Name: Jumalan Karitsa -Lännen Jukka Cover by Tomas Helander
Duration: 2 min 18 s
Description: Heard Jukka play this old Salvation Army song a couple weeks ago at Flow Festival Helsinki. Was impressed. Original tune can be found on Karjalainen's album Paratiisin Pojat.

Juomaripoika

Heard Jukka play this old Salvation Army song a couple weeks ago at Flow Festival Helsinki. Was impressed. Original tune can be found on Karjalainen's album Paratiisin Pojat.

Jumalan Karitsa -Lännen Jukka Cover

Gaol

I got what I wanted by making moonshine
They locked me away for a very long time
They gave me a free room and a few meals a day
Kids today don't know the perks of jail

	Lock me up, give me fresh air once a day
	sell my stuff can't use my freedom anyway
	Lock me up, give me fresh air once a day

	Lock me up..
	You got it sensei!

I'ma doing just fine here, but I don't wanna brag
Although getting hammered is kind of a drag
Everyone's so nice, got no reason to disobey
Still need to get me some liquor bubbling away

Mattress ain't too bad, just don't mind the stains
Got time on my hands to catch up on old aims
They search my room daily, say I’m outta control
Would it be nasty to make the hooch in the toilet bowl

	Lock me up, give me fresh air once a day
	sell my stuff can't use my freedom anyway
	Lock me up, give me fresh air once a day

	Lock me up..
	You got it sensei!

Gaol

Jack Spliffilä

Dip the spliff in to the Jack
and pass it on over to me
If you want me to give it back
start rolling a new one right away

	all this fog don't mean a thing
	and the dog he just likes to swing
	roll a new one and let the old one dry
	while the new one is on it's way

		I hope I don't come tumbling down

Jack Spliffilä

The dialogue immediately preceding this recording went something like
"Is that a little Cuckoo?"
"I'm in that kind of tuning..."
Still mining the late-night Friday recordings of the TGB weekend (and still with plenty to go), fun different combinations of instruments and arrangement ideas and sketches. I was reminded of this one today when compiling our other versions of this tune and had to dig it out. 
Hanks leads it on banjo (I believe Ol' Yohnson? Maybe he can confirm)and vocals with Dan on washboard and Jeff on rhythm sticks, and Dan singing along way too loudly. 
It runs in my mind wee sketched out a uke-led version of this tune too but I haven't been able to locate it yet. 

Recorded live in Dan's basement late on the night of 8-4-17 with some sort of wireless two-sided microphone recorder combination doohickey that was wicked cool. Hank and Jeff both have great toys.

Pic: Mixmaster Hank working the new 18-track

The Cuckoo (TGB, Dan's basement, 8-4-17)

Little is known about Tilbury, Greenwood & Burns, recorded on one of Mr. Lomax's last field recording trips through the wilds of Wayne, Pennsylvania. The previously released version of this (on FW19087)was reproduced from a seventh-generation wire recording made the original reel-to-reel played through a primitive loudspeaker, and the original tapes long rumored lost.
Recently however the Lomax Archives turned up that original tape recording. This digital-only release highlights Tilbury's powerful performance on vocal and what appears to be some sort of ukulele. What constitutes Mr. Burns's percussion ensemble remains lost to the mists of time, but we can hear evidence of great casual percussionists of the past like Washboard Sam and Theopolis Stokes. No one is quite sure what Greenwood is doing, but in the edited portions he appears to be ordering lunch.

Illinois Blues (21st c. remaster from the original reel to reel)

Snoqualmie Falls are Jeff Stonehouse and Alicia Merz
Available to download from https://snoqualmiefalls.bandcamp.com/
Jeff is based in Sussex UK
Alicia is from the Waikato lowlands surrounding Hamilton, New Zealand

Jeff has released solo material under the name ‘Listening Mirror’ on various labels, in different parts of the world including Hibernate (UK), Cooper Cult (NZ), Twiceremoved (AUS) and Dronarivm (RUS), as well as a few self released albums.

Alicia records solo material under the name ‘birds of passage’ and has released 3 albums on the Denovali label in Germany. She has also worked with The Dale Cooper Quartet and Aiden Baker.

Snoqualmie Falls was formed two years ago when Jeff and Alicia discovered each other’s music by chance, and contacted each other to see if a collaboration was possible.

