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Criminal Record
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Where most of my songs are traditional, this is modern - almost grunge. There are no wasted words, just plain me and a guitar.
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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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Peak #126
Peak in subgenre #25
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David Kilpatrick
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David Kilpatrick
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November 25, 2003
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MP3 4.4 MB 128 kbps 4:48
Story behind the song
You can decide how real this is; actually, it's a mixture of people. It's about how the justice system can trap kids by giving them a record and pinning them down, sometimes in a place where there's nothing there anyway. That just encourages the wrong response. There's also the ghost of a singer-songwriter I knew back around 1970 in there. He never made it big, and I guess he probably never made it, full stop.
Lyrics
I put down roots and then You pull them up again Oh can you tell me when I'll be allowed to grow? I write down words and lines I make up tunes and rhymes I lay these landmines In the wasteland of my soul Ch: But I never shot the arrow No, I never killed the bird I never read the verdict out I swear I never heard the prisoner cry As he fell out of the sky No I swear I never heard the prisoner cry As he fell out of the sky I dig your lover's grave I spend what others save I know no other way The find my way back home I make my plans and then You rip them up again Oh can't you tell me when I'll be allowed to go (Ch repeat) (1st vers and ch repeat)
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