Tuesday, August 28, 2012

departure


i thought i would take a little departure from the norm today and try posting an audio file.  i've received requests for a sample of some of my guitar playing and if this works out, then i will most likely start murmuring every now and again about my clothwork as well. hope y'all don't mind sittin' back and playin' the guinea pig for me...




namaste'

12 comments:

  1. nice to hear your voice and the music. loved it.

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  2. Just lovely Joe, thank you for sharing your voice and your music with us, it was a real pleasure ... but I did wonder, you do so very much with your time creatively, yet seem to work long, long hours ... do you ever sleep?

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  3. Lovely Joe very restful and loved hearing your voice too ...x

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  4. You have a lovely accent. Thank you for putting this up here. The tune reminded me of James Taylor's song 'Fire and Rain'. Is it an old tune? And if so, I wonder was James Taylor influenced by it?

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    1. i'm not certain which came first, jan. there wasn't any info with the notation.

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  5. So good to hear you - both voice and guitar playing - adds dimension to my awareness of you.... and lovely guitar playing, thanks!

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  6. Loved it : )
    Reminded me of James Taylor.
    It was fun to hear your voice and look forward to you sharing
    in the future...
    : )

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  7. The first several notes sound just like Fire & Rain by James Taylor. It was lovely to hear you play. I love guitar music. For some reason your accent felt like a surprise. I like it. Is it regional? Is that Big Sky accent? :) I love accents and trying to mimic them! I'm a real bear to be around as I am compelled to repeat back what my accented friends have just said.
    Hope to hear more of both :)

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    1. so it would seem! ha! i shall have to find a copy of fire & rain by james taylor and compare them. i adore guitar music...and just about any other similar form of stringed instrument. i think that is why i love mountain dulcimers as well.

      the accent...well, it's more like regional montucky. ha! like you, i love accents and also tend to absorb them like a sponge soaks up water. the local accent is more of a quiet, slow northern drawl with regional euphemisms.

      like the neo-boro generated from what local material is at hand, and the body art that marks my skin, my "accent" is an ever evolving expression of who i am continually becoming. i have many friends from kentucky, oklahoma, tennesee, and texas, so their's tend to rub off on me. that is not to say it is affected. just that, like in most arenas in our lives, i absorb those accented qualities that i admire and enjoy, be they artistic expression, personal fashion sense, culinary style, music i enjoy, etc. and so i begin to sound rather like those i surround myself with. just as there are artistic accents of jude hill in my work, and those of morna and grace and saskia and henrietta and a host of others! (i think i blogged about artistic "accents" at some point...or perhaps it was on another forum, i'm not certain) just as my cooking style emulates those chefs i admire and my playing style is accented by those musicians i tend to favor.

      ok...so now i've been extremely long-winded...so much so that one might think i had a great love of charles dickens! ha! now, if only i could figure out a way to get paid by the word...

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    2. Ha! Paid by the word...that's what I need too! Most of my comments are real breadwinners!
      I lived in Northern Nevada for 5 years and my mother told me I came back with an accent of some sort! Others have sworn I am a Native New Yorker. I am in a way, but I don't count the first 6 weeks of life (before speech) as a reason for my 'sound'!!
      Seeing and hearing others online is a real treat :)

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  8. that was just lovely...i sat and looked at the picture you put while listening to your playing...i was lost in thought wondering down that path...thinking of a similar experience in my life...on a farm in somewhere in Natal....to digress my son plays the guitar too....so he was in my thoughts too while listening...when we were at home together I used to stand outside his bedroom door and listen to his playing because he would never play when i was in the room...he has grown out of that...now..sadly he does not make time to play...thanks for the reverie....

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