Joel D Canfield

progress: 18 winner!
joined: January 2006
location: California, USA
website: www.handmadehomespun.com
influences: Roger Miller, Michael Nesmith, Stan Ridgway, Chris Isaak, Gordon Lightfoot, Dwight Yoakam, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Badly Drawn Boy, Lester 'The Old Roadhog' Moran, Jesse Cook, and Russia Saturn

Bio

A note to those who wish to keep in touch during TOEM (The Other Eleven Months)

• you can email joel@bizba6.com
• or Skype joeldcanfield
• or follow my music-as-personal-development-tool concept at http://tunehenge.com/

Having become entirely obsessed with the double harmonic scale and nouveau flamenco, I'm going to sit in a puddle of technical inability and bewail my failure to take what's in my head and make it audible to others.

But, so far I've managed
1. a Dylanesque epic
2. a jazz guitar thingy
3. my long-desired Smithereens thrust
4. the Wilco bit that was stuck in my head
5. yet another a capella thing I needed to expunge
6. first ever true collab with my glorious daughter
7. the requisite silly folk/jazz thing
8. the nouveau flamenco thing
9. one of those 'came to me out of the blue/in the shower' freebies
10. my annual collab with non-FAWMer Tom Bentley
11. a piano instrumental which moves from relative minor to major
12. accidental collaboration on a happy bluegrass tune
13. a Celtic love song with Maeflower
14. a Byrds/Eagles/Petty style country rock tune
15. John Crossman's spectacular road song about not falling in love
16. that Arabic trance piece
17. a happy surprise collab with Lara & Co. (h'ray!)
18. and, finally, another collab (my first ever with Ross!)

So, 12 of my own and 6 collaborations puts me at 15. H'ray!

This thing still makes me giddy http://www.handmadehomespun.com

2010 Songs

1 All the Wrong Reasons 20 comments // 1 month ago
2 All the Right Reasons 12 comments // 1 month ago
3 How I Tried 11 comments // 1 month ago
4 Just a Couple of Kids 8 comments // 1 month ago
5 The House Jack Jazz Built 5 comments // 1 month ago
6 Not My Friend (with Russia Saturn) 10 comments // 1 month ago
7 I Wish I Had A Ukulele 12 comments // 3 weeks ago
8 Soñando de ti 6 comments // 3 weeks ago
9 So Nice To Come Home To 1 comment // 3 weeks ago
10 Faulty Heart 2 comments // 2 weeks ago
11 Toward Pleasure Away From Pain 1 comment // 2 weeks ago
12 Blue Tick Hound (with  Summer Russell) 12 comments // 2 weeks ago
13 Ancient Pain (with  Maeflower) 6 comments // 2 weeks ago
14 Where The Water's Cool 2 comments // 2 weeks ago
15 Good Time (with  John Crossman) 4 comments // 1 week ago
16 No Mystic 3 comments // 1 week ago
17 The New Hokey Pokey (with  Lara) 3 comments // 1 week ago
18 Me in the Mirror (with  Ross Durand) 2 comments // 1 week ago

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  • greenambit 1 week ago
    Thanks for your comments on "You're All My Stars". I am working on a demo--but if you want to try to do something with the lyrics then by all means! I'd love to see it.
  •  Ross Durand 1 week ago
    Hey - we were on Charlie's show!
  •  Errol 1 week ago
    Alllooo Joel D Canfield! We played Me in the Mirror on the radio show!

    http://www.blogtalkradio.com/fawm/2010/03/02/40--the-daily-fawmcast-2010
  • weakness 1 week ago
    thank you so much! I'd love to collaborate with you next fawm and try to combine our styles!!! I wish I could have wrote more this time around, but I'm on a little deadline to finish an album by May and it was just too much sad
  • Deep Sea Cavalry 1 week ago
    Nice album... Great work getting well more than done too. And thanks for spending some time listen to our stuff. Hopefully see you next year on here.
  • sunnyrose 1 week ago
    Congrats on being a winner - again!
  • Well, I hope things turn around, but you know you have an open invitation any third Saturday of the month. smile
  • This year?
    smile

    http://fawm.org/forums/thread/974/
  •  John Crossman 2 weeks ago
    Sending you an email from my infpos (at) yahoo account. A little later than I had hoped, but maybe not too late?

    Congrats on 14, Spinhead for the win!
  •  John Crossman 2 weeks ago
    Will do. NSFW is not my thing either (unless I'm lending voice to someone else's lyrics, which explains 2 of them this year).
  •  John Crossman 2 weeks ago
    Let me try the lyric thing and send you some since that was your first suggestion. Then if you can music it up I could add harmonies or something after?
  •  Lara 2 weeks ago
    'kay- it's on it's way (hoping the email isn't too big- let me know if it doesn't come through!)
  •  John Crossman 2 weeks ago
    I was thinking the exact same thing (about collaborating) and wondering if someone would call me out on (that pure coincidence of) Seamus! It's like kismet. Why don't we meet over at that forum thread and put something together? wink

    Seriously, you're reading my mind tonight and it's freaking me out.
  •  John Crossman 2 weeks ago
    That's so much fun! Very nice musical composition, love the chunky guitar (or mando?) and the harmonica is terrific!
  •  Lara 2 weeks ago
    warning- you will soon receive an email attempting to recruit you in the rewriting of the hokey pokey to pseudo ancient Middle Easternish music. by this evening if kids cooperate & be quiet.
  • Shannon Marie 3 weeks ago
    Thanks for commenting on my post. I actually really liked your idea, I might just end up doing that! Thanks! smile
  •  Bruce H. McCosar 3 weeks ago
    Believe it or not, I have been busy every hour since FAWM ended. I was able to accomplish so much in so short of a time because of the snow -- I only worked two days the entire FAWM. The snow is over now, and everything I've put off doing I had to do!

