thredd In reply to weaveandrust [2014-01-29 04:05:42 +0000 UTC]

i actually made it in muro.

but it had been about 100 different things [ie. layers] and i finally screen captured it -

and brought it back into muro -

and put the original figure in an abstract snow pea shell thing

as if she were traveling over the painting

which is what made me think of the painting i was referring to finally

..

it also made me think of a song i used to sing so long ago

shake up sugaree - or really it is called 

i got a secret

[fred neil original]

however i sang it chris smithers style - guitar wise etc.]

i got a secret guess i should tell

im goin to heavn in a split pea shell

oh lawdy me

didn't we shake up sugaree

every thing i had

has done been pawned…

i am sure the lyrics can be found online

they are simple and great.

*i like our conversations  : ]

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weaveandrust In reply to thredd [2014-01-29 18:34:24 +0000 UTC]

I will look up & listen to the song.

I like our conversations too.

Thank you.

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thredd In reply to weaveandrust [2014-02-01 23:43:23 +0000 UTC]

you will not find chris smither's version of "i got a secret/shake up sugaree" 

there is one cover by some "random guy" i have found

who plays the guitar close to how smither plays it.

his name

is

EelayAxterbay

its under 

shake sugaree/buckets of rain

he does a fast 2 song medley

the song is supposed to be drawn out and sort of somber

but the guitar playing is rally nice.

i cannot recall when this [smither's version] was released but i found a cassette tape

of myself

playing it in the middle of the night

in the early 90 or 91 on my 1st guitar

on a tape cassette

which i got [guitar] in the mid 80's

from memory

off the radio

and then later i revisited it -

in the mid 2000's i have that recorded as well.

the original writer you can easily find

it is a lot more country psychedelic

and less folky

it is one of my fav. songs

however i have thousands of fav. songs

from every genre of music

from all time periods

and every language really.

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weaveandrust In reply to thredd [2014-02-02 02:49:34 +0000 UTC]

I have many songs & melodies I love too, most seem lately to be connected to some specific memory or happening, even fairly recent.

I just listened to the first guy's rendition (btw, he reminds me of Mark Ruffalo blendy with an old boyfriend of mine ) and then I looked up Elizabeth Cotten, so plaintively real. The guys note suggested/said she wrote it.....went to the source of that spring. I imagine you've sung it quite sadly sweetly rightly. I remember the sheer thrill of taping myself with a first guitar ! I suspect you are a professional music maker, though, and I did it for, say, John Denver, and instant gratification.Sigh. 

Heard "Sad Eyes" ( Robert John '71) driving home the other day so I listened more when I got home. Wasn't so much a favorite as I wanted to feel or glimpse something from ' then' . We go through life so pell mell....I wondered what would come up.

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thredd In reply to weaveandrust [2014-03-01 04:44:50 +0000 UTC]

i love robert john and i don't know if elizabeth cotten wrote shake up that particular way. or possibly buckets. those songs are like from so long ago they morph and then they change as each player picks them up. shake up and sug - sugaree are elizabeth cotten  type statemnts . or of that time. i could get more specific.  i am sure that is not necessary. the lyric is in tact probably. my fav lines i didn't write out. but i who nuff like sangn dem.

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