bacon April 28th, 2008
Here is another track that I recorded a bunch of years back at Melville Park Studio. The tune is in honor of Grace Davis who was the wife of my great Uncle Stinson Davis, the schooner ship captain. You can find the music notation here. Also, I’ve added the tune to the virtual album Castaway.
I always loved this picture. It makes me wonder how many evenings she waited on the shore for her husband to return…or would he ever? It is hard to imagine the complete lack of communication that often accompanied life during the age of sail.
Planxty Grace Davis [1:14m]:
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bacon April 9th, 2008
The tool I was using to manage my email subscriptions at baconworks.com was fraught with hassle. It was painful to set up and was unreliable. In fact, it stopped sending email altogether in the last couple of months. So, out with the old…in with the new.
I am switching over to a service provided by FeedBlitz. They will essentially suck in my RSS feed and send new articles as emails to anyone on the email subscribe list. The best part is that you don’t need to know any of that. All you need to do is fill out the form below and … shazam … you get email updates from baconworks.com. Cool!!!
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bacon April 8th, 2008
So, I’m just trying out this cool service from flickr where you upload your photo’s on their site…and they automagically post it to your blog. Cool. Here is a picture of my banjo buddy Brian in the back and me on the ‘ol guitar. This photo was taken a few weeks back during our St. Pat’s gig.
bacon April 1st, 2008
My buddy, and fellow Plucian, George, A.K.A Mustachio, wrote a beautiful bouzouki tune a few months back called The Christmas Wish. About a week ago Mustachio sent me an mp3 that he recorded in his home, complete with trucks passing by outside and someone cleaning dishes in the kitchen. You gotta love home recordings.
I took his demo of the tune and added a bit of guitar and tried to remove the clinking glasses. I shouldn’t rib him too much because as I was recording the guitar track my interrupting furnace kicked on during the last few notes, forcing me to overdub a couple of chords. Ironically, it only ever ignites during the takes I want to keep. GRRRrrrrr. Anyhow, Mustachio will probably have my head when he finds out I posted this rough cut here. But, in spite of the passing garbage trucks, the dinner crowd in the kitchen and my background boiler, I enjoy the recording.
Nice work Mustachio.
Christmas Wish [2:33m]:
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