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The Last Rays of Summer
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Clouds move across a western sky in the last evening of summer. Sometimes the sky lightens briefly, and for a moment, the setting sun strikes out from the between the clouds, before the light fades again.
singer songwriter acoustic folk british guitarist song celtic traditional fingerstyle scottish scotland guitar kelso
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Solo singer-songwriter and tunesmith playing British fingerstyle steel and nylon string guitar, and historic instruments. Scots and Irish influences.
I've been writing and playing songs and tunes since teenage years in folk clubs and pubs. I co-organise the Kelso Friday night live music sessions at the Cross Keys (hosted singaround 7.45-10pm) and Cobbles Inn (10-12pm open mic with The Cobbles Band) with the help of many friends. All welcome! Visit us at kelsofolkandlive co uk. It is worth clicking on the tab because the sound quality of my tracks is far higher than the auto player on this page. Many can be streamed or downloaded at 320KBps and the enhancement for solo guitar/voice far exceeds the benefit you get for highly compressed band recordings. My recordings are full dynamic, not compressed. Just select Hi-Fi for the first song, and an MP3 high bitrate window will open - you will still get a sequence of songs. Most of my downloads are free, but some 320KBps tracks are paid-for. These are selected because they make up my main instrumental album. I now have a YouTube page and have started doing some video recordings for fun: @daviddkilpatrick I have mainly played Lowden guitars since 1999. I current play a 1985 S5FN (nylon string), 1986 S22 (jumbo O-size mahogany/cedar), and 1995 S32 (small body rosewood/spruce). I also play my own 1997-built Martin 'kit' Grand Auditorium rosewood/spruce, a Sigma OM-T, Furch Little Jane, Tacoma Papoose, Guild 8-string baritone, Vintage V880 parlour guitar and Gordon Giltrap signature model, a Troubadour mahogany/spruce classical and an Adam Black 12-string. And that's just the guitars... also viola, mandolin, mandola, waldzither, bouzouki, Appalachian dulcimer, low D whistle, keyboards.
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Acoustic • Acoustic Guitar
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Peak #10
Peak in subgenre #4
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David Kilpatrick
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David Kilpatrick
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February 07, 2008
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MP3 5.5 MB • 320 kbps • 5:57
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'The Last Rays of Summer' was written just after midsummer's day 2000, as we watched grey skies and closed doors against the chill air in Scotland, and wondered where our summer had gone; the days were drawing in again, and it seemed we had only had one warm week in May. Yet we know that here even an October evening can be warm, and even a cloudy day can be beautiful. I have set myself the task of writing and recording a CD of solo guitar instrumentals; in most cases the themes are part of my repertoire, but are freely run together and played ad lib. Here is one which I have taken, and in the course of an evening, set firmly into place as one composition. It took about two hours to shape it and record it. The guitar is a Lowden S25-J rosewood/cedar nylon string jazz model, with an EMG bridge pickup plus an external AKG C1000S microphone. It is fitted with Savarez High Tension fully plastic wound strings, which are rather noisy and abrasive under the fingers but give a bright, almost metallic ring. The bridge pickup sound was 'shaped' using a Trace Elliott TAP-1 preamp. In the Roland VS-880 digital recorder, standard Reverb (level 100) and Compression (level 120) were added.
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danlen
Jan 22, 2011
Nice picken' David, ... really like this tune ! I've listen to it several times ... Great Tune ! Thanks !