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a true music fan.

Saturday, November 14, 2020

it is my sincere hope this finds you in good stead. sorry i'm a little late with the new music this month, well you know all that stuff going on. here's to a brighter tomorrow.

you know when i was little i realized there were a very few people that were what i call loving people. {that's such a simple dumb thing to say.} i was blessed to have one completely loving angelic person in my early life. and i didn't get very old before i realized there was a great chasm between the way she looked at things and the way the kids at school and the teachers etc. viewed life. all those decades i spent traveling, one of the things that was encouraging was when you'd meet a cool person. it's really rare actually. as albert ayler said, typically people are "prophesying out of their own heart" or seeking their own gain in ALL matters and so forth. looking back on all those years in airplanes, you could see how people got more tense and self-centered and pushy as the years went by. it was very subtle like being beat to death with a dish rag. {a lot of this concept is in the holy bible, the koran, and the guru granth sahib. real love is rare.} it's strange to watch all this meanness. on one hand, we are traffic we aren't in traffic, so there's really no one to blame in the giant view sense. we have to work within ourselves. it's too easy to ignore our own thing and blame others. my experience is that i don't have a lot of impact on others but if i try and develop myself and bring more love into the world, at least that is something. as screaming jay hawkins says the shade of the toothpick beats the boiling sun. sant kirpal singh said every saint has a past, every sinner has a future. 

this piece i made for you is called intensive care. it is very simple. forgive me for that. i'm okay with just having a tiny little life. i can make lots of things and develop my music and drawing. thank you all for listening and enjoying my work. the underlaying theme of all my output is hope. hope for regular old people. i cherish being able to make things for you.

i have music and art here. 

@

a reasonable person with an eye for music.

Friday, October 02, 2020

got your new song as promised and other joy.

made you a brand new song and video called front porch pickin'' right cheer. 

i hope everyone is hanging in there okay. i got faith in reasonable smart folk, and faith in love. if you need some, i got some for both of us. 

thank you all for listening to my music and looking at my art. there''s a little over 3000 folks on my mailing list and it makes me happy to think there''s that many like minded folks that have interest in my work, thank you for that. okay i''ll let you get back to it.

the man on fire t-shirts are back in stock here.

as always there''s lots of art, comics, LPs and stuff there as well. 

@

music and art fan.

Saturday, December 05, 2020

december blast from ol'' barnes. 

hello everybody thank you for reading, thank you for taking time. as we hunker down for the winter we can hope for up-hunkering at some point. here's the new song of the month. perhaps you have time to take it for a spin. it's called saint jude. he's the patron saint of hopeless cases. 

i have new art up all the time on here. there's these prints i made of sun ra, john hartford and earl scruggs. staying busy with the illustration side {in a comfortable routine making lots of room for banjo playing}. musically i have quite a few new songs so they will be popping up for you about once a month roughly speaking. there's little videos. if you've been paying attention you have just about a whole new record delivered to you so far this year free. they will keep coming, i have stacks of music for you if you care to listen. 

hey couple things about man on fire: one is, even though we took a few bumps on that with all that other stuff, it felt really good to get that music out at exactly that time. because you see, music is a service industry, and i grew up on art and music that kind of encouraged you and built you up and made you think and feel something, and so that's how i model what i'm trying to do in my art/music life, endeavoring to come up with something that makes the observer laugh and/or think or twist things or present a little story. all of us that worked on the project was flat out trying to make a good record. the timing of how all of it shook out was, things ended up whereby some folks that was hurting and scared got some temporary relief of a musical, psychic and/or spiritual nature, if you will, from digging on the music. myself included. likewise my close friends and family, and i hope the nice group of dedicated fans that have stuck with me all these years {and of course anyone new that happened to have stumbled on my body of work}. i've seen you folks get married and eventually bring your kids to shows and your parents and i've met your whole family and all this kinds of stuff. people brought their neighbors. in a very long term view we have been through a lot together. and me and the folks that made that record have been really thankful we could lay that on the world at exactly that time, because it was an attempt to lift things up a little bit. {it took a couple of years and tons of work.}

the other is, the record got nominated for a grammy and i for one am pretty shocked. and honored and thankful and appreciative. if you've slept on as many floors as i have for forty years you don't really think like that too much, that you might would be included in such a conversation. we all took a lot of punches this year and i think that's nice win for all of us {the folks that worked on the project, the fans, the encouragers and the blessers, my good close positive friends, my teachers}. it continues to be an honor to make stuff for you and i greatly appreciate your time. a lot of love goes in this stuff and i hope you can take some out. thank you.

course57706@

a reasonable person with an eye for music.

