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Worley Gardner Winter Music Festival 2015

Here's the whole of the set I played at the Gardner Winter Music Fest, Feb 28, 2015, in Morgantown, WV. Special thanks to Jim Fawcett for filming...
@Rob N Lackey started 9 years ago - replies: 8

She's Always a Woman

Billy Joel's exquisite waltz, "She's Always a Woman," fits the dulcimer beautifully, in my opinion. (Interestingly, it's a waltz that switches...
@Sam Edelston started 9 years ago - replies: 6

Zip A Dee Do Dah by request

You know, I don't know if my playing's getting worse or I'm getting picky, but 2 weeks and no telling how many takes, here it is warts and all....
@Rob N Lackey started 9 years ago - replies: 8

Rock On (David Essex cover) - Sam Edelston

It's special effects day with the electric dulcimer, on a song known for using special effects: David Essex's 1973 hit, "Rock On." For you...
@Sam Edelston started 10 years ago - replies: 0

How Great Thou Art

For those not familiar with the situation, "How Great Thou Art" is under copyright. I now have a license that permits me to share it on YouTube....
@Cindy Stammich started 9 years ago - replies: 3

Meat Loaf's "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" - electric dulcimer

As I write this, we're expecting 2 feet of snow here in the Northeast, so the line, "The snow is really piling up outside," really spoke to me....
@Sam Edelston started 9 years ago - replies: 2

One day I will walk by Bruce Cockburn

Don't you love it when you return to an album you've not played for ages and find that one of the tracks you used to skip over is really quite...
@Steve Battarbee started 9 years ago - replies: 8

Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul

OK, some tunes you work on for months. (I've been working on Pig Ankle Rag for over a year and it's still not ready for prime time.) Some tunes...
@Dusty Turtle started 9 years ago - replies: 16

Peggy-O -- Grateful Dead cover

If he hadn't come on quite so strong, maybe they could have had a relationship.I tuned down a half-step on the theory that it better matched my...
@Tom McDonald started 9 years ago - replies: 2

Christmas in the Trenches

This is the 100th anniversary of the Christmas Truce of 1914. I recorded this instrumental version of John McCutcheon's song back in 2008. If you...
@Tom McDonald started 10 years ago - replies: 0

Start it All Over Again

Link to YouTube: Start it All Over Again You may not have heard of it but it's a very pretty song by Sally Dworsky and I was influenced by...
@Janene Millen started 10 years ago - replies: 4

Long Black Veil - by request

Here's the old Lefty Frizzell classic butchered by me. I'm playing an old instrument signed with initials tuned DAA. I think It's spruce &...
@Rob N Lackey started 10 years ago - replies: 5

Killkelly Ireland

My cover of the well-known tune by Steven and Peter Jones. I've recorded several takes over the past few months, and finally have one that I can...
@Tom McDonald started 10 years ago - replies: 0

Material Girl (Madonna) - cover by Sam Edelston

Time to rock the Free World again. Here's some Madonna on electric dulcimer. The arrangement has multiple voices going on at once. The instrument...
@Sam Edelston started 10 years ago - replies: 5

Yes, it's another Hallelujah (L. Cohen cover)

Hi all, I had recently arranged a version of Hallelujah and just thought I'd share. I realize it's sloppy and too fast; I was just fooling around...
@Brian G. started 10 years ago - replies: 10

Flower of Scotland

Messing about again on my Red Kite I found myself playing the first few bars of something I recognised as Flower of Scotland so even though I'm...
@Steve Battarbee started 10 years ago - replies: 1

Someday Soon - Judy Collins, and others

by Ian Tyson, have always loved thissong and wanted to work it out on dulcimer (at least the general flavor of the song). My version is a muddy...
@Janene Millen started 12 years ago - replies: 16

Dead Flowers - Townes Van Zandt / Rolling Stones cover

Killing time in my hotel room on a rainy day, waiting to go to work tonight. I've liked this song since learning it at Northern Kentucky Unplugged...
@Tom McDonald started 10 years ago - replies: 1

Call Me

It's a classic rock song! No, it's a jig! No, it's a dessert topping! Okay, its Blondie's hit, "Call Me," on electric dulcimer. Capo on 1,...
@Sam Edelston started 10 years ago - replies: 3