Boogers McGee
Boogers McGee & Friends is a playlist of 3 songs that were written with a week or two back in 1998 or 1999. They are of a piece in that they use the same super low tuning and were originally recorded on my first Taylor 12 string which I set up with heavy gauge strings to get the top of the guitar moving nice.
I made videos this morning of two of the 3 songs (Boogers McGee and Gospel According to Sam). I combined some video of a young Miss Kitka glowering at my angel fish with a digitized reel to reel recording of Roll and Bowl made at the time I wrote this piece – shortly before Y2K.
Boogers McGee
Boogers McGee was my best friend growing up in Houston, TX in the late sixties. He lived 2 doors down the street and his parents developed an inexplicable tolerance for me. We were pretty inseparable.
Gospel According to Sam
Gospel According to Sam is a piece that I struggle to play as well today as I did back when I wrote it 30 years ago. It shouldn’t be that hard, but the part where it goes to the top of the fingerboard is tough to get to sound sweet and clean with heavy gauge strings. In the mean time I will keep trying, this version is passable and you get the feel for the song.
Roll and Bowl
Roll and Bowl was secret code language that my buddy Pete and I had for taking a parental vehicle (usually my dad’s 78 Cutlass Calais) out to drive on the back roads south of East Aurora, NY, where we went to high school together.
Maybe to Gutelberg Road or even Cowshit Falls…