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The Christmas Eve Waltz
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The Snowplow String Band here with a little seasonal country waltz around the subject of dreams. This began life as an instrumental, but just a few days later it grew some lyrics. Acoustic guitar, stand-up bass, mandolin, piano and lap steel.
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Michael Hughes, Auburn, Maine. Original acoustic & electric music.
I worked as a musician for about ten years after I finished my BA in English lit, which didn't sound nearly as interesting at the time as playing music. After an enjoyable but wasted youth of bands, solo & studio work, ten thousand nights in clubs & lots of touring, three albums with David Mallett, and a few years as a music journalist and free lance editor, I saw the writing on the wall. I said goodbye to all that & began teaching high school English & started building my project studio. It seems like I've been interested in recording music since I began playing the guitar back in grade school. From a cheap portable cassette tape recorder up through four track cassette "portastudios" and then reel-to-reel rigs to my first encounter with digital recording around 2000, I've always enjoyed trying to lay down sound. Some of the music up on my page was recorded on my first digital system (a Roland VS-1680), and some was recorded on my current system. So, as much as anything else, I'm interested in the art & science of making good sounding recordings. I write original music and do arrangements of music from a variety of sources. I'm trying to get at an emotional vibe and that elusive buzz with each recording, a core that I hope comes through in the sound of the instruments & the way I play.
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Peak #13
Peak in subgenre #4
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Michael Hughes
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Michael Hughes
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December 02, 2008
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MP3 5.1 MB 192 kbps 3:42
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Lou Quarmwater
Dec 07, 2008
Hey man,I HAVE THAT EXACT TREE!!! It was a gift from my daughter two years ago. Last year she got me the matching Linus Blanket. It's awesome. Beautiful work here Michael,I dig X-Mas songs that have nothing to do with Jesus. I'm already working on a sleazier version of the Turkey Dance for this song.I just need a little more tryptophan to perfect it. I hope your Xmas is everything but a dissappointsettia!