Week #20 of the Songwriters Circle Challenge suggests that you can write a House Song.

This can be a song from the 1990′s “House Music” genre, or a song about a house.

House Music has a specific style of rythm which I find hard to describe in words. It’s basically four four with the accent on every beat, ONE-TWO-THREE-FOUR-and-ONE-TWO….

Songs about houses are a somewhat UK centric phenomena, but I’m sure there are examples worldwide to prove me wrong as well.

From my own terrible memory alone, I can point to

“Our House” Madness
“Neighbourhood” – Space
“House on The Hill” – Kevin Koyne
“Country House” – Blur
“Bungalow Bill” – Lennon/McCartney
and of course… “House of The Rising Sun” – Animals/Trad

Looking forward to hearing your House songs!

Andy Roberts Podcast Episode #38 comes out a day late, sorry about that. Here’s the download and play link etc:

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Andy Roberts Podcast #38 Shownotes

Show Notes for Podcast 38

1. The Streets of Paris – Andy Roberts
2. Clean Living Blues – by Linda Hartley and Andy Roberts
3. Winter in Andalusia – Andy Roberts (abridged version)
4. Now that I’m Living Here – Andy Roberts
5. Cajun Cooking Song – Andy Roberts
6. Just Like A Woman – Bob Dylan Song

Andy Roberts Podcast Episode #37 was put together from tracks which are hosted on my Andy Roberts Soundcloud account, and one extra song ( Work is Done) recorded live for you on Wednesday morning. The live show had to be canceled this week due to an unfortunate throat incident on the Tuesday evening.

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Andy Roberts Podcast #37 Shownotes

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Show Notes for Podcast 37

1. Clean Living Blues – by Linda Hartley and Andy Roberts
2. Hold On Below -  Andy Roberts as featured on The Lost Folk Tapes
3. Work is Done – Andy Roberts
4. Never was to be – Daryl P Hall Andy Roberts
5. Highway Blues – Roy Harper

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Andy Roberts Podcast Episode #36 contains fragments of tunes, instrumentals and a few complete songs as well. I was going to do the new 12 bar blues completed for the Songwriters Circle weekly task but it’s so new I forgot the rhythm!

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Show Notes for Podcast 36

1. Yellow is the Colour – Donovan arranged Andy Roberts
2. Winter in Andalusia – Andy Roberts
3. Narrowboats – Instrumental by Andy Roberts
4. The Biggleswade Stomp – Instrumental by Andy Roberts
5. Joan of Arc – Andy Roberts

The Live Session from Lizzy B’s acoustic night at the Essex Arms Brentwood takes up most of podcast #35 with one new song written for the Songwriters Circle challenge appended. There wasn’t a live podcast on livestream this week, so it was handy that I had these tracks almost ready to go.

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Andy Roberts Podcast #35 Shownotes

The first 4 songs were recorded at Lizzy B’s Acoustic Sessions in Brentwood, Essex

I also mentioned the Andy Roberts interview for The Lost Folk Tapes

The last song, was a contribution to the Songwriters Circle WK 2 Challenge

1. Mazet – Andy Roberts
2. Migration – Andy Roberts
3. The Last Subway Home – Andy Roberts
4. Grow Fins – Captain Beefheart
5. The Streets of Paris – Andy Roberts

The Streets of Paris

The Streets of Paris by andyroberts

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Here’s another version of podcast episode 31 re-recorded on Wednesday morning with most of of the same songs roughly, as the one which went out live on Tuesday evening. So if you were there, online watching the show and chatting with Linda in one of the realtime boxes then you should notice this isn’t exactly the same performance. The instrumental guitar pieces for example, as improvisations will be will be very different. I’m sure one or two sings are missing too, and one or two added. That’s all part of the process. And the new strings will be over twelve hours old now as well, instead of being only 12 minutes since restringing. I had even thought of doing the restring live on the podcast itself, as a piece of performance a-r-t but Linda said it wouldn’t make a very good audio podcast and I came around to that point of view eventually.

Here’s the web player, download link, tracklist and show notes for Podcast Episode 31:

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You can also download the MP3 from this link

31 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 31.mp3

Podcast Episode 31 Show Notes

Show notes and information for Andy Roberts Acoustic Guitar Podcast Episode 31:

Episode 31 broadcast on February 1st, published on February 2nd 2011.

