Sometimes I just like to sketch

[mapsedge]

As a veteran of renaissance festivals, I grew to hate the song "Wild Mountain Thyme", a.k.a. "Go, Lassie Go."  Last Huzzahs all over have turned it into a dreadful clasp-hands-and-tearfully-sway funereal dirge.

Then I heard James Taylor do it, and after that Dick Gaughan.  Made me a believer again.

On a lark, I decided to record it last Sunday.  It's just a sketch, certainly not ready for prime time (I will be recording it again), but I'm damn pleased with it (which for me really says something.)

Wild Mountain Thyme

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Comments

[hdsqrl.livejournal.com]

Ohh...love it, truly. Well done.

[red-tess.livejournal.com]

Nice!
I look forward to hearing more! :)

[akaashben.livejournal.com]

Wow! I had to do a double-take... your voice sounds very much like James Taylor on this track! I really like it. :-)

[jehosefatz.livejournal.com]

Excellent work! A couple orders of magnitude improvement over the usual.

- Jeho

[hurricanedeck.livejournal.com]

Wowzers. Thanks for sharing!

[renniemom.livejournal.com]

Keep 'em coming! It sounds wonderful.
I, too, am not a huge fan of that song. But I do like that arrangement.

nice job

[iarraidh.livejournal.com]

I would not have thought such life could be blown into that old flat tire.

Well done indeed!