You are an excellent instrument maker and musician. This track sounds so authentic. I could see this song being featured on an episode of Mayans while they're riding their Harleys...
loving these mate, they're like some soundtrack to a delta murder mystery or something. i'm sure i can hear the great greasy Mississippi flowing on by like some great artery, even though i've never been to the states!
OOhh perfect finding dark themes even the happier stuff I do on occasion ;) I love how music can transport you anywhere and put you in a whole new state of mind. I've spent my whole life in the northeasten part of the states, never been to the Mississippi delta but these guitars sure have a way of transporting us there. I'll try and get more up to date stuff put up. I've been away from here for a while and not nearly as active as I was in the past. I do a ton on facebook groups related to the worldwide homemade instrument movement. I love how it's like the home recording revolution. Tonight I've been sitting here playing on a guitar made from a license plate a friend made me in a guitar swap. Where I'm not a singer I got into using soundscapes created from sounds found around the web along with my own recordings to add that extra dimension, and do something a bit different than the usual.
Esto es alucinante, suena de vicio, me gusta este ambiente hipntico y LA ENORME CALIDAD EN LA PRODUCCIN. la lluvia y el cuervo complementa el ambiente espectral de la pista. Gracias Burtsbluesboxes por dejarnos descargar esta obra de arte. Que tengas un buen da. Paz y salud para todos.
Awesome thank you :D You may need to use google translate like I did and that's what I got below. I do music as a hobby just like building these homemade guitars from junk. I find with production less is more. The more you EQ and compress stuff the worse you end up making it sound. I try and get the tone I like before recording, then adjust to get everything in the mix comfortably.
Impresionante gracias :D Es posible que deba usar google translate como lo hice yo. Hago msica como un pasatiempo al igual que la construccin de estas guitarras caseras de basura. Me parece que con la produccin menos es ms. Cuanto ms ecualizador y comprimir cosas peor terminas haciendo que suene. Trato de obtener el tono que me gusta antes de grabar, luego ajustar para obtener todo en la mezcla cmodamente.
Still at it and still lurking in the graveyards ;) I hadn't been recording much for a bit, doing more building than playing. I've got to take some time tonight and scroll through what everyone's been up to lately.
i need those frets i think!! hdu are frequently quite loud and full on but they do some good atmostpheric stuff. a song called 'lull' off their higher album is a good example of their more ambient stuff. all the best to you
LOL!! Fretless slide is definitely a different style. I like 3 string tuned open g GDG. I have a 4 string fretted tuned EADG like a regular guitar. There's one stringers, 2 stringers, 3, 4 5, and your traditional 6. Lap steels are pretty big thing too. People will make them out of a 2x4 or old violin case. If you get a chance look up Fat Knuckle Freddy. He's like the Jimi Hendrix of the primitive fretless guitars. He calls his style Graveyard Blues. Very Punk like, loud and full of energy. Very cool guy if you get to ever meet him too. I was set up selling guitars at a show he played 2 weeks ago, his dinner set was quite mellow, laid back playing, sitting in a chair. When he took the stage for the night set it was wild. Shocked some of the people :D
Love the intro, guitars sounds awesome. Homemade far out, you're obviously a craftsman and we need more of those! I'll tell u this reminds me a little of a nz band called hdu who use similar layered guitar textures. But this is unique and I really enjoyed it.
Not the biggest fan of this genre, dark and moody, but had to comment on that guitar, whether it my thing or not, that guitar is superb and the crow was cool and I like the sharp end plain old stop, well done
We can all learn alot from each other and other genres. I learned a ton here when I started out using a computer to make music from the electronic based musicians. I wish we could share pictures on here. The guitar is made from an old kitchen drawer, wallet tin, piece of oak for the neck and an old Telecaster pick up.
This is great - dark and moody and wonderful (and with the crow sound a little quirky) production and I love that you actually made the guitar AS WELL as writing a great atmospheric track - really epic - I hope all the random listeners lean in to more than the first 15 seconds. Ends a little abruptly but nice work
I'm very pleased with the first track Sorrow, the second needs a bit more work, really thinking I need to extend it. On you tube there's 2 documentaries on cigar box guitars, Songs inside the Box and Makers of a revolution a uk based one. There's a long history of homemade instruments by people wanting to make music but not able to afford expensice guitars and such. Damn things are more addictive than crack! Dark and moody is my favorite stuff :D
The intro was right out of a Clint Eastwood western, I can smell and taste that half smoked cigar as I listen. I would consider that part an interlude, a separate track introducing the piece to follow and connected to it in some way. The main piece is raw, dirty and swampy and I can dig that! Nice composition overall.
