A list of tracks that I have listened to rather more than once... I will update this as I find new favourites!

Amazing guitar loving lounge lizard photo by Aditya Permana.

A Mild Temporary Addiction - Tracks I can't stop playing...

Jack J Hutchinson's cover of the BB King song If You Let Me Love You.

The Jack J Hutchinson Band are...
Jack J Hutchinson: Vocals and Guitar
Jim Brazendale: Drums
Rick Baxendale: Bass
Tom Brundage: Harmonica

If You Let Me Love You

James Cotton - Wrapped Around My Heart

Get the album

Scar Tissue (part two) 2014

Cover of one of the best rock songs ever!!  Hope you enjoy this as much as we enjoyed creating it!!

Turn The Page!!   Roger B-Train & TonyBluestone

Fred Roberts' Family interpretation, recorded by Dave Saunders at Little Monkey Recording Studios, November 2013

St James Infirmary

04 Highlands

https://www.facebook.com/guydarbymusicien

Transcendancy

Beautiful Scars - feat. RosesAreBlue

Collab with the musical magician that is Joe Bongiovanni by way of a Tribute to Alvin Lee.

Bluest Blues - Collaboration with Joseph Bongiovanni (Alvin Lee - COVER)

I got a worried mind
Keepin' me from sleep tonight

I need some cool, cool water
And any peace I can find

Now, I'm not usually a sad man
Not one to shuffle my feet

But tonight my heart is heavy
For no good reason that I can see

Gonna go down to the shoreline
And watch the sunrise
Give my troubles to the morning tide
Let'em drift away and out of sight

Some people like to pray
Some people don't ask for anything at all

Some people are living just to get high
Some folks I know are just waiting to die

And everyone I know has got plans for me
Without really knowing what I really need

Professing to know what a man should be
When I all I need to do is breathe....just breathe 


Sunrise

A personal song I made with Refracted Memories nearly two years ago. Very pleased to give it a new home on my cloud.

Music & Production : Mike Wadlow
https://soundcloud.com/michaelw-2

Guitars : Jack Morefield
https://soundcloud.com/jackwm

Vocals, Lyrics & Photo by me.

"Love Child"
My eyes are your eyes, we see the same
My soul is your soul, I pass the flame
My heart is your heart, beating in time
My blood is your blood, flows down the line

Your pain is my pain, we share the hurt
Your joy is my joy, laughing in the dirt
Your fear is my fear, I’ll be your guard
Your strength is my strength, no challenge is too hard

This life is your life, it’s just the start
This path is your path, one day we must part
These dreams are your dreams, all yours to pursue
These words are yours to keep, take all my love with you

Love Child - Refracted Memories & Nathan Jon Tillett

I love Peter Green's style of playing, and when I found this beautiful backing track on Youtube (link below), I created this as a 'tribute' - though I don't normally record myself over random backing tracks I like how this sounded. I certainly don't claim to be able to play like him: his is the only tone that  BB King said gave him the shivers!

The track is  based on a classic blues song but I ended up using it to experiment with some new effect mixes from my Zoom G3. It is a bit long, but I love it(!) even with a bit of string noise and couple of flat bends etc. BTW anyone else with a G3 who wants the patches can download the basic one here, with a YouTube videolink showing the variations:

http://guitarpatches.com/patches.php?mode=show&unit=G3&ID=8690

I spent much of the last month repairing/servicing/setting up my lovely guitar after I discovered the frets were lifting, so after three years of just polishing it and changing strings I had to get the glue and screwdriver out... 

Much swearing, mess and after a lot of patient scraping of glue off my fretboard(!) I am delighted and reckon she sounds better than ever.

If anyone wants the backing track it was uploaded by a very helpful and talented chap on YouTube who also has some great videos/lessons on Peter Green's classics: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE5FwPnbGSA

BTW The pic was taken not too far from my home in Phuket in the beautiful 'blue' Phangna Bay during a marketing shoot for the wooden charter yacht moored in the background Sadly she sank in 2012 only five years after we built her, taking my business down with her: anyone intrigued enough can still see a marketing video of her created shortly after launch - on YouTube - https://youtu.be/vJI6sTIEqLA). 

My friend Cameron Hansen is a brilliant pro photographer who took this shot, and if you like beautiful landscape 'fine art' photography or fancy joining him on one of his tutored photo-tours of Myanmar then check him out too: 

http://cameronhansen.net/

Greeny Blues

03. Lie To Me

Taken from: The Lemon Tree EP, 2016.

Featuring: Max Jenks-Gilbert (Vocals, Guitars) / Alexander Melton (Drums, Organ, Bass) / Gwyneth Navey (Backing Vocals)

Produced by: Alexander Melton, USA. 
©2016

The Lemon Tree EP

3. Lie To Me

i just want to make love to you.mp3

Just One Question

Find out more information about the Bare Knuckle Blues Band here http://bareknucklebluesband.co.uk/

Need Your Love So Bad

I love the blues and became determined to learn to play when I found my beautiful Eastman archtop guitar up for sale, second hand for a bargain price, in Jan 2012. As soon as I touched it I fell in love.

I first tried playing guitar several decades ago: with unrealistic teenaged enthusiasm I fully expected to sound like Hendrix within a month or two while practising just thirty minutes a week. I gave up when I still struggled to tune my guitar and the cowboy chords I'd learnt sounded really rough when I literally banged on them. Girls were much more interesting.

In my late thirties I had a mid-life crisis(!), so I  bought a US Strat and a Gibson LP Pro, determined to learn to be an ageing 'bedroom rock star'. I was working long and hard hours so only practised on odd weekends, always wondering why following tab and listening to CD lessons was not working. I decided I was tone deaf and incompetent, so yet again, I gave up, still unable to master bar chords, convinced I would never be able to play.

As an early retiree, I decided to give it a final attempt when I found my black beauty: the first few years were a journey of discovery, discipline and sore fingers. I practised most days (except when arthritis in my joints and a trapped nerve in my shoulder 'froze' my fretting pinkie and sent my thumb totally numb). Back then, I trawled YouTube and bought a DVD course of lessons, and plugged away. It was worth it as I really enjoyed the fairly limited range of things I could play.

When I first arrived on Soundcloud, I was not expecting to find such a talented and helpful community. I just wanted to upload a jam track for my friends to hear, then I found the amazing wealth of creativity here. 

Sadly, my frozen shoulder, trapped nerve and related problems have pretty much stopped my guitar ambitions since 2016.

However, I still have a blast exploring all the fabulous originals and covers so many relatively unknown, but hugely talented, musicians have conjured up for the SC community. In my first five weeks on here I downloaded c100 tracks and 'liked' hundreds more, and since then I have created many playlists that I regularly listen to depending on my mood...

Simon Cowell and his ilk (overpaid gatekeepers/brand creators/ubercapitalists) have, until now, throttled mass talent for the sake of creating a relative handful of extremely wealthy 'cash cow' celebs.

Who needs these supposedly 'professional talent spotters' and their artificially enhanced 'celebrities'? The internet rocks!

NB If you too suffer from joint pain, RSI or trapped nerves I highly recommend this free DIY pain relief site: it is not just for guitar related injuries but pain anywhere in the body pretty much, and the techniques used really do work - although for me, they provide just temporary relief. Good luck!

A Mild Temporary Addiction - Tracks I can't stop playing...

Will Patching