Todd,

 Thanks for the reply.  I would like to support your artistic efforts if that happens via the link you provided.  If not I will email an address to you.

Thanks for the comments on my fledgling builds.  Maybe after 60 or more they might approach the quality of yours.

Bear,

Wonderful music! 

I just asked a few friends to visit your page to listen to your list.

If you have a CD available of your music I would like to find out where to buy one.

Thanks.

 

 

I agree, we gotta get together for sure!  I'm up in the mountains now (taking advantage of my old man's power tools!), but sometime in the new year let's make some music!

love your song on the NUclear Coffee comp...nice...great sounding cigarbox banjo...

sunday drive must be the one you just put up, its beutiful you guys did great.

by the way Ive been on your page for a minute or two or three, and I havent heard a song that you have (which are new to me ) that arent great..... been off line for a while.

bear, I just download nuclear coffee and was so thrilled when I saw your foothill stomp on there, which still remains my favorite banjo tune ever. I guess Im saying thanks for my favorite song on the cd. thanks bear.

I must have missed the friend request, sorry! I'll friend you after typing this. I'm glad you took my comments to heart, they were heart-felt.
I see in a comment below mention of a CD. Do you have a CD of your playing?
I "finished" the guitar, but screwed up in forgetting to add some caulk etc. around the truss rod. The neck has these dead spots: play certain notes and much of the energy goes into making the rod vibrate, notes come out all muted and awful. I'm going to drill down through the fretboard to the rod and squirt something in then turn the holes into fret markers, which I left off till now. HOpe it works, otherwise I'll have an excuse to make another one (like I need it).
I'm starting a banjo next, your video convinced me I had to learn the isntrument :)

thanks for watching check out morgen,s three albums .

Bear, nothing rhetorical about my question re: foothill stomp. That song is one of those truly rare ones that make me sit up and listen, really makes me go "Wow!" It isn't that it is all super flashy or crazy technical, just that it is so all around solid and moving. You've got something different and beautiful playing over your comment page here. I'm very inspired. Thanks

Mmm. Cant turn down food! I'll keep in touch

Yea I tossed in 10 extra bucks for gas and ice cream :). So the word hole is being censord for some funny reason, hole hole holeeeo

Just wonderin, are all the songs you gave me on that cd in the open C tuning?

when the tunes are that delish, they honestly don't need the words !! however. your melodic style is the sort that easily birth words,and imaged mental pics,...I hope you sometime take that adventure on, writing,,,,,or you find a lyricist to work with you..just be sure and leave lot's of room for the music to shine, in the breaks!! thanks too, kind words..made me day, likewise--I don't weed out much there,,,because I;m not after perfection..hehehe...if you have not, please be sure and visit channel Francifornia at youtube....a friend and I work up songs, batting files across the Atlantic....my fav there might be "Nell and Lee", followed by "you will I know"....there I write and sing almost exclusively, he plays and is learning the recording ropes, too....learn as we go...:-) if i visit HERE, I've an excuse to listen....LOL
Laurie

I should have said: not a lifelong stringed instrument player....:-)since fall 06, the lap steel....I found a banjo at a swap meet intending to sell it....it bit me, instead, so a year of banjo preceeded the reso...the rest is history....had a nice 80s Deering I had to part with,..dunno that I'd ever master a banjo, LOL.your Hymnal is amazing...reminds me a little of one of my fav David Lindley pieces
I bought my Daddy Mojo on ebay, and my 4 and 6 string CBG came to me as very unexpected and unforgetable blessings. it was quite some time before I myself made my way here..my "tall grass blues" on your tube was embedded and shared...much to my surprise!
I still marvel at what we are able to share and enjoy via this medium...
I think you are well on your way to a CD release:-)recording quality, super!

in a number of listens this eve, I fall for them all , LOL #6/7 simply wonderful too.........sublime compositions, all

Instrumentals are lovely too...:-) in a way most beautiful because the music IS all...I am really just a beginner, but having fun as I go......
your music certainly lends to lyric...evensong is one of the most beautiful melodies I've heard in some time..do you have a recording/cd/collection?.my music tastes are far and wide' I attribute Rod Stewart for imparting a subconcious love of acoustic/slide/mando, i did not even realize the education I was getting;-) and of course the Beverly Hillbillies made banjo lovers out of many, by way of Mr Scruggs!
jhave a super weekend!
Laurie

just found the banjo on "Comin' up over the hill".........loved the Hymnal....already wishing the played had more selections,.....LOL...
I too live in "foothills"...at the base of the Sierra Nevada.....with the ghosts of the miners and railroaders.....love the stomp!!!. again--love your music.....:-)

WOW----what wonderful tunes!!!!!I'm working my way thru your player.