Influences: Main influence is Grateful Dead, which I listen to almost every day.
This is my 15th (!) FAWM. I've also done 13 50/90s.
I'm pretty sure that since my first FAWM in '08, I've written 1,000 songs by now.
#1 | Welcome Home, My Friend |
16 Feb 2022 |
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#2 | My Baseball Glove @srcoops |
14 Feb 2022 |
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#3 | Welcome Home (Instrumental) |
8 Feb 2022 |
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#4 | Cold Cold Woman |
12 Feb 2022 |
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#5 | Wrote Me a Letter |
12 Feb 2022 |
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#6 | Autumn Flowers |
10 Feb 2022 |
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#7 | Pickled Onions |
15 Feb 2022 |
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#8 | So Pretty |
9 Feb 2022 |
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#9 | Haunted Banjo |
16 Feb 2022 |
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#10 | Haunted Banjo 2 |
11 Feb 2022 |
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#11 | Wooden Bridge |
11 Feb 2022 |
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#12 | Banjo Etude 1 - Tune In My Head |
4 Feb 2022 |
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#13 | We Can Be Friends |
11 Feb 2022 |
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#14 | Banjo Therapy |
12 Feb 2022 |
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#15 | Banjo Etude 2 (Duet with Myself) |
10 Feb 2022 |
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#16 | Fiona @cindyrella |
10 Feb 2022 |
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#17 | I Go to the Tavern |
13 Feb 2022 |
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#18 | Ban-jig |
15 Feb 2022 |
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#19 | Banjo Etude 3 (Two-String Rolling) |
7 Feb 2022 |
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#20 | My Banjo's Ripe for Pickin' |
9 Feb 2022 |
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#21 | Time to Take My Rest |
16 Feb 2022 |
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#22 | Sitting At the Window |
12 Feb 2022 |
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#23 | Banjo Etude 4 (Made the Dog Dance) |
8 Feb 2022 |
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#24 | My Recurring Dream Soundtrack |
11 Feb 2022 |
So glad you enjoyed my Sausage Snob song! I had fun writing it. :0)
Glad you enjoyed treating yourself to one too. Hope it was delish!
Thank you so much for your kind comment on „Signs from beyond“!
The topic of this song is so important to me and it fills my heart with joy that my intention comes through!
Hey Chip, thanks for the comments on my songs. :)
Little fun fact, I grew up on a dairy farm, out in the middle of the country farming areas. Not many kids around to play with, so I played with the cows.
PS. I just finished practicing an hour of playing Fireball Mail on my 5 string. One day I will feel confidant on that instrument.
Thank you Chip. I really love working with Nadia’s beautiful melodies!
Ha ha! Its impossible to keep up these days! And happy birthday when you catch up with us!
um, well, increpuit, etc means "I've burped - why have you not blessed me?" =D
Chip, thanks for your comments on I Did Not Mean to Write This Song. I do not play and sing simultaneously if I can avoid it. If I have time, I have been recording my uke three times via GarageBand-once in the middle, then pan left and pan right. This is my new technique my son suggested for a fuller sound. Then I do the vocals. I'm not much of a singer, so I can't get the best result if I try to sing and play. Also, if your playing is great, but you messed up the vocal, then you have to trash the whole thing. Separate tracks takes the pressure off.
Thanks for your kind words on my song A Series of Highly Unfortunate Events. I wrote it on the last day of FAWM-it's my version of the dog at my homework!
Thanks for checking out At Your Command, glad you liked it!
Oh, thank you.
Thanks. We composters gotta stick together!
Hmm. "Composter" is just "composer" with an added t.
Thanks for the suggestion on Beyond My Control to play that at ACMA in June. I must admit it is a front-runner. Also I am grateful to have more songs I want to play, than time to play them.
Thank you for your comments on Catch and Release! :)
Chip - Thanks so much for your thoughtful responses to my songs. Look forward to hearing more of your great banjo playing this FAWM and maybe at 50/90 and next year too. I love it that my family songs remind you of your own family. Maybe we could collaborate on a family song sometime....Oh and since you mentioned this is your 15th FAWM, and @carleybaer pointed out that 15 is the Crystal Anniversary, here's an anniversary present: That Cut-Rate Crystal Ball: https://fawm.org/songs/130728/ (I did the initial lyrics, and Carley did everything else....
Thanks a lot for your comment on "At your command". We are not finished yet but I feel like it's going to be epic.
Thanks so much for your nice comments on "Given Time." Yes, I had no idea what the lyrics should be so I was delighted with what he came up with. I'm glad you liked it!
Thanks so much for the encouraging comments on To Keep You Safe! I appreciate your giving me a "pass" on the borrowed music...it just fit so well I couldn't substitute anything that felt as good.
Thanks for the very kind comments, I am so glad you enjoyed the music
Thanks for the comment on "Point of No Return"! I don't listen to much music like that either, I don't even know if anyone makes music like that (though I bet someone does, I don't think I'm that innovative), I was just experimenting with taking the aesthetic of one genre and trying to apply it to another and, quite surprisingly, I was able to pull it off.
thanks for checking out "thinkabout", glad you enjoyed it! @edwardsmusic came up with a great instrumental, the chord progressions and bass just flowed so well, it was a lot of fun to sing on.
