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This Year's Attraction
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One-take recording of the new song.
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Baby, Please Don't Go
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This is an old tune, recorded first by Big Joe Williams, and arranged for mandolin by Andra Faye. Vocals, rhythm mandolin, and lead mandolin are recorded here ...
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When I Wonder
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I wrote the lyrics for this tune on an airplane flying to Houston last year, and even had the melody mostly worked out in my head at the time.
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Can't Find My Walkn' Shoes
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An original tune.
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Baby, Walk Slow
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An original song. When I performed this tune at the Blues Week student showcase, I was little dismayed that a student about three slots of ahead of me ...
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Bottled in Bond
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A new original story song. I'm afraid I am still working on smoothing out the lyrics, so this is more of a sketch than a real performance.
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Howlin' Down the Moon
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An original song, written during a family vacation in Georgia. The first night we were in the cabin, a neighboring dog barked and howled for hours at our ...
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Baby, Walk Slow (Blues Week 2011, mandolin)
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Andra Faye - Monday
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Andra Faye - Wednesday
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Andra Faye - Tuesday
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Andra Faye - Friday
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Lightnin' Wells - Monday
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Andra Faye - Thursday
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Apologies -- this one cuts off short because I ran out of battery.
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Steve James - Tuesday
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When I Wonder
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Liner Notes
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Hard Times Come Again No More
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Stephen Foster's commentary on the Great Famine of the 1840s.
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Soldier's Joy
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The banjo used to record these hymns. Rather than a stretched drumhead (skin or mylar), this banjo sounds via the base of a steel mess plate, allegedly from a ...
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Land of Rest
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This is an American folk hymn from the "Sacred Harp" shape note hymnbook. The Hymnal sets it to "Jerusalem, my happy home" (#620) and "I come with joy to meet ...
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Star in the East
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Another from the "Southern Harmony" shape note hymnbook, the hymnal sets the Epiphany text, "Brightest and best of the stars of the morning" (#118) to it.
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Restoration
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Again from the "Southern Harmony", this hymn (Hymnal #559) is another call to discipleship: "Jesus call us o'er the tumult of our life's tempestuous sea."
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Simple Gifts
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This beautiful hymn from the Shaker tradition (Hymnal #554) is the basis for a number of other favorites: the folk mass "Lord of the Dance," as well as ...
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Were You There
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This Holy Week spiritual (Hymnal # 172) is one of my favorites.
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Slane
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The hymnal sets this Irish folk tune to two texts: "Lord of all hopefulness" (#482) and "Be thou my vision" (#488).
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Go Down, Moses
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Hymnal #648. This spiritual is often sung with very "bluesy" attack on the rising notes: I"ve emulated that with slide on the banjo.
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Charlestown
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Hymn #571 sets a text to this tune which I don't think I've ever heard sung in church. The tune, also from the "Southern Harmony," is beautiful, and the words ...
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Holy Manna
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This tune, from the "Southern Harmony", is the traditional "warm up" song for many shape note singing communities.
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Balm in Gilead
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Hymnal #630 is an arrangement of this wonderful spiritual, which answers the prophet Jeremiah's plaintive question.
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Wondrous Love
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The text for this hymn is wonderful (Hymnal #439). I believe the text is original to the melody, which is from the "Southern Harmony", one of the key sources ...
