The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #120949   Message #2716574
Posted By: SharonA
04-Sep-09 - 11:54 PM
Thread Name: Mudcatter Music Online - PermaThread
Subject: RE: Mudcatter Music Online - PermaThread
I've got hardly anything online (so far), but there are a couple of songs I can point folks to....

Here's my one-and-only YouTube clip. I was at a friend's house, and he was experimenting with his new software, so we shot the video in his living room. The "tripod" for the camera was a music stand on top of a coffee table. The sound was recorded independently of the video (you can see me nodding to a second friend in another room, handling the sound on computer, at the end of the video); the sound quality is pretty poor and the picture and sound are not in synch. We'd intended to add more tracks, including an instrumental solo, but never got around to it... hence the rhythm guitar without an instrumental lead after the second verse! So here it is, my original song about Barack Obama, written and recorded after the 2008 election but before his 2009 inauguration: "The White House Door"

Then there's an audio-only track of another song I wrote... but the song needs a bit of explaining. It is a sequel to Hank Williams' "Jambalaya", featuring the same couple (the man, who speaks in the first person, and his "Yvonne"); the setting is in New Orleans but shortly after the couple had been caught in Hurricane Katrina. My song is written from the man's point of view (again in the first person) and is really intended to be performed by a man, so please bear that in mind while you hear me sing this demo of "Yvonne", recorded shortly after I'd written it in 2005.

Both of these songs have been sung a bazillion times since (and the Obama song has been revised to a post-inauguration version), so I really ought to update those clips! If the URL's change, I will post the revisions on this thread. Thanks for listening!