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Slacker (Aloha Au Ia Mau 'Oe)
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A slack-key tune, trying to get at that aloha feeling, and Lord knows it's elusive sometimes. Slack-key steel-string (DGDGBD), National steel guitar in the same tuning, octave mandolin and my old blonde Kay stand-up bass.
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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 #149
Peak in subgenre #2
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Michael Hughes
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Michael Hughes
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August 31, 2008
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MP3 3.5 MB 128 kbps 3:48
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Marty McKimmey
Apr 07, 2008
Hi Michael! Thanks for bringing a smile to my face with this one. :) Marty