Old fashioned songs in the 21st century
Posted in Gavin Atkin, Julie Atkin, Melodeon, Old fashioned song, Traditional song, Uncategorized on Dec 19th, 2011
Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron and Nobody Knows You when You’re Down and Out are a couple of songs we’ve been singing in the sessions and folk clubs lately – so we thought it was time to share them. Dashing is a bit of a departure for Julie, who usually leaves traditional songs to [...]
Posted in Gavin Atkin, Julie Atkin, Melodeon on Sep 24th, 2010
We thought it would be fun to try an experiment – accompanying Julie’s singing using the melodeon. We imagined it would make a nice change and this is the result! The song was originally composed by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, and a very nice, deceptively simple piece of work it is.
Posted in Gavin Atkin, Melodeon on Sep 23rd, 2010
Frankie drew back her kimono, pulled and old 44 Then it’s rooty-toot-toot through that bar-room door… I guess this is what you get when a guitarist of four decades takes up the melodeon – a crazy old American song, with a bit of triplet-blues feel creeping in! One of the important things I’ve found about [...]