Frederick Serafim

Cover of CCR's Fortunate Son, featuring, guitars, piano, horns, synths, bit of electronic...

I played my first paid gig in the summer of 69. I was almost 16. My rendition of this leans more towards an E Street styling. (Story behind the song continued below)

My brother asked me to record these bed tracks so that he could support a political candidate by singing his lyrics - Political Woman. Having already recorded the song, I decided I might as well use the track as well and sing the original lyrics.

I always loved Procol Harum's Conguistador, especially the live version recorded with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.

I used to do a live vocal duet version of this song with the late Catherine Clarkson, using this self-recorded backup track. We never did record the vocal rendition, and so instead I added this improvised lead guitar instrumental.

I was 6 years old when Marty Robbins released El Paso in 1959. It was the first song that truly impressed me and made me want to learn how to sing and play.

Conway Twitty wrote this song in 1958 while living in Hamilton Ontario, walking distance to where I lived years later. He was unknown at that time and his manager sent him to this less competitive medium sized country music mecca to gain experience.

Solo acoustic version. Sometimes I play this at parties. It's not a song you think of as being suited for acoustic styling, but Springsteen must have played it something like this when he first wrote it. Very important song!

Acoustic reworking of John Lennon's tune, minus the middle 8, and the title pluralized.