Ring Around The Rosie - Farmer Rick - Toys In The Hayloft

Song: Ring Around The Rosie,
Artist: Farmer Rick,
Album: Toys In The Hayloft

Rick Oullette - Lead Vocal and Background Vocal
Walt Silva - Remainder (yes, I know that's a Pete Townshend conceit, but I'll shamelessly use it!)

Farmer Rick is "rock and roll for kids", fronted by Rick Oullette and backed by various musicians at various times. I was, and as of this posting am, one of those musicians. He is a great vocalist and a great entertainer for kids. Playing Farmer Rick shows are a lot of fun.

About half of the tracks on Toys In The Hayloft were not planned. This was one of them. This was a fairly typical example of Farmer Rick song evolution ... Ricky will come up with the germ of an idea, and I pretty much run with it. I won't see him again until I'm ready to record his vocals :-).

So from what I remember and what I can hear, we have programmed drums (Alesis drum machine), fretless bass (can't recall type as it belonged to Ricky), Pan-flute via midi controlled keyboard, Ovation acoustic, Gibson Les Paul Standard through Line6 Pod (note the simple root to fifth scaling up and down during chorus), and Ricky and I singing.

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