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.
So impressive and inspiring how you made this song so pleasing to listen to. Thank you!
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.
Very nice Molly !!
Its hard to sing, play rhythm, add bass runs, & be a 1 woman band
I think we should try a song together I really enjoyed this!
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!
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
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.
Thank you so much Andreas! And I have now added my own two John Prine songs here
Both are lovely !!! So well sung and played !!!
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
I enjoyed listening to both songs
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
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.