Season 417: original favourite country shorts

Always love a chance to do a Steve Earle song. Thanks for the week, Jon

 
Thanks for hosting Jon! Here's a quick sketch of Townes Van Zandt's "No Place To Fall" His songs cover a wide gamut of feelings and experiences. I've always thought this one of his lovelier ones ~

 
Heres some original shorts.

 
Jon, what a great season. This one spoke to me.

 
a Richard Buckner song kev and i recorded today
from the Since LP (1998)
i'm on baritone, kev is on electric tenor
 


Resistance was futile. Only one of the best recordings ever.
Cheers mate, sang you a few.
Likely play the whole record.
 
day two was pretty cool.
thank you Rob for that naughty original. you know where you need to go. :p
thank you Ryan for that awesome, grungy original song. thank you Rick for doing Guy Clark's song so beautifully.
thank you Alan for a gorgeous rendition of Townes.
and thank you Lefty. missed you my brother. 1st 1/4 of the bluebird rekkid? check.
looking forward to the rest mate.
 
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Here's an original I wrote for Andy's Wilco/home season back in the summer. Reckon it's one of my better efforts but because I spent most of the week on it it didn't really have the chance to get much love, so I've decided to give it another run out.

 
Never done three originals in a week.

This one sort of popped out



Got a lot of time on my hands so this was the perfect theme Jon. Thanks mate.
 
Since I don't have any originals close to finished, I went for a cover this week.
I haven't listened a whole lot to either of the artists to cover this week, but I instantly liked this Guy Clark song.

 
I've gone for the 'shorts' option partly because the challenge of writing a finished song that lasts a minute or less appealed to me but mostly because I'm pretty lazy and I figured I wouldn't have to bother with things like a second and third verse, a middle eight and a 20 minute kazoo solo...
The song clocks in at exactly 60 seconds. Made it by the skin of my teeth!
 
Here's a Short One from James taylor's One Man Dog Album

 
day three was tres cool.
2 original gems from Ryan. check em.
a stunning GC cover from UV.
maybe the best short song I ever heard from Bob
and a ripper short take on JT from the rusty one.
thanks lads. see you tomorrow.
 
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