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The Wrang Road to Copshaw
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A silvery, delicate Scottish instrumental played on the tiny Tacoma Papoose alto guitar.
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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 #231
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David Kilpatrick
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David Kilpatrick
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February 07, 2008
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MP3 3.6 MB 320 kbps 3:52
Story behind the song
I wrote the main theme - the introductory passage - for this piece in 1997. It was originally played on a regular steel string guitar. I decided to play this in the original compositions section of the 1998 Newcastleton Folk Festival 'contests' - something I normally avoid. Well, the judge Peter Tickell (father of the famous Kate) was very nice about the technique, gave me 18 out of 20, said it reminded him of Dan Ar Bras and by the way the tune was rubbish... he didn't really think it classed as any kind of tune at all, and it was certainly not 'traditional'. Well, since then I've added a couple of further passages and some variations - the extra bits are from experiments with familiar Scottish and Border themes, so they certainly are traditional. And I've moved it on to the tiny Tacoma Papoose guitar, which is similar tio playing a steel string guitar with the cap at 5. However, the neat precision of the instrument and the overall sound is very different. It's been described as 'like a music box' and I like that comparison!
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