My Spring Valley Home

Here's a very rough  3rd mix down attempt of this lil bluegrass tune..
This past saturday, I was sitting on skype with Wisdom
and was inspired.. So I sit and wrote this from start to
finish!! Then we ended Wiz's pain by torturing him with
LD, my daughter and myself doing a live very rough version..
The final version will be the two of them on backup vocals..
well each will take a verse too.. but hey, can't seem to get
her motivated enough, so I had to go ahead and throw it
together.. Ask Wiz. .he survived the ordeal!!

well I tried to get it better..


Dan - Bluey

damn..

banjo is bad off. .just said I had one..
oh well, just gotta get ld motivated.
have this and two others she has yet
to finish..  but never said I could
play a banjo either.. *lol* 
  things take shape with you take
your time and don't rush..
 hell ain't gonna fight it to much.
not that much fight left in me!


Blueyes

everyone's seen it enough already..  (lol)
 hell it's only getting better a little at
the time..


blueyes - Dan

yee hooo

dunno if its a cover or not but I guess all bluegrass melodies sound like another bluegrass melody.
good vocal work but could you please use a plop killer?
love the banjo and the spirit of the instruments

that is pure me..  wisdom suffered
through the whole process from
start to finish! just ask him.. 
yes I need a noice gate on the
vocals.. all of that will be online
just as soon as the electrial is
fixed and the studio is setup..
I reealized a while back, just all
the modern digital garbage still
will never replace analog!


Blueyes

This is perfect in nearly every way, but for the plops!!!
Like it a lot as a song, cover, bluehay whatever, really like the vocal effect/feel, beautiful, but for the plops!!!
Is that you or your daughter on the harmonics?

I figured out a possible match in
a different genre... "marshall tucker
band's",  "Fire On the Mountain"
where it say's "left my family for
my carolina home"..  the part "for
my carolina home" is plenty close
enough.. so yea I guess everything
is really a cover of something we
heard at any given four - five minute
interval in our lives.. 
  I thought about it all day and
really wasn't sure if I came off like
I was offended by being acused of
covering another song, "which I
wasn't!!!" ;-)  Or if I sounded like
"No Way" this couldn't sound like
anyone else's song, it's all mine!
*lol*  if I came off like either or
both, I apologize big time guys!!!
 cuz yes it's true, almost all, not
just some, but all, bluegrass does
in fact sound alike until you
put words to it!! *rofalol*  and
even then it's hard to tell the
john hardy rag's from the john
henry blues...  *lolol*  always
wanted a chance to say that,
even when I was a kid and my
dad was running me round
this part of the country to the
shriner's bluegrass festivals and
the ol tyme mt. music festivals
and such... it was fun I guess..
never really did pay it that much
attention. just my picking and
certain things I saw, like my
first gibson harp guitar around
12 years old... I payed close
enough attention to what was
also being talked about between
it's owner and others around..
as it was almost like a one of
a kind instrument then.. got
the guy alot of attention as
well as made some very pretty
noise!!!  well believe it or not,
what a bunch of folk don't
know is I took the idea from
something my father has
and spent the better part of
the past 33years designing a
stringed instrument bracing
system that if ever discovered
will change the way acoustic
stringed instruments are made
from that point till the end
of time...
 Oh hell I would love to
take this conversation all
the way through to the end of
it to enlighten some folk that
will someday end up working
on everything from cables to
guitar teching...   but will
cut to the chase..  Even my
bracing system as original and
unique as it is, was inspired
from two things really, my
father's personal item and
from a set of plans I saw to
a violin from the seventeenth
century...  his and mine are
distinctly different in the way
that his braces for his violin
reached across from the
sound board - face plate
of the instrument to the
back of it.. hampering the
sound board from vibrating
as well as dampening the
pure resonating richness of
what ever fine wood he
chose to use..
  but I apologize again if
you didn't think I got it and
if I, in any way, sounded
negative about it at all..
I don't. .I take most criticizing
and use the good in it..  if
and when there is some..
in which there was here..
some very good ones..
the one that jumps out is
that I maybe need to forget
as much as I can and go on
with it.. I have already stressed
a whole lot over what short
term and long term losses that
I had already realized had
happened during and since my
medical events..   oh well I digres..

but hey thanks too, with good
replies, at least I can always
re-examine and work on them!


Blessings.

Dan - Bluey

Traditional bluegrass songs used to be played very similar to indian music, all over one ot two chords with a lot of complex hammer'n'pull. You have that with a perfect touch of cromatics and I believe that you really captured the sound and soul of the music. Not to mention the lyrics are so sing-a-ble to really rock to. You really had fun with the 2:28-2:5~ , I can tell. Just a delicious little ear feast we have here.

thanks for the great review.. yea I did
have some fun there! ;-)


blessings,

Dan - Blueyes

i like this one its pretty sweet man keep doing what you do and god bless

I like the vox and the vocal melody, it's catchy and will grow on you.

I think if you had some very basic percussion/drums it would help considerably with your timing.

I like the feel too.

Denis

Nice job in here blue.Yeah work on the time issue and you're set .The song is great lots of cool hooks in it!!!!!

makes me think of home back in the country lol i want my spring vally home back ;( :tear: this is beautriful. im not really into bluegrass but every now and then i sit down and take a hit or two. my friend, now she's real big into blue grass. she loves it. the lyrics to this are beautful man. they really are tuched me right in tthe heart. good job blue keep it going and make some more for us k?
awsome job
pap

is one of the only pure music forms I do still like..
and certain forms of jazz... even though my own
religious and spiritual views are quite controversial,
old tyme gospel, and  old tyme southern rock and roll!!!
perfections in these styles is only a personal frame of mind!
guess I'm finally feeling the over growth pains of the
greedy machine in commercializing everything beyond
being entertainment and enjoyable!! there that's an
ear full in one sentence.. I go out the back door,
around the barn, up through the garden and into
the front door just to get through to the living
room for a very good reason.. it's so much easier
then having to crawl over so many bodies that
are already in the way!!

hmmm, little to intense huh?

well then just forget I said it!!!  


Blessings and Thanks