A Wee Bit

A Wee Bit 2:40 - Denis Farley - Pouring Rain Music BMI

Recorded 5/27/86 Natural Sound Miami, FL
Tom Anthony - Engineer;
Harry Morgan - Backing Vocals & Acoustic Guitar;
Edgar Allen Poe IV - Backing Vocal & Jew's Harp;
Denis Farley - Vocal & Harmonica;
Remixed 4/11/96 Ashland, OR
Tom Freeman - Engineer, Conga, Percussion;
Valerie Stopski - Tumba;
Denis Farley - Hand Percussion.

Here again with Tom Anthony at Natural Sound in Miami with Harry Morgan on acoustic guitar. Harry specialized in an unamplified acoustic sound that few could match in Coconut Grove and around South Florida. Harry's dad was the banjo player in the Spike Jones Orchestra, and his mom was the MC. As a kid he traveled with the band by train when they toured, just like the old Circus. The tune was inspired by Pete Seeger's Beacon Sloop Club boat, The Woody Guthrie, in honor of his long time friend and famous rambling dustbowl troubadour. During the winter we would work with Pete in a makeshift plastic covered woodframe workshop, getting the Woody ready for another season of sailing. Some days it would get so cold that the potbelly stove and hot soup wouldn't be enough to keep you warm. So we'd sing songs about warmth, and work as hard as we could to get up the body heat. This was my song, set to a tropical calypso beat, about warmth. We finished it up finally in Ashland, Oregon, of all places (with snow still on the surrounding mountains), adding more tropical percussion.
More info: http://www.denisfarley.com/po01001.htm

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Entertainment

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• denis farley
• sloop woody guthrie
• sloop clearwater
• harry morgan
• tom anthony
• edgar allen poe IV
• folk
• acoustic