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Wichita Lineman has been called the first existential country song and made the Rolling Stone Magazine list of 500 greatest songs at #192. Here's some background on the song: "Jimmy Webb's inspiration for the lyric came while driving through rural southwestern Oklahoma. Heading westward on a straight road into the setting sun, Webb drove past a seemingly endless line of telephone poles, each looking exactly the same as the last. Then, in the distance, he noticed the silhouette of a solitary lineman atop a pole. He described it as "the picture of loneliness". Webb then "put himself atop that pole and put that phone in his hand" as he considered what the lineman was saying into the receiver. Glen Campbell added in a statement to the Dallas Observer that Webb wrote the song about his first love affair with a woman who married someone else." - Wikipedia

This is a rough first take:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3xplkPzfGA

Yesterday the wife took the kids to the movies so I had couple of hours of quiet house!
Not often does that happen so I quickly grabbed the video camera and set it up with mic.
Decided to play this Westerberg song about First Love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ySQsu89Vto

New song:

http://gilsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-madman

I put togetehr this solo acoustic version and sang another vocal track and mixed it in.
Also did a bit of whistling to get the synth parts in.
Added a series of images to put the song in context along with video of my performance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB_rfAjR6N4

Here's a song I wrote about being left and wanting to find a way back to her heart.
Lyrics posted here too:

https://gilsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/back-to-your-heart

Inspired by a movie I saw called Safety Not Guaranteed that had a brilliant ending.

Remastered Audio and lyrics posted here:

http://gilsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/time-space

Here's a video I made for the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WWxbULXPYE

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Neil Young was a huge influence on me growing up and his music
motivated me to learn guitar and inspired me to start writing my
own songs.  I learned a bunch of Neil Young songs when I was a kid
in the 1970s.  Around 2006 was when I started to record them for posterity.
I ended up having so many that I made a separate YouTube channel
for them all.  Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/user/neilyoungcovers/videos

I could not find chords for this song so made some up by ear.
I was interested to learn about what inspired Peter Gabriel to write
such a disturbingly chilling song and I put that in the video description.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Keka2z5h5eY

Wrote and first recorded this song in 2009 and decided to do a
new recording with my new microphone today. Only the second
time I've played this song. I usually record a song then promptly
forget it and move on.
Took me a while to reconstruct the chords I used.... I should write
chords down but I don't:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvEUblzL3FQ

I've always loved Jimi Hendrix music and listened to this album a lot.
My first exposure to Hendrix was his first album "Are You Experienced?" because my teenage aunts and uncle had the album.
Made a huge impression on me as a child.
It never ever occurred to me to even attempt a cover of a Jimi Hendrix song because he is one of the greatest guitar players.
I knew I would never be anywhere close to that good.

But I had to try it so I got the chords and dumbed it down to my skill level... just played it my way.
Gave it the best I had in my own simple way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuIGpeNMuh0

solo acoustic cover of the Blind Faith song written by Steve Winwood:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6nC8lIPRLk