365 HOWLS #100: Token Yankee
7-26-2013
bret harold hart
gear:
Fender ac/el guitar
BOSS BR8 digital recording platform
This instant song is an example of what I have been calling 'structured melodic improvisation', whereby I lay a foundation (pre-structure) by improvising a rhythm guitar figure (after jamming on it for a few minutes) to tape. All subsequent overdubs are unrehearsed and unedited. Bass-like sounds are drop-octaved acoustic guitar. Signal processing is courtesy of the Roland FX suite present in the recording deck.
'Token Yankee' is a favorite working of a familiar Blues/Rockabilly/Country 1-4-5 progression that hundreds of Pop songs have utilized. Over the foundational strum, you will hear nods to a host of song-oriented guitarists I have come to admire over the 40 years I've been learning the instrument: JJ Cale, Mark Knopfler, Clarence White, Vince Gill, Roy Buchanan, Billy Bremner, Dave Edmunds, and others. I guess that's why I like this piece so much, it honors my guitar heroes.
This is the last upload in the 365 HOWLS Series on podomatic. I have eaten-up all of the memory available to me. From now on, please visit my 'mop-site', https://www.facebook.com/groups/365HOWLS/ to continue hearing daily free music in this series.