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Eddie Canter & His Applebuckers perform "(Just Gimme That) Applejack" - Sentimental Gentleman - 04-29-2015
This was the second "jazz age" style song I ever wrote. I needed to write it to express the ecstasy that being with Applejack had filled me with, the excitement and the zest for life that I was feeling as I lived with her and loved her.
Here it is, passably performed by Eddie Canter & His Applebuckers (my fandom-oriented jug band project)
RE: Eddie Canter & His Applebuckers perform "(Just Gimme That) Applejack" - EquestrianPenguin - 04-29-2015
It's very nice! Though, if you can, I suggest adding in a trombone, or a muted trumpet to add the jazz. Otherwise, I loved it!
Also, did you perform all the instruments?
RE: Eddie Canter & His Applebuckers perform "(Just Gimme That) Applejack" - Sentimental Gentleman - 04-29-2015
Thank you very much for the comment and the compliment, EquestriaPenguin! I do, in fact, play all the instruments on that recording, though I like to pretend that it's a more "real" band by giving pseudonyms to all the "players" of the different instruments (Bix Bridlebecke, Duke Geldington, Paul Whitemane, and of course Eddie Canter). I'm not really a virtuoso on any of the instruments I play, but I think when they come together they sound at least a little decent.
I agree that it would be a little more Dixieland-esque, and maybe even a little nicer, with either of the instruments you mentioned, but unfortunately I don't play either of them. I play some clarinet, but not in a Dixieland style, and so it wouldn't really fit in. In making this music, I take my primary inspiration from the Mound City Blue Blowers. They were a group in the twenties that played hot jazz with a lineup of Comb and Tissue Paper, Kazoo, and Banjo...and they actually had a really big hit with their first record, "Arkansas Blues." I figure if they can make it with a line-up like that, so can I! Plus, it feels a little less stuffy and more D.I.Y. to play with jug band instruments, and I feel like jazz could use a little more of that spirit nowadays.
Also, may I say how much I love that gif in your signature?
RE: Eddie Canter & His Applebuckers perform "(Just Gimme That) Applejack" - EquestrianPenguin - 04-29-2015
Thank you, I enjoy my gif as well :-)
RE: Eddie Canter & His Applebuckers perform "(Just Gimme That) Applejack" - Ziggy and Angelbaby - 04-29-2015
I found it rather charming. : )
RE: Eddie Canter & His Applebuckers perform "(Just Gimme That) Applejack" - Sentimental Gentleman - 04-29-2015
That's very nice of you to say, Ziggy!
RE: Eddie Canter & His Applebuckers perform "(Just Gimme That) Applejack" - Lurker - 04-29-2015
What Ziggy said.
For some reason, the first thought that popped into my head after hearing the first strum of that ukulele was Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains. Now I kinda wanna hear some Love Songs for the Apocalypse.
RE: Eddie Canter & His Applebuckers perform "(Just Gimme That) Applejack" - Sentimental Gentleman - 04-29-2015
I've never heard of Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains. I'll have to give them a listen.
RE: Eddie Canter & His Applebuckers perform "(Just Gimme That) Applejack" - Lurker - 04-29-2015
They're, uhh... folk punk. Kind of an acquired taste. Here's what I was just referring to: