Merry X-Mas from the Woodpile!

"Time for Christmas" b/w "Old Fashioned Christmas"

Hey folks-- Merry/ Happy to you and all of yers!

I'd hoped to get electric versions done with Roady Roadkill, but only finished writing the darned things on Saturday, so they got the "Woodpile" treatment Sunday night after the joyless Patriotic drubbing of the Ravens.  What's a fella to do but wrap it as-is and sneak it under your tree?

Irregahdless, these won't change your life, but it's fun to put together a seasonal tune or two every year.  One's a soft-hearted weeper and the other's a footstomping boozer.  I'll leave it to you to figure out which is which.

Safe travels if you're traveling.  Either way, enjoy some downtime.

jk


RKBS SoundCloud page:                https://soundcloud.com/johnk-rkbs

Or cut and paste into your browser:
"Time for Christmas":              https://app.box.com/s/hogqu1t1l5ej231855vf
"Old Fashioned Christmas:     https://app.box.com/s/i8yvq5a9y6wva5maw0jy

Or stream here: 

Woodpile 3: "Don't Change Your Snows" b/w "Down the Line"

Heya cats--  Happy pre-Christmas from the snow-covered but rapidly thawing northeast!  What we pulled from the Woodpile for this post is a couple new versions of road songs originally part of the "Rock n' Roll Town" batch that I wrote back in '03-04 in the titular (though absolutely non-rocking) town of East Douglas, MA.  As you probably recall, that's where the Rambling Roadshow temporarily decamped for a 2-year hiatus to kick off the Tufts Years.  Down there off the Blackstone River Valley corridor, on the banks of the mighty Mumford, it was time well-spent, but loaded with highway miles and pining for the Midcoast ME metropolitan area. Though a dull slog at times, it certainly made for good songwriting material. 

jk

Don't Change Your Snows:     https://app.box.com/s/il10p3eah8ehq0j96qr5

Down the Line:                       https://app.box.com/s/k0d56a7y9cmiinlzkaui

Box may have conspired to make everything from this Woodpile appear in alphabetical order in one player window below, which would be OK by me. Or it might take two of their newly formatted, too-big windows. Dunno-- Still figuring things out:

Woodpile 3: "Coffee and Wine" b/w "Jenny Everyday"

Hey cats-

WAY, WAY, WAY too long since the last post!  My very big bad!  And it's not even a case of not having enough to post.  Au contraire, mon freres, there's been too much music stuff on the plate, and a fair amount of non-music stuff, and a general need to find some hours, prioritize, refresh my memory as to what's what, tidy up the general area(s), recall how to play the danged instruments, lubricate myself with some coffee or a beer (or both), and keep all the beasts moderately quiet for a short interval.

Anyway, let's just bust the logjam open with a couple fresh cuts off the ol' Woodpile.  Both songs are fairly vintage, but they both are tunes that I find myself playing now and again, and that's usually a sign that they've got something to them.  Both are very hot off the presses and I'm sure could've benefited from some more mixing and mastering and all that, but to heck with it!  Have at 'em!

I see, by the way, that my tricksy friends over at Box.com have altered their embedding a bit.  We'll see how this goes this time and as I add posts to this "album".  It's worked OK for me so far, but lemme know if there's any problem on the receiving end.  Both tunes should open up in the same player window, and there seem to be the usual download options.  Click away!

Yers, fondly as EVAH!

jk

Coffee and Wine:     https://app.box.com/s/2u1kv9on539wlsstmfut



Jenny Everyday: https://app.box.com/s/8zd580je1npxn6vhsthv