Old-fashioned country guitar instrumental.  Tune from "Ellis' Thorough School for the Six or Seven- Stringed Banjo".   Played on a National through a 1940s amp.

Blog entry with MP3, Vorbis, FLAC, sheet music, and short clips:

http://soupgreens.com/2009/12/31/bumper-breakdown-from-thorough-school/

Juba Breakdown

Victorian tear jerker on bottleneck National. 

Wikipedia sez -
The poem "The Old Oaken Bucket"

The name of the trophy refers to a sentimental poem written in 1817 by a successful printer and publisher, Samuel Woodworth (1784–1842) which begins:

    "How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood,
    When fond recollection presents them to view!
    The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wild-wood,
    And every loved spot which my infancy knew!

    ...And e'en the rude bucket that hung in the well—
    The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,
    The moss-covered bucket which hung in the well.

Although Samuel Woodworth was not from Indiana, the poem exemplifies the sentiment felt by the people of Indiana towards their home state. The poem was set to music in 1826 by G. F. Kiallmark (1804–1887)[2] and memorized or sung by generations of American schoolchildren; it made the poet's unpretentious childhood home in Scituate, Massachusetts the goal of sentimental tourists in the late 19th century.

Old Oaken Bucket

The Delmore Brothers/ Doc Watson classic: NEW! IMPROVED!

Lucas Gonze - Deep River Blues

Improv #7 for Disquiet Junto "soothing sounds for baby" theme. 

Recorded using the Soundcloud "record" function on my Android phone, with the standard built-in mic, late Saturday night in the shed in my yard.

disquiet0250 soother 7

Guitar improv with ambient desert sounds. 

Making bell sounds by letting strings ring. Constantly varying the time signature. Static dynamic. 

Played & recorded late Saturday night in the woodshed. Recorder: Soundcloud app. Mic: Nexus 5P. Guitar: National Estralita.

Sounds:
- "A can rolling into the wind, in the desert of Atacama (Chile)." by felix.blume.
- "The Australian Desert at night." by "kangaroovindaloo"

Disquiet0250 Soother  - 10:15:16, 10.13 AM

Night

Revisiting ideas in http://music.metafilter.com/8124/Disquiet0250-Soother-101516-1013-AM 

Election coming soon

Thinking about Tune-Yards, Bombino, the Paris Texas soundtrack by Ry Cooder, my Ghost Solos (freemusicarchive.org/music/Lucas_Gonze/Ghost_Solos) project

Image credit: The U.S. Army
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

playingintongues.com

Deserts 2 - disquiet0251

A private place

6th and final version of this series of pieces:
https://soundcloud.com/lucas_gonze/deserts-2-11416-832-pm
https://soundcloud.com/lucas_gonze/disquiet0250-soother-101516-1013-am
https://soundcloud.com/lucas_gonze/disquiet0250-soother-7
https://soundcloud.com/lucas_gonze/disquiet0250-agitated-soother
https://soundcloud.com/lucas_gonze/sounds-from-friday-evening

Deserts 6

Rocking Yukon Gold

Jamming a Bill Monroe classic with Cal Keoola on fiddle violin, Paul McCue on guitar, myself on mandolin. 

Recorded half assed, full blast in Paul's apartment.

Blue Grass Stomp

From the spiritual "Blow Your Trumpet, Gabriel"

The Tallest Tree in Paradise

Remix of https://soundcloud.com/lucas_gonze/the-tallest-tree-in-paradise, with sound from Freesound.

For additional sounds I'm indebted to:

https://freesound.org/people/lezaarth/sounds/260665/download/260665__lezaarth__firework2.wav
Firework2
https://freesound.org/people/lezaarth/sounds/260665/
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
https://freesound.org/people/lezaarth/
http://www.stefan-harth.de/
Stefan Harth

https://freesound.org/people/waxsocks/sounds/254836/download/254836__waxsocks__fireworks-display-2.wav
https://freesound.org/people/waxsocks/sounds/254836/#comments
Fireworks display 2
waxsocks on Freesound
"Recorded on November 5th (or thereabouts) from an attic window in Burngreave in Sheffield (UK).  "

https://freesound.org/people/dobroide/sounds/35039/
20070517.classroom.wav
This work is licensed under the Attribution License.
dobroide

Walking With Dogs
https://freesound.org/people/karinalara89/sounds/443325/
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
karinalara89

https://freesound.org/people/dobroide/sounds/20571/
 summer » 20060706.night.channel01.flac

2nd Tallest Tree in Paradise - 11_14_18

Madcap hayride in fast motion; 1916 mandolin-banjo on a song from an 1880 book called "Banjoist's Budget" by Mr. A. Baur.  
  
  Sheet music, MP3, Ogg, Flac, Aiff, MP4 video are on my blog at:
  http://soupgreens.com/2009/09/04/too-utterly-too-clog-dance/
  
  Those recordings are all in the public domain per Creative Commons Zero.

Too Utterly Too (Clog Dance)

I set up the night before. Then I came back to play early in the morning, just after the sun came up. This was the second take. 

The song is an old time fiddle tune called "Hollow Poplar."

Lucas Gonze

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