Did you play all instruments on this Ted? I see from your profile you are multi-talented! Very well done...

Superb progressions...moving from soul to blues....fantastic!! I like those wonderful rhythm chords too!!

Smoooooth,cruizzzzzy...superb control/phrasing - I like the emotion/warmth in your playing sir!! Brilliant track!!Peace:)xo

Feeling this Ted! Great smooth track!!!!!!

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Abrial - Owned And Controlled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wjM_mwIHYQ
I know the song was originally recorded by Sheryl Crow, but my cover is based on the version of Cash. I'm using my Blueridge BR180. Guitar and vocals are recorded in one take with one microphone.
Please hit like if you enjoy my covers:)
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Redemption Day - Johnny Cash Cover

Here Comes Your Man - The Pixies - David McWilliams

Here Comes Your Man - The Pixies - Acoustic Jazz

This is my first upload, hopefully of many,  to start sharing my music with friends and family.  This blue is incomplete,  words and rearrangement to follow in the next few months.
Hopefully you will enjoy! 
Best,  Ted   

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Billy Preston has always been an important figure in music for me, and I asked the very fine vocalist Martin Jones to join me with his soulful singing on this 70s classic.  Billy was always one of the funkiest keyboard players out there, and was often called the 5th Beatle.   Because of Billy's superb piano, synth and organ skills, he was a top session player and toured with many musicians including Eric Clapton, Ray Charles, The Beatles, Little Richard and Sam Cooke.  Here's our tribute to the late great Billy Preston, who wrote hits such as Space Race, Will it Go Round in Circles, Outa Space, That's the Way God Planned it and co-wrote You are So Beautiful, which Joe Cocker then made famous.    Thanks so much for joining me on this Martin!  Check out Martin's fine gallery at https://soundcloud.com/ver2xif

Thanks as always for your time listening, your comments and your shares.

Nothing From Nothing - with Martin Jones

A year ago Bas and I did Third World Town https://soundcloud.com/johnny-minstrel/third-world-town-with-heb-ik.
Here's the mastered version.
Thank you so much Bas for the time and effort you put in to master this!

Please check out Bas's great music here: https://soundcloud.com/bastiaan-kooman

Credits:

Third World Town: Mastered by Bastiaan Kooman

Acoustic Guitar and Vocals: Pravinand Maharaj aka Johnny Minstrel

Acoustic and Acoustic Lead, Bass and Backing Vocals: Bastiaan Kooman

Cover pic: Kudakwashe Gavi

Third World Town – Words & Music by Pravinand Maharaj aka Johnny Minstrel

Gone to his Father
Up in a cloud
Come back dear brother
And walk with this crowd
Show us your kingdom
Where soldiers don’t fight
Where children of freedom
Are children of the light

Chorus:
Did he walk in a third world town
Did he stop and spit on the ground 
Did he touch the blind and make them see

The rich man he wastes his time
Tonight he’ll be gone 
The poor will drink his wine
And feast past the dawn
The earth is the Keeper’s choice
The prince makes his ploy
The sheep hear the shepherd’s voice
They won’t be destroyed

Chorus:
Did he walk in a third world town
Didn’t they know that all things are found
By the hands that blessed the bread and fish

Bade by the rulers
Who conquer and steal
Judged by the wicked
Your wounds will not heal
The abuse of power
Keep peasants in chains
But God knows the hour
When you’ll come back again

Chorus:
Did he walk in a third world town


Third World Town by Johnny Minstrel and Bastiaan Kooman - The Mastered Version

Watch it on youtube! https://youtu.be/mOOxmif0UkU
Buy it on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/elements-feat.-brian-enos/id1071743211?i=1071743221
Music originally by Lindsey Stirling (youtu.be/sf6LD2B_kDQ)
Arranged by Chris Mills (@wintersentinel) and Brian Enos(@brian-enos)
Mixed and Mastered by Ted Sopher(@tgsopher)
Produced and engineered by Chris Mills
Chris Mills - guitars and keyboards, drum programming
Brian Enos - Bass guitar and additional guitars

A couple years ago, Lindsey Stirling held a cover contest and my friend Brian Enos and I decided to enter with our rendition of her song "Elements"(https://soundcloud.com/wintersentinel/elements-by-lindsey-stirling). Since it was a contest, it was a bit rushed, and besides it was the first song we ever recorded so we had no idea what we were doing. So a couple years later, we decided to re-record the whole thing, and here it is! Enjoy!

