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My Album, Funeral Business, Free to Play on YouTube
My album of original music, Funeral Business (featuring Andrew Lee), has been available for purchase for some time. Well, now is the time when you can just listen to the whole thing for free on youtube. You can click here to get to my youtube webpage and subscribe, but below I am also putting all the…
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Willie Simpson, Another Broken Heart (pt. 7)
I wrote this song last fall, recorded it in the winter, started the music video in the spring, and put it away till..well…today. The reason it’s the 7th part is because it took 7 mixes for me to get it just right. Musically, this song was inspired by John Lennon’s “Julia,” and George Harrison’s “Not…
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Willie Simpson, Sip From Your Fork
Another live show, this time me playing an original. Sip From Your Fork, written when I was 22, never properly recorded. A damn fine set of lyrics. It was clearly your fault, you are locked in a vault and what’s worse you have swallowed the key You are covered in sleet and you are in…
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Willie Simpson, I Threw it All Away
This will be the last Dylan song I perform for a while. In my experiments with recording myself for youtube this week, Bob just offered the perfect songs for me to play with. This one, I Threw it All Away, from his Nashville Skyline record, I just couldn’t pass up. It is one of my…
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Willie Simpson, Positively 4th Street
My performance of Bob Dylan’s Positively 4th Street. This one has WAY better audio this time because it dawned on me to use a real mic. Expect my videos to get much better in the future when I get more confidence recording these things, though I like the little rasp I’ve got going here. I…
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Willie Simpson, Buckets of Rain
As promised, my performance of Buckets of Rain by Bob Dylan. I played it on my Epiphone Casino because the mic picked it up better. Also, I did it in Open E tuning, so that’s why I’m looking at my guitar so much, to make sure I’m playing the right chords. I hope to have…