"Red River" featuring my '47 lapsteel NS and my '80 4001

[sangandongo]

This is a rough recording I did a few weeks back. I'm on all instruments and vocals. The lapsteel is a 1947 S/NS and the bass is a 1980 4001 MG. The other instruments are a '44 Epiphone Zenith (pre-Gibson golden era Epi), a '50s Kay Banjo and a '50s Koch Chromatica harp.

This is sort of a folksy-bluegrassy tune about the Bell Witch from Tennessee. I plan on recording it again later, but the first run through sounded decent enough to share to get opinions.

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[beatlefreak]

Nice work. The song puts those old, vintage instruments in the right light. I'll be interested in hearing the completed version.

[ram]

John, cool tune... I duno about the rerecording thou. Be a shame to loose the 'front porch conferrable' feel to it. A play-off when the other version is done would be neat!

[sangandongo]

Man, that gave me a great idea for a silly video. Static camera, 5 chairs on a porch and me playing all five instruments in different clothes... then superimpose/slice all of the video tracks. Ha!

Thanks for the compliments, guys. It's not fun writing music in a vaccuum, but when you can't find other musicians who want to play what you play, this is the only choice I have.

[walker]

Sounds fine as-is. I can't think of anything I'd do to "improve" it. Nice dark feel to the tune.