Heard this tune may times my many artists, and this is right up there with the best.  Excellent as ever, gentlemen...

oh yeah - nice to hear the roots barkin . . . thanks guyz:)

yes! i just wanna hang out with you guys!

Goodness, every once in a while a gem pops up....like now! Wonderful bit of work on this Gents and thanks for sharing!

@sunnidayz: Hey thanks Sandy! Lucky that you'd learn via the oral tradition; I got this off records. Tried to do a full-band electric version since I'd never heard one, though I later unearthed a version by Joan Beaz and the Grateful Dead from 1982!

Room 1015 my keycard doesn't work when I'm drunk

A song by Whalebone Polly 2004 (me, Kate Stables of This is the Kit and violinist Virpi Kettu) from our only album Recordings with the Window Open, a collection of home recordings recorded in Bristol 2004

Sweetest In The Land

Phone recording added to by The Happy Somethings 

I uploaded Bitter before but in my opinion this Bitter is better.
I wrote and played it on the 1st January 2023.

I have loved The Happy Somethings since I first heard them when in Azerbaijan about 6 years ago.  We share the philosophy that if we try harder it sounds worse!  I am pleased and honoured that they spontaneously decided to colloborate and be my "ramshackle"  backing band on this song!  a bit like with Buddy Holly's apartment tapes, only I think Buddy's were better before...and Buddy was never bitter.    

link to their page: https://on.soundcloud.com/87eTU

...and in the words of The Happy Somethings:

"We have been fans of Cobbled Moth's musical output for some considerable time and when we came across this new song called 'Bitter' we just immediately loved it. One evening, bored with ourselves, and without him knowing, we decided to become his backing band... fortunately he embraced our audacity!"

credits
released January 9, 2023

Artwork by Joy.  Not meant to depict me, I'm still just a young lad...in his late 30s. 

Written by Cobbled Moth.
Copyright - all rights reserved - 
Cobbled Moth - Main vocals and acoustic guitar.
The Happy Somethings - other stuff

Lyrics:
I remember you sweeter
Now you're lost in the ether 
You were a spirit transmitter
But now you are bitter
And it's a shame
If you think no one cares
You went through pain
I know I was there
But you always had a wise word
And a kind word too
What happened to you?
I remember you taller
And now you are smaller
Over the land you would skitter
But now you're just bitter
Ooo oo now you are bitter
Ooo oo now we are bitter
And it's a shame
If we think no one cares
We went through pain
Yet always stayed fair
And we always had a wise word
And a kind word too
The disillusionment grew and grew and grew
I remember you fatter
And it didn't matter
Long before your x twitter 
When you were not bitter
I remember you jolly
In the rain with no brolly
I remember you shiny
Your wit was perfectly briny
I remember you noble
Before the dragon went global
You were never a quitter
Hope you stop being bitter


Bitter - Cobbled Moth & The Happy Somethings

bag of dirt

bnjjnkn

Collaboration between Romi Anauel
https://soundcloud.com/romi-anauel
and Keldari Station, additional tracks by Bandulu Dub
https://soundcloud.com/banduludub

Romi Anauel : Voices
Bandulu Dub : Skank riddims and terminator bass
Keldari Station : Clav, Bass Guitar, Samples, Organ, Vocoder, Beats

Menino Vadio

Metropolis : SGF : October 2016

Here's an all-action tie-in video if you're so inclined :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiV7LqHGQHc

From the new album : "Geometry"
One of a pair of all-analogue-synth tracks inspired by Fritz Lang's 1920s movie masterpiece "Metropolis"

https://selenagordonsfactory.bandcamp.com/album/geometry

Featuring the mastering alchemy of Sir Russell Sinfield.

Metropolis - see track notes for extras

Dan sez: This is one I've been playing for 25 years, originally adapted from Tom Rush's version but since augmented by several other versions. It is, according to certain ethnomusicologists, by far the most widely collected folksong in the English language. It is #84 among the esteemed ballads collected by Mr. Child, and was mentioned in an early 1666 entry of the famous Pepys diary; as it spread to the US it was apparently popular throughout the east, not just in the South with where the most famous versions are associated. It's easy to see why the song has endured and remained popular in its many versions; it's a timeless tale of love and tragedy and remorse, incredibly romantic. I've always gotten a kick out of the idea that Sweet William was probably dying of plague, rather than unrequited love, and that Barb'ry caught it when she visited him and died the next day... but that's not nearly as romantic.

I previously put up a rougher fingerpicked version I recorded in 2004, which you can hear at https://soundcloud.com/lonesomedstringband/barbry-allen; in re-tackling the song we wanted to do something different with it, different from both my earlier version and from a lot of the intensely detailed  sounds G&B have been cranking out. So we ended up with a pretty basic, hopefully timeless, folk-rock sound, with a couple different acoustic guitar voicings over mandolin and ukulele, some electric guitar breaks,  and a fantastic rhythm section provided by Dr. Burns that grounds it solidly with just a hint of swampiness to it.  Jeff also mixed it beautifully, transitioning the backing elements gently to provide a subtle variety of settings within a consistent whole, and also cleaning up my many errors throughout along the way.

Guitars, cigar box guitar, mandolin, ukulele, bass, drums & percussion.

Barbry Allen

Lisa ( https://soundcloud.com/faerytale) Vocals & lyrics first half, main melody, backing moans
D3 (https://soundcloud.com/darren-d-danahy) Vocals & lyrics second half, keyboard, sleeping on the couch
Russ (me) Bass, drum programming, arrangement, mix, mastered for SoundCloud

Faerytale, D3 and Russ Sinfield - Trouble

A response to Bob Dylan's poem 'Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie' 
I called it "Last Thoughts" as a tribute, but in truth they certainly won't be. In fact my silly naive highschooler butt didn't even put together that he wrote "Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie" when Woody was in the hospital. You'd think the title would have clued me in but either way hope there'll never be any last anythings. This song is kind of about reaching in the dark, finding strength in the words of strangers and old friends too, lighting the path a little further down the road.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0OdNY8Aybw

Written/vocals and guitar by J R Altabef/AManCalledJack/Pe+richor, Copyrighted 2008. 
https://illusionsofthespleen.deviantart.com/art/Last-Thoughts-on-Bob-Dylan-82633236

Last Thoughts on Bob Dylan

Jason Goldeberg producing/mixing/mastering/harmonicaneering

The Ladder [TEASER]

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Windy

Retrofuturistic global old-time, roots pop & electric folk, with a particular joy in our frequent collaborations with other Soundcloud friends.
"The Split Rail Fence of Sound." Hank Tilbury
"Captivating folk vibes in psychedelic sauce." E-Ruizzo
"Packed to the gills, and still works." Jonathan Beckenstein
"Bonhomie encapsulated in a song." Gary Reeves
"Totally transporting music." Mark J. Bennett
"Like the old stuff... but improved." Chris O(2)


We are:
Greenwood: https://soundcloud.com/lonesomedstringband
Burns: https://soundcloud.com/jeff-burns-4

 Album art by Kenny Keil: http://talestosuffice.com/

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