Jeff Kratzman - Christian Music
Reinventing The Wheel
Re-inventing songs and poems from the Public Domain. Songs cross-over both categories.
Release date: October 2018
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1
I Would Not Live Always
One live pass of an Ovation Legend acoustic guitar. There are no strings, but I have played some multi-tap delay tricks to give it that feel.
MP3 (160 kbps)
3:48
2
Dust and Clay
Song is based on a public domain poem by * Nathaniel Hawthorne Go to the Grave. I added 2 verses and music. Main acoustic guitar is a Takamine F-360S. There is also Takamine F-400 on the verses and an electric on the choruses.
MP3 (320 kbps)
3:05
3
Before the Paling of the Stars
Song based on a poem by Christina Rossetti (1865). One pass with Takamine F-360S.
MP3 (320 kbps)
1:50
4
Three years and Seven months (5/20/1669)
Fingerstyle on alternate tuned Takamine F-360S. Song based on a 350+ year old Poem by Anne Bradstreet to mark the death of her granddaughter. Percussion is on a Celtic Bodhrán and bones.
Lossless, MP3 (320 kbps)
3:07
5
Beyond the Cross
One Pass of acoustic with Strings based on a poem by William H Burleigh entitled Still Will we Trust written in 1868
Lossless, MP3 (320 kbps)
4:00
6
O Sacred Head now Wounded
Lyrics are pulled from an original passion poem by Bernard of Clairvaux. One pass of a Vista HD-28.
Lossless, MP3 (320 kbps)
3:37