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"Too Many Cooks" Arranged for Fingerstyle Guitar

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Here's a drawing that I made yesterday.

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A fear submitted by Mount for deep dark fears.

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Incredible! Fingerpicking!

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"I Love You Don't Touch Me!" by The Bonelli Family

This is a fun song that I wrote.  Check out the fancy fingerpicking and inventive percussion!  

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okay xeni i will

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This is a song I wrote while watching a bunch of Orson Welles movies over the past few weeks.  I think it's pretty, but what do I know?

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William McKinley Live at Arlene's Grocery

William McKinley died on this day in 1901. Much like James K. Polk, McKinley was a very important yet somewhat obscure president, largely forgotten by most people but regarded highly by modern day historians as a successful expansionist and an overall good leader. So here's the basic rundown: McKinley was a friend of big business, a nice guy (even after getting shot, he pleaded with an angry mob not to harm his assassin), and the man who got us through the Spanish-American War. But forget all that crap. The real reason I will always love William McKinley is because he was crazy enough to appoint the "damned cowboy" Theodore Roosevelt as his Vice-President, paving the way for the greatest presidency ever.

Here's a recent live performance of my McKinley song at Arlene's Grocery.

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On this day in 1901, vice-president Theodore Roosevelt used the phrase "speak softly and carry a big stick" for the first time during a speech in Minnesota. A few days later, an assassin made him the 26th President of the United States.

Here's a drawing I made a while back:

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Happy Birthday Barack Obama. I wrote the first part of this song (0:00-0:23) way back in 2006, while sitting outside of the Jacobson Faculty Tower at SUNY New Paltz.  I was trying to impress/get the attention of a cute female acquaintance  of mine that was sitting nearby.  It didn't work.  It never works. The second part of the song was written a couple of years later while I was sitting in bed and watching Jesus Christ Superstar.  The song sounded optimistic, and I felt it would be a good album-closer, so that's why I named it after our current president. 

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This song is called GodBreath. 

I think it's pretty. 

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Here's another song that I wrote.  It's in a weird tuning and requires THREE CAPOS to play.   THREE!!!! Please do your best to ignore all the creepy mugging I do throughout this performance. I'm actually quite fond of this song, but my roommate thinks it's awful.  Maybe he's right.  I can't tell anymore. 

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Here I am performing my Open Mic routine.  The camera starts off a little shaky. I apologize.

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I don't really know what I'm doing on this site or why I have a Tumblr account. I'm just going to post videos of myself playing the guitar. Here's a song a wrote on a broken guitar that I found in the street a few years ago.   The title refers to a flavor of rice pudding from Rice to Riches, my favorite novelty rice pudding restaurant.

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Calvin Coolidge was the only president with a birthday on the 4th of July.  It's only appropriate that our most quiet and reserved president (his nickname was "Silent Cal") was born on a holiday that involves people drunkenly blowing shit up and being as loud as possible.

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This album’s very hard to find now.

[waltertaylor]

Crumbs, left to right: Jesse, Maxon, Robert

Then a drawing of Maxon, done by Jesse