This is the first track I worked on this FAWM. I wanted it to be a country song, but instead this slow string-band dance tune clawed its way to the front, obliterating what I thought was a great opening line for the chorus: "Call me anything you like, but don't call me late for dinner."
I'm pretty sure we've all come across this person at some point.
Kicks off from a true story: my wife and I took a hike during this FAWM up along the Rappahannock River. We live in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where almost every location was part of a Civil War battlefield and a potential burying ground. Many of the fallen from both sides were found and reburied in the big cemeteries created after the war. This grave, however, was left alongside the river with no identification of its occupant.
Title from Fitzgerald's 1859 translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
XIX
I sometimes think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head
Collab with @yewnorker on his lyrics, which aren't mine, so Im not posting.
Jumped off from the "Strange Woman Blues," as recorded by David Holt.
The fiddle parts are based on David Hilowitz' "Lewis E. Pyle
Violin" VST instrument:
https://www.decentsamples.com/product/lewis-e-pyle-violin-kontakt-ableton-sfz-free/
From the "Haunted Banjo" challenge:
https://fawm.org/forums/topic/12615/
Also a nod to Henry Clay Work's "My Grandfather's Clock", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Grandfather%27s_Clock
Collab with lyrics from @yewnorker: since they're not mine, I'm not posting the recording.
I thought this was going somewhere else, but it turned into a fiddle tune: who am I to argue?
Made with my rough-and-ready DIY banjer:
https://files.fawmers.org/FAWM_2022/tseaver/photos/tin-dish-banjo.jpg
The "head" is a tin dish purported by the junk dealer here in Fredericksburg to be from a Civil War-era mess kit. I'm doubtful, as there weren't any real standard-issue kits back then, but it makes a good story, anyway.
Took the inspiration for this from one of the Sunday Secrets at PostSecret:
https://postsecret.com/2022/01/29/sunday-secrets-400/