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Joe's take on Johhny Cash's version of the old folk song. Circa 2001.
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Experimental recordings from over the years featuring various song-writing/music collaborations.
I have been writing and attempting to create original music since I was 17 years old. Since that time, I have collaborated with many different artists on various projects. Thankfully, my friends are just as crazy as I and share a similar penchant for writing and recording homemade music. Most of the jams from back in the day were recorded on cassette tape. Some were done using computers or digitized previously, so they are of higher fidelity. On this page, I have chosen to publish and preserve for posteriority some of the choicer selections from our scatalogue. Many of these recordings were made before the computer age was full blown. Much of the overdubbing on the early recordings was done by tape-to-tape transfer which (if you have ever done it) you know causes an extreme loss of fidelity. Also, the fidelity of the tapes has degraded severely over the years. I did not get around to begin transferring until March 2009. Some of the recordings date as far back as 1991, so as you'll hear, some of the tapes were on the verge of demagnetizing. The recordings vary in quality, and you should be careful to adjust volume as necessary. I tried to give warning of the tracks with hot levels. Take these recordings with a grain of salt. Some were done on very low quality hand-held recorders, others on cassette 4-track, and some were fiddled with using Acid software during periods where computer editing was available. These recordings are being posted mainly for the artists involved. With all those disclaimers in mind, wecolme to The Vault and please indulge yourself in Selections from Our Scatalogue.
Song Info
Genre
Country Cover Songs
Charts
Peak #148
Peak in subgenre #17
Author
Levis
Rights
2001
Uploaded
April 18, 2009
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.0 MB 128 kbps 3:13
Lyrics
Come listen you fellers So young and so fine Seek not your fortune In the dark dreary mine It'll form as a habit And seep in your soul Till the stream of your blood Is as black as the coal For its dark as a dungeon And damp as the dew Where danger is double And pleasures are few Where the rain never falls The sun never shines It's dark as a dungeon Way down in the mine Well it's many a man I've known in my day Whose lived just to labor His young life away Like a fiend with his dope And a drunkard with his wine A man will have lust For the lure of the mine [Chorus] I hope when I'm gone And the ages shall roll My body will blacken And turn into coal And I'll look from the door Of my heavenly home And pity the miner Digging my bones [Chorus] [Instrumental] [Chorus]
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