flatbaroque Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 I heard a song of the old boys new album this week.It was good.Good for a 20 year old let alone an 80 year old.I guess that deep creative well combined with a tax problem can inspire a few new tunes. Here's favorite old one.Bit of a fret buzz on the low e at times but it kind of adds to the creepiness.Also a touch of the sleepy hollows too! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-s864i_IM8&feature=youtu.be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisrownSal Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Dark.... Clinton Street... Brooklyn? Creepy for the approaching Hallow's Eve. Enjoyed it, but i do have one criticism... to my ears that low E is a tad sharp after the capo is placed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Yip a little sharp Do it again 😄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Still enjoyed it FB Good old song that . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lars68 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Outstanding! So good in fact, that you need to show us the top of your head! I just wrote in another thread that what attracts me to a new piece of music often is the feel, or emotion, it conveys, maybe more so than perfect vocals or playing. This song is a prime example of this. You manage to fill your covers with so much emotion. This one gives me that "walking alone at 3 AM in the big city, rain dripping down, streets almost empty" kind of feeling. Thanks for posting! Lars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatbaroque Posted October 23, 2016 Author Share Posted October 23, 2016 Yip a little sharp Do it again 😄 hehehe....thanks fellers...you're a hard crowd..but I can take it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldCowboy Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Very good listen. The low E does come off a bit sharp, but capo will do that sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
62burst Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Always enjoy the natural reverb of your recordings. Minimal upholstery, rugs, in that room? LG-2 sounds great, too. But does help to rationalize my capophobia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave F Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Sounded great. I do not have OCD about capo's or slightly out of tune strings so I will not comment on that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dReit1 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 One of my favorite LC tunes. Also one of the 1st songs I learned off of the Song of Love & Hate album. Thanks I really enjoyed hearing it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroAussie Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 FB - im not sure if its meant to be that way, but your vocals in the verse sounded quite flat, sort of, not really in tune ? But maybe that was deliberate to create that sort of dissinant tone ? Something that came to my mind, how about doing some Aussie stuff and show the board what aussie talent can do. I was thinking maybe you could try a Paul Kelly tune, he always seemed to me like Australias version of Bob Dylan, great storyteller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissouriPicker Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Great barroom song. I like the guitar playing for this song. Yeah, the low E is a little off, but so am I, so it still works. My one serious, somewhat of a critique is that I think you should sing this more in your voice than in Cohen's style. For me, I hate hearing people trying to sing Folsom Prison Blues like Cash, or Don't Think Twice like Dylan, instead of singing it like themselves.....Anyway, I always like your songs on here and if I ran into you at a coffeehouse or bar, I'd definitely sit and listen. [thumbup] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatbaroque Posted October 23, 2016 Author Share Posted October 23, 2016 Hey fellers appreciate you all having a listen.Some sharp? some flat? something for everyone! Sbpark had a good idea in other thread about recording methods.My videos are just Zoom Q3HD camera comes with software to add a little reverb.It has two in built condensor mics.Records sound pretty well but you have to be close for quieter songs. Hence the headless horsemen sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldCowboy Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Great barroom song. I like the guitar playing for this song. Yeah, the low E is a little off, but so am I, so it still works. My one serious, somewhat of a critique is that I think you should sing this more in your voice than in Cohen's style. For me, I hate hearing people trying to sing Folsom Prison Blues like Cash, or Don't Think Twice like Dylan, instead of singing it like themselves.....Anyway, I always like your songs on here and if I ran into you at a coffeehouse or bar, I'd definitely sit and listen. [thumbup] Know what you mean about folks who try getting too close to the original's voice; my pet dislike, though, is when somebody totally butchers a song by trying to make it "their own". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwalker201 Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 FB, between some sharp and some flat it all blended to make a good song, well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatbaroque Posted October 24, 2016 Author Share Posted October 24, 2016 Thanks Keith and Cowboy. I agree about Larry's pet peeve although I didn't try to sound like LC here.If I did it was a coincidence .I occasionally do a Tom Waits and make a point of not going the full growl.There are some pretty funny clips of pimply young'uns bungin' on the full whiskey and smokes voice. Yea EA should do a Paul Kelly sometime.My favorite Aussie singer songwriter is Ed Keupper.Very distinctive but hard to cover well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Thanks Keith and Cowboy. I agree about Larry's pet peeve although I didn't try to sound like LC here.If I did it was a coincidence .I occasionally do a Tom Waits and make a point of not going the full growl.There are some pretty funny clips of pimply young'uns bungin' on the full whiskey and smokes voice. Yea EA should do a Paul Kelly sometime.My favorite Aussie singer songwriter is Ed Keupper.Very distinctive but hard to cover well. Ed keupper . I used to love something by him. Was it called the butterfly net or something ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneS Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 I enjoyed this, sir--even without seeing the top of your head, and I'm not gonna bug you about the sharp E string because it would just be piling on. Get thee to a studio, lad...you might like that. Just thinking... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatbaroque Posted October 24, 2016 Author Share Posted October 24, 2016 yep BBG that's one of Ed's-some tasty songs on that one.He just released his 50th album! -Lost Cities.A lot of compilations and doubling up amongst those albums...but still a huge body of great songs. Anne some of these harsh critics inferred the top of my head was sharp too that's why it wasn't in the frame! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 I can remember delving into other albums and not liking some of them But too much '80's sound about some of them if I remember right. Will have another look at him on the old Spotify Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Scales Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 I used to love Ed's stuff in my younger years around the Serene Machine and Honey Steels Gold albums. Ed, along with the likes of Nick Cave were examples of Aussie performers who brushed shoulders with mainstream popularity occasionally when the mainstream shifted its taste rather than them shifting their own intent. There were others too, Triffids, Go-Betweens etc. Good days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Honey steals gold. That was one I liked I think. Funny , couldn't have told you the name if I'd had a gun to my head. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatbaroque Posted October 24, 2016 Author Share Posted October 24, 2016 Honey steals gold. That was one I liked I think. Funny , couldn't have told you the name if I'd had a gun to my head. . Try Today Wonder BBG. Yes good memories Scales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 This is all Spotify has FB is like you to check out mick flannery , any album is great but I'm right into his latest 'I own you' That goes for anyone here who is wanting new artists to check out , but I reckon it's right up FB's and sals alleys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 I'm not gonna nit pick ya man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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