    In addition, I backed up all of my music files, adding all the FAWM materials to the massive pile of audio . . . According to a scan I just did, I have 11 Gb in 'Albums' (high quality master tracks of mine), 103 Gb in 'AudioBank' (all the original, individual, instrument-by-instrument tracks since 2008), and 24 Gb of 'Library', my favorite music I've downloaded. Since most of that 24 Gb is in the form of .mp3s of less than 10 Mb, that's scary!

    Anyway, hoping to do some FAWM stuff this weekend -- for the collab, I may whoop out the robots, though, since I've just packed up all the microphones (condensors ... they are seriously not the type of thing to leave lying around).
  •  Lara 3 weeks ago
    'course I did! you have such a nice, mellow voice (& I've had a couple years to learn to pick it out!)

    would love to do a collab, but I am having a hard time finding recording time. I have some mizmar ideas & will email you anything I do come up with, but I guess I'm saying it might not happen, no matter my good intentions! I am shocked & amazed that I have managed 4 sets of lyrics so far- either I get a last minute rush & finish, or just count baby cooing as song substitutes smile
  •  Errol 3 weeks ago
    Dearest Joel
    You have some hair.
    Some hair right there.
    Upon your head.

    Dearest Joel.
    I don't know where
    To comment with care
    On what you said.

    Oh dearest Joel
    I feel I must dare
    To look and stare
    But not in dread.

    Oh dearest Joel
    Your hair, has some flare
    None can compare.
    No wonder you wed.
  • friendof 1 month ago
    Oh, and the pic is from the teacup ride at Disney... my bestfriend, kristabrindle on this site, and I do these pics every year! smile WEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
  • friendof 1 month ago
    You can guitar/bass/etc yourself away on any of my songs anytime! wink
  •  kermy 1 month ago
    this is a set of lyrics from a girl that Maeflower knows...(the same chick that Maeflower wrote about in her song Military Wife)...thought of you when I read the lyrics...if you are looking for a collab with a fawmling! kg
  •  Frances 1 month ago
    I would love to let the rage out! I just need a good distorted guitar. smile
  •  Maeflower 1 month ago
    It might take a bit, and it probably won't be this February, but Joel, you'd better believe that someday soon I'll make it out in your direction and I'll hold you to it! wink
  •  oddbod 1 month ago
    Joel, thanks for listening - the bass is actually sampled (the upright bass from Kontakt 3), no substitute for the real thing but I think it sounds reasonably authentic.
    The solo (and rhythm) was a Tanglewood Parlour (TW73). It's my work-horse acoustic. A great little guitar with a sound that belies it's cost.
  • Heh, thanks! Hoping I can crank out 14 again this year - you?
  •  Ross Durand 1 month ago
    Hey Joel - Just dropping by to say hi.

    Hi!
  •  Bruce H. McCosar 1 month ago
    JDC> Care to indulge my fear, and work on something to which I could add lyrics and vocals?

    I'd be glad to. I've been practicing a lot of my fingerstyle guitar work, and good old fashioned rhythm guitar.

    Here's my idea. Let's both get to about #3 in FAWM. Then I can analyze your vocal style a bit more closely, and you can hear a few pieces of mine. We can probably meet in the middle.

    Say, you're playing the Double Harmonic scale, eh? I've always meant to do an album with unusual scales . . . maybe that's FAWM 2011.
  •  Phil Henry 1 month ago
    Howdy, Joel! Woohoo!
  •  Frances 1 month ago
    How much would I love that!! Keep me posted!
  •  mikejames 1 month ago
    Hey Joel-just checking in-good to see you are back rockin' fawm 2010!
  •  Rick Amorphis 1 month ago
    Joel,
    Went back and listened to 'Everyday People'...you're right, E on the bass all the way through! Great song. Takes supreme confidence to hang on one note like that.
    Good luck next month. smile
  •  Bruce H. McCosar 1 month ago
    Greetings again! Looking forward to another great FAWM.
  •  Frances 1 month ago
    Hi Joel!! I'm looking forward to hearing your songs this year!
  •  Maeflower 1 month ago
    JOEL!!!!!!! (hi!) How's stuff? I had no idea our compilation had its very own website---you are the epitome of cool, spin! Looking forward to new craziness.....when I need a good lift I still refer back to your instrumental about the man falling out of the balloon. wink
  • dougdog nye 1 month ago
    Joel. I did not know you were so "old" I got ya by 10. your words about your adult children hit me and my heart goes out to you. I write a lot of broken hearted songs. It is a good way to purge the system and clarify how i am dealing with a matter. i can see a good song title "adult children" or " my adult children are acting like kids" etc etc probably be the easiest songs you would ever write. take care dougdog
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