First track in the can! Danny Gotham and I are hoping to release our new album sometime in late summer. Mostly acoustic instruments, #mandolin, #classical and steel string #guitar, #ukulele, #lute, a little electric guitar and lap steel, too. Nice variety of material, too! Big honor to get to do this with Danny, who’s one of the best pickers this side of the Mississippi.
I’ve had my #lute for about a month now. Progress is slow but I’m finally at least able to find the bass strings without having to stop and curse.
Here’s a very simple 16th century English piece. Still clunky and uneven but getting there. Playing with no nails for the first time in over 45 years is also a challenge!
Some #earlymodern remedies.
A set of #songs and #choruses from the Masque of #Mountebanks, where quack doctors vie with each other to sell cures every conceivable ailment...
This #Jacobean#masque was performed twice in London in 1618. First at #GraysInn, and then at the Banqueting House in Whitehall for King James I.
My first baby steps on the #lute. Decided on something seasonal. As I said in a previous demo video of course a lot of guitar technique transfers, but the string spacing and double courses are a big climb.
My own very simple arrangement of Lully Lullay (aka A Conventry carol).
My latest squeeze. A 1982 #Renaissance#lute by David van Edwards in England.
When I was in grad school I played in an #earlymusic trio. I was always bummed because I couldn’t afford a real lute, let alone a lefty one. So I just played the lute parts on a classical guitar w a capo.
This will alleviate a little of that frustration.
Today this beauty goes off to Mel Wong at Blackbird String Arts in San Francisco for converting to lefty and general tidying up.