The music is a combination of Jeff’s treated guitar drones and field recordings and Alicia’s spectral and beautiful. whispered vocals.

We hope you enjoy our music, and if it is of any interest to you, please contact us.

jffstnhs@gmail.com

withouttheworld@gmail.com

Snoqualmie Falls - Red Fire Dark ( ft. birds of passage )

The new album by Andrew Howie, released August 2018.

micronation 

/ˈmaɪkrəuˌneɪʃən/ 

noun 
1. an entity, typically existing only on the internet or within the private property of its members, that lays claim to sovereign status as an independent nation, but which is unrecognized by real nations 

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This mini-album is a collection of 8 songs (written between 2014 and 2018) about family, domesticity, memory, and the indifference of nature. 

The only instrument used on this album (other than my voice) was the Alesis Micron: www.vintagesynth.com/misc/micron.php 

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credits
released August 2018 

Written, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered at home by Andrew Howie. 

'Fragile' contains a sample of 'Tree Song' by Calamateur. 

Cover photo & design by Andrew Howie. 

Released on Autoclave Records. CLAVE022.

Micronations

Predators

This is unquestionably one of the finest modern folk songs, and indeed one of the finest songs of the latter half of the twentieth century. I have no doubt this song will be sung until no one knows who wrote it or what the titular Vincent refers to. Recorded for my friend Mike, who's always loved the 'red hair and black leather' line, and whose lovely wife rode a motorcycle when he met her lo this quarter century past, and pulled him up behind.

I can't play like Richard Thompson, or sing like Del McCoury, or harmonize like the ladies in Red Molly, so wound up attacking this as a sing-along jam, late night in the campground after a music festival, back when I used to attend such things; it was fun since it's been a long time since I tackled a song this way. Plus it gave me a chance to keep working on my mixing skills and apply things I don't really understand like Compression. It gets a little shaky at points, especially in the vocals, which I think is okay. It's really about the song, not the presentation. 

Guitar, ukulele, mandolin, banjo, washtub bass, dulcimer, washboard, pennywhistle, cigar box slide guitar, ragged singing

Image: basswood leafroller (ID thanks to the wonderful LepSnap app), Sanbornton NH, late July 2018

1952 Vincent Black Lightning

Origins of this tune are muddy. I learned it primarily from the mighty Odetta, and also the Weavers in my folks’ collection, with a more recent nod to Alvin Youngblood Hart’s great version from the Otis Taylor & co. album ‘Recapturing the Banjo.’
It seems like other versions all flow back to Pete Seeger’s bringing the song to the Weavers in the early ‘50s. The lyrics and the idea of a missing Willie are fairly common, so it’s been tied to other tunes by academics, but it seems that Pete himself was unsure of where he’d gotten the song or where it came from. 
This has been kicking around the G&B stable for a year, and finally brought back to life. In a twist, I (Greenwood) played the bass guitar and drum kit and tried mixing/editing. So it’s a little (or more than a little) sloppier than usual in those aspects but hopefully that’s okay since it’s supposed to sound like slacker early ‘90s roots rock. 

Guitars, cigar box guitar, ukulele, vocals, bass guitar, drums.

As an aside, this is the first time I’ve played a bass guitar in I think 27 years. Last time was in Osaka for an international music students’ festival. I signed up to play some folky stuff but then got asked to fill in on bass and vocals with a couple guys who liked heavy stuff so I sang For Whom The Bell Tolls. It was an awful rendition, but fun. I believe I have the sole surviving VHS tape of the event.
Anyhow, I don’t have a bass guitar, so took the 4 track to the Music & Arts shop where my daughter takes trombone lessons, borrowed a guitar, and did my best to put a part together in that half hour. Pretty fun, even if it’s not any good. 

Versions:
The Weavers (early 1950s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xKp6qXB1Bc
Odetta (1956): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWG-yUOVdYk
Pete Seeger solo (late ‘50s/early ‘60s):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pREIf515I_4
Alvin Youngblood Hart (2008): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mXa4meChRo (he also does a good version of this with South Memphis String Band, and his SMSB bandmate Mr. Dickinson does an electric version of it with the North Mississipp All Stars).

Deep Blue Sea

banjo plucker from finland
finnish american old-time
drop thumbs not bombs

Jumalan Karitsa -Lännen Jukka Cover

Tomas Helander

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