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The first instalment of RPM 2024. I shall write some notes later. Just want to get this up!
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Richard Shekari said

Beautiful, your voice is unique

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RPM 2024 track 11
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Thanks for listening, Sister. It means a lot to be back and have you hear it. Yes! Here's to next year!

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RPM 2024 track two .. exciting commentary to follow
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Curiously, I can hear Dean having a go at this. Not the orchestra, I can't do orchestras in my head, but Deano? Yes indeed!

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RPM 2024 track 3 Yay! A sad and tender tango
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Gumbo said

Leafy walkways, cappucino, and a need to send flowers is exactly the feel I was going for!!

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RPM 2024 Track 5 another tango string band
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Gumbo said

I'm so relieved that it's recognisably a tango :-D

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RPM 2024 track 6 with a drum track for Marz
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Marz, we were chatting about the pros and cons of including drums and I said I would include at least one this time around. This is it!

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RPM track 10 dramatic pause phew!
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Ha! Opener? This one nearly didn't get included for being 'different'. :-D Shows you how much I know!

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Yay RPM 2024 track 9 almost there
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Gumbo said

Thanks folks. What does 'quirky' mean these days?? Do I really want to know? To me it is high praise!

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RPM 2024 track 7 A good friend of mine has a Samoyed. This is a song about him. I was hoping for a kiiind of Cheap Suit Serenaders feel. Acoustic guitar, a 1920s tenor banjo and a brand new mandolin.
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Gumbo said

Yep it does help to be able to picture a samoyed running about ;-)

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RPM track 10 dramatic pause phew!
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Greg Connor said

Good Stuff!

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RPM 2024 track 11
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Sister Savage said

Ahh like a lovely cup of tea. I was thrilled to bits when you also signed up this year, and although I failed miserably, you knocked it out of the park...again. Thanks for giving me more breezy music to laugh at the world by. Next year, let's do it again. Any physical CDs this year??

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RPM track 10 dramatic pause phew!
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Sister Savage said

Moody, Wolfy, Sliiick. (Album opener vibes, imho)

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Yay RPM 2024 track 9 almost there
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Sister Savage said

Brilliant song - and you make it all sound so effortless. Fresh, cool, quirky (I'm told by my teenage daughters that "quirky" no longer means what I think it means, but they're wrong), just g-o-o-d m-u-s-i-c.

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RPM 2024 track .. counts on fingers .. eight
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Sister Savage said

Absolute classic Gumbo. Light and breezy, but with a bittersweet (dark even) undertone...how do you do that!?

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RPM 2024 track 7 A good friend of mine has a Samoyed. This is a song about him. I was hoping for a kiiind of Cheap Suit Serenaders feel. Acoustic guitar, a 1920s tenor banjo and a brand new mandolin.
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Sister Savage said

Super sweet! Love the mandolin and you definitely achieved the feeling you were aiming for. *googles Samoyed*

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RPM 2024 track 6 with a drum track for Marz
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Sister Savage said

Oooh yes!! Sultry! Rhythmic! Loving all the layers, all the twists and turns.

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RPM 2024 Track 5 another tango string band
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Sister Savage said

Oof yeah, more tango! Lovely harmonies and dreamy guitar.

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A guided meditation with ukelele. I thought there would be more uke on this album ... RPM 2024 track 4
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Sister Savage said

Mischievous and irrepressible. The prosecution rests.

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RPM 2024 track 3 Yay! A sad and tender tango
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Sister Savage said

This gets a strange emotional reaction from me because I can't imagine you to be anything other than mischievous and irrepressible. But...this is Americana Tango...and I love both. Weirdly though, this takes me to the leafy walkways of Rome and now I want a cappuccino and to send you flowers.

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RPM 2024 track two .. exciting commentary to follow
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Sister Savage said

Dean Martin probably wants to record this. I can hear a version with the Hollywood treatment in my head. But this is cooler. You infuse fresh air in everything you record.

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