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I started digitally recording my guitar music in 2007, beginning with solo finger-style arrangements I created. I like to keep the set-up simple and usually run my guitar directly into a digital recorder, not using a guitar amp.
This results in a very clean tone that has the pure sound of the guitar, is not shaped by an amplifier, and has no interacton between the guitar and an amp's speakers. This is how Les Paul recorded his chart-topping hits.
Prior to 2021, I played and recorded with ol' school archtop jazz style guitars. On the 2021 recordings below, I am using a wonderful Gibson Les Paul, the Traditional model -- I love it!
2021 Music Videos
Instrumentals: More coming!
- Get Your Kicks on Route 66 (3:38)
- How High the Moon (3:29)
- Love is Blue (2:33)
- Mr. Bojangles (5:00)
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow (4:28)
- When You Wish Upon a Star (2:50)
2021 Songs for an Album (MP3s)
- America the Beautiful (3:15). A hymn tune composed in 1882 by choir director and organist Samuel A. Ward, America the Beautiful's author Katharine Lee Bates' first daft of lyrics were written in 1893.
- Guitar Boogie Shuffle (3:28). Written by Arthur Smith in 1945 as "Guitar Boogie", many versions, including mine, change the rhythmic feel with swing 8th notes (first note longer than second). The song then gets titled, "Guitar Boogie Shuffle".
- How High the Moon (3:28). Featured in the broadway show, "Two for the Show", How High the Moon is a favorite standard.
- I'm a Fool To Care (3:35). Written by Ted Daffan written 1940. I'm a Fool to Care has launched some major careers.
- Love is Blue (2:32). L'amour est Bleu (English: Love Is Blue) is a song composed by André Popp, with lyrics by Pierre Cour, in 1967.
- Mr. Bojangles (5:00). American country music artist Jerry Walker wrote and recorded Mr. Bojangles for an album of the same title.
- Over the Rainbow (4:28). A ballad composed by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Yip Harburg, Over the Rainbow was written for the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz", winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
- Route 66 (3:24). This R & B Standard was written in 1946 by Bobby Troup (Get Your Kicks on Route 66). It uses a twelve-bar blues format with lyrics following US 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles.
- Sleep Walk (2:50). Released in 1959 by brothers Santo & Johnny Farina, Sleep Walk is an all-time favorite.
- Six Days on the Road (2:34). Earl Green and Carl Montgomery wrote this hit. Six Days on the Road became country singer Dave Dudley's signature song.
- Só Danco Samba (2:53). An early 1960's bossa nova song by Antônio Carlos Jobim. Só Danço Samba is sometimes known as "Jazz Samba" or "I Only Dance Samba".
- Vaya Con Dios (4:02). Literally "Go with God", written by Larry Russell, Inez James, and Buddy Pepper. Les Paul and Mary Ford turned Via Con Dios into a No. 1 hit in 1953. The Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
- When You Wish Upon a Star (2:50). Written for Walt Disney's 1940 adaptation of Pinocchio by Leigh Harline and Ned Washington, When You Wish Upon a Star sounds great with an upbeat swing feel.
- Your Cheating Heart (2:46). Considered by many among the most important country standards, Your Cheatin' Heart was written and recorded by singer / songwriter Hank Williams.
Please check back as I am doing more studio work this year. I am also tweaking the arrangements and MP3 files.
More Music Videos With Backup Bands
- All of Me (Happy Halloween!) (3:38)
- Blue Monk (3:33)
- ill's Bounce (History of the World) (2:52)
- Late Freight (2:58)
- On Wisconsin (2:48)
- Someday My Prince Will Come (2:48)
- Straight No Chaser (2:55)
- Takin' Names (5:11)
- Tribute to Chuck Berry (2:58)
- Watermelon Man (2:55)
Music Videos, Solo Finger Style Guitar
- All Blue (2:55)
- Amazing Grace (4:08)
- America the Beautiful (3:05)
- Bill's Boogie (3:19)
- Chicken Shack (4:02)
- The Entertainer (4:57)
- Greensleeves (3:45)
- It Had to Be You (4:57)
- Late Freight (Featuring Union Pacific's "Big Boy" Locomotives) (4:20)
- Moonlight in Vermont (4:34)
- My Favorite Things (3:04)
- Rambunctuous (3:22)
- Rim Shot (3:43)
- Rock-A-Bye Baby (3:14)
- Sesame Street Jam (2:57)
- Silver Bells (Christmas in Watertown, Wisconsin) (2:36)
- Sweet Georgia Brown (2:36)
- Take Me Out to the Ball Game (2:36)
- What I Did for Love (2:36)
- When You Wish Upon a Star (2:43)