Hog Time
Primarily acoustic music in a folk, blues, light rock or country flavor. Guitar, banjo, mandolin, percussion
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River Oh River River Oh River
A modal, 'mountainy' folk song with guitar, banjo, mandolin and vocals.
Thinking Of You Thinking Of You
Country/folk rock 'story' song with acoustic guitar, lap steel guitar, banjo, bass and drums
My Old Dad My Old Dad
A tribute to my late, and much admired, Dad, and to all those like him, who didn't make it to the Hall of Fame, but were still mighty fine fathers, anyway.
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Hog Time Music is the creative outlet of Ralph Goff. I write most of the songs and record them in my home based studio, Hog Time Studio.
I'm backed up on many songs by my long time musical partner and friend, John Jett, playing banjo and resonator guitar. John is also the artist of the Hog Time Music drawing. I primarily play acoustic guitar (1969 Martin D18, Taylor 812C and 1963 Gibson Southern Jumbo), and add some fills with mandolin on some songs. In addition, most vocal work is by me. Computer generated drum and bass is also used on some songs.Band/artist history
It was the late 1950s. Four high school boys from Fayetteville, Arkansas formed a 4 piece Rock and Roll band, "The Valiants" (bands named after cars were common in those days). Through the early 60s, they played school dances and some of the local college hangouts. One of those hangouts was the Rockwood Club. Other frequent performers there were Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks. The Hawks (less Ronnie) later went on to national fame as "The Band". Fast forward to now. Ex-Valiants Ralph Goff and John Jett have lived in Southern California for over 30 years, but have not gone on to national fame in anything, much less R&R. However, they have maintained their friendship and interest in music all this time. The 70s saw musical interest shift to bluegrass music. Now it's all over the map - rock, blues, country, folk and bluegrass. Current musical activity consists of a couple of weekly jam sessions and a public "open mike" session, here or there. In the future, who knows? Maybe playing the "nursing home circuit" or something similarly exciting.Have you performed in front of an audience?I play live only at open mics. Would like to play in a group that did gigs a couple of times a month. I jam regularly with friends.
Your musical influences
Fellow "Arkie" Ronnie Hawkins (whose backup band later became "The Band"), BB King, Bob Dylan, Jimmy ReedWhat equipment do you use?
Now using a Yamaha AW1600 16 track hard disk recorder. However, many of my songs were done on the prior version AW16G recorder, which is very similar to the AW1600.Anything else?
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Los Osos, CA
USA
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Comments (5)
Very cool, Ralph - I dig it :)
Hello, I listened to "Please Take This Letter To Heaven"...I enjoyed the whole concept of the song....and you start the song of talkin of a fish you caught! awesome, i catch bass and carp in the river next to my house in a city...i enjoyed your play also, stay at it, i voted the song HOT to push it higher in the charts, I would like for you to listen to my instrumental sometime, thanks and much respect...
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Bury Me on an Arkansas Hilltop (;AWESOME LYRICS;)Well written.Fun song.Thanks for sharing(:HIS SONSHINE:)(;BLUEGRASS RULES;) Your Soundclick Bro.~(;Yrral Mallik;)
Hey man, I got here from your link on the aw16g forum. Love your new tune (bury me on an arkansas hilltop). Sounds great as usual. Keep on Pickin !!!
give our tunes a listen if you want to ...
sorry I dont have any hot rap beats to offer you, lol :)
Well after several years on Soundclick I just realized I could add a message board!!
Looking for your comments.
Thanks,
Ralph (aka The Head Hog)
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