mix mp3: http://soupgreens.com/ghostsolos/LGonze-GhostSolos.mp3


  1. Death Valley Waltz
  2. Emmett's Cuckoo Song
  3. Horace Weston's Old Time Jig (March 3 2010)
  4. Little Jack Horner
  5. Dodworth's Five Step
  6. Talk About Suffering
  7. Frog In The Well

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Death Valley Waltz

From "The Drummer’s and Fifers’ Guide" by Bruce and Emmet.

Sheet music, MIDI, video, and back story at http://soupgreens.com/2009/12/18/st-louis-waltz-sheet-music/.

This recording hereby in the public domain.

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Emmett's Cuckoo Song

1899 brown wax cylinder recording.

Found at http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/.

Original cylinder recording in the public domain. Digitization c. Regents of the University of California, licensed for non-commercial use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.

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Horace Weston's Old Time Jig (March 3 2010)

1882 composition for banjo.

More info about this particular version at http://soupgreens.com/2010/03/09/horace-westons-electronic-jig/. Sheet music at http://soupgreens.com/2009/11/17/horace-westons-old-time-jig/.

This recording hereby in the public domain.

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Little Jack Horner

1890 recording of the first talking doll.

Found at http://www.archive.org/details/EdisonTalkingDoll-LittleJackHorner1890. More info at http://www.edisontinfoil.com/doll.htm.

Creative Commons → public domain.

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Dodworth's Five Step

1877 waltz in a long loping 5/4 that sounds like 5/2. Sometimes still played by marching bands.

Found at http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hasm.a2315/. Blog entry and video at http://soupgreens.com/2009/05/20/dodworths-five-step-waltz/.

This recording hereby in the public domain.

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Talk About Suffering

Bleak gospel in a raw bluesy style w/ bottleneck on resonator guitar + whistling and singing. Recorded in a single take using the mic on my laptop.

Originally posted at http://soupgreens.com/2009/09/16/raw-talk-about-suffering/. Back story, chords, MIDI at http://soupgreens.com/2009/06/06/rocking-yukon-gold-mp3-sheet-music-midi-garageband-project/.

This recording hereby in the public domain.

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Frog In The Well

A fife and drum tune from the civil war.

More info/ guitar tab/ sheet music/ WAV samples/ MIDI / video / FLAC: http://soupgreens.com/froginthewell/

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.