| Date mailed or hand-delivered: |
03/01/2008 |
| Album Description: |
Working mans acoustic folk/blues, the raw sound of music recorded under a single bare lightbulb. |
| Tracks (w/numbers): |
01 - Day's End
02 - Blacksmith
03 - Blacksmith's Wife
04 - Standing at the Crossroads of the Elements
05 - Song of the Anvil
06 - Anvils in the Rain
07 - Burned my Finger Blues
08 - Go Away Boy, You Bother Me
09 - Forge Smoke Rises
10 - Blacksmith (reprise)
11 - Introduction to Old Guy Rock
12 - Old Guy Rock |
| Preferred Track: |
"Blacksmith" or "Go Away Boy, You Bother Me" |
| Band Bio: |
Just a blacksmith for 25+ years, trying to get aching old hands to work. The songs are simple and easy, so I can play and sing them at shows and Ren Fairs around the Great Lakes circut.
Despite technical problems that resulted in recording almost the entire album through a USB headset, I have several songs here that I will polish and eventually work into our regular show rotation and rerecord as a finished album when I get the tech issues solved. |
| Band Members & Instruments Played: |
J. Griswold - Guitars, Vocal, Hammer and Anvil
C. J. Griswold - Guitar on "Song of the Anvil"
Equipment:
Takamine EG-230
Squire Fat Telecaster (in baby vomit yellow - they call it "antique white". Humbucker in neck, normal tele bridge pickup).
Lotus L-570 (great 1979 les paul copy with a set neck, duncan JB humbucker and solid ash body with a dark tobacco stain finish. Weighs 12 pounds! Plays better than 90% of the real paul's I have ever played, and that's a whole lotta guitars). |
| Band Location (city, state or province, and country): |
Hart MI USA |
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