February Album Writing Month - FAWM.ORG

Deaf Steever (@deafsteever)

progress: 6

joined: January 17 2011
location: Manitoba, Canada
website: sfalk.weebly.com/
influences: Mississippi John Hurt, Furry Lewis, Dock Boggs, Simon & Garfunkel, Skip James, Beatles, Buddy Holly, Sloan, Ishman Bracey, Metallica, Beach Boys/Brian Wilson, Robert Wilkins, Syd Barrett

Bio

"Well, sir, I just make it sound like I think it ought to." - Mississippi John Hurt, when asked how he came up with his music.

Since I can't read music and know zilch about music theory, the above quote from MJH sums up my musical philosophy quite nicely.

Got into guitar when I was 13 because of heavy metal, had a thrash metal album released across Canada when I was 17 (Corpus Vile - "What Does It Take"), mucked around for two decades casually bashin' out Beatle tunes, etc, got back into guitar (acoustic) in a BIG way a few years ago when I discovered Mississippi John Hurt and the other pre-war bluesmen. Just turned 40 and I'm lovin' playin' and makin' music more than EVER!

Work and family eat up a lot of my free time, so I doubt I'll get much done for FAWM 2012. By the time, my two girls are in bed and asleep, I'm usually too tired to do much more than sit on the couch, noodle around on the Internet, and play guitar. If I'm feeling really ambitious, I might go to the fridge and grab a beer. After an hour of this, I then go to bed. But we'll see if inspiration will strike and motivate me to write/record something. For this year's FAWM, if I do anything, it'll probably be strictly acoustic guitar stuff. I'm too lazy to program drums and/or get out my electric guitar. hehe

2012 Songs

1	Marjory	17 comments // 3 months ago
2	Blind Dog Brown	11 comments // 3 months ago
3	Mississippi Witch	17 comments // 3 months ago
4	I Wanna Go Somewhere With You	9 comments // 2 months ago
5	Keep On Truckin'	5 comments // 2 months ago
6	Long Afternoons (with echovoodoo)	5 comments // 2 months ago

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echovoodoo 2 months ago

I wasn't ignoring our collab with that comment, honest (!) - at the time he asked me to collab, though, you hadn't yet done the vocals on Long Afternoons, and I knew I couldn't sing over the guitar part you sent me (still can't sing), so I really didn't think I'd be doing any collabs!
arthurrossi 2 months ago

I definitely like the songs you do and I would be delighted at a collab as you suggested to write words to a pre-existing hummed melody, I tried a few times, but without it, only with the music, it is quite difficult for me to "hear" how and what to write... I would look very forward to it if we managed to do something during next 50/90... Thanks a lot for your lovely and detalid comment, by the way...
echovoodoo 2 months ago

Sent you those files for Long Afternoon (via Facebook message). Have fun (or ignore, as seems appropriate).
rickamorphis 2 months ago

Hahaha...ok, thanks, that explains it!
echovoodoo 3 months ago

Hey Steve! Played one of your songs on the FAWMcast today: http://fawm.org/wiki/fawmcast_2012#the_daily_fawmcast_-_11
mikeskliar 3 months ago

welcome back!
kingwoodkowboy 3 months ago

Calling all bluegrass artists - "Knee Deep In Bluegrass Blues" is ready for music and recording.
kiwafruit 3 months ago

Thanks for the comment on "Lose Myself" - glad you enjoyed it
What do you mean by "front porch-y"? I'm thinking this a north v south hemisphere cultural reference loss?
balancelost 3 months ago

Hello there!
That is awesome, I had no idea I was even on the Fawmpilation until now. Thank you!
I'm so glad you enjoyed the tune.
Merry Fawming!
whatsurdamage 3 months ago

Happy FAWM! I still listen to "Fork in My Eye", such a fun song! Looking forward to hearing your stuff this year.
plainwhitetoast 3 months ago

Howdy! Good to see you here. Happy FAWMing, however/whatever you do do!
fendertele71 3 months ago

And the Oscar for best pun in a FAWM comment goes to...

Deaf Steever for "I'd like to echo Echo Voodoo..."

Thanks for the comment. Glad you enjoyed the track.
dreamscuba 3 months ago

Thanks very much for your comments on "where the sun is shining". Much appreciated.
calumcarlyle 3 months ago

hi Deaf Steever, i just listened to I Don't Mind The Snow, and it's rough sound quality but what a nice song, and i loved the left and right panned guitar effect, plus that lovely vocal thing at 1:30. It does remind me a little of Simon and Garfunkel. I have been listening to Paul Simon's first solo album recently ("Paul Simon Songbook") and this reminds me more of a song from that album rather than the Simon and Garfunkel LPs that followed it. Very nice, anyway.
isaacq 3 months ago

hello there! thanks for dropping a line. getting excited for february yet? i hope the invitation to a winnipeg fawmers coffee/beer gathering still applies despite my not songing this year....? rock on my friend!
chipwithrow 3 months ago

"Strictly acoustic guitar stuff" is as pure as it gets - go for it!
calumcarlyle 3 months ago

hi mister deaf steever,

i will for sure be listening out for your stuff this fawm but i am now injured and can't play any music! so i'm definitely out for this fawm. have a good one though!
randyxpher 3 months ago

Good to see you here! I still pull up your stuff from Rocktober - a lot of good music in there!
fendertele71 3 months ago

Glad to see you on FAWM. I still listen top Down Gimli Way entirely too much on my iPod.
echovoodoo 4 months ago

Yo, Steever! Glad to see you're logging in! We'll have to do a collab for that 1/2 song sometime.