Dog & Gun from Autumn Sketchbook by Pumpkin Friend

Recorded: November 23, 2015
1:36

This is the first four verses of an eleven-verse traditional English ballad. Better known as The Golden Glove (Roud 141), I have all eleven verses memorized and often sing it while doing dishes.

One night I sat down to work out the guitar—inspired by the version I love by Kentucky country singer, Bradley Kincaid, on Vol. 4 of Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music—and made this recording to see how it sounded. I flubbed the lyrics in the fourth verse and threw in the towel, not thinking much of it. But like so many recordings on this collection, when I happened upon it at a later time, I found it more to my liking. Hopefully, since it is one of my favorite folk songs, I’ll record all eleven verses some time.

Obviously, to make it sound a bit better and faraway, I threw on some reverb—an effect that I never seem to tire of but probably overuse.

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