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 | Feter said 760 days ago |
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Old Tapes ... ! see what memories can bring it diamonds and rust ..! if anything grab me to sit and listen is to hear those folkies ...willing so hard to sing and give honest tunes out of there simple equipments ..always fund to hear your singin and songs as well .your song brought back years of me amd my band sat around a cassette recorder and a simple mixer two mics thats all ... the fun to do it .worth the listening ..simple but rich hearted verses and lyircs .. thank you so much |
 | Tadashi Togawa said 760 days ago |
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The United States youth. Your song is like an old schoolhouse. Wooden schoolhouse of wood frame construction. Classroom where draft blows. Passage in board fence where shadow expands long. |
| Dadai said 759 days ago | |
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Simple chords... played well, lyrics that are... lyrical, poetic. Amazing how by the addition of the vocal harmonies in different verses the song takes on a real sense of change and texture as opposed to repetition. Ed, this just shows that good song writing need not be complex. Another oldie but goodie from yesteryear... |
 | Bubowski said 759 days ago |
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Another Charming Tune Hey Ed, I love these old gems. It always amazes me that someone with your obvious songwriting talent didn't get wider exposure. Just proves that the Music Industry should just drop Music from it's name. Thanks for resurecting this. You should be proud of these songs, they are really good. --Graham |
 | Mungo said 758 days ago |
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Very Pleasant Too often I find music like this cloying - your song is plaintive, not the least bit cloying. Everyone's rehearsal performance sounds good to my ears. BTW, 3 chords is about 2 more than I usually use. Droning on ... |
 | perceptualvortex said 758 days ago |
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Nice I like hearing these old tapes kinds of recordings, and you're right; that harmonizing at the end is really nice. I have many old tapes, but nothing this good. |
 | tatin said 758 days ago |
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What, no a minor? Thats a funny story. Funny how some simple chords can carry a good song. Proves that content is so important. Interesting vocal tonal setup. Love the 60's vibe, almost like i'm there. The lyrics had me conjuring different scenarios about Jane. But who is she? She seems important to want to care about what she feels or thinks. Is she family,freind, lover? I'm to dense at the moment but you made me curious. |
 | The Orbiting said 754 days ago |
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Oh Dear... I'm learning to play the guitar and I'm working on a song of my own using...wait for it...C, G, Amaj...oh, but I'll surpise you with a D, rather than an F. (See, I can be original). It really is so amazing how so many different songs can be made with a few chords. It's all about the patterns, really, I guess. I love it that you shared a rehearsal recording of this song. It's especially cool seeing as it's a folk song. It just sounds like some folkies who have whipped out the guitar and are singing just for the pleasure of it, which is equally pleasurable to hear as a listener. As I've mentioned before, I really enjoy the peeks into your life that this revived music brings. I also love your songs about some mystery woman. It's nice how oblique you are with your lyrics on those. |
 | Ejh said 753 days ago |
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Well, you SURPISED me.... ...with the A major...after THAT, the D just finds its way... I am enjoying this recent thing I'm doing, sort of poking around in my past and making this aural collage from bits of it... It's very nice to take something nigh unto unlistenable and do stuff that brings it back enough that a person gets a reasonably clear window to that moment... I do wish that I had a few more old pictures to recycle, so that for this one I might have a photo of Julia... I wish I had photos of some of our rehearsals and stuff... I may have to go rummage in The Trunk, downstairs, where much Old Stuff lives... scary, that...you open The Trunk for one thing, but what you find is another... Back in the Wheatstone Bridge days, we used to tease each other about our songwriting tendencies... Phyllis used to be known as the one who wrote songs comparing her life and loves to natural phenomena and, if they weren't going so well, natural disasters... I was teased for being the one who named names... There are a lot of women's names that show up in my songs, and with maybe one exception, they are all real people's names... (Real people known to my bandmates, of course.) And yet... I liked the mystery of it... I liked to paint a fairly complete picture, and then take out one thing... I liked there to be a question to draw a listener in... A lot of times, I think, there would be a lot of fairly concrete detail in my songs, but then also this sense of, 'what's NOT being said or told here?' Gosh, Lisa, you DO get me thinking... Anyway, thanks again for the good listen and the long and thoughtful, appreciative comment... It only encourages me, you know... Ed |
 | Einarus said 752 days ago |
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Another feel-good hit! Things don't always have to be complicated and groundbreaking to be an enjoyable listen. Sure there are chord progressions that you can hear in every other song, but there's a reason why they're used so much - they work! This works - and pretty well, too. -Einar S. |
 | Pete_NB said 749 days ago |
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Timeless This could have been written last night. Pleasant simple melodies are the back bone of most great songs in my opinion, and your music has that. |
| .rschletty said 749 days ago | |
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fresh echoes Very good quality. Nothing like old analog recordings that haven't disintegrated. Good thing you rescued this. Say, I am having trouble playing along. You were tuned about a quarter step down or the recorder you are playing the old reel on has a worn out capstan or rubber edged wheel somewhere. But that's OK. Congratulations on your "first real song". Too bad some accolades take 30 years to gather in. |
 | thoddi said 747 days ago |
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less is more again and again... This song proves it with it'simple plot. Lovely voices. It's strange that it's recorded so long ago. Sounds like it could have been done tonight... Thanks Ed. Beautiful:) |
 | paul f. page said 521 days ago |
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There's nothing... ...wrong with a simple chord structure. Just about every song in the 20th century that has stood the test of time is based on three or four chords. ... I always love the directness of your music, Ed. There's no messing with a lot of subtext: just a straight-forward message in the lyric and a clean accompaniment. Sure, a bit more backup orchestration (bass, some percussion, maybe a little string treatment) and some EQ to give a little more ambiance to the mix would be great, but you've got to start with the tune and the structure. Without that, you're a gonner.... And you definitely got that.... I've now enjoyed another great tune from your pen. Wonderful. Paul |
you are stuff is extremely melodic and really does have that feeling of
larger instrumenation potiental. That is a real sign of a great song when
you hear it in your mind, and it jumps at you like it wants to be played on
all the folk stations around the world. That is what I love about folk, is
that when it is oozing with melody and rhythm it works as does this one.
Thanks for sharing precious folk music Ed, it is a great blessing to have
that available here at MJ. It helps make "folk" live on and on !