11 - Old Fashioned Song

10 - Swamp Girl

9 - Goddess Blues Ok

8 - The Missing Bride Ok

7 - Jack The Ripper

6 - The Wayfaring Soul

5 - Come With Me

4 - The Hanging Man

3 - Walkin' With The Devil

2 - Old Salt Story

In honor of the first skirmish between Humpback Whales v. Humans war 7/22/2024 I offer a simple ode to the whales. Fun fact: Humpback whales feed with Orcas. Surely the Humpback whales behaviors are unrelated to Orca attacks, or are they?

Single (FLAC) and lyrics available here: https://passero.bandcamp.com/album/im-no-longer-saying-save-the-whales-single

I Am No Longer Saying Save The Whales (Single)

I Am No Longer Saying Save The Whales

Passero - Im No Longer Saying Save The Whales

Cover of American folk/blues/gospel song.

Oh Mary Dont You Weep

All Your Favorite Bands (Dawes)

Carolina In My Mind - Songfacts 
(Writer: James Taylor         Original performance: Jams Taylor) 

I used to sit and practice James Taylor songs, playing the acoustic guitar and singing along with it.  I couldn’t play fingerstyle guitar, let alone the unique fingerstyle of James Taylor, and I didn’t have his crystal clear and perfect pitching voice. But I loved the music in him and kept at it, trying to play as much as I could in the style of his songs whilst using a plectrum style of playing. And so I was always going to have a go at recording one of my favourites from way back then, and chose Carolina In My Mind as it flows along well and the recording I have based mine on is done with a backing band so that I didn’t have to feel so exposed with the limitations on my guitar part.  I was surprised at how well it came out given my limitations – all that practising years ago seems to have been worthwhile. From Wiki

‘Carolina In My Mind’ was Taylor's second single from his 1968 self-titled debut album. Taylor wrote Carolina in My Mind while in England recording for the Beatles' label Apple Records, and the song's themes reflect his homesickness at the time. Released as a single in 1969, the song earned critical praise but not commercial success. It was re-recorded for Taylor's 1976 Greatest Hits album in the version that is most familiar to listeners.

James Taylor started writing the song at producer Peter Asher's (he of ‘Peter and Gordon’ fame, brother of Jane Asher, actress and 1960s girlfriend of Paul McCartney) London flat on Marylebone High Street, resumed work on it while on holiday on the Mediterranean island of Formentera, and then completed it while stranded on the nearby island of Ibiza with Karin, a Swedish girl he had just met. The song reflects Taylor's homesickness at the time, as he was missing his family, his dog and his state (the song has been called an unofficial state anthem for North Carolina. It is also an unofficial song of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, being played at athletic events and pep rallies and sung by the graduating class at every university commencement).

The bass work is particularly important in this arrangement and whilst outside Paul ‘Carolina Man’ Jennings normal territory, he did an absolutely fabulous job of recreating the original bass part so that that it worked just like it should with the vocal. So, an especially big thanks to him here.  Hope you enjoy this beautiful song and please share it with others if you do.

Oh and as a footnote, I've always sung the line as 'Going to Carolina In My Mind' in several places, although JT I think sings 'Gone to Carolina' at almost every point.  It's just my own way of doing the lyric, and how it feels right for me - probably due me to not being a North Carolinian!

Mike O’Neill
18th October 2024

Emeralds & Pearls

Carolina In My Mind (James Taylor)(The Clana Boys)

One of Hank William's classic song.
A cover from Europe

Ramblin Man

meka, the musical project of Melissa Lingo, blends introspective indie folk with intricate fingerpicking influenced by Nick Drake and Vashti Bunyan. A self-taught multi-instrumentalist, meka explores themes of grief, hope, and nature. Raised in a mountain town dedicated to astronomy, her music reflects a fascination with the cosmos and ecology, shaped by travel and solitude. Her songs turn life’s pain into ethereal beauty, like candlelight in dark corners.

Listen:
https://idol-io.ffm.to/temperance

Connect with meka https://www.instagram.com/singingblackhole/

meka - Temperance

Traditional English Folk song -- based on Clarence Ashley's version.

