I hope you'll like this composition. I was feeling pretty disappointed that with the entire holiday break almost over, I hadn't written or recorded anything. The Lowden S-25J just was not 'working'; I was spending ages retuning it and not playing anything. Our weekly session was turned away from the pub on December 22nd - 'It's Mad Friday, ye're no playing the nicht, too mony drunks aboot'. Then the snow came and no-one went anywhere. On December 30th I took off the offending NEW string from the guitar, put on an old one which solved the tuning problem. We went for a drive through a countryside still deep in snow with sunset light raking across it. At night the garden was still covered in snow and you could faintly hear water dropping outside the window from the roof. Finally there was something which could turn itself into a tune... written late at night, and recorded the next day - the final day of 2000. Lullaby for a Sleeping Landscape: http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/1166/1166121.html The hi-fi MP3 or download is the only accurate way to hear it, the RealAudio works but loses most of the point of a reasonable recording from a guitar like this! Happy New Millennium! David Kilpatrick, Kelso, Scotland. Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
