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Jim that has got country- rock or rock-a-billy written all over it. Phill with his polish and smooth delivery a perfect man to do your song. Excellent. I can't claim the phrase Any road up as one from me.  Phills part of the world  definetly has some wonderful sayings and phrases.     

Good one CG. Here I am thinking Janis Joplin has left the building only to find her voice been channeled through Cee Cee. I would love to go to one of her gigs.     

Neo guitar works good but found your vocals a bit hard to hear but still a good sound all round. Better than what I could do. Maybe the  microphone needs to be closer to your mouth.     

Cheers TF and thank you for checking out my video. Max Dorset house came with 22 acres of land and got a good price after he died.  His house was built in the 1860’s. The house has not been worked on since then as far as I know and and is now more run down then  what it was when Max died. . December 2013, Max’s old House was allocated $30,000 from Wellington City Council’s Built Heritage Incentive Fund for restoration work. The funding was declined by the owner. The new owner proposed to subdivide the land around the house  and an adjacent block of land into six lots. 
Back in early 1920’s there was  a couple Daniel and Martha Cooper, who lived on a small farm and were well respected in our local community of Johnsonville  and a church which they attended regularly. They came to the attention of the police.  A search of their property by police turned up three tiny corpses. The couple were charged with the murders, two relating to children fathered by Cooper himself with the couple’s housemaid. The trial caused huge public interest with people queuing for hours before it began to get a good seat. Daniel Cooper was found guilty of the murders and hanged  on June 16, 1923. Martha Cooper pleaded that she had only taken part in the atrocities because her husband had forced her to, although it was reportedly her, who had been the one who starved the wee babies to death.She was acquitted of the charges and left the country soon after. Their property became known as the Newlands  baby farm. Their house was demolished in 1973, and despite speculation that more bodies would be discovered, none were. The property after a few years sitting as a vacant section sold for a good price.  I don’t know what has happened to other properties and their values after a murder here in NZ. 

Bill thank you. It was just recorded on my cheap cellphone. I was thinking about John Lee Hooker when I was putting the song together

Thank you Grah  for taking the time to check out and comment on my attempt at putting together a blues ballad about Max. It all came about when Easybeat put a photo of Max's house up on soundcloud to accompany his song "Same Street." Over the years I had heard and read about Max from differant people and a couple of Newspaper articles. I never met Max but have spoken to people who described him as a harmless eccentric character. Apart from his anger outburst with a gun which resulted in the death of his wife lover he was apparently a quiet gentle guy. I found that  intriguing and thought what can make someone like that tip over the edge and make a bad move in a moment of heated anger. I had the radio on and I heard an old Blues guy singing about the Devil made me do it and that is when the idea of "Max And Sin" came to me . It is meant as a blues ballad not some sort of religious message as someone who contacted me today thought. I just thought that there were many factors in the shooting of Max's wife lover that couldn't be put into a short song without using some simple words like temptation and sin. Every day Max would take the train into the city to go for a swim. My mother who is now 98 use to go swimming on many a morning up until she was 80 meet him on a few occasions. She was suprised that this nice old guy was once in prison for manslaughter.     

Jeff listening to your song made me feel like I was there.     

Keepitreal interesting song. Sometimes people from the USA don't realise that the rest of the world looks to them in times of war and unrest. We have always appreciated how their people have helped in times of trouble down here in the South Pacific.     

Grah That song works real good excellent, Can't wait to hear it with a full band.     

Dirty Ed that is brilliant clever writing  made me laugh. Here in New Zealand we call farting " Dropping Your Guts." Sometimes fact is funnier than fiction when it comes to our politicians. Here in New Zealand it was sugested by the Green Party that because some scientists had a theory about cows  gas emmisions of methane gas it needed to be taxed. The theory was cows gas emmisions were  contributing to Global warming. So the government of the time looked into introducing what became known as a Fart Tax.  Farmers blocked the streets of New Zealand's capital, Wellington,  in protest at plans to impose the world's first "fart tax" on livestock flatulence.  Four hundred farmers with 20 tractors rallied outside parliament. An opposition MP led a cow named Energy up the steps of our parliament  building. Eventually the politicians realised it  was a stupid idea to try and  impose  this tax.

Excellent Jeff look forward to you putting it up on soundcloud.