sweet sound & neat playing, really enjoyed!

Your too kind buddy. You really made this track swing. I cant wait to make some more tracks with you.

Thanks, Andy! Almost didn't recognize you after the ame change...

@loran-otzer: That lead banjo is Jeff - mine is the lower gut banjo, and yes, he can play really well. Jeff also wrote the piece... check his pag out if you haven't before!

Music by Jeff Burns, https://soundcloud.com/jeff-burns-4, who apparently has been playing banjo for 1/8th the time I have and is leaving me in the dust, much to my delight. Jeff uploaded this as 'idea in D' the other day, with the idea of me filling it out. I should have been going to sleep late Tuesday night but the track called; I didn't quite get enough sleep but we got a good track out of it. I sent the source files off to Jeff today and blammo, he mixed it down and had it up on his page (again, https://soundcloud.com/jeff-burns-4) by this evening. 
Jeff composed the track and played the lead banjo part, on a steel string resonator banjo; if you listen closely to Jeff's original, you can hear his fingers on the banjo head making a great rhythmic effect. I knew that would get steamrolled in a bigger production but loved that insistent shuffle feel, so added the washboard first, followed by the guitar and eventually my low-strung gut banjo following his lead.

I found Jeff's music via Hank's page a while back and have really enjoyed his compositions, improvisations and collaborations, so it's a joy to be included in this project.

Picture: not a spring pepper, but snowdrops, taken last weekend. I've had some blooming since December (whenever snow cover abated enough) but man, that first warm day every spring, boy do they pop and put some pep in my step. Of course we got snow again on Monday but hey, one step at a time.

Spring Peppers (Greenwood & Burns)

Industrial Dance Mantra. 
https://open.spotify.com/album/1YjmBYUITvXz6cPwwrQkJW?si=ZEBHH_7yQfuP4Nao32n7Og

Сквозь Тьму

Ventilyator 666 - Сквозь Тьму

Evening Mood

Original song: @neowakan- FkWr
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29-10-24

FkWr

here is a link to the music video for the curious
https://youtu.be/KMl0QjZ3GM8?si=XS1ZBm20tEvklkTG


Alchemy and Stones
By David Husted

V1

Your an alchemist shaping my world
metal and leaf, herbs and fire
Your the pestle to ground the root
To shake my truth, without gun powder
   
ch                      
We were lost you see
Shattered stones with a strange alchemy
You're my mystic key reaching down deep into the
heart of me

V2
And the stones of philosophers
The secrets of flowers golden
The halls of wise, the dreams that lie behind
The paradise we long for

ch
We were lost you see
Shattered stones with a strange alchemy
You're my mystic key reaching down deep into the
heart of me

Rock Bridge

Ch Quiet

You're my mystic key reaching down deep into the
heart of me
                
V3

You take my cynical, my rigid , my narrow mind stiffening
You mix me it in your crucible, release internal conflicts
I'm tired of being wrapped up in my revolutions
Un-dress me take me inside your peaceful evolution

Your peaceful evolution
Your peaceful evolution
 

Ch  
I kind of think I might 
I kind of think I might 
I kind of think I might 
I kind of think I might

Love You

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I have a new song release scheduled for 13 DEC 24 called Alchemy and Stones. 

In one of my past song journal entries my word of the day was amalgam and I threw in the word alchemy for good measure.  During the lyric building process for this song my brain seemed to be still heavily steeped in the essence of these words. They were percolating through my thought streams. Much of the lyrical content contains imagery associated with this chemistry of the past and its mythic symbols. Our messy world provided additional ingredients that fell into the steaming crucible and began to round out this song into its final state.

There were four different songs that fed my creative spark and development process.  They were the following:

Spoon: Wild
James McMurtry: Canola Fields
Fruit Bats: Waking Up in Los Angeles
Taylor Swift: Anti-Hero

Deep bow of gratitude to all these artists.  My primary reference for the arrangement was Wild and it had the deepest structural influence on the song. The McMurtry song helped me hit on an idea for the chorus melody that seemed to stick with me and I liked his vocal delivery and cadence. The Fruit Bats was really not used at all but I loved the ohhhs in the chorus and wanted to find a way to emulate the laid back ease of them in my song.  However, my particular song style, tempo and arrangement just never allowed an entry point. The Fruit Bats song did keep the juices flowing though so that is why it still receives honorable mention in this write-up.

