My first solo recording... done in 2002. I finally got around to releasing it in 2007. Includes alternate versions of Sun Outside My Door, A Real Fine Girl and Wayside Inn, plus two previously unreleased tracks. The original working title was called Session at Tito's and was recorded at Malemute Productions Studio in Seattle..
When I was a little kid in the 1950's. I remember the time when a man came walking down our street with a large camera and a shetland pony. He knocked on our door and asked if anyone wanted to have their picture taken sitting on the pony. Of coarse I did! I was a big fan of the cowboy TV shows. In fact, when my folks were amused at something I did, they would call me a character... to which I replied, "I'm not a character, I'm a cowboy!"
So began my love of cowboy songs... and I've still got that picture of me on that pony in full cowboy garb, from the ten gallon hat all the way down to the six-shooters, chaps, boots, and spurs!
This album includes Red River Valley, Back in the Saddle Again, I've Got Spurs That Jingle Jangle Jingle, Cool Water, Springtime in the Rockies, Ghostriders in the Sky, San Antonio Rose, I'm an Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande, Cattle Call, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie, Tumbling Tumbleweeds, Home on the Range, and Happy Trails!
Produced by Chris Glanister and Charlie Spring at Shoestring Studios, Edmonds, WA c.2006 all rights reserved
These Songs Are Your Songs is a collection of many of my favorite songs from the Public Domain. Included are Oh Susannah, On Top Of Old Smokey, Turkey In The Straw, You Are My Sunshine, Down In the Valley, Wabash Cannonball, Stardust, I Shall Not Be Moved, Red River Valley, Goodnight Irene, and This Land Is Your Land.
Produced by Bill Wolford and Charlie Spring at Vividsound Productions in Seattle, most songs were recorded John Lomax style live in the studio in just one day, along with four songs recorded live in concert before an intimate audience by Ian Davis, who co-produced my first album. c.2004
A Grateful Man, my long-awaited debut CD! Eleven original songs, recorded live in the studio... just me and my old Gibson guitar.
I waited a long time to finally make this recording... not for lack of material but for lack of money. Then I met Ian Davis, a young sound engineer who recently moved from Pennsylvania to the Seattle area, who made me an offer I couldn't refuse. The album has no punch-ins, no overdubs, just the real thing. I hope you enjoy it!
Produced by Ian Davis and Charlie Spring at Night Sky Studio, Bothell WA c. 2003
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I personally guarantee that if you decide for any reason that you don't want to keep Charlie Spring, Cowboy Moon, A Grateful Man or These Songs Are Your Songs, you can send the them back directly to me at the address listed above for a full refund of the purchase price.