My wife likes the guitar solo better than adding mandolin, so here it is:)

Beautiful Violet Waltz, solo.

A song about Susan's life. She plays lap dulcimer, me on guitar.

Years circle love

I found this ratchet handle does a decent job on slide so used it for this tune.
Bass from my Kona dreadnought and 1928 Gibson A2 mandolin, 
slide on 1945 Martin 0-18, with first string missing, small E, Too lazy to put new one on so tried slide with only 5 strings, interesting doing it that way.

The Ratchet handle blues

Learned just after I got out of the Air Force in 1966, went to Denver.

In open fret, standard tuning,  Key, Am
Chords, Am, G, F, A  RPT.
               D, Dm, C, Bf, C, D
               Am, G, F, A

Strings high on my Kona so played here capo on second fret, so that key, Bm
         

Virginia Beach blues

guitar solo, Washburn R305 parlor guitar. 
Study in use of dynamics.

Introspective dawn

I wrote this tune and left space for David to play melody and it seems to sound great!

The Muddy March , collab with David Dunham

Happy times coming , solo guitar, Washburn R305 parlor guitar.
Open D variation, D A D A D F#

Better days rag

Wouldn't it be nice to be floating on the Loch.
Washburn R305 guitar, tuning C G C G C E  Open C I love this tuning.
Mandolin is my 1928 Gibson A2.

Visions of the Loch

Couples in love.  Washburn R305 Guitar, Gibson A2 mandolin.

The Lazy Waltz

The colors of Autumn are plain beautiful

Washburn R305 parlor guitar and 1928 Gibson A2 Mandolin. 

Jaunt through colors of Autumn

Honoring my time at Goddard SFC on Apollo, Apollo Tracking and timing.

Two mandolin tracks, 1928 Gibson A2 mandolin, 2 Guitar tracks, Washburn R305 parlor guitar and
a single C dulcimer track.

The Apollo Waltz

It's harvest time and we will enjoy all the bounty of Earth.

1928 Gibson A2 mandolin, Washburn R305 parlor guitar, 1945 Martin 0-18 open C, and C dulcimer.

Harvest Dance by Philleann

Midnight on the Marsh

1945 Martin 0-18 and 1983 Keith Young dulcimer.

The dulcimer waltz

A nod to the great Tom Paxton, one of his best songs among many. 

McSpadden  dulcimer, 1928 Gibson mandolin, 2005 Mid Mo Mandolin, Washburn R305 parlor guitar open G tuning

Last thing on my mind. written by the great Tom Paxton.

Darcy Farrow was a sad song so I made it more like a dirge.
2 dulcimer tracks, 1 mandolin, 1 guitar. 

We have a connection to Steve, we produced a concert of him back in Venice beach.  He was well received.

Steve Gillette, Darcy Farrow

Dedicated to my granddaughter Anna. Her birthday is 6 September, mine is one day later. 

2 mandolins, 1 dulcimer, 1 guitar.

Anna's Waltz

Wonder if those coattails get in the way?

Washburn  guitar, Gibson mandolin, Roselle dulcimer

The coattail waltz

A protest song from the 60's. Gil Turner was MC at Gerties Folk City, recorded Dylan in his apartment and a lot more. 
Totally different for me, that is me singing:)

Gil Turner  Carry it on.

Dang spider getting into everything, first whiskey now this corn.

2005 Washburn R305 parlor guitar, 1928 Gibson A2 mandolin. 

Wife Susan did the artwork

Spider on the corn cob

uphill blues

Riding that camel can be risky.

2005 Washburn R305 parlor guitar, 1928 Gibson A2 mandolin, 2 tracks.

Ride that camel

November Migration

1928 Gibson mandolin, two tracks, 1945 Martin 0-18 backup. 

Reel 'em in Reel

Happy times for sure    1945 Martin 0-18, 1928 Gibson A2 mandolin

happy time

My 1945 Martin 0-18 had tuning peg problems and found the little brass gear teeth were bent, not allowing some strings to tune, so used a dremel thin metal cutting tip to make very minor cuts to the tuning peg gears, brass, and straightened the teeth and then the pegs all tuned without needed a pair of pliers:) so new strings and was totally surprised at how GREAT it sounds and found a great chord, in the open C tuning I love. so wrote a tune with that chord in mind and I use Studio one DAW, no EQ, only some compressor and reverb and nothing else, so the sound is a lot like what I hear when it is in my hands playing.

Slow dance

Navaho people say a light rain is female rain, heavy rain, Male rain.

Laura Tohe wrote a poem with that name





Laura Tohe
Female Rain

           Dancing from the south

                 cloudy cool and gray

                      pregnant with rainchild

 

At dawn she gives birth to a gentle mist

flowers bow with wet sustenance

                   luminescence all around

1945 Martin 0-18, open C, capo on 5th fret, key of F.
Same guitar for backup track.

female rain

Those horses can run!  1945 Martin 0-18, 2 tracks.

Horse race is on

Yes folks, for my moderate to severe IQ reduction plan I take Tylenol

1945 Martin 0-18 on Boggie beat,  slide on Kona dreadnaught  Both open C

Moderate to severe blues

Simple times hopefully coming.
 1975 Roselle Dulcimer, 1928 Gibson A2 Mandolin, 1945 Martin 0-18

Redid one I called Simple Times ahead because that track had terrible distortion.

Don Jennings

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