Finally, the  song by Taylor Swift: Anti-Hero did have a role in my song believe it or not.  If you listen to one of the synths you will hear a gated pumping sound courtesy of an Auto Pan and a Phaser-Flanger Plug-in. I really should thank a Music Producer named Ill Factor for teaching me the sound design process here. He demonstrated the technique in a YouTube video. Pretty cool.  As I have said before, I learn something new in every new song I build.  It is always deeply enjoyable for me. I also appreciate you for leaning in and listening. I wish you all the very best.

Thank You

Have a Great Weekend,  

Dave
davidhusted.com

Alchemy and Stones

Step into the Athanor

Feel Good

Apart from H. Stytz (voc./g/comp.) excellent performance, it´s the bassplayer who lifts this track up to another level  and he keeps the groove( together with the drums steadily. Thank you Paul Harriman for your precious contribution!

live on youtube :https://youtu.be/BfdKOWMP8js?feature=shared
2011

05 Don't Keep Me Waiting

Written by David Cooper and Ralph Donkin.

Performed by David Cooper and Glen Granthem.

A DGR Production.

Lyrics by Ralph Donkin:

Pick it up - Put it down
There's nothing in my head
Pick it up - Put it down
Till I regain the thread

Wish I could - But I can't
Suppose I never will
Wish I could - But I can't
Make the time stand still

Chorus

TRYING TO REMEMBER
IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG
TRYING TO REMEMBER
IS THIS WHERE I BELONG

Time has flown - Winds have blown
Now look at where we are
Time has flown - Winds have blown
We've not come very far

Feeling tired - Growing old
Trying to kid myself
Feeling tired - Growing old
I could be someone else

CHORUS

BRIDGE

What have I forgotten
It seems so strange
What I have forgotten
It’ll never be the same

Solo

Thinking straight - Knew the score
Nothing in my way
Thinking straight - Knew the score
Seems just like yesterday

Another day - Another night
Another morning dawns
Another day - Another night
Wish I could right the wrongs

Way back when - Long ago
When everything was clear
Way back when - Long ago
Now I just shed a tear

Say hello - Say goodbye
Another one has gone
Say goodbye - Say hello
Another one's, Another one's been born 

CHORUS x 2 to the end

Pick It Up (Cooper/Donkin/Granthem Collaboration)

Picnic in the Park  - Watch my video short! https://youtu.be/Z90D8qLSHjY?si=9lbkSdG-aeu_zr4H

A glorious day 
For a Picnic in the Park
Birds are chirping, 
Swans are swimming
Children laughing, 
The sun is grinning.
On a blanket of grass, 
We lay 
Side by side, 
Savoring each taste
Of food, drink, 
A kiss, 
On this lovely day.

Poem and Music by
Jennifer L. Jones
Music Dreams Productions
March 22, 2025

Picnic in the Park

Deuxième Partie [ Première Partie : https://soundcloud.com/user-919732565/01-autumn-fallen-leaves ]

01 - OT - TMI - Dusting The Strings TM
02 - SA - WE - My Preset 01
03 - Heavyocity - Ascend Modern Grand - Ethereal Swirling
04 - SA - LABS - Moon Guitar - Trems
05 - Sonuscore - The Orchestra Complete - Strings Basic 8ths 01 - Lost In Thoughts

02 - Autumn - Dusting The Strings

I muck about in the basement on a variety of instruments, a 4 track, and a pint of homebrew, trying not to wake the wife & kids. Starting point is traditional old-time music and Folk Revival fare, ending point is yet to be determined.

Always up for collaborating! A huge thank you to the many musicians who've let me wreck their tracks over the past few years. 

Since 2014 I've mostly been working alongside Jeff Burns, aka Squirrel Jam Zombie Banjo, in our imaginatively named project Greenwood & Burns:
https://soundcloud.com/greenwood-burns
Our debut album, Modern Sounds in Old-Time Music, and our guest-filled holiday spectacular, at Bandcamp: https://greenwoodburns.bandcamp.com/

Spring Peppers (Greenwood & Burns)

lonesome d string band

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