Whiskey in the Jar & Pickin' and Grinnin'

I've been working on some of the old blog pages on which the audio doesn't work no more, and this one was one of the most popular. So I've added newer versions of the audio and you can find the restored original post with Patrick Costello's workshop for Whiskey in the Jar Here and the tab Here.




Pickin and Grinnin is a great practice tune for working on drop thumbing and here is the tab.

Snores

Tonight I've had to share a hotel room and bed with my brother. Usually he makes lovely sounds on the guitar, but here he is on the nose flute! It's one o clock and I don't think I'll ever get to sleep!!!!

Clayton Walter - Brushy Mountain Run

Clayton writes;

Merry Xmas to you and yours!
Here's a short clip of my tune "Brushy Mountain Run". I wrote this when I was staying with family in Kentucky and there was a guy who broke out of Brushy Mountain state prison and the cops were on the chase. He got grassed by his wife and got chucked back in. That was back before they shut the place down; I presume he was moved elsewhere. In any case, I apologise for the shortness of the track, but I'm not much of a recorder; I just make short run-throughs to document my playing.
Thanks again, and good holidays! Clayton

Killer Cortez

Carl's new Fender Amp is adding loads to his playing. this effect and the percusive way he plays sounds like he has someone on the high hat and cymbals playing backing.

Hot Like That - Kenny Vaughan

Carl just sent me a link to 'Hot Like That' by Kenn Vaughan.

Apple Scrumptious

This probably the best version of this song that we've done and Carl's mandolin playing makes it

Merry Xmas

Happy When it Rains

All this old audio made me want to work on something new.

We Wish You a Merry Xmas!

Another bit of recovered audio. This one got me 'removed' from the Daily Frail! I don't know if Patrick got worried about copyright or something but first he posted it and then it was gone! He usually has a well developed sense of humour! hey ho!

Blasts from the Past - Stan Gee

This has been one of my favourite bits of audio from the last few years.
At the end of a music lesson I asked master Stan Gee to play something for the blog. He was playing his old Gibson banjo which has fantastic bass tones.

First Post

After realising that I've just posted my 500th blog entry it made me yearn for the old days and all the audio that doesn't work anymore on the blog. Not for its intrinsic artistic value but for my own record of how far I've come in fours years. I tracked back until I could find some working audio and was pleased with some of the stuff such a Napoleon Crossing the Rhine, to the extent that I thought 'why aren't I playing this anymore?'. So I am now!

Here are two of the earliest things I've been able to recover. A version of 'Goin Down That Road Feeling Bad',  and something I don't recognise. GDTRFB was the first tune in which I thought OK this frailing thing could work! I think I'm going to spend some time in January trying to recover a few more, but don't worry I won't share them all!

500th Post!

Wow hadn't even realised I'd got to this milestone, and rather appropriately it's Cripple Creek! Maybe it feel like 500 versions of Cripple Creek....

Coal Creek March