Molly's 2024 Consolidation - first up: Leaving Louisiana

Back for a second spin, Molly. I love listening to this type of music and you certainly do this one justice. Love your vocal and playing. If you don’t play/sing in a band, you should.

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So impressive and inspiring how you made this song so pleasing to listen to. Thank you!

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Excellent you did a great job with this…. The singing and story carries to tune. The little instrumental riffs help a lot. Fun song.
Love your idea of revisiting songs from earlier in the year … or longer. I think it helps to revisit a song we learned early on and see what we can do with it after build our skills and experience.

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Very nice Molly !!
Its hard to sing, play rhythm, add bass runs, & be a 1 woman band :slight_smile:
I think we should try a song together :slight_smile: I really enjoyed this!

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Thank you Dave @oldhead49. Sadly I don’t play in a band - yet. You never know. Would be fun though.

And thank you @FabienneD @davidsynekoh and @AlyKat for checking this out and leaving a comment!

Wow - this is great and absolutely consistent in timing and strumming! Fantastic singing - the solo is topping on the cake! So well done!

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I feel like such a cheat though, I have promised a lot of videos and then nothing. But the consolidation did happen and I have brushed up a good number of songs. I just didn’t take any videos :confounded:

But I did take videos of two John Prine songs. “Souvenirs” I learned around Easter last year - you might have seen it in one of my open Mic videos from that time, too. With 6 more months of guitar practise since then I noticed that one of the harder sections now rolls off much smoother now (the fiddle on the A chord at the end of the chorus). Still wobbly timing in several places - I did not practise the thumb alone when I learned the song and it makes such a difference. It will take a serious effort to correct this, but that’s for another day. I also pushed the capo up two more frets - better fit for my vocal range.

In the autumn I learned the “Speed of the sound of loneliness”. By then I had changed my approach to learning fingerpicking songs and I am much happier with the result - there is still more room to steady things further but decades of loose timings don’t go away overnight.

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Thank you so much Andreas! And I have now added my own two John Prine songs here :slight_smile:

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Both are lovely !!! So well sung and played !!!

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Molly

Very enjoyable versions of two great songs. Your picking is really good and you sing the lyrics with a feel for the story being told. ‘The Speed of the Sound of Loneliness’ is not an easy song to do and you have done a great job.

Brian

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I enjoyed listening to both songs :slight_smile:

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Thank you so much Brian @beejay56 ! :heart_eyes:

And thank you Deborah @MacOneill for stepping by!

Molly @MollyT
A bit late to this but really nice fingerstyle and I enjoyed both.
Michael

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Thanks for posting… I think you did a great job on these, you timing is not a problem. Love John prine, and this prompts me to dig into more if his songs…

David

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Thank you so much Michael @MAT1953 I am happy you enjoyed the two songs!

Thank you David @davidsynekoh! John Prine is a total treasure, I love his humour and positivity that shines through in so many of his songs. And they are fun to learn + sing.

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