An attempt to start learning the Oud, and to blend it with Spanish/Moorish influences, inspired by Tomatito's work.  It's a Turkish 11-string, in this case tuned slightly unusually to align with the guitar's DADGAD.

Ey Up, Mi Oud.

Jonathan Dadley-Webb contributed piano and brass band arrangement to this 2008 recording of an old Bessie Smith number

Send Me To The Electric Chair

Henry Thomas's classic recorded by National Debt in 1987, in my cellar.

Fishin' Blues

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Marius Frank's slow blues composition, Live at the Gregory Hotel, Nottingham, 1985.

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