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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

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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

Soundboard

• 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

• 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!

•  Steven Wesley Guiles (formerly Apple_Head) 1 week ago

  Well, I hope things turn around, but you know you have an open invitation any third Saturday of the month.

•  Steven Wesley Guiles (formerly Apple_Head) 1 week ago

  This year?
  
  
  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?
  
  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!

•  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

•  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! WEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

• friendof 1 month ago

  You can guitar/bass/etc yourself away on any of my songs anytime!

•  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.

•  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!

•  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.

•  Sir Ralph Hogaboom Rutherford Tuxpin Winchester IV 1 month ago

  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.

•  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.

• 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