Dietmar outdid himself on this. I'm just trying to stay out of the way of his fingertip gymnastics.

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JOHN HENRY: FIngerstyle_Guitar with a side of Squirrel

Jeff Burns: Closed Back Banjo
Dan Greenwood: Gut Banjo
Dan Greenwood: Washboard
Dan Greenwood: Guitar

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Spring Peppers (Lonesome D-String band with a side of squirrel.)

This is a little something I am writing lyrics for.

Burried The Cat

This is a waltz about Nana, a stray cat that primarily lived in the public garden next door to my backyard. She was 12 when I met her, and she had a clipped ear. That meant that NY animal control fixed her, apparently after her fourth litter. You could see her family all over the block. I fed her basically every day for almost two years, but she would also follow me around when I would weed the garden.

She was a stone cold thug. Preemptive no holds barred street fighter. Now after a few months she would let me rub her belly, but if another outdoor cat came near she would call them out and toss the gauntlet. She actually fatally injured the cat that broke her legs.

Last summer she became gravely wounded from a dangerous scrap with another feral cat, and she was forced to set camp beside an old trash can surrounded by rusty barb wire in my back yard. At least one of her back legs was broken, and she hadn't eaten in a while. I fed her by hand for about a week. She got better, then worse, then not so worse, then she died. I was at work when she poassed and it was so hot out by the time I got home from work to find her, the smell, the whole thing, was awful.

 Frankie and I wanted to bring her to the public garden next door to bury her. That's where she lived for a decade, but she was too far decomposed, it was over 95 degrees out, so she would have to stay in my backyard.

We all loved that cat, she loved us, she loved the neighborhood, and by god she was the wrong chick to mess with.

About this track, Dan did a lot of the arrangement. The slide added so much, and he sort of built the rhythm of the band, which Sarah filled out. The Uke fills that hi middle n a good swinging way.

Performers:
Dan Greenwood: Slide Tenor
Dan Greenwood: Guitar
Dan Greenwood: Washboard
Sarah Moskowitz: Uke
Jeff Burns: Steel String Banjo
Black Wood Pecker: supporting vocals

For more on Lonesome D String Band: @lonesomedstringband
For more on Sarah check out: https://soundcloud.com/sarahmouse  
and also https://soundcloud.com/samisarah

Soon there should be a version with singing sung!

Buried The Cat: Lonesome D-String Band with Moskowitz & Squirrel

 This was a fun one for sure. Dan sure knows how to pick em and drop em. 

SJZB: banjo, electric bass, kick drum, brushed bongos, vocals, cymbals, mixology

ldsb - banjos, 4 (ADAD) and 6 (DADGAD) string guitars, mandolin, washboard, bongos, jaw harps, vocals

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CLUCK OLD HEN: Lonesome D String Band with SJZB

Something I have been working out for a G&B mix. There's some things I forgot to touch on this, but I was trying to break off arrangement to get deeper into playing the song.  It's pretty rough, but I think it will turn out alright, as most things do in life. Sally forth folks.
Jeff
PS: Here is the G&B version! https://soundcloud.com/greenwood-burns/was-a-place-i-know

Oldtimethinking

getting used to the new gourd

Learning The Gourd Banjo

This is a song I am writing about how I feel about my train commute to work. Just me and the gourd on this take.

Rush Hour Drag (rough sketch)

So this is a song I am working on about how my morning rush hour comute makes me feel deep inside.

Hopefully a proper G&B version to follow. Enjoy all the mistakes! I'm still getting to know the new gourd.
Jeff

G&B with Martin Kirwan version is here! https://soundcloud.com/greenwood-burns/rush-hour-drag-gb-with-martin-kirwan

Rush Hour Drag(new rough draft)

Written by Dietmar
Original tune: https://soundcloud.com/fingerstyle_guitar/syria-blueswav?in=fingerstyle_guitar/sets/dobro-frits

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And here are a few places to go to donate and help:

Doctors Without Borders is providing direct medical aid in six hospitals and four health centers inside Syria. They are also sending medical supplies, equipment and support to the medical networks throughout Syria that they cannot access themselves. They accept donations online, and you can earmark your gift for Syria by calling 1-888-392-0392.
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

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http://www.wfp.org/emergencies/syria

Syria Blues (Fingerstyle guitar with a side of squirrel)

Gourd Banjo Fun in Minor

Here's a rough arrangement I did for this Gourd Banjo tune. Percussion is really sloppy....


Flight Of The Quetzalcoatlus Rough Arrangement

Here's a rough take of a song I'm cooking up. G&B should have time to flesh it out soon enough. I'm hoping to get these vocals swapped as well. Anyhow, it was a fun stab at electric banjo.
-Jeff
Instrumentation
Drum Kit
Cowbell
Bongos
Electric Bass
Electric 5 string Banjo (Deering Goodtime with a pickup)

Lyrics

You grew up
and I grew down
I stayed home
and you left town

You rose up
while I dug in
now I'm the king of the pond I'm in.

Here I win
and there you are
you got friends
and I got a yard
You got trains
and I got a car
I got my god-damn driveway tarred

You grew up
and I grew down
I stayed home
and you left town

You rose up
while I dug in
now I'm the king of the pond I'm in.

Local (Rough)

Playing with some analogue

March 21, 2013
Zak Sherzad Cello
Raouf Sarwari Percussion
Jeff Burns Banjo

Jam with Zak Sherzad and Raouf Sarwari

My name is Jeff Burns, I live in Brooklyn, originally from Buxton, Maine, and I started playing 5 string banjo in early 2011. 

Lately I have done a lot of colaborations with Dan Greenwood AKA Lonesome D String Band.
We set up a new page so please check it out.
https://soundcloud.com/greenwood-burns

I also wrote a novella about lighting as my Mother has danced with such on more than one occasion.
http://www.amazon.com/Rain-Too-Heavy-For-Kites/dp/1477509283
That's a shameless plug, and I hope to offer some good shameless music, as music should have no shame (except when it's used as enhanced interrogation.)

Thanks for the listen folks,
Jeff Burns

squirrel jam zombie banjo

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