Blues meets Rockabilly meets Surf - the Fulminators go all eclectic

The debut of the Flying Bastardo Brothers on this blog with “Close Up the Honky Tonks” has prompted me to get back into the recording studio - so blame them for your suffering!

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I’ll start with a recording I did some six years ago, a bit of Country Blues with two raucous Rockabilly breaks in the middle, just to confuse everyone (mainly myself). I made the recording before I’d learnt the importance of setting a regular tempo, and the original electric guitar and MIDI bass breaks in the middle were rhythmically challenged and loud enough to blow your speakers out, to put it mildly. As the song now only exists in MP3 format, I imported it as a track to a Garage Band project, added some percussion and electric rhythm guitar, and completely redid the two instrumental breaks. I’m not sure the song makes any more sense, and you can definitely hear the joins, but it sounds a little more polished (see above).

                                 

I was evidently going through a major acoustic phase at that time - I think the chance to record myself on my Taylor guitar went to my head, because here’s another acoustic Country Blues sort of jam thing from 2005 or thereabouts - unfiddled with (you’ll hear the Cubase digital metronome at the start, which means I’d finally grasped the importance of an even tempo, but the sound leaked into the mike from the open-backed headphones I was using at the time): here's "Chunkums":

                                            

Now for the last of my old recordings that I intend inflicting on you. It needs tidying up and balancing generally, but I can’t think of a way of doing that with an MP3 track, so I’ll just publish it as is. I don’t know why I called it “Cajun Soup” - perhaps because there’s a MIDI accordion in there somewhere: here's "Cajun Soup":

Finally, yet another surf number, done earlier this week.  I like the guitar strumming chords at the end , with the tremolo rate and sustain set to maximum. But that’s enough surf for now: "Surf, Fatman, Surf!":

And before you ask, the chap in the picture isn’t me. Glad to have cleared that up in advance.