Mercurial Metaphor by David Drew Longey
15 tracks, 33 minutes of short stories in sound... textures of raw musical improvisation recorded at home, in the car, or walking in the woods. Vocals and guitar open the album with 'What You Want", and jawharp and vocals close it with 'Old New World'. All other tracks are intrumentals on four string banjo, five string fretless mountain banjo, lapharp, and other traditional intrumentation, with a digital push (reverb, etc).
©2013, David Drew Longey
Tracklist
| 1. | What You Want | 2:04 |
| 2. | Actual Size | 2:36 |
| 3. | Two Left Lobes | 2:31 |
| 4. | Streamstone | 1:28 |
| 5. | Trailing | 2:37 |
| 6. | Plasticine | 2:44 |
| 7. | Current | 2:32 |
| 8. | Home On Lagrange | 1:22 |
| 9. | Teeter Totter | 1:22 |
| 10. | Easy | 2:13 |
| 11. | Ironic Tonic | 2:19 |
| 12. | Cautious Man | 2:00 |
| 13. | Passing Fancy | 1:30 |
| 14. | Eulogy For A Lost Thought | 3:54 |
| 15. | Old New World | 1:39 |
Credits
David Drew Longey plays a four string Silvertone banjo, a five-string fretless'Seeger Neck" mountain banjo, jawharp, a lap harp, and a 'First Act' guitar purchased for 10 dollars at a yard sale.
License
All rights reserved.
During the period when my generation was getting into grunge, I was diving into the country blues, absorbing the ghosts of American music. I toyed with cardboard guitars and sitting in as a drummer until finally I acquired a real silvertone tenor banjo, which I still own, some months before my daughter was born. Twenty five years later I am still making it all up as I go along.