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All music and noises © Copyright Paul A. Williams aka Elwood Herring - Please read these notes before downloading
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 | Early solo guitar pieces and moody songs from the late 70's - the earliest stuff I still acknowledge as being half-way decent. | ||
| Llamedos | | 3:15 | A four-track guitar instrumental. This was my first ever attempt at multi-tracking. The trouble with instrumentals is, what on earth do you call them? I just jot down the first thing that comes into my head, in this case the name-plate on a house I spotted the week before. Good job it wasn't the one I saw recently - "Far Corfe"! |
| Pretty Boy | |
3:35 | The lyrics to this one were written by Dave Lewis, a friend who used to write hundreds of song lyrics but couldn't write music, so we collaborated on this song and a couple of others which were never recorded. I lost touch with him back in the 70's - no idea where he is now. |
| Charmaine | |
3:35 | Not the well-known song of the same name, but my own overly-sentimental teenage love song. Not my best by any means, but some people like it. |
| Wednesday's Child | |
3:50 | Actually I was born on a Sunday, so it's not autobiographical. Rhythm machine played by my brother Colin. |
| Don't Drink the Water | |
3:05 | Why not - what's wrong with it? Don't ask me, I haven't a clue what it means. Don't believe a word of it, it's all lies. |
| Sketches | |
4:53 | Basically a poem-song. Something to do with dreams, I think. Pity I didn't know what "teutonic" meant at the time. The word I actually wanted was "Titanic". |
| Appassionata | |
5:15 | A heartfelt lament on the loss of my first ever girlfriend. |
| Angie's Song | |
6:05 | Another song to another ex-girlfriend - only this one didn't deserve the praise I heaped on her in this piece. Good riddance! I still like the guitar part though. |
| September Sunshine | |
4:10 | Another guitar instrumental, all done with simple root-position chords. Well it was September, and the sun was shining, so that's what it ended up being called. I've recently made a MIDI file of this - try it! |
| Break | |
5:07 | A laid-back bluesy piece, where I multi-tracked myself humming and pratting about in the background. Plus an accidental but perfectly-timed burp! |
| Life Cycle | |
3:40 | My favourite of all these songs. If you play nothing else, please play this one. A farewell lament to a woman, a country and a life in three nostalgic verses. This is also included on the Red Herring CD. Can you spot the famous tune which I pinched the chord sequence from? |
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