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Re: FEBRUARY 2018 FSOTM - CITIES AND COUNTRIES

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Sorry Neo. I'm way, way behind on listening. I always enjoy your songs, but I have been very short on time. I will listen to all the ones you've taken the time to record and share with us. I appreciate that there's some guy 1/2 a world away willing to do that more than you know.

That's cool, as I'm still way behind as well, hopefully my employment situation will stabilize and I'll get some time to get other stuff done ...

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Re: FEBRUARY 2018 FSOTM - CITIES AND COUNTRIES

I think we've got a nice community feel going on Chordie, and sometimes threads go in a little different direction as we share our lives. I think that's OK, but this is your forum Jandle, so I apologize if the foray into discussing what is foremost on our minds mixed in with the music is untidy. I will endeavor to keep posts related to the particular challenge of the month.

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Re: FEBRUARY 2018 FSOTM - CITIES AND COUNTRIES

Sorry Jandle it is your forum and I can see that  I should not have have responded to you and other  people talking about their situations in the way I did. Please  accept my appologies. I will endevour to keep these thoughts of mine for the chat section.

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Thanks guys for understanding smile

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Re: FEBRUARY 2018 FSOTM - CITIES AND COUNTRIES

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City of New Orleans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM_RHAM … AgJw-Nngim

That was excellent - I'm not familiar with the song, but the dude on the black guitar really added lots to it ...

In fact, just going a bit OT - I'm surprised how many 'standards' you have that I haven't heard, and how many songs I'd consider 'bread and butter' songs that you guys haven't heard ... anyway, back on-topic!! smile

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You're Going To Make Me Lonesome When You Go
https://soundcloud.com/user-35218982/yo … -go-cfsotm

You make this song sound great, I liked it a lot!!

Zurf wrote:

The long-awaited and surely disappointing Zurfelized acoustic Smoke On The Water
https://soundcloud.com/user-35218982/sm … ter-cfsotm

This is a hard song to get going acoustically, mainly because of it's association with the way it's played in a (then) Heavy Metal band (would now be considered 'hard rock') - but you did a pretty good version considering it's well out of your comfort zone!! (and not too fast - about the right pace!)

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City of New Orleans with a bit of didactic rambling
https://soundcloud.com/user-35218982/ci … ans-cfsotm

This one was a bit rough (as per your 'early morning' comment, I'm guessing), but it sounds like it really suits your voice ... I'd like to hear it when your voice is warmed up, I think it would sound killer!!

(my son was stood next to me and said you sound pretty good ...)

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LA County from Lyle Lovett. A song about old friends, road trips, and premeditated murder.
https://soundcloud.com/user-35218982/la-county-cfsotm

I like your commect about the chords being played "sometimes intentionally", made me LOL. I like this version, I hope you try "Dreamboat Annie" by Heart in the next months challenge, I'd like to hear you do that, I think it would suit your style (but it may be another capo addition to get the right key for your voice)

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Gringo In Belize
https://soundcloud.com/user-35218982/gr … ize-cfsotm

Another one I'm not familiar with, the guitar on this sounds good ...

Zurf wrote:

it's Memphis In The Meantime https://soundcloud.com/user-35218982/me … ime-cfsotm

I'm glad there was 31 days this February, so I got a chance to listen to this one - it's great!!! smile

Sorry it's taken so long to get around to listening to them; sounds like everyone has been having a busy month!!! And I hope I got all of them - let me know if I missed any!!!

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Thanks Neo. If you thought that version of City of New Orleans was rough on my voice, you should have heard me try it in C. LOL!  That was an immediate trip to the delete key when I started to play it back.

Thanks for your constructive criticism and encouragement on the other songs. That's what this forum is all about to me - a way to have fun and learn from one another in an environment that's friendly and safe.

I need to smooth out Gringo In Belize and Memphis in the Meantime. Both of those were "learned" just for February's challenge. Neither one is smooth, and they both need some sort of solo worked into them (God help me), but they're both really fun songs to play and very well written. Jerry Jeff Walker and John Hiatt don't get the recognition I think they deserve (except maybe among their peers). If you don't know John Hiatt very well, he's got a lot of great songs, like Perfectly Good Guitar about the 80's and 90's cliche of smashing guitars (I know it came from The Who, but in the 80's and 90's it seemed like if a guitar wasn't smashed it wasn't a performance), and another on the 90's conspicuous consumption called Wreck Of The Barbi Ferrari that's excellent.

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Re: FEBRUARY 2018 FSOTM - CITIES AND COUNTRIES

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If you thought that version of City of New Orleans was rough on my voice, you should have heard me try it in C. LOL!  That was an immediate trip to the delete key when I started to play it back.

Been there, done that!!! smile

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Re: FEBRUARY 2018 FSOTM - CITIES AND COUNTRIES

neophytte wrote:
unclejoesband wrote:

City of New Orleans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM_RHAM … AgJw-Nngim

That was excellent - I'm not familiar with the song, but the dude on the black guitar really added lots to it ...

In fact, just going a bit OT - I'm surprised how many 'standards' you have that I haven't heard, and how many songs I'd consider 'bread and butter' songs that you guys haven't heard ... anyway, back on-topic!! smile

Thank you neo. Yes. Scott (the dude on the black guitar) adds a lot to everything.

City of New Orleans is considered a classic here in the States and I've been playing it almost as long as I've been playing guitar. I have a recording of it done by Steve Goodman ( the man that wrote it) from a radio interview he did in New York in '82. I based my version on that one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttloTlRxe7Y

But this is the man that brought it to the attention of the people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWrbxGtYWkY

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