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Jesse and Joe traditional folk song written in 1999. Recorded live on acoustics at Jesse's South Miami apartment. Lyrical idea by Jesse about his old guitar, Stella, adapted by Joe.
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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
Charts
Peak #508
Peak in subgenre #43
Author
Schlactman/Levis
Rights
1999
Uploaded
April 21, 2009
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.7 MB 128 kbps 4:04
Lyrics
Cried the night ol' Stella died But somehow she's still alive Old Stella . . . I revived ya. Said it was the last time she would use her chords But she died right there in my faithful arms Old Stella Oh there's got to be a better place now Oh there's got to be a better place now Oh Stella hope you're up in the clouds Think of better times on sunny days When we would sit in the park smoking "Purple Haze" Oh Stella My old guitar yeah she did me right You know sometimes we would play all night Old Stella Oh there's got to be a better place now Oh you know there's a better place now Oh Stella you done me proud Cried the night Ol' Stella died But somehow she's still alive . . . I revived her Old Stella you did me good. . . [mumble mumble] you were made of wood . . . Oh there's got to be a better place now Oh there's got to be a better place now Oh Stella yes we did play loud Cried the night Ol' Stella died But somehow she's still alive Old Stella . . . I put you in the fire.
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