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mike skliar
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I'm a singer songwriter in new york city(not my day job, tho!).
I play guitar, mandolin and a bit of dobro (resonator guitar, played lap-style). Also recently picked up a baritone tricone resonator as well (thats the instrument in the picture) And very lately I've been trying to play the harmonica a bit as well.
I've been playing guitar for a while, tho only in the last 10 years or so have I started writing. The writing process can be incredibly fun or incredibly frustrating, as many of you know, of course. I tend to write a mix of more serious and more comic things, sometimes with a few topical or political songs thrown in. Most of my stuff is probably rooted musically in some sorts of rock, blues, folk or bluegrass influence. Lately, however, I've been playing more jazz and trying to use those kinds of chord changes from time to time.
I have two cds out- the first one released about five years ago, which is available at itunes under the name 'mike skliar' and at cd baby here: http://cdbaby.com/cd/skliar
Last year my new cd "Ship of State" was released, and I'm still excited about it. It's got 20 songs including many songs originally written during the fawm and 50/90 writing challenges, and there are seven or eight other fawmers whose musical talents appear on it.
http://cdbaby.com/cd/skliar2
Both cds are availabe as well on iTunes, as well as a few other places (check iTunes under the name "Mike Skliar")
I've also played a bunch of acoustic original music gigs in the last few years with fellow fawmer Ken Ficara. Additionally I'm also the guitarist with blues & oldies band Saboteur Tiger- we play out about once a month here in New York City.
This is the 5th year I'm doing fawm- its a great thing, and I'm very glad that I was able to get some others turned on to the idea as well- its truly a great project for everyone who participates. Did some collaboration the last few years as well, which was unexpected and really alot of fun...
NOTE- the songs marked with a * are ones I'm particularly proud of this year.. if you haven't heard my stuff, maybe start with these?
| 1 | The complete Alfred Hitchcock * | 50 comments // 1 month ago | |
| 2 | Flying thru reality * | 26 comments // 1 month ago | |
| 3 | Job | 19 comments // 1 month ago | |
| 4 | Man-made global warming is real * | 24 comments // 1 month ago | |
| 5 | ambient number one (instrumental) | 13 comments // 1 month ago | |
| 6 | Pianostan (instrumental) | 9 comments // 1 month ago | |
| 7 | Gimme Gimme Gimme that Mandolin Funk | 22 comments // 1 month ago | |
| 8 | George Bailey's Wonderful Life * | 17 comments // 1 month ago | |
| 9 | The Goddess of Pop * | 21 comments // 1 month ago | |
| 10 | Black Month Where (explore the core challenge) | 16 comments // 1 month ago | |
| 11 | Sarah Palin's Hand (objects challenge) | 18 comments // 1 month ago | |
| 12 | A little magic (with a guitar from 1930, mandolin from 1922) * | 20 comments // 1 month ago | |
| 13 | Olympic Games (dedicated to Nodar Kumaritashvili) * | 9 comments // 1 month ago | |
| 14 | What my wife wants for Valentine's Day * | 19 comments // 4 weeks ago | |
| 15 | In C and only C (note, only one note) | 20 comments // 4 weeks ago | |
| 16 | Sounds like Hawaii, tastes like chicken | 12 comments // 4 weeks ago | |
| 17 | Wisdom hopefully lingers | 10 comments // 3 weeks ago | |
| 18 | Soul In The Bottle * | 7 comments // 3 weeks ago | |
| 19 | Let them Filibuster * | 5 comments // 3 weeks ago | |
| 20 | Wishing the Morning * | 12 comments // 3 weeks ago | |
| 21 | I Dare you to comment on this song (comment junkie's lament) | 7 comments // 3 weeks ago | |
| 22 | Scarab Letters * | 13 comments // 3 weeks ago | |
| 23 | Yes (songskirmish challenge) * | 15 comments // 3 weeks ago | |
| 24 | (Parody) It's All About the Goys | 11 comments // 3 weeks ago | |
| 25 | Hair * | 12 comments // 3 weeks ago | |
| 26 | You've got a big bowl of wrong, we've got a big soul song | 5 comments // 2 weeks ago | |
| 27 | Faster (the 1955 Le Mans auto disaster) * | 8 comments // 2 weeks ago | |
| 28 | Snow and Time | 8 comments // 2 weeks ago | |
| 29 | Blues In Every Key | 3 comments // 2 weeks ago | |
| 30 | To be continued (somgskirmish challenge) | 8 comments // 2 weeks ago | |
| 31 | Got the blues in every key | 4 comments // 2 weeks ago | |
| 32 | mike and hoopshank's opus 1 in 5/4 | zong // 2 weeks ago | |
| 33 | the one that almost got away | zong // 2 weeks ago | |
| 34 | the second one that almost got away | zong // 2 weeks ago | |
| 35 | March is on the march | 5 comments // 2 weeks ago | |
| 36 | guitar instrumental | 6 comments // 2 weeks ago |