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What Part of That

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:10:38 +0000

I started writing this song in my head while we were watching an old Aki Kaurismaki film on SBS one night. I love his films. There was nothing happening, someone was standing drunk in a doorway waiting for a taxi, oblivious. Seemed to be early morning, I only caught twenty minutes of it but it might have been Shadows in Paradise. This one was recorded in a pretty loose fashion & I seemed to be following the sound of that cavernous kick drum weaving through the verses. Again Shannon O’Neill mixed this so it scrubs up OK.

What Part of That

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Jim Jones – cover

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:52:26 +0000

Jim Jones was written as late as 1907 according to Wikipedia, though the narrator in the song is singing from the late 1700’s about his transportation to Sydney in convict chains. I came across the lyrics reading a newspaper article about the history of Sydney & found a version with a chord sequence on the website of a Boston Folk Society. I’m not sure if these are the chords that are most used for the song, although it is a Colonial Classic of sorts I’ve never heard another version, though I read here that Bob Dylan did one on his early 90s acoustic album.

It seems to lend itself to being played fast (and for me this is quite fast), it’s the sort of song I could hear The Pogues doing a version of. This version was recorded pretty quickly (I think this is the first take) and mixed just as fast.

Jim Jones

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Poolside album

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:37:22 +0000

In 2007 a few months after the idea of Beardwagon was formed this debut alum was released. Called Poolside because it was mostly written beside a pool in Ubud, it got airplay on all the hip radio stations back in those heady days (ie: fbi, zzz and RN). You can still get it on iTunes & many other places or you could download it here track by track as a zip bundle of mp3s or a big zip bundle of high quality 24bit wav files. The album would never have come together without Shannon O’Neill who produced and mixed the record in his Enmore studio during the winter nights that year as we worked our way through a case of Penfolds Shiraz.

Track 5 – Five Emails

Track 6 – Toby Said to Sirus

Track 7 – The State

Track 8 – We Rock So You Don’t Have To

Track 9 – Poolside

Track 10 – Crossfire

Track 11 – Notice

Track 12 – Whatever Happens

Track 13 – The Springtime

Download all the mp3s as a bundled zip. Download the 24bit master files all zipped together.