1) Mozambique

Words and Music by Bob Dylan

2) Shifting Sands

Words and Music by Andy Roberts

2) Reason To Believe

Words and Music by Tim Hardin

2)Last Subway Home

Words and Music by Andy Roberts

2)The Wreckers Prayer

Words and Music by Andy Roberts

2)Nobody Knows You ( When you’re down and out)

Words and Music by Jimmy Cox

For this week’s podcast because there couldn’t be a live show, so  I’ve done something a bit different. Instead of recording the show and then maybe ending up with some songs for youTube, I’m making the podcast out of videos that I have already on there. It’s the best of my youTube channel from 2010, my pick of five from the most popular songs on there, strung together with a little bit of introduction.

Links, play, download

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Episode 28 Shownotes

1. One More Cup Of Coffee – Bob Dylan Song live from Havering Folk Club( >25,500 views)
2. Big Eyed Bean From Venus – Captain Beefheart tribute
3. Grow Fins – Captain Beefheart again
4. The Wreckers Prayer – Andy Roberts Song Live at Walthamstow Folk Club
5. I Hate the White Man – Roy Harper‘s song

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Episode #19 in Andy Roberts series of acoustic guitar podcasts was recorded on Tuesday 9th November 2011 and published today on the 10th.

Inspired by friends’ lists of 15 songwriters tagged and copied in Facebook, I played songs by Neil Diamond, Steve Tilston, Andy Roberts, Loudon Wainwright and a bonus track Roy Harper song at the start of which there’s an unfortunate inbound telephone ringtone but I didn’t let that faze me at all, oh no. If you do happen to be listening on an iphone or in a house then the effect could be unpredictable.

Here’s the stuff:

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Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 19 Show Notes

1. “I’m a Believer” – by Neil Diamond
2. “One Man Band” – Music and lyrics by Steve Tilston
3. “The Rowan Tree” – Music and lyrics by Andy Roberts

“Samson and the Warden” – Music and lyrics by Loudon Wainwright

“Migration” – Music and lyrics by Andy Roberts

“I’ll See You Again” – Music and lyrics by Roy Harper

acoustic guitar podcasts

I announced a new series of podcasts back in the summer and I’ve published 18 episodes so far.  The original idea was just to provide another distribution method for the live house concert that I broadcast weekly for the past year or so. So it’s just me and my guitar, not much chat or conversation, and I try to feature my own compositions as a matter of course, with the covers creeping in as and when I feel like it.

But this week I actually went and learned a Roy Harper song that is new to my repertoire – the classic  “How does it Feel?”  And then I went and performed it live at the Havering Folk Club at somebody else’s guest night, with some good reactions, but not necessarily from the usual suspects.

So I thought I’d do a post here on Stormcock.net, an exercise in listing each of the individual podcasts where I’ve included a Roy Harper cover.

The Andy Roberts Podcast is hosted at http://andyroberts.me and can also be accessed from iTtunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/andy-roberts/id378470885

 

So starting with the last first,

Episode 18   Track 4 – How Does it  Feel?  download

Episode 15   Track 1 – Don’t You Grieve  download

Episode 12  Track 1 – IF  &  Track 4 – The Same Old Rock download

Episode 3  Track 7 – When An Old Cricketer download

Episode 1 Track 3 – I’ll See You Again download

 

 

 

On this week’s podcast which is episode number 18 we have mostly Any Roberts own compositions and one classic Roy Harper song which hasn’t been covered here before at all, or by Andy Roberts ever, in fact.

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Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 18 Show Notes

1. “The Nutmeg Tree” – Music and lyrics by Andy Roberts, from Album 1
2. “The Show Carries On” – Music and lyrics by Andy Roberts, from The Andy Roberts Tapes
3. “Joan of Arc” – Music and lyrics by Andy Roberts from The Andy Roberts Tapes
4. “How Does it Feel” – Music and lyrics by Roy Harper
5. “Change Is” – Music and lyrics by Andy Roberts from The Last Nail

Some youTube Videos of the same songs

The Nutmeg Tree

The Show Carries On

Joan of Arc

How Does it Feel

Change Is