doc, you did a great job building up & then releasing the tension on this - I know it's tough to work with a gazillion tracks but your output is always spot-on.

Nice intro leading into a wonderful electric cover. Great vocals and instrumental build.

@katherine-chatham: Thank you so much. You are too kind. If you have a moment please check out the page I set up with Dan. https://soundcloud.com/greenwood-burns   This is one of our colaborations and we've done a few more. Thank you again!

WOOOOW Jeff ... this is such an amazing piece. There's a radio show on a local station in seattle called "Roadhouse". It's a three hour block once a week where they play this type of music. I could definitely imagine hearing this on there. This is incredible.

My Favourite Tracks of SC Friends #9

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The eagle soars over the mountain tops. The swallows swooping down along the rooftops. Migrant birds are coming back after a long journey.This track is about The Art Of Flying.

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/2ofjlHldkyZ7COjfgyt9bK

The Art Of Flying

FINGERSTYLE BLUES IN G Op 2

 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

Check out more from Lonesome D String Band!
https://soundcloud.com/lonesomedstringband

CLUCK OLD HEN: Lonesome D String Band with SJZB

 Italy-France SC collaboration
Guitars : Lorenzo Rovito
Double bass : Riccardo Ievoli 
Clarinets : Stephano (DDJohn)  ;-)
Please visit Lorenzo Rovito's SC page  (https://soundcloud.com/lorenzo-rovito) and listen to his amazing recordings in pure Django style ...

Nuages  (Django Reinhardt) - ft. Lorenzo Rovito

A masterpiece of austere melancholia, this lesser-known tune by the great John Fahey--I recorded my arrangement for banjo, plucked cello, e-bowed slide guitar and brushes back in 2012.  Now that I live within a short but congested drive of where he grew up, I've been meaning to carve out some time and see what's left of the places mentioned in his music and writings.

Photo: John Fahey's boyhood home in Takoma Park, Maryland.  Swiped from Flickr.

Joe Kirby Blues (John Fahey)

Headphones recommended! 

Child 81, one of the most well known ballads among the fans of British folk rock thanks to the epic version on Fairport's classic Liege & Lief record. We look instead to Nic Jones for source material; his take was only a year behind Fairport's, and was according to his notes based lyrically on an American version and melodically of his own construction. The song dates to at least the 17th century. 

We've sort of re-modalized it from Jones's take with lot of drones, DADGAD tunings, some electronics and dulcimers and whatnot else. This has been a while in the making. Along the way we asked some friends for some input and were lucky enough that Alan sent us some accordion takes and Carl Young put several of his hand pans to use, adding texture and color and even more of an ethereal feel. The music, as is our wont, builds to the climactic deaths with layers of electrics on top of acoustics and Jeff keeping track of it all somehow. 

Newshoe (Alan Ingall): Accordion
Carl Young: Hand pans
Mark Bennett & Chris 0(2): Valued input
G&B: 4-string guitar, 6-string guitar, cigar box guitar, ukulele, mandolin, dulcimer, pennywhistles, percussion, jaw harps, Monotrons, kalimba, vocals, midi synth, bass

pic: Hickory tussock moth caterpillar, October 2017, French Creek State Park PA

Little Musgrave, ftg. Carl Young and Alan Ingall

Excerpt from one instrument of many going into a new Loran Otzer banjo-and-flatpicking piece. New as in so far unreleased, but Loran sent us the track about a year ago, we're that far behind. Jeff is now hard at work mixing the entire track, but in the meantime I bounced out and edited down the ridiculous five jaw harp takes that went into it. 

Pic: we're on track for 75+ monarch releases this year.

Me Granny Taught Me To Play... JAW HARP?!?!?

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

A perpetual learner of music in search of the world's fine voices and to share his passion.

Unless specifically stated, all tracks are covers played by myself.  Most cover photos are borrowed from Google images.

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