Putting my money where my mouth is
One of the great things that the internet allows us all to do with music is to share it. I don’t mean ‘sharing’ copyrighted material that we have ‘liberated’ from the media we purchased it on – I know enough struggling folk musicians to realise how important royalties are to those people.
What I mean by sharing is sharing the music we make ourselves.
So I’m putting my money where my mouth is. I’ve recorded myself singing Tamlyn and made that recording available. Tamlyn’s my favourite ‘big ballad’. My version runs to just over 9 minutes and is completely unaccompanied. If your idea of listenable music involves, well, almost anything you’d hear in the charts, you may well hate this. But if you think you might like to hear a stranger singing a song he loves to the best of his ability, go for it, you might like it.
For the avoidance of doubt, both song and tune are traditional, arranged by me, and the recording is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence. In the unlikely event that you do create a derivative work, please let me know about it.
