Hey all! Hot on the heels of another super hush-hush (aside from the volume, that is) pre-Homecoming Buttsteak & the Haggises 5 convocation down in Charm City, here's another couple acoustical numbers to soothe aching ears and warm wintry hearts.
"Oh! The Southlands!", written a few years back, is a tribute not only to the Southlands, but also to the Northlands. Tricksy, how I did that, huh? I just felt that, maybe on account of the often anemic musical culture we run, the northern parts don't receive the musical love as the southern ones. And when there is a regional hit, you might get something like Dick Curless' "Tombstone Every Mile", singing about ice and snow. So it's been a small goal of mine to make my periodic contribution to resolving the north-south imbalance, losing battle though it shall ever be. The intro to this one is a rip-off of vintage music-hall Kinks, far as I'm concerned, and the rest is a straight-up country rocker material.
"I Was Just Thinking...." is one of the first songs I'd written, way back in '95 or so. From the sound of the original, I still had quite a bit of Hawaii-via-Austin, TX's Poi Dog Pondering sunny folk-pop in my system, and was more immediately lifting from Uncle Tupelo's beautiful, loping instrumental "Sandusky", off their fine acoustic "March 16-20, 1992" record. In the big picture, this version strays hardly at all from my original 4-track version, other than being cleaner, sporting more abundant and snazzier instrumentation, and having a clearer sense of self. It burbles along like many of my acoustic "ensemble" efforts do-- a sea of plunking from which little snippets float to the surface now and again. I'm working on that...
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"Oh! The Southlands!": https://app.box.com/s/jd1yi8tjpzah9ktc91oa
"I Was Just Thinking...": https://app.box.com/s/iuie6kd0d6c8wt7g76l7
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