Cuckoo Bird

Blowing in the Wind

#deathdream #deathdream2003 Uhhh... This note added 9/8/20. Did I do something in 2003 that became a thing in 2015 and find it in 2020? Check out Fear of a Bot Planet (Confirmation Remix) to judge for yourself. This was just a ploy to goof off in free study computer class. Shout out to the video I stumbled upon by Pad Chennington.

Dumont Dumont is a record label based in Stockholm, Sweden.

The first release on the label was the RY X "Berlin EP" released in August of 2013.

Releases:
RY X - Berlin EP (EP, digital & 12" vinyl)
Novo Amor & Ed Tullett - Faux (single, digital)
RY X - Sweat / Love Like This (single, digital & 7" vinyl)
Apidae - Turning Tides (single, digital)
Lisa Alma - Man (single, digital)
Lisa Alma - Fine (single, digital)
Lisa Alma - Sweater (album, digital & 12" LP vinyl)
Lisa Alma - Fern (single, digital)
Charlie Cunningham - Outside Things (EP, digital) - Re-release
Charlie Cunningham - Breather (EP, digital) - Re-release
Charlie Cunningham - Heights (EP 12" vinyl & digital)
Charlie Cunningham - An Opening (single, digital)
Josin - Oceans Wait (2 track single, Digital & 7")
Charlie Cunningham - Minimum (Single, Digital)
Charlie Cunningham - Lines (Album, Vinyl, CD & Digital)
Charlie Cunningham - You Sigh (Single, Digital), May 5th 2017
Josin - Feral Thing (Single, Digital), May 19th 2017
Josin - Epilogue (EP, Digital), June 2nd 2017
Charlie Cunningham - Spotify Live (EP, Spotify), August 4th 2017
Sean Christopher - Wasteland (Single, Digital), Re-release, original release 2013
Sean Christopher - Paper Plane Pilot (Single, Digital), September 15th 2017
Sean Christopher - Carry On (Single, Digital), November 10th 2017
Sean Christopher - A Thousand Hues (Single), January 19th 2018
Josin - From There (Single), January 26th 2018
ViVii - Siv (single), March 23rd 2018
Sean Christopher - Cherokee (single), April 6th 2018
Josin - Company (single), April 20th 2018
Sean Christopher - Yonder (Album), May 11th 2018
Josin - Company (Kiasmos Remix), May 11th 2018
ViVii - Savant (EP), May 25th 2018
Sean Christopher - Everything (single), August 24th 2018
ViVii - Siv (You and I) & Savant - Live (single), August 31st 2018
Josin - Burning (For a new start) (single), August 31st 2018
Cyrus Reynolds featuring S. Carey - Foraker (single), September 14th 2018
Josin - Once Apart (single), October 12th 2018
ViVii - Suckerpunch (single), October 12th 2018 

Out soon:
Sean Christopher - Yonder (After Midnight) (album), November 23rd 2018
Josin - In The Blank Space (single), November 30th 2018
ViVii - New single early January 2019
Josin - In The Blank Space (Album), January 25th  2019
ViVii (Album) May 2019

Dumont Dumont playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/imperial1000/playlist/2LMk4Ap1cv7H6WPdCdsWsE

Contact: info(at)dumontdumont(dot)com

ONE MAN BAND FROM ROME
Swamp Blues & Dark Folk

Folk Blues one man band with influences ranging from rock to country to rock n'roll, touching on desert territories bordering on stoner and grunge.
Night time settings, western atmospheres and esoteric suggestions, in a frame strongly influenced by early blues and folk music.
Minimal lineup: kick drum, snare, guitar and voice, with the desire to reduce the sound to its primordial state, stripping it down to its bones and its deepest essence.

I am a singer/songwriter, I play amped acoustic, resonator and lap steel guitars. My music is blues, country and folk.

V8/11 : Médiathèque de Pont-à-Mousson (54)

Artwork  by Samuel Mussolin : http://www.s4mstudios.com/
Photo profil :©Claude SOMOT

New tracks tagged #american folk