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Ragtag & Bobtail - volume 1

by Bucky Spangler

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I Feel Fine 03:21

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CAN OLD PEOPLE MAKE NEW MUSIC?
Of course. To be sure, it's easier when you have no body of work legacy to protect or preserve. But aren't the requirements for making new art always the same, regardless of age and experience?
- Shed preconceptions
- Allow yourself to go someplace you've never gone before, and
- Have fun

"Ragtag & Bobtail" is a proposed 3 volume eclectic collection of live performance demos of songs I have written. Most were composed and recorded in the past eight years, though the oldest was written in 1977. Each was first recorded on video (www.youtube.com/@buckyspangler/videos), then I took the audio tracks and remixed them with an audio-only presentation in mind.

"Ragtag & Bobtail - Volume 1" is just voice, slide guitar, and occasional bass, captured in my home office with a Windows computer and Acoustica Mixcraft 9 recording/mixing software. There are some overdubs, and some double tracking, with little else but EQ, reverb and compression added. Please do not come here looking for perfection in either recording or performance. It is intentionally very do-it-yourself, with more than a few Bob Ross-like "happy accidents" left in. Everything was done in service to the song and in search of The Sound.

I like tunes with hummable melodies, catchy choruses, and lyrics with something to say. So that's what you get here. There is no one genre represented, and no two songs are alike, so if you don't like the one playing now just skip ahead to the next one!

We hope you enjoy.


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released January 27, 2023

Cover photo credit: Tom DiStefano, Clarion PA.

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Bucky Spangler Dallas, Texas

Born in the mountainous Black Hills of Dakota and raised by wolves,
Bucky writes and performs American folk/pop songs with a contemporary socio-political awareness.

Think Hank Williams meets Eddie Cochran meets Bob Dylan meets Paul Simon meets Curt Cobain - and a slide guitar.

Banner photo: Dorset Pinnacle, Dorset, VT (c) 2015 Reg Darling www.facebook.com/reg.darling/photos
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