More of me playing stuff I shouldn't.
Everything is me except for the crazy cockney preacher.

Chocolate Jesus

As usual, if you can hear it, I'm playing it or singing it.
The lyrics are, as is typical for Chris Whitley, ambiguous and open to interpretation.
For me, it is a song about ending and death, and the hope of an afterlife - meeting your loved ones at The Hotel Vast Horizon.

Hotel Vast Horizon

Here's a track I performed live as a singer for many years as part of a blues duo.  But now, as usual, it's me playing everything.
Not sure who the original is, I first heard it done live solo acoustic by John Hammond Jr, but it is also attributed to many others like Little Walter.  Seems like good company to be in.
Anyhoo, here's my rendition of it... leave a comment if you like it :) 


Move On Down The Line

It's been a long time.  I am rusty but determined. :)
As usual, everything you hear is me.

Hard Times

After a four hour rehearsal with my band (and not having rehearsed for a couple of months) my voice was ragged.  Hitting the single malts didn't do anything for it either.  But I've got a little recording setup that I'm learning and I wanted to do something.
So later that night, drunk, my voice too deep and raspy to actually sing, obviously I decided to do a jazzy/bluesy/film-noir  version of one of the greatest hip-hop/rap tracks of all time.
Other than the base drum sample, everything is played by me (including  the drum fills, which is why they sound so laboured and sometimes out of time - hey blame the whisky).

The Message

The levels are all over the place in the first mix so I've remixed it - mainly to raise the vocals a little - we live and learn.  So please let me know if this mix is better or worse than the first, which can be found here...
http://soundcloud.com/unclebubba/picture-in-a-frame
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"It's a Tom Waits song, it's hopelessly romantic and it has strings all over it.
I still love it.
The original was done with a clanky piano, but I'm experimenting with my recording setup so...
Anyway, please feel free to leave comments and/or critique

Picture in a Frame - Remix

Cleared up the mix a bit.
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Yeah, I should probably steer clear of songs like this, but I was a really good exercise in using   virtual instruments in my DAW.  
Also it's a song that I love anyway, even if I have killed it :)

Valentines Heart Remixed

I recently bought a banjo. I've never actually played a banjo before as I play guitars etc upside down and one of the tuning pegs on a normal banjo is halfway down the neck and gets in the way.   But this was a Tenor banjo, which only has four strings and all the pegs in the right place, and I loved the sound of it.  
Not letting my utter lack of knowledge or experience get in the way I tuned it similar to my guitar and had at it.
This is the first result of that.
It sounded to me like something from a gospel meeting or something, so I put a load of claps on it. I then wanted people shouting "yeah!" and stuff - hence the faux crowd.  :)
Anyway, it's a bit of fun.  
As usual please turn it up loud as I STILL haven't figured out how to make Reaper output at a decent volume.
Also, feedback is king, so please let me know what you think in the comments :)

Saddle Up My Pony

More banjo - without the pretend crowd this time.
I'm quite pleased with the way that this one turned out.

Update: July 2015 - slight remix, just to correct some levels really.

Phone Call From Leavenworth

An original song, written on the fly, that evolved into something completely different to my original intention.
Anyway, please leave me some feedback it you listen - good or bad it all counts.
Acoustic Guitar, Banjo, Harmonica, Bass and Vocals by me
Drums, vinyl and misc noises from samples.



Mean Girl

Moaning and Wailing for the sake of it,
Blues and stuff
Vocals, Harmonica, Guitar, Bass, Banjo... if you can hear it, I'm playing it.

UncleBubba

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