Elements - Lindsey Stirling Cover

Again, off my second CD and it is one of my favorites.  I simply don't what genre' to categorize it under.  Again,  my goal was to texture the sound to make it interesting and pleasing.  The master job,  not so good,  but you'll get the picture. 

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I REDID THIS SONG, GO LISTEN TO THE NEW ONE INSTEAD IT SOUNDS WAY BETTER!: https://soundcloud.com/wintersentinel/elements-final-fade-fixed

A cover of Lindsey Stirling's song "Elements", arranged by Chris Mills and Brian Enos
Chris Mills - guitars, keyboards
Brian Enos - bass guitar, additional guitars
Mixed by Brian Enos
Special thanks to Brian Trotter for pointing me to some recording software and helping me figure out how to use it
Watch the music video at youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF5lFGk1QoI

Story time: This was my first-ever experience with recording. Lindsey Stirling announced a "cover contest," and my friend Brian and I decided we were going to try our hand. So I downloaded a cheap DAW (I believe it was called Music Creator 6), and in two weeks we managed to figure it out and put this together (big thanks to Brian Trotter for helping me get started). I didn't have a real interface, so I was using a Digitech RP-something something (I believe 55? one of the lower-end models), which is why the electric guitars sound decent, but the acoustics and keyboards sound like absolute garbage. The drums are whatever automatically came with Music Creator 6. The guitar we used was my old Gibson Les Paul studio, and my brother's Ibanez 5-string something something bass. The keys were my old Yamaha digital piano. The classical was just recorded with a piezo pickup I had just gotten installed for this sole purpose. Fun fact: I improvised the classical guitar solo. Also, the first half of the bass solo (with the cheesy blues lick) is me, but the slap part is all Brian.

I ended up revisiting this  a couple of years later with better equipment/software and better knowledge (and no time rush) - the link is above. I still come back and listen to this version every now and then just to laugh at how bad it is - I particularly love the ridiculous drum parts, terrible classical guitar tone, and almost cringy final guitar solo. We all have to start somewhere, right?

"Elements" by Lindsey Stirling cover

Guitarist,  Drummer and Semi-Pro Mix Engineer with room acoustics design experience. 

 Like an eclectic mix of music,  but enjoy musicians who excel at their craft and who are able to perform well live without modern day crutches--e.g., pitch correction,  etc.   

 

I am not a musician but music plays a very important role in my creative life! I am an artist/designer and music is my companion and my muse in the long hours I spend working in my studio! 
I am immensely impressed and grateful for all the talented and inspiring musicians whose work graces this Cloud, and I will always re-post sounds that I love (and will listen to again) - knowing that others will enjoy them!
I feel slightly embarrassed and quite humbled when I receive such graceful messages of thanks from artists whose work I have re-posted - after-all, I am the one who is so inspired by the discovery of your brilliant music!!!
So thank YOU!!!
Jools :)
P.S. If you want to see where the music takes me there is a link to my Portfolio site on Behance below!!! 
NEW!! - Thanks for all the great feed-back on my work! I shall be re-launching with a website (shop & archive) ‘KULT-JE’ in the not too distant future! Meanwhile, examples of past and current work are featured on my Instagram (@joolselphick)
Since my heart op in Jan2021, I have had to deal with taking quite a lot of meds which have interrupted my design work - that and moving to Germany in 2020 - and back in 2021 (due to Covid my business plans stalled!) - SO, slowly getting it together…. hang tight!😊

I have an archive of my work to date on Instagram - @joolselphick

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