yall do country better than anyone id like to hear this sound take over country

Creeps on you with an odd beat that ends up working

I enjoyed this a lot. it has a great stoner vibe to it. Good job on the bass!

Sounds like you all had fun doing this, that's the important thing, l like it.

beautiful harmonic song and excellent vocal and instrumental performance

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
Jiving at Saint Peters
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
In the days before 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

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

Written/Vocals and Guitar by J R Altabef/AManCalledJack/Pe+richor, Copyrighted 01/2017

City Of Minds [Rough Studio Mix]

Jason Goldeberg producing/mixing/mastering/harmonicaneering

The Ladder [TEASER]

Origins of this tune are muddy. I learned it primarily from the mighty Odetta, and also the Weavers in my folks’ collection, with a more recent nod to Alvin Youngblood Hart’s great version from the Otis Taylor & co. album ‘Recapturing the Banjo.’
It seems like other versions all flow back to Pete Seeger’s bringing the song to the Weavers in the early ‘50s. The lyrics and the idea of a missing Willie are fairly common, so it’s been tied to other tunes by academics, but it seems that Pete himself was unsure of where he’d gotten the song or where it came from. 
This has been kicking around the G&B stable for a year, and finally brought back to life. In a twist, I (Greenwood) played the bass guitar and drum kit and tried mixing/editing. So it’s a little (or more than a little) sloppier than usual in those aspects but hopefully that’s okay since it’s supposed to sound like slacker early ‘90s roots rock. 

Guitars, cigar box guitar, ukulele, vocals, bass guitar, drums.

As an aside, this is the first time I’ve played a bass guitar in I think 27 years. Last time was in Osaka for an international music students’ festival. I signed up to play some folky stuff but then got asked to fill in on bass and vocals with a couple guys who liked heavy stuff so I sang For Whom The Bell Tolls. It was an awful rendition, but fun. I believe I have the sole surviving VHS tape of the event.
Anyhow, I don’t have a bass guitar, so took the 4 track to the Music & Arts shop where my daughter takes trombone lessons, borrowed a guitar, and did my best to put a part together in that half hour. Pretty fun, even if it’s not any good. 

Versions:
The Weavers (early 1950s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xKp6qXB1Bc
Odetta (1956): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWG-yUOVdYk
Pete Seeger solo (late ‘50s/early ‘60s):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pREIf515I_4
Alvin Youngblood Hart (2008): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mXa4meChRo (he also does a good version of this with South Memphis String Band, and his SMSB bandmate Mr. Dickinson does an electric version of it with the North Mississipp All Stars).

Deep Blue Sea

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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