Thanks Wayne :D The intro was messing about on my new Gunslinger guitar making a soundcheck video, I got in the swap. I really liked it so added it in. Great description! I wish I could share pictures here, it's a skeleton cowboy smoking a cigar, strung with acoustic strings with a ghosted (hidden under the lid) magnetic flat humbucker pick up. Yes they work but a bit quieter than electrics. It does have quite an old western kind of sound. It did seem to fit with the following I recorded for the video showing all the guitars that were swapped, what a BLAST that was! :D Always a pleasure Wayne, wish I could hang around here as much as I used to!! I do alot with the cbg groups on fb these days. There's no hope but to build more LOL!!
My god man, you are a blues god aren't you? Holy moly, that is some tasty playing right there, like Ry Cooder and Mississippi Fred McDowell got together to play some cigar boxes, and this is what came out. Seriously, this is just about as good as it gets. Not only do you have the talent to build one of these bad boys, you have the chops to bring them to life. Smokin' piece. I hope all is well.
Wow Blues god status!! Thank you Bear! There's nothing like these beautiful guitars, so unique and fun to play and build. I barely touch my six stringer production guitars anymore. Even got into making my own pick ups which seem quite popular. All is well, been working all through this virus crap, thankful the school is closed to unauthorized persons. There's been a few quaranteen build competitions, but this one was a swap, build a guitar for someone, recieve one in return.
Who knew a stick in a cigar box with some strings could create such sounds! I make alot of short videos playing live for fb groups like that intro. Stay Tuned ;)
They be gone but their influence is not. Exotic sounds on exotic guitars. Calling on the soul of the blues, I made The Lone Rider, The Gunslinger was made for me. Handmade slide and pick too :p Happy you enjoyed, it was alot of fun!
This track is dripping with so much talent I'm blown away by it, this for me is real, live and alive! music in it's purest, authentic self, you have the ability to deliver that each time throughout your work of your musical mastery and craft, it's a feast for to ears truly it is.Some of the music today is so tweaked into perfection that it either becomes samey same, or simple boring but this what you have produced is what my father would call the realist of the real! with regards to music. I'm impressed! to know you also make the instruments to create such GREAT! music is in a league of it's own. We are lucky on LM, to even get to witness such awesome talent.
I only respond to what i hear and how awesome music makes me feel, so it's a genuine response always and you have produced a masterpiece. Keep up the greatness! always worth listening to indeed. Kudos!
Thanks SweetCherries :D Your father is a smart man. I grew so tired of fake perfect music made strictly for monetary gain, I got into recording my own. This was a 3 part video showing the progression of a live jam, starting with the rythym guitar played with the drum groove, then the bass added, lead guitar over it all. This is the direct recorded into the computer version, while videos are even more lo fi having been recorded by my webcam. I love this quote - Real music has to start from the soul. The boy who tortures a tune on a banjo of his own manufacture is far closer to the true spirit of music than the poor lad whose fond mama stands him up before her patient friends and makes him scrape through a masterpiece on his violin. The music of the banjo boy may be crude but it is generated deep down inside of him. It's the boys soul which is speaking.
On Facebook I'm involved with a group regarding learning to play and writing music. This weeks lesson was about finding your inspiration and putting together a song. Trains and blues just go together :D
The picture it went with is no longer available, but that's a great description of both the music and image. It was a ghostly guitar image in a garden, best I can describe it.
Commented on Friday night Jam 6 7 19 by Burtsbluesboxes
Tres belle piste de blues, il ne lui manque des paroles.
Yahwelle
Very nice blues track, it just needs some lyrics.
Yahwelle
Commented on Friday night Jam 6 7 19 by Burtsbluesboxes
Nice blues sound. Guitars sound as good as any Gibson I've heard. I can hear the Black Sabath influence. Nice AX playing. PEACE. T576 OUT.
Commented on Sorrow and Chorum Corvas Corax by Burtsbluesboxes
You are an excellent instrument maker and musician.
This track sounds so authentic.
I could see this song being featured on an episode of Mayans while they're riding their Harleys...
Peace
Commented on Cavern by the sea by Burtsbluesboxes
loving these mate, they're like some soundtrack to a delta murder mystery or something. i'm sure i can hear the great greasy Mississippi flowing on by like some great artery, even though i've never been to the states!
Commented on Sorrow and Chorum Corvas Corax by Burtsbluesboxes
Esto es alucinante, suena de vicio, me gusta este ambiente hipntico y LA ENORME CALIDAD EN LA PRODUCCIN. la lluvia y el cuervo complementa el ambiente espectral de la pista. Gracias Burtsbluesboxes por dejarnos descargar esta obra de arte. Que tengas un buen da. Paz y salud para todos.