Friday, October 02, 2020

got your new song as promised and other joy.

made you a brand new song and video called front porch pickin'' right cheer. 

i hope everyone is hanging in there okay. i got faith in reasonable smart folk, and faith in love. if you need some, i got some for both of us. 

thank you all for listening to my music and looking at my art. there''s a little over 3000 folks on my mailing list and it makes me happy to think there''s that many like minded folks that have interest in my work, thank you for that. okay i''ll let you get back to it.

the man on fire t-shirts are back in stock here.

as always there''s lots of art, comics, LPs and stuff there as well. 

course57706@

a nice, reasonable person.

Tuesday, September 01, 2020

this song is so new it''s still warm like a piece of toast!

@

a hearer of music.

Monday, July 06, 2020

barnes says hey.

hello ever body. hope you are all as well and happy as can be expected, and so forth. it''s not my place to comment on all that external stuff and i''m not qualified to discuss politics, the only thing i''m qualified to discuss is what i''ve been making. 

we put out this record called man on fire with a bunch of my friends on it in march. the pandemic came out the same week and so that kinda got all the press. nonetheless, i put a couple years of work into the record and feel like you might want to give it a listen. the problem is, like all of my records you kinda gotta hear it about three complete times to get into the movie as it were. {hey i got a song called enemy factory on the radio so my work here is kinda done! ha!} them guys that are them old time chart topping guys, they knew how to grab you on the first listen and i''ve never mastered that obviously. 

 i have some of them delicious green vinyl ones here. here is a video we done of one of the songs. it''s on all your streaming things, and what have you of as well. my sincere hope is it will lift up your day and make you feel like i feel when hearing stuff i''m really into. sometimes music can do that thing...where you feel kinda free and happy. perhaps silly and sad at the same time and all that stuff. 

another thing i been doing, a few years ago i got hurt playing a show by being blasted with a super loud sound in my right ear while close to a speaker. thought i was going deaf and lost a bunch of hearing, and was completely deaf in my right ear for a couple months. i was pretty bummed for a bout a year or so {it''s been about three years now}. but started drawing {never having done it really} and making little comic books and stuff kinda punk rock zine style. all freehand and uneven and primary colors haha. so i''ve been drawing like crazy and having fun with that and learning about that. a couple bands ordered t-shirt designs, and i provided illustrations for a band video, a few commissions came in, and people buy quite a bit of my original art stuff on my etsy page here. i can still make records and play pretty good. i bought these really far out hearing aids that are like the six million dollar man style. nonetheless i''ve been making a lot of graphic art, illustrations and so forth. so in a sense, without traveling i can create things almost 100% of my work life, rather than create less than 5% of my work life. that''s kind of encouraging. don''t worry there''s a LOT of banjo playing and songs to go. 

so my day is: get up super early and hit the beach at sunrise with my dog, then feed him and make coffee and put on some really great music i''m trying to understand, and let that loop for about four hours while i draw whatever comes to mind and study the music with my other non-physical part of my being. then have some lunch, and start picking the banjo. work on office stuff and pick. then go to the park with my dog. and that''s my day. 

as far as live shows, no one really knows how that''s going to shake out. at first there were lots of folks making videos and i didn''t really do much in that arena. i''m thinking about kind of making my soundcloud page a place to put up deep cuts for free. and maybe make my contribution to stuff be new music that i put on there. here''s something from there.

 i wrote this book that is a translation of the book of genesis into southern speak. i recorded the first few chapters with abstract banjo accompaniment. there''s lots of other unheard music that could be up there. if you guys enjoy that and listen i''ll put stuff up there. that app is okay and all that. 

speaking of unheard music, most of the time when i talk to someone that knows my stuff, almost invariably there is a huge chunk they DON''T know or haven''t heard. which is understandable, there''s too much to even consider in a sense. and counting all the live videos on corporate tube, there''s more stuff already out there than would be possible to consume. if you need any help finding things email me haha. 

here is a brand new band liver track. 

i have a little system for learning the five string banjo called banjonics. it''s as complete a system as i can make in that we study banjo from a musical perspective not only a genre based one. a lot of the concepts are presented in comic book form so you have that to look forward to ha! if you want to learn how to pick the banjo better, i think i can probably help. 

that''s all for now. all the love to you. if you don''t know anyone sick it may seem like a far off dream, but if you start losing family members you might have a different take on it, so the best thing is, stay safe!

@

hey you know what you are doing and you make good decisions.

Monday, August 03, 2020

i''m going to give you free music directly. thank you.

thank you for allowing me to make music/art for you.

this song is called voyage to the bottle of the sea. it''s unheard and new.  lo-fi and small, and kind of where you can see the brushstrokes as it were. it hopefully paints a little movie in your head as you listen. as always, and i apologize for this, you kind of have to listen about three times through to get into the trip of it. it would prolly be really cool if i could figure out how to grab people first rattle out of the box, but that doesn''t seem to be my oeuvre. 

i have records and drawings and comics and a rotating stock of odd items here. {the lino print below is an example, it''s called death with banjo. these are signed and numbered and i make them on my kitchen table. well technically it''s the dining room. also there are prints of the high bias image at the top here.}

it was really a good feeling to get man on fire out at the exact moment it came out, and i trust you have been encouraged by the sounds therein. i have more of the green ones here.

as always, i appreciate you. it''s super cool to be able to make stuff for you.

db

course57706@

hey you know what you are doing and you make good decisions.

