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Little Martha was written by Duane Allman from the Allman brothers.
I believe it was the only song he ever recorded.
His version has two guitars and you can hear it on the Eat A
Peach CD.
Coging's Glory was written by Adrian Legg. He is my favorite
acoustic guitarist. His version is better. Keep practicing.
Crash Into Me was written by Dave Matthews. Gets lots of air
play (for years now). Sounds like a sweet little love song
but its about a teenager's sexual fantasies over a married female
neighbor. I guess we can all relate. It also sounds really cool
on an acoustic guitar....
Wish You Were Here was written by Pink Floyd and released in
1975. I remember it like it was yesterday. On the Album, Wish You
Were Here, is prefaced by 'Have A Cigar" and followed by
'Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part 6'. 'Wish You Were Here' sounds best when
listened too in the context of these two songs, so I copied
(stole) the last 20 seconds of 'Have A Cigar' and about a minute of Crazy
Diamond,
and pasted them on the front and end of my version of the song....Note
that the 1st minute of the song only plays in the right channel and is
suppose to sound (kinda) like an old AM radio. Also note that
I'm playing both guitars, recorded separately (duh). Feedback is welcome!!!
Harvest Moon was written by Neil Young. Many years ago, I would
play an entire set that was just Neil Young songs (my idol). Been branching
out more in recent years. In any case, I play the harmonica
on this tune, and I'm really proud because I got it on the first take. Never
got anything
on the first take.....For the "Remix Live Version",
wanted to see how it would sound with a snare drum and a bass, maybe some
backup
singers, and a live audience....so mixed in a recording of Neil
from his Unplugged Live CD. We don't always sing the words the same way,
so
Neil is muted out in a couple of places. Thought it sounded
cool, so I will try to create a rhythm section with midi sometime soon.
Time of Your Life was written by Green Day and appears on the
Nimrod CD. If you know who Green Day is, then you probably think of them
as a Pop-Punk band. This particular song however, sounds (to
me) completely different than their other 200 songs. It gets a ton of air
play and
shows up as the background to video shorts and stuff like that,
so you have probably heard it a 100 times. Its a song about "life",
which I
suppose is something everybody can relate too. In any case,
the version that you normally hear, does not include the first 10 seconds
from the
recorded version, but I include those 10 seconds in my version
as an essential part of the song. As usual, I also changed the arrangement
some to accommodate the fact that its just me and my guitar....green
day has what sounds like an entire string section (might be midi).
Amie was written by Pure Prairie League in 1972. It has probably
the most famous acoustic guitar solo ever recorded. The prelude to
Amie is "Falling In And Out of Love" and I include
a version with the prelude (that makes it a 6+ minute song so you never
hear the prelude on the radio, and thats probably why it was
recorded as two songs). In any case, its also one of those two guitar,
two singer songs that I've been playing for years but only one
guitar and one voice at a time, so I'm tickled. Also, I've painted the stereo
plane a lot on this one, so use head phones to get the full
affect. Let me know what you think.
Jack and Diane is a little diddy that was written by John Cougar
Mellencamp in 1982. Wish I had John's singing voice. Discovered
sequencing for this recording to do drums, hand clapping, tamborine
and a little bass in the background. Listen closly and you can hear
all of them in the beginning of the song. There is a short drum
solo also, where I use my guitar as a drum. They say life goes on long after
the thrill of living is gone.
The Waiting was written by Tom Petty (and the Heartbreakers)
in the early 80's. I had never heard an acoustic version of this song
but I think it sounds better on an acoustic guitar. There is
a guitar solo in the original but I couldn't make it sound right in my
version so I left it out. Tom has written several popular songs
about the perils of relationships. Here he is singing about "waiting"
for the right person to come along....which btw, for some people,
never happens.
Heart of Gold was written by Neil Young and appeared first on
the Harvest album in February 1972. It was the best selling
album of that year. I'm guessing that anybody that has every
played guitar, has played this song at some point. It was the
second song I ever learned to play on the guitar, but I learned
it because I wanted to play the harmonica part. Its still my
favorite harmonica song.
Blackbird was written by two guys named John and Paul sometime
in the 60s. I used to play it in the 70s. Then I forgot about it
until I was watching Sleepless in Seattle with my mom one night,
and someone in the movie mentioned the song Blackbird.
I thought they were talking about this song, and I turned to
mom and said, I can sing Blackbird. Took me a few minutes to
remember the words, but when I sang it, Mom said that wasn't
the song they were talking about in the movie....apparently there is
an even older song with the same name...In any case, when I
got home, I found the sheet music for it, and learned to play it again,
so here it is......and there you go.....
Nobody Home is by Pink Floyd and is on The Wall. Actually, I've
recorded the last minute of "Is There Anybody Out There" as
a prelude to Nobody Home....and even though Roger plays Nobody
Home on a piano, I've played it on a guitar. The Wall is a story
that was made into an excellent movie. I've extracted a small
part of that story here. The recording starts with the unmistakable
"click" of a TV being turned on (when I was young,
there was a knob on the TV that you had to pull to turn it on, and this
is the exact
sound that it made). Voices from the TV are heard first, then
"Is There Anybody Out There", then more TV, then Nobody Home,
then more TV and it fades out....enjoy....
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