jo4hn wrote:
On 2/23/2014 12:54 PM, Bill wrote:
jo4hn wrote:
On 2/22/2014 8:47 PM, Bill wrote:
Bill wrote:


Can you play me another verse peoples?


Country blues (in the spirit of Blind Lemon Jefferson)?

The saw I love stands 3 feet from the ground;
The saw I use stands 3 feet from the ground;
She sings when she happy, and her cutting it ain't too loud.

She's 3 time 7, she knows what she wants to do;
Give her a 4 by 8, she shows what she's suppose to do;
But if you play her stupid, she may change yer life for you.

They say the eagle flies on Friday, but I'm too tired to dance;
They say the eagle flies on Friday, but my landlord took my rents;
He asked me for a dollar and I kept fify cents.

I took it to Rockler, my nearby woodworking store;
I took it to Rockler, my favorite Festool store;
I showed it to the salesman, and he showed me to the door.


:-)

Thanks for your support John. Not too long ago, in a thread related to
"building your own air compressor", we were talking about how times have
changed over the years; about how so many are so utterly dependent on
the skills of others to provide them with every little thing. It wasn't
mentioned at the time, but this even includes their entertainment. This
sort of music is surely a bit old-fashioned for modern folk culture,
but I think it reasonably accompanies the lively spirit of old hand
tools. This whole matter is a bigger subject than it appears on the
surface, but to the extent that I have pursued it, it yields a more
than mildly-interesting glimpse into the past. A moment I found "rather
eerie" was when I found myself singing a song to myself that most folks
alive most-probably never heard. To borrow the cliche, I "saw a ghost".

As I have aged, my tastes in stuff like music has also aged. I
recently bought a fresh laptop which came with Windows 8 (upgraded to
8.1). I have, for several years abandoned broadcast radio for web
radio and have a collection of stations which satisfy my musical
tastes (my younger brother says I listen to acid country). Windows
has a music feature which mimics Pandora which asks for the name of a
song or artist. Since I am a devout smart-ass, I entered "Memphis Jug
Band" thinking it would come back with an inelegant "huh?" Nope there
they were followed by a lot of others in the style of "Weenie Juke Radio"
(see http://loudcity.com/stations/weenie-juke-radio#). Fantastic. I
may try for some classical Russian choral music next.
The player you found is associated with the forum he
http://weeniecampbell.com
I was a reasonably active participant for a while.





Oh and when I gave my shop to my youngest daughter, I kept two ancient
tools, both manufactured be Craftsman in about 1939: a 12" bandsaw and
a scrollsaw (nee jigsaw). Still work, still useful.

Anyway, have fun and keep up the songwriting (but don't give up the
day job just yet). :-)

I haven't done it in a while. It is not always real easy to create them
on-the-fly--which is part of the style.
And they are not completely random either.. you have to borrow from the
past. So the lyrics are new yet familiar (as you may know).
You have to think of the versus in between them, but not while you're
running a table saw. Here's a nice one:

Nobody loves me but my mother..
And she might be jivin' too.
(bb king)