Monday, August 03, 2020

i''m going to give you free music directly. thank you.

thank you for allowing me to make music/art for you.

this song is called voyage to the bottle of the sea. it''s unheard and new.  lo-fi and small, and kind of where you can see the brushstrokes as it were. it hopefully paints a little movie in your head as you listen. as always, and i apologize for this, you kind of have to listen about three times through to get into the trip of it. it would prolly be really cool if i could figure out how to grab people first rattle out of the box, but that doesn''t seem to be my oeuvre. 

i have records and drawings and comics and a rotating stock of odd items here. {the lino print below is an example, it''s called death with banjo. these are signed and numbered and i make them on my kitchen table. well technically it''s the dining room. also there are prints of the high bias image at the top here.}

it was really a good feeling to get man on fire out at the exact moment it came out, and i trust you have been encouraged by the sounds therein. i have more of the green ones here.

as always, i appreciate you. it''s super cool to be able to make stuff for you.

db

course57706@

a hearer of music.

Monday, July 06, 2020

barnes says hey.

hello ever body. hope you are all as well and happy as can be expected, and so forth. it''s not my place to comment on all that external stuff and i''m not qualified to discuss politics, the only thing i''m qualified to discuss is what i''ve been making. 

we put out this record called man on fire with a bunch of my friends on it in march. the pandemic came out the same week and so that kinda got all the press. nonetheless, i put a couple years of work into the record and feel like you might want to give it a listen. the problem is, like all of my records you kinda gotta hear it about three complete times to get into the movie as it were. {hey i got a song called enemy factory on the radio so my work here is kinda done! ha!} them guys that are them old time chart topping guys, they knew how to grab you on the first listen and i''ve never mastered that obviously. 

 i have some of them delicious green vinyl ones here. here is a video we done of one of the songs. it''s on all your streaming things, and what have you of as well. my sincere hope is it will lift up your day and make you feel like i feel when hearing stuff i''m really into. sometimes music can do that thing...where you feel kinda free and happy. perhaps silly and sad at the same time and all that stuff. 

another thing i been doing, a few years ago i got hurt playing a show by being blasted with a super loud sound in my right ear while close to a speaker. thought i was going deaf and lost a bunch of hearing, and was completely deaf in my right ear for a couple months. i was pretty bummed for a bout a year or so {it''s been about three years now}. but started drawing {never having done it really} and making little comic books and stuff kinda punk rock zine style. all freehand and uneven and primary colors haha. so i''ve been drawing like crazy and having fun with that and learning about that. a couple bands ordered t-shirt designs, and i provided illustrations for a band video, a few commissions came in, and people buy quite a bit of my original art stuff on my etsy page here. i can still make records and play pretty good. i bought these really far out hearing aids that are like the six million dollar man style. nonetheless i''ve been making a lot of graphic art, illustrations and so forth. so in a sense, without traveling i can create things almost 100% of my work life, rather than create less than 5% of my work life. that''s kind of encouraging. don''t worry there''s a LOT of banjo playing and songs to go. 

so my day is: get up super early and hit the beach at sunrise with my dog, then feed him and make coffee and put on some really great music i''m trying to understand, and let that loop for about four hours while i draw whatever comes to mind and study the music with my other non-physical part of my being. then have some lunch, and start picking the banjo. work on office stuff and pick. then go to the park with my dog. and that''s my day. 

as far as live shows, no one really knows how that''s going to shake out. at first there were lots of folks making videos and i didn''t really do much in that arena. i''m thinking about kind of making my soundcloud page a place to put up deep cuts for free. and maybe make my contribution to stuff be new music that i put on there. here''s something from there.

 i wrote this book that is a translation of the book of genesis into southern speak. i recorded the first few chapters with abstract banjo accompaniment. there''s lots of other unheard music that could be up there. if you guys enjoy that and listen i''ll put stuff up there. that app is okay and all that. 

speaking of unheard music, most of the time when i talk to someone that knows my stuff, almost invariably there is a huge chunk they DON''T know or haven''t heard. which is understandable, there''s too much to even consider in a sense. and counting all the live videos on corporate tube, there''s more stuff already out there than would be possible to consume. if you need any help finding things email me haha. 

here is a brand new band liver track. 

i have a little system for learning the five string banjo called banjonics. it''s as complete a system as i can make in that we study banjo from a musical perspective not only a genre based one. a lot of the concepts are presented in comic book form so you have that to look forward to ha! if you want to learn how to pick the banjo better, i think i can probably help. 

that''s all for now. all the love to you. if you don''t know anyone sick it may seem like a far off dream, but if you start losing family members you might have a different take on it, so the best thing is, stay safe!