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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on June 21, 2012 at 6:38pm

"I got twooo hands, gonna put my hands together..."

Clapclapclapclap ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on June 22, 2012 at 7:32pm

Hey, y'all!

Just a reminder, only 2 DAYS left to submit songs for the Townes Van Zandt CBG Tribute album, entitled "Goin' To Townes: A CBG Tribute." We have collected over 25 amazing, and amazingly varied (I mean that in a good way) performances from CBN members in several US states, the UK, Austria, and Saudi Arabia. So I suppose you could call this a double album set! We have had extensive mixing help from Members in the UK and Austria. This collaboration simply would not have been possible without the Internet, and Cigarboxnation.com. I would like to thank Ben of C.B. Gitty and Dan Sleep for allowing such collaborations to occur here at CBN. I would also like to plug the Motörhead tribute album, which should be out real soon, too. Y'all need to hear what your compadres are doing out here beyond the Perimeter ;-).

I expect the free downloadable zip file to be ready next week. Also, we will be posting the album as a free download to MyTexasMusic.com, the proprietors of which are very excited to get this album for all fans of Townes' music. Judging from the number of page views this thread has received (over 5200 to date), we realize there is an audience out there for this music done this way. Give us a few more days to tidy up the loose ends, and we hope you'll like what you hear, and be inspired yourself to record good music, whether yours or someone else's, at home, with relatively simple instruments, some sophisticated yet easily available technologies, and most importantly, a passion for CBGs.

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on June 23, 2012 at 11:14pm

Hey, y'all!

 

Here's my final submission, from Townes' 1994 No Deeper Blue - Billy, Boney and Ma.

Recorded straight into the iPad using GarageBand:

12-string Ovation acoustic capoed at the first fret

4-string Wichita Sam #268 CBG, tuned Ab-E-Ab-C#, played copper slide lap stylethrough GarageBand's American Tremelo guitar amp plug-in

Garageband Original Rock drum kit plug-in

 

Hope y'all like it!

 

Attachments:

• Billy, Boney and Ma.mp3, 5.2 MB

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Permalink Reply by Vinylhed on June 23, 2012 at 11:57pm

That's great, a really full sounding recording. Your voice is perfect for the song as well. I always have problems singing American songs. Do I use my own voice,and sound like Hugh Grant at a country music karaoke,or put on an American accent and sound false? Damn my geographical place of birth, and my middle class upbringing!

It's nice to hear your take on a song from No Deeper Blue, It's a shame nobody, to my knowledge, has covered Marie. Oh, well, maybe that can goon the second volume ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Thorsten Hinrichsen on June 24, 2012 at 12:32am

Don't worry about accents - I like that: Hugh Grant at a country music karaoke...

Concerning accents: I was born in North Germany (my grandfather spoke a language that was somewhere between German, Danish, English and Dutch) now living in a part of Austria where only 400.000 people share a language that sounds completely different form German and other Austriam languages - for many it's difficult to speak German although school, TV, papers, everything is German. You do have those strong accents in Britain which I like very much and I love it when people don't lose these accents or even dialects.

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on June 24, 2012 at 2:01am

Gents,

 

Thanks for the uplift! :-). It doesn't hurt having been born in southern Arkansas, lived in Louisiana, grown up in Texas, and having listened to singers like this all my life. Then again, I wanted to be a Beatle, and practiced my Liverpudlian from age 5 when I first heard the Fab Four in 1964, up to the present day.

 

Vinyl,

Best thing is to sing 'em how you feel 'em. I can sometimes sound like an old black man singing the blues after you put a bunch of whiskey and beer in me, but then I can't talk for the next coupla days. Feeling counts more than accent. Just ask Eric Clapton, Robert Plant, Mick Jagger and Peter Green. :-)

 

Thorsten,

 

What part of North Germany? My maternal grandmother was a Sindt from East Prussia, moved to Iowa in the eary 1900's. I still have trouble with certain German pronunciations; I find southern German to be just a tad easier to my ear. Not that I speak a lot of German; but I can order a beer and ask for directions after a month's practice.

 

Woo Hoo! I would love to hear Hugh Grant do C&W karaoke. Re Marie: there's still one more day left. >:-E

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Permalink Reply by Thorsten Hinrichsen on June 24, 2012 at 3:34am

I was born in Schleswig Holstein - near Hamburg. East Prussia, I think, is Russian territory now, Kaliningrad (former Königsberg). My grandfather's and grandmother's families moved around between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea for some decades.

Although distances aren't very long between European countries people don't move a lot, especially in German speaking countries. Younger people are likely to travel a lot more but often come back after some years...

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Permalink Reply by Vinylhed on June 24, 2012 at 6:37am

Schleswig Holstein is a part of the world that I've become fascinated with since seeing a programme by Jonathan Meades called Magnetic North. Meades is a writer and critic who has presented a number of strange, and slightly surreal, programmes for the BBC about the cultures of Britain's neighbours.

In Magnetic North he presented his view that the British (and specifically English) are living a lie. He believes that we are in denial of our Northern heritage, and desperately try to be more Southern European. We eat Mediterranean food, holiday in Greece, Italy and Spain, our art looks to the south rather than the north, and we have lost the links we had with our Northern cousins during the time of the Hanseatic League.

I totally agree with Meades. I do see myself as a Northern European, and I have made lasting friendships with people from Germany, Denmark, Norway and Finland.

Anyway, Meades visited Lubeck and I fell in love with the place. So,while my fellow countrymen are booking their holidays on the sun-drenched beaches of the Mediterranean, I'm planning trips North to Scandinavia and to the Baltic.

Jonathan Meades: Magnetic North

 

    

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on June 24, 2012 at 7:08am

We're looking at a Baltic cruise next year, after playing baseball all summer this year in the heat.

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Permalink Reply by RTZGUITARS on June 24, 2012 at 7:31pm

Best baked beans you ever had. Real nice Mr.Oily I like that. It's way cool to have so many people from outside the U.S. on a Townes project. I think the accents give this a global feel, I was born in Bakersfield Ca. Where you've been is good and gone all you keep is the getting there.

'Letha is back Hi Letha.

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on June 25, 2012 at 6:37am

My grandmother's father, whose violin I have (and once even attempted to play :-/ ) attended the University of Hamburg. Hamburg is a lovely town, what I was able to see of it for a half day back in 2004.

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Permalink Reply by Thorsten Hinrichsen on June 25, 2012 at 8:20pm

We took our children to Hamburg and the North Sea coast last year and they appreciated both very much, especially the enormous changing of the tides. My father also attended the University of Hamburg in the 1960s (he worked on oil or chemicals tankers for about 50 years, last year he retired).

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