douglas1162509 + Musician in Eliot, ME

Eatin Salted Peanuts At The Clownish Carnival Track number: 1 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: Other

The following very countrified/jazzy track, which was largely inspired by and is an homage to the guitar stylings of great Country-Jazz, Western Swing and Rockabilly guitarists like Jimmy Bryant and Junior Barnard and George Barnes, was entirely played on my Yamaha C-40 classical acoustic guitar.

Gentle Austral Rain Track number: 2 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: Other

Spanish Reptilian Rock Track number: 4 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: Other

Unlike the first three songs on this album, which were recorded using my Yamaha C-40 classical guitar, this and the next four songs to follow, were all recorded using my Yamaha FG-75 steel-stringed acoustic guitar, and in some cases, a steel slide was also employed. Enjoy "Spanish Reptilian Rock".

Rufous Granitic Rock Jazz-Blues Track number: 5 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: Acoustic

Muggy Mississipian Afternoon (Swing-Blues) Track number: 6 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: Blues

Lovely Hawaiian Rain Blues Track number: 7 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: World

Despite the fact that, in addition to a plethoric panoply of instruments that I play, I also sing and am accounted a decent vocalist, this and ALL the other songs on this album, both before and after it, are strictly instrumental.

A Scarred And Sorry Hawaiian Jazz-Blues Track number: 8 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: Other

Just A Gentle Austral Walk Track number: 9 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: Other

Pluvial Plectrum (The Rain Song) Track number: 10 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: Acoustic

Unlike tracks 4-8, which were recorded using my Yamaha FG-75 steel-stringed guitar, this, like tracks 1-3 and 9, was recorded using my Yamaha C-40 classical, nylon-stringed acoustic guitar.

Requiem For The Alhambra (And The Austrian Coin Found Thereat) Track number: 11 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: Classical

This a very AMATEURISH, inchoate, inadequate, crude but somewhat passably accurate rendition of Classical music, played naturally on a classical guitar, and being very highly eclectic and seguing to and incorporating all manner of other, and highly diverse, musics.

Swinging Bluesy Uptown Strolling Spanish Stomp In Dee Miner Track number: 12 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: Jazz

Despite having recorded probably something on the order of about 45 songs this year already (and that's only since May, so like two months), this is my first album of the year. The first of many, hopefully... especially considering I tend to record about 7-25 songs a week. Regardless, though, this is the first time I've gathered them all together and presented them, these most recent recordings, as an album; and furthermore, despite playing nearly all the time, 1-9 hours a day, everyday, I haven't made nor recorded an actual album since April or May of 2016, so this is actually my first album, ironically, in two years! First of many, like I said; and from 2000-2016, I recorded something like 50-100 albums, hopefully that I'll be able to upload hereon and elsewhere someday, even if 90% of them were recorded to and are still on audiocasette tape(s)!

Trash-Hauling Country Blues Track number: 13 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: Country

Like most of my music, this is really a blend of perhaps 20 different genres: Arabic, Bebop, Bluegrass, Blues, Boogaloo, Boogie/Boogie-Woogie, Bossa Nova, Classical, Country, Country-Jazz, Country-Rock, Dixieland, Folk, Funk, Greek, Gypsy-Jazz, Hawaiian, Indian, Jazz, Jazz-Blues, Jazz-Rock, Latin, Manouche, Mediaeval, Old-Time, Ragtime, R&B, Rockabilly, Rock, Swing, Swing-Blues and/or Western Swing. Of course, this is a very highly AMATEURISH, dissonant, inchoate, crude, harsh, but somewhat passably accurate rendition of those and other musics.

Walking Swing 34 Track number: 14 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: Other

The final song of my "epic" 14 track album: the first such one in more than two YEARS, "I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out!"

By Less Than The Gentlest Of Waves Is This Ship Rocked Track number: 1 Year: 2018 Album: Mine Classical Country Chateau Swing Genre: Other

This is my second album thus far of 2018. And, ironically, it is being freighted with songs that are, in fact, older and earlier-recorded than those which surfeited the first album, which I just finished uploading. It's equally eclectic. That's what I and my guitaristic/ukuleleistic music are all about: Diversity, eclecticism, encapsulation and inclusion of almost all music; comprehending (that is, comprising, embracing, encompassing) almost all music. All good music, of which there are at least 26 genres.

Mine Classical Chateaux Track number: 2 Year: 2018 Album: Mine Classical Country Chateau Swing Genre: Other

The eponymous, prenominate, putative, TITULAR song, "Mine Classical Chateaux"; the very thing that endows to it its title.

Depressive Encompassment (1930's Swinging Bluesy Blues) Track number: 3 Year: 2018 Album: Mine Classical Country Chateau Swing Genre: Other

Many of my guitaristic and ukuleleistic recordings are of great lenght, and this, I believe, is no exception.

Impressions Of Time Wes Track number: 5 Year: 2018 Album: Mine Classical Country Chateau Swing Genre: Jazz

Being, as my music is or at least strives and struggles to be, very highly eclectic, this song is not truly representative of the presentation and encompassment of truest Jazz, but as the title clearly intimates, this is an homage to and an experiment in attempting to replicate the guitar stylings of Wes Montgomery (among others), albeit fashioned and played exclusively on my Yamaha C-40 classical acoustic guitar. Beyond that, I really don't know what else to say.

On The Hottest Days All You Require Is A Refreshing Hint Of Indian Lime Track number: 7 Year: 2018 Album: Mine Classical Country Chateau Swing Genre: World

In the fact of being, or at least of attempting to emulate the sundry aggregated intricacies and minutiae governing the sound and proper playing of Soul/Soul-Jazz, this is, in that one way alone, an example of Rhythm And Blues, as Soul, Funk and Disco used to be presented and categorized/classified under the umbrella/aegis of R&B.