cuthbert covers Take It Easy, as suggested by henwrench

[64Guitars]

Excellent cover. I like the slower tempo and your choice of instruments. Great job on the leads too. That Mandola looks like a really cool instrument. Eastwood makes some great stuff.

I've never been a big fan of The Eagles. I appreciate their talent and skill but their music just isn't my cup of tea. I sure like this cover though.

Whats an angel hair guitar?

I was wondering that too.

And you've also given me GAS for one of them there Mandola's!

It's available in your colour.



http://www.eastwoodguitars.com/index.php/airline-guitars/all-airline-guitars/solid-body-guitars/item/airline-mandola

[dasilvasings]

hey! That's really cool!

korg miniPops hein? You have to take some photos of your museum, errr, home studio!

BTW1 what is an angel hair guitar?!?

BTW2 don't like Eagles either! Have you heard a version of Hotel California from a band/ duo called moog cookbook? You have to check them out!

M

[cuthbert]

Hey, thanks for all the nice feedback folks...much appreciated.  

I learned a lot doing this song (especially some of the droney mandola parts), and it was fun even though I burned out my vocal cords right near the end (I really need to quit saving final vocals for last) and had to wait for them to heal up before finishing the song.

BTW1 what is an angel hair guitar?!?

Whats an angel hair guitar?

I was wondering that too.

It's Nashville tuning on old no-name acoustic guitar I have.

Essentially you take a 12-string pack of strings, and use only the high strings in the pack, so the tuning is eadgbe (an octave higher, except for the top b & e). First time I ever tried this was with my old Seagull acoustic back in the Nineties, and everyone called it 'angel hair' tuning back then, and so that's how I always think of it. I only first ever heard of 'Nashville tuning' on this very site.

The stick dulcimer is a baby brother to an Appalachian dulcimer, but played more like a guitar (lower strings at the bottom, instead of the top). It's also tuned up a fourth compared to standard dulcimer tuning.

Between the angel hair guitar and the stick dulcimer, those are the acoustic steel strings you hear in the mix. Very zingy...

korg miniPops hein? You have to take some photos of your museum, errr, home studio!

Mine's a Univox SR-55, which was the American brand name for the Korg Mini Pops 3 sold in the U.S. I also used it on my Thanks For Christmas cover a few years ago. It looks like this:

[Roytoy]

Excellent recording. I'm an Eagles fan. I like what you did with this.

[T.C. Elliott]

Let me start by saying that delay on the last chord is delicious. The slower tempo took me just a moment to dial in. It was like something sounded right but felt wrong or something. By the time the laid back vocals got me into the groove I couldn't think of a better tempo for you to play it in. Really glad I got to hear this one, very creative interpretation without being too heavy handed. Just a nice, relaxed version of a damn fine song.

[henwrench]

I'm gonna be giving this my full attention when I get the chance, just to let you know I know it's here...

                                                  henwrench

[steelguitar]

Fantastic recording!
I love the quality of production and sounds of instruments...
Well done
Jean-Sébastien

[The Gobi Desert Canoe Club]

Oh shit, I don't know what happened, this brought tears to my eyes. I have to think that this is how it was written and man you've captured some indefinable here. Love it.  Roscoe

[Flash Harry]

I missed this - I found it now and it's fabulous. I love the laid back almost drunken style of this. It's a summer afternoon in the park or on the moors, a bottle or two of cider and nothing to do except snooze in the sunshine.

Fantastic. And the mandothingy is lurvely!  Angel tuning - I have a guitar and a full set of 12's - must try that. 

[kenny mac]

I missed this too,That's one great mandolin you've got there.
The laid back feel of the track takes it to a new dimension.
Well done cuthbert.