Joni Mitchell made music so enjoyable, poetic and relevant. “Big Yellow Taxi” is a classic that I just had to cover as 2016 comes to a close; the song is fun and the lyrics as relevant as ever.
Tag: music
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I covered one of the classic songs, “Me & Bobby McGee”
While waiting for poetry news and poetry teaching updates, here’s something to listen to on a sunny summer day.
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listen to my “Who’ll Stop the Rain” cover
Jon Fogarty/Creedence Clearwater Revival
Covered by Michael Jackman
vocal + guitar (1970 Guild D35) + ipad Garage Band, + Clip ends & fade out with Audacity. Enjoy!Check out my playlist on Soundcloud:
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Joy to the World cover
Every so often I record my “basement tapes” using Garage Band. Also, Sarah and Mom like to hear me play. “Joy to the “World” is one of Mom’s favorites since I was a teen and she made a request I record it for her birthday. I overdubbed some guitar parts for texture and breaks. The high note vocals are a little wonky on this one – but remember, this is just for fun and part of the joy is leaving them rough. Enjoy! (Happy Birthday, Mom!)
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Buck Owens – “Act Naturally” – cover
Buck Owens – so underrated as a wonderful songwriter, picker, performer. Here’s one of his clever songs – at-home recording. These are bare bones – just enjoy. My music feeds into poetry and vice versa. So I do this. Garage band, home studio, usb mic – and minimal digital editing.
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Donovan’s “Colours” – one of the at-home recordings
Just fiddling around with guitar overdubs and in general enjoying getting some rough cuts of my playing/singing. Enjoy,.
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getting tarnish on the fingers
After playing the flute again yesterday I pitied my poor 1970 Guild D-35 sitting in our “guitar corner” gathering dust for a few weeks – this absolutely wonderful acoustic that I had rebuilt a few years ago, that I bought with Bar Mitzvah money 45 years ago when I was 13, with it’s great varied intonation…we missed each other, so while Sarah Dugan worked hard on her facebook updates in her livingroom corner office, I grabbed the guitar and sat on the couch tinkering around with it. Before any time had past I was lost in airy extended major chords, riffs, playing around with 5/4 time, which Sarah really dug. Then I closed the session with one of the first songs I learned for her, “Winter’s Come and Gone” by Gillian Welch. Always nice to get tarnish on my fingers and keep the calluses hard. It makes any day worthwhile.
