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This is my song for Nick Drake, borrowing a touch or two from his ideas but using my own regular drop D tuning.
singer songwriter acoustic folk british guitarist song celtic traditional fingerstyle scottish scotland guitar kelso
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Solo singer-songwriter and tunesmith playing British fingerstyle steel and nylon string guitar, and historic instruments. Scots and Irish influences.
I've been writing and playing songs and tunes since teenage years in folk clubs and pubs. I co-organise the Kelso Friday night live music sessions at the Cross Keys (hosted singaround 7.45-10pm) and Cobbles Inn (10-12pm open mic with The Cobbles Band) with the help of many friends. All welcome! Visit us at kelsofolkandlive co uk. It is worth clicking on the tab because the sound quality of my tracks is far higher than the auto player on this page. Many can be streamed or downloaded at 320KBps and the enhancement for solo guitar/voice far exceeds the benefit you get for highly compressed band recordings. My recordings are full dynamic, not compressed. Just select Hi-Fi for the first song, and an MP3 high bitrate window will open - you will still get a sequence of songs. Most of my downloads are free, but some 320KBps tracks are paid-for. These are selected because they make up my main instrumental album. I now have a YouTube page and have started doing some video recordings for fun: @daviddkilpatrick I have mainly played Lowden guitars since 1999. I current play a 1985 S5FN (nylon string), 1986 S22 (jumbo O-size mahogany/cedar), and 1995 S32 (small body rosewood/spruce). I also play my own 1997-built Martin 'kit' Grand Auditorium rosewood/spruce, a Sigma OM-T, Furch Little Jane, Tacoma Papoose, Guild 8-string baritone, Vintage V880 parlour guitar and Gordon Giltrap signature model, a Troubadour mahogany/spruce classical and an Adam Black 12-string. And that's just the guitars... also viola, mandolin, mandola, waldzither, bouzouki, Appalachian dulcimer, low D whistle, keyboards.
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Peak #22
Peak in subgenre #4
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David Kilpatrick
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David Kilpatrick
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November 24, 2003
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MP3 3.2 MB 128 kbps 3:28
Story behind the song
Tom Harland came into our folk club. He heard me sing, and asked, did I know any Nick Drake? I had to say no. He was surprised. I played in folk clubs at exactly the time Nick was doing the circuit, but in the North; and he was best known in the south and London. I just missed him entirely. Tom passed me some copy tapes. I was won over immediately. I bought the CD set. My wife got me the songbook with transcriptions and his unusual tunings. Working through a few of these taught me something about guitar, again, and added to whatever I can do. But mainly, I play Nick Drake on the CD or in the car, not 'play' Nick Drake at clubs; it's not really possible to do his songs justice. They are best left as they were. This is my song for his memory, and for any other rock and roll - or folk, or jazz - suicides or untimely deaths. Here's a good URL for Nick Drake info, from which I nicked the graphic - http://www.algonet.se/~iguana/DRAKE/DRAKE.html
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Hear today Gone tomorrow He only came to play Some tunes he borrowed From the angels on the way Hear today His songs of sorrow He only came to say Some words tomorrow Couldn't take away And if he was Here today Would you still Hear him play In the same way That you think you do? Hear today Gone tomorrow He only came to play Some tunes he borrowed From the angels on the way And if he had Chosen to stay Would you still Hear today In the same way You say that you do?
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