delboy Says:
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 @12:32:43 PM

Great stuff. Bit of an English folky feel to the melody, if not the instrumentation. Touch of the Newgrass Revivals at times, too. I like the samples, as well. Tremendous vocals, too.

mrNatchl Says:
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 @11:26:19 PM

Thanks for the kind words... very glad you found it enjoyable. Useful feedback too. Interesting that the Newgrass Revival influence shines thru. Major influence. I cut my teeth in Bluegrass in a sort of NGR clone band in the 70s and have listened to just about everything NGR, Sam Bush, and John Cowan have ever done. Interesting you thought it has a bit of English flavor. I don't know where that might have come from. I have some Welsh roots, but those go back to the time of the American Revolution... my Lewis ancestor was a colonel in Washington's army and married his sister Elizabeth (a.k.a. Betty). Vocals are important to me. There's something in the sound of human voices singing together that touches something very old and deep down in most humans, whether they realize it or not.

delboy Says:
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 @7:22:26 AM

Do I gather rightly that this means you're related to George Washington, albeit only by marriage??!!

mrNatchl Says:
Thursday, April 14, 2011 @2:31:25 AM

Right. The guy was Col. Fielding Lewis... a direct-line ancestor of my mother, according to her brother who has done the genealogy work. A portrait of him in my grandparents' house (now occupied by my uncle) shows him as absolutely cross-eyed. I hope he wasn't commanding artillery or sharp-shooters. :-) They had an estate called Kenmore, not far from Washington's in Virginia. It's now a national monument. See kenmore.org/kp_home.html

I once made the mistake of trying to impress a bunch of fellow grade-school kids with my by-marriage connection to "The Father of Our Country". They beat me up for a liar.