It's an instrumental with a story attached, rather after the manner of his Bareback to Bullhassocks. It's also good advice on the care of banjos.
On reflection, I think this whole post is just a warm-up exercise for the one I might have written, had I more time and skill, about Martin Simpson's own compositions, and how they are fed by speech and (auto)biography.
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Date: 2011-03-01 11:13 am (UTC)On reflection, I think this whole post is just a warm-up exercise for the one I might have written, had I more time and skill, about Martin Simpson's own compositions, and how they are fed by speech and (auto)biography.