Videos for St Ives Cambs - Cigar Box Nation

Spring Song - Busking - with 3 String Cigar Box Guitar

2018-03-27T17:22:19.331Z

Spring Song from yesterday's busk.
This is a different version, chilled with rambley improvising (and mistakes!).
I still can't believe that I can stand and play and sing outside in the sun and people give me money??!
It morphs into Here Comes The Sun at the end, which another busker at the end of the road had just played, as a subtle English way of letting him know I could hear him, ha!
There's a recorded version of Spring Song here, with the lyrics https://bemuzic.bandcamp.com/track/spring-song-4

bemuzic busking - The Books We Read (New Song)

2012-09-11T10:53:13.693Z

Thought I'd try out this new song. It's very new, so there are a few mistakes! Just recorded on my phone and I notice the video sort of jumps here and there which is annoying...
Oh well I enjoy singing it, and it might be awhile before I get round to recording it, so thought I'd share it : -)
The song was inspired by the titles of several books that were in front of me while noodleing around on a guitar.
I looked into it and it seems book titles aren't generally covered by copyright. The books were by Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, and Milan Kundera, so if you like those authors you might recognise some of them...

LYRICS

The books we read
shape our mind.
Life is elsewhere,
while we're eating fire.
It's a wild sheep chase,
we can't see the joke.
This is the book of laughter and forgetting.

And the world is full of ignorance,
as we dance, dance, dance after dark.
And the world is full of ignorance,
as we dance,dance, dance,
to the end of the world.

da, da da etc (could end up as some sort of instrumental?)

I want to see behind the door.
Truth is surfacing,
about life before man.
It's a wild sheep chase,
we can't see the joke.
This is the song of laughter and forgetting.

And the world is full of ignorance,
as we dance, dance, dance after dark.
And the world is full of ignorance,
as we dance,dance, dance,
to the end of the world.

The books we read
shape our mind.
Life is elsewhere,
while we're eating fire.

That isn't clapping at the end, it's someone running across the road in flip flops,lol!.
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The Fiddlestick Comes Busking!

2012-09-08T22:56:31.002Z

I've been enjoying having the Fiddlestick on loan for a bit from Diglydog to test it out!
The song is called "The Line" from my first album "Playing (No Rules)" which is available here http://bemuzic.bandcamp.com/album/playing-no-rules
Oh and I had it set to the flatpup for this. Check out Elmar's flatpups here! http://www.original-flatpup.com/index.php

The River - Live, The Quayside St Ives (Cambridgeshire)

2012-08-19T10:27:01.140Z

A live version of The River, which is on my new album "Out From The Shadows" available here http://bemuzic.bandcamp.com/ (The lyrics are also on the bandcamp page)

Lots of wind noise!... could have taken my zoom thing with wind shield to record the sound, but wanted to keep it easy and fun :…

Build Me Up Buttercup - on CBG : -)

2012-07-04T14:40:50.503Z

I don't usually do covers but I had a lot of photos left over from when we took some for my album cover in a field of buttercups, and I wanted to test out some Art Tube MP pre amps that I've just got, and I love this song!!!.... so this just kind of happened : -)
My own music is available here http://bemuzic.bandcamp.com/