Whiskey

The Day

Free Falling

Probably the first, or one of them, songs I learnt to play many many years ago. Guitars, bass, vocals and harmonica by John L. Wainwright. Recorded through GarageBand on iPad2

The House of the Rising Sun

Played just for fun at the end of the day.

King of the Road

A really old jam from about four or five years ago with Catbadger (Si) and Matt. 

Badger Mushroom Snake (The Backyard Badger Sessions 2002 apx)

Goodbye Booze (featuring Kazoo Whahoo Unleashed)

A bluegrass take on the MGMT song "Kids". With guest vocals by Chris Lawrence

Kids (MGMT Cover) with guest vocals by Chris Lawrence

About You Now

Every Breath You Take

A cover of the Lou Reed song via The Cowboy Junkies. I couldn't sing the middle eight so plumped for a harp' solo instead.

Sweet Jane

This song from the Second Spanish Republic is known as Jarama Valley and El Valle del Jarama. The tune is Red River Valley. The earliest known version of the lyrics was written by Alex McDade, of the British Battalion, XV International Brigade and published in 1938 in The Book of the XV International Brigade by the Commissariat of War, Madrid, 1938. It is squarely a soldier's song; grumbling about the boredom, lack of leave and lack of female company. McDade was a labourer from Glasgow who became a political commissar in the XV International Brigade, responsible for the men's welfare. He was wounded at Jarama and died on 6 July 1937 at the Battle of Brunete. Perhaps McDade wrote the song to focus his comrades' minds on something other than the casualties, but "its humorous cynicism made it popular in all battalions". 
The spoken word segment is from the letters of Ivor Hickman, an English volunteer in the British Battalion of the 15th International Brigade. The full letters can be read in J. L. Wainwright's book,  The Last to Fall. http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Last-Fall-International-Brigader/dp/0957192304/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1363103312&sr=8-2

Jarama Valley (A song for the volunteers of the International Brigade 1936-1938)

All Along the Watchtower

Hero

Whole Again

Gutters Full of Rain

Baby What Do You Want Me to Do?

Fistful of Love (A Song for Victims of Domestic Abuse Everywhere)

Handyman's Blues

Where is my Mind

I've been playing the guitar most of my life and recently have been experimenting with other string instruments. My influences are pretty wide as I love any music as long as it features real instruments. I'm no singer but figured it's like any other instrument, the more you practice; the better you get, so please be patient with the vocals:)

Not aiming to set the world on fire, just enjoying myself playing tunes I like.

The instruments used are as follows:

* 1992 Gibson Epiphone Orville electro-acoustic guitar
* Gear4Music Rickenbacker copy semi-acoustic electric guitar
* Martin Smith resonator guitar
* Admira Spanish 6 string guitar
* Ozark 5 sring wooden resonator banjo
* Stagg mandolin
* Washburn Lyon Series bass guitar
* Hohner Blues Harps (various keys)
* Kazoo of unknown origin but probably cast out from the fires of hell
* Vocals on tracks recorded after 17/12/12 through a Samson Meteor Microphone

All songs recorded direct to my iPad2 and produced through GarageBand.


John L. Wainwright

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