Brian The Folksinger
Free Music Downloads
First, due to royalty costs, I can only provide full tracks, and videos, of traditional and original music
I'm providing full tracks from two older CDs that are out of print, though they are still available through digital distribution services, but the truth is that at this point, they can probably be found for free scattered around the web.
I also provide tracks that I produce in my own studio, like rough mixes of work in progress, soundtracks live performance, or music I can't afford to produce on CDs or digitally distribute, but can just record and release here, responding to people's requests.
I sell new recordings to pay for recording and production costs, but I do provide short sample clips from the CDs still in production.
A Hobo's Dulcimer
Information on all CDs and the tracks on them is available on the pages for the individual CDs
My music is available worldwide on most retail digital music services, under "Folksinger" and "Brian the Folksinger" or the album name. My music is distributed commercially through
The Orchard Digital Distribution Service
Here's direct links to my pages on some common services
There are many performance videos
if you wish to see me play the electric dulcimer
A Folksinger's Journal
contains the most recent music videos, both performances and demonstrations
and also has a index to all the available videos in the right had menu
and also music clips and tracks associated with the Video Studio Journals and Video Tour Journals
There are also a few performance videos in the
2000 Alaska Video Tour Journals
AK2K
Finally, this page has been update HTML 5, using multiple formats, Ogg Vorbis, .ogg, and Mpeg, .mp3 files, and using several methods, including a direct link if the HTML 5 doesn't work. HTML 5 is still not settled into some standardized form across all browsers, so this may or may not work, and may not be supported by all older browsers. So it goes. The old page wasn't working for a lot of new browsers, but was written in the days before streaming and intergrated players, to provide downloadable files that could be played, after downloading, by your music player. If the link doesn't automatically pop up your music player and allow you to play the track, it will possibly only work if you right-click the file and choose to save the file from the menu window, then select and play the saved copy after downloading it.
Enjoy!
These selected full length tracks are from the
Folksinger
andGypsy Road
CDs, recorded in a commercial studio over a few hours in 1995-1996, and are now out of print. They were recorded with my last acoustic dulcimer, rather then the electric I had already begun playing. But the electric and acoustic are laid out very different, and so I chose to record these CDs with the last acoustic, leave a record of it, and the versions I had developed on it, before I made the shift to the electric, and the new style and versions I was developing on it. The tracks where I play guitar are possibly better than the dulcimer tracks, simply because the studio had never recorded a hammered dulcimer before, and didn't know how it was supposed to sound. This is one of the reasons I decided to get my own studio gear rather then use commercial studios. I still decided to make a snapshot recording of the music, to have something to offer people while I saved up for my own studio, and record the last acoustic and some of the songs and style I had developed over the past 15 years on it. It would take a few years to get my own studio gear, and I realized that by the time I did get my own studio together, the acoustic would be behind me, part of my history, as I recognized that the electric was my future.
Featured Tracks
Simple Things (5:08) - Original
Solo Vocals and Guitar
released on CD "Folksinger-Gypsy Road" 1997
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (2:21) - Lullabye : W. A. Mozart
Vocals and Electric Dulcimer
released on CD "Folksinger-A Hobo's Dulcimer" 2004
As a special favor to parents and kids, I have provided this as a individual track,
though on the CD it is half of a medly track with "Wish Upon A Star".
A direct link to the MPEG file
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A Gypsy Lullabye (5:08) - Original
Solo Vocals and Guitar, ceramic flute
2009, unreleased on CD, released as a live performance video at Lou's Ponderosa in Florida,
along with a matching video tour journal, though added the flute later in my studio,
and documented in a video studio journal.
A direct link to the MPEG file
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Little Friend (5:08) - Original
Solo Vocals and Hammered Dulcimer, Guitar, and ceramic flute
2010, unreleased, this is a rough mix from my studio, the first song I was working on for the new CD
before everything went on hold, and as remained on hold since, a long story told in my webjournal.
A direct link to the MPEG file
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Complete original music tracks from the 1997 CD "Gypsy Road"
Old Brown Shoes (4:44) - Original
A love song for a pair of boots I owned once, long ago
Solo Vocals and Acoustic Dulcimer
released on CD "Folksinger-Gypsy Road" 1997
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Traveling On The Way (5:01) - Original
Though my deepest motivations are spiritual and philosophical,
these things are difficult to express as a good song, yet this song I wrote at a teenager worked,
and still rings true for me.
Solo melody and harmony Vocals and Acoustic Dulcimer
released on CD "Folksinger-Gypsy Road" 1997
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Mr. Koto (3:03) - Original
from a spontaineous jam I did when someone from Japan asked me to try to
"do something Oriental"
Solo Vocals and Acoustic Dulcimer
released on CD "Gypsy Road" 1997
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A Gypsy Tune (3:21) - My adaptation of a traditional Gypsy tune
Solo Vocals and Acoustic Dulcimer
released on CD "Folksinger-Gypsy Road" 1997
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Complete Traditional music tracks from the 1997 CDs "Folksinger"
I Know You Rider (3:32) - Traditional Bluegrass, popularized by the Greatful Dead
Solo Vocals and Acoustic Dulcimer
released on CD "Folksinger" 1997
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Shady Grove (2:34) - Traditional
Vocals and Acoustic Dulcimer
released on CD "Folksinger" 1997
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Shenandoah (2:26) - Traditional American
Solo Vocals and Acoustic Dulcimer
released on CD "Folksinger" 1997
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The Water Is Wide (3:30) - Traditional
Vocals, Harmony Vocals, and Acoustic Dulcimer
released on CD "Folksinger" 1997
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The Ship The Diamond (3:05) - Traditional Maritime
Solo Vocals and Acoustic Dulcimer
released on CD "Folksinger" 1997
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Greenland Away (3:19) - Traditional Maritime
Solo Vocals and Acoustic Dulcimer
released on CD "Folksinger" 1997
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Windy Bill (2:16) - Traditional fast Western Cowboy ballad
Solo Vocals and Acoustic Dulcimer
released on CD "Folksinger" 1997
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Old Paint (3:35) - Traditional slow Western Cowboy ballad
Solo Vocals and Acoustic Dulcimer
released on CD "Folksinger" 1997
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Scarborough Fair (3:32) - Traditional English
Solo Vocals and Acoustic Dulcimer
released on CD "Folksinger" 1997
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Greensleeves (4:15) - Traditional English
Solo Vocals and Acoustic Dulcimer
released on CD "Folksinger" 1997
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Oh Susannah (2:22) - Americana, by Stephen Foster, 1840's
Solo Vocals and Acoustic Dulcimer
released on CD "Folksinger" 1997
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