Commented on Sorrow and Chorum Corvas Corax by Burtsbluesboxes
Yeo Bart,
You've still at it?
I'm glad you're still here mate.
Great track as usual my man.
Well done
Maj
Commented on Sorrow and Chorum Corvas Corax by Burtsbluesboxes
i need those frets i think!! hdu are frequently quite loud and full on but they do some good atmostpheric stuff. a song called 'lull' off their higher album is a good example of their more ambient stuff. all the best to you
Commented on Sorrow and Chorum Corvas Corax by Burtsbluesboxes
Love the intro, guitars sounds awesome. Homemade far out, you're obviously a craftsman and we need more of those! I'll tell u this reminds me a little of a nz band called hdu who use similar layered guitar textures. But this is unique and I really enjoyed it.
Commented on Sorrow and Chorum Corvas Corax by Burtsbluesboxes
Not the biggest fan of this genre, dark and moody, but had to comment on that guitar, whether it my thing or not, that guitar is superb and the crow was cool and I like the sharp end plain old stop, well done
Commented on Sorrow and Chorum Corvas Corax by Burtsbluesboxes
This is great - dark and moody and wonderful (and with the crow sound a little quirky) production and I love that you actually made the guitar AS WELL as writing a great atmospheric track - really epic - I hope all the random listeners lean in to more than the first 15 seconds. Ends a little abruptly but nice work
Commented on Train Ride by Burtsbluesboxes
excellent
Commented on Train Ride by Burtsbluesboxes
cool, man.
Commented on Ghost of a guitar by Burtsbluesboxes
Cool, reminds me of the small clubs in the early 70's with those 15 minute leads.
Commented on CBG Swap 2020 Lockdown edition by Burtsbluesboxes
The intro was right out of a Clint Eastwood western, I can smell and taste that half smoked cigar as I listen. I would consider that part an interlude, a separate track introducing the piece to follow and connected to it in some way. The main piece is raw, dirty and swampy and I can dig that! Nice composition overall.
Well done Burt!
Wayne
Commented on CBG Swap 2020 Lockdown edition by Burtsbluesboxes
My god man, you are a blues god aren't you? Holy moly, that is some tasty playing right there, like Ry Cooder and Mississippi Fred McDowell got together to play some cigar boxes, and this is what came out. Seriously, this is just about as good as it gets. Not only do you have the talent to build one of these bad boys, you have the chops to bring them to life. Smokin' piece. I hope all is well.
Bear
Commented on CBG Swap 2020 Lockdown edition by Burtsbluesboxes
i love that swamp guitar work on the intro thick and tasty and the slide work is exceptional loved it well done i enjoyed it immensely. faved
Commented on CBG Swap 2020 Lockdown edition by Burtsbluesboxes
Love the blues feel. Nice guitar intro play.
Thanks for sharing
Commented on CBG Swap 2020 Lockdown edition by Burtsbluesboxes
really beautiful intro, exotic sounds nice, thick tone on the electrics! great playing, glad i heard this one today, too rip buddy guy.
Commented on CBG Swap 2020 Lockdown edition by Burtsbluesboxes
Nice work!
Commented on Live Jam for FB by Burtsbluesboxes
Hi Burt,
This track is dripping with so much talent I'm blown away by it, this for me is real, live and alive! music in it's purest, authentic self, you have the ability to deliver that each time throughout your work of your musical mastery and craft, it's a feast for to ears truly it is.Some of the music today is so tweaked into perfection that it either becomes samey same, or simple boring but this what you have produced is what my father would call the realist of the real! with regards to music. I'm impressed! to know you also make the instruments to create such GREAT! music is in a league of it's own. We are lucky on LM, to even get to witness such awesome talent.
I only respond to what i hear and how awesome music makes me feel, so it's a genuine response always and you have produced a masterpiece. Keep up the greatness! always worth listening to indeed. Kudos!
Commented on Train Ride by Burtsbluesboxes
you called it blue...i call it blue rock and roll...the intensity is crazy in this track
Commented on Train Ride by Burtsbluesboxes
Hello mate,
This track is outstanding my friend.
I love the sound effect at the end nice touch.
Well done.
Jamid
Commented on Train Ride by Burtsbluesboxes
I thought the train recording at the end was a great touch, good work overall.
Commented on Ghost of a guitar by Burtsbluesboxes
Enchanted
Commented on Cavern by the sea by Burtsbluesboxes
Like the sea...