Videos

Wheal Alice

All songs and performances (c) David Harley unless otherwise stated.

There’s a page specifically linking to videos which are basically audio versions with a slide show, and another for Trad2Mad videos but they’re all (hopefully) included here, too.

These first two aren’t live videos: I was just experimenting with the software.

And now on to the more-or-less live videos.

Another Bangor Day – and here’s the audio only version, mastered to raise the volume.:

Anywhere (Harley)  – words and audio version here

Before I fall (Harley) – the words were written decades ago, but I finally got around to putting a tune to them in 2019 or 2020. Words and audio version.

Breathe My Lute (Housman – Harley) – Words and an audio version here. My setting of a very early poem by A.E. Housman.

Bredon Hill (Housman-Harley) – one of my settings from A Shropshire Lad. 

Audio capture mastered to raise the volume:

Backup:

Blues for Davy (Harley) – an extended electric version of a jazzy-ish guitar piece. Links to audio versions are included in the notes to the video.

Can’t Sleep (Harley) – The first thing I put up on YouTube, as I remember. Words and audio versions: Can’t Sleep [demo]

The Carpenter’s Son (Housman-Harley) – another setting from A Shropshire Lad – there are audio versions of the song and the instrumental version Carpentry in this post.

The Chuck BerryBerry (Harley) – Words & audio version Chuck Berry-beri demo [take 3] (Yes, I do keep changing the spelling of the title!)

Coasting (Harley) – words and alternative audio versions Coasting [demo]

Confessions (Harley-MacLeod) – a song co-written with Don MacLeod. Generally, I did the words and he did the music.

Corinna (Traditional) – a version I owe mostly to Michael Cooney, though we compared