A great live room recording!
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…After Yeats/Woolshirt Rag/After Yeats/Queen’s Confessor
Mud
My Anxious Heart
Far From Shore
Barroom Waltz
Cold Coffee, Sour Oats
1. Click here to listen to Set I
After Yeats
Queen’s Confessor
Mud
Iroquois Waltz
Pretty Little Widow/Salt Creek
Don’t Leave Me Here Tonight
Too Many Things
Riding on a Load of Hay/Carving the Pumpkin
Conversation’s Free
The Split
2. Click here to listen to Set II pt.1
Lonesome Gone
Sean’s Favorite
Hoad’s Tornado
Cold Coffee/Sour Oats
Set II pt. 2
Snake River Reel/Over the Waves/Whiskey Before Breakfast
Barroom Waltz
Far From Shore
Encore
My Anxious Heart
Our second recording, released in November of 2007, features our second batch of self-penned songs and instrumental tunes. We’ve got your cathartic prescription for gossip and dirt, frustration w/ the modern world, fatalistic romance, multiple personality disorder, drunken dancing, drunken love, exotic travel AND the marriage bed all rolled into this one! Lots of fun! All songs original except for “MUD” (Guy Clark).
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1. Prelude
2. Queen’s Confessor
3. Mud
4. Seans Favorite
5. Dont Leave Me Here Tonight
6. The Split
7. Barroom Waltz
8. After Yeats
9. Far From Shore
10. Lonesome Gone
11. Iroquois Waltz
12. Postlude
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To be perfectly honest, I haven’t listened to this disc in a very long time and anyway, how are you supposed to be objective about your own work? So here I am writing and REALLY listening to the original Goldmine Pickers cd for the first time in who knows how long and all that really comes to mind is, “Wow! This sounds really great!” All of the instruments sound clear and warm and the feeling of the recording is so relaxed that I feel like I should be sitting on the front porch watching a summer storm come down.
Suddenly, I am remembering the pure joy that I felt when we all first started playing together and the excitement of recording our first album with some really great musicians and new friends! I’d never recorded on anything before and I don’t think we really had any sort of preconceived ideas or cared about what we thought the Goldmine Pickers should sound like. It was just four excited musicians recording in a cluttered barn w/ isolation booths made of half sheets of plywood and covered in old blankets! I’m not sure if we will ever be able to recapture the excitement and innocence that we felt during that time, but it certainly comes through in this recording and even after 4 years, I can still say that I can go back and hear new things in it!
My recommendation is that you find a front porch, a summer rainstorm and some headphones for this one!
Sean - May, 6th 2008
1. Hoad’s Tornado
2. Loneliness & Desperation
3. Too Many Things
4. Stumblin’ Lenny
5. Cold Coffee, Sour Oats
6. Conversation’s Free
7. Riding on a Load of Hay/Carving the Pumpkin
8. Greed
9. Tequila Caesar