Thanks for the comment on "Florida Man"! I see @emplate already wrote a note below, but what he failed to mention regarding the Florida death metal scene is Cannibal Corpse (though they're originally from Buffalo, NY, but relocated to Florida in the early 90s). Anyway, glad you liked the song. Stay safe, Florida man!
Yes! Shoulder to shoulder most every time. ;) Yes, circa 2006 for Muse's Muse I think. That was a cool site.
Hi Chip, thanks for your kind words on my sunny song .-)
Cheers for the comment on "Florida Man", Florida man! Your home state's death metal scene is indeed legendary, probably the most important in the history of the genre. Death, Morbid Angel, Deicide and Obituary are all hailed as best DM bands of all time, and for a reason. Deicide's selft-titled debut, Morbid Angel's "Altars of Madness", Death's "Symbolic" (although very much in the territory of progressive metal already, as it's one of their later albums) and Obituary's "Cause of Death" all belong to my list of the personally most important albums.
Another great FAWM Chip! Congrats on 24 new songs!
Thank you so much for making it all the way through my Pogonos Cross EP! I don't expect others to share my peculiar exceptions, and I hardly dared hope that anyone would make it through 5 straight tracks of this stuff, but your kind words are tremendously appreciated!
Glad we were able to hook up this year. Hope we can do it again next year.
Cheers for your comments dude . Hope you’re well . I got lots listening catch ups to do but knowing how yiur a fellow meditator , you may enjoy this reflective one I just whipped off after meditation
https://fawm.org/songs/135501/
Well, my cello playing is rudimentary at best. I bought one when Jessica visited and she played it at the market the last Saturday of 2019. Thought I might like to learn but it got set aside except for when she visited again last May. I decided to try the beginners dots and that makes it a bit easier. I'm still working on it. I made the mistake LOL of answering a forum thread asking if anyone had cello and that turned into a collab. Fuzzy took my two failed takes from the first collab and two more minutes of me noodling and turned into the piece you listened too and two others.
Thank you Chip. I knew you would understand.
Thanks Chip!
I added you. thanks
Great Chip!
No, so go for it!
Thanks so much for your lovely comment on “I’ll Return for Thee”!
https://fawm.org/songs/133563/ Ireland is musicified now.
I have not skipped around. I have done them all in order! Otherwise I'm sure I would have missed an element or two!
You know, I heard about some people being randomly dropped from our watchlists... apparently you were from mine! I see you've had a typically good month!
Once we sat out in the new courtyard, I wrote the song and recorded it on the spot. The other people from our plane just stared at me,then got into it. Then we all enjoyed the new day. Thanks for the listen.
Thank you for the lovely comments on my songs :) I’m glad you enjoyed them!
Thanks for the lovely comments on “Left Ankle Blues” and “A LOng Way from Yesterday”!
Thanks for your comment on my song. I am just learning recording skills so am very slow. Maybe when I am speedier I will be able to add harmonies and percussion etc.. Love your work!
Thanks for your kind comments on Getting Old. It is hard to believe that I have been hanging around for 85 years.
Thank you kindly for your comment of my new one called Messy. It really made my day.
Glad you liked my "Witch" song. Sad to think that story was just a representative sample of the fate of hundreds of thousands of women who refused to fit the patriarchal mould.
Yep, my in laws are in South Florida for the winter and it’s hard to believe some of the temps they have had!!
Thanks for the comment on my "NSF" -- that "frailing" style you here is indeed drawn from Old Time (more Grandpa Jones or String Bean than what folks call "clawhammer" these days).
Chip! Thank you so much for your wonderful and that generous words on "One-way-street"!
Thank you for your comment on We Come in Harmony. Phil and I can help you get more sci-fi and fantasy in your life! I hope to perform that song in circle tomorrow at one of the many Zoom sessions we go to for filk, the fan-created music of fantasy and science fiction.
Thanks for the kind words on My Red Haired Girl. I hear this as an old timey song played on banjo claw hammer style with a dose of good fiddle playing thrown in.
As always, a great job on this. As I wrote the lyrics I recalled how many hours I spent as a boy playing pitch and catch with my friends.
Somehow, I had you in mind for Glove. Looking forward to the collab.
Hey Chip, hope all is well. Sure let’s stay in touch and see if we can come up with something!
Good to see ya matey. Much metta and amazing creativity to yourself
Hello Chip, good to see you and let the river of songs keep on flowing!
Hi Chip! Yeah I like almost every Led Zep album, but II was the one that made me want to start playing bass and join a band.
Hope you have a great FAWM!!
Cool! :) There is a RUSH documentary out there that's pretty awesome! I love watching Neil Peart's drum solos. Mesmerizing!! And kudos to your 15 years of FAWM!!!
Happy FAWM 2022, Chip!! Hope all is well! :)
great to see ya back here! Ha, funny you caught that 1977 GD reference- (a bit of wish-fulfillment writing- my first GD show was actually Fall 1979-not a particularly great show, but the ones I saw in '80 (glens falls civic center upstate ny) and '81 (rainbow theater london!) were really good. Anyway, so glad to see ya back here!
Looking forward to hearing your tunes again! See you around
Hey!!
I hope you have a great FAWM!!!
Hey Chip! Hope to hear some more tunes from you this FAWM.