythm - this was before I had even attempted to play slide. Pete was a big inspiration for me to learn slide and this is still the best I've heard anyone play slide on a ukulele so I thought I'd give it a home on soundcloud.

Ukes are fun!

A quick sloppy blues improvisation. I started to record something entirely different and wasn't having any success so I decided to let off some steam and have some fun with something a bit easier to play.

Blue Wednesday

One of my favourite tunes. 

Many thanks to Kim for the vocals. 

Check out his cloud (https://soundcloud.com/welcometotheamericas) for some great songwriting and to hear more of that wonderful voice. 

You Got To Move (Fred McDowell cover) vocals by Kim (my hot air balloon)

I'm Just an amateur noisemaker who enjoys playing and listening to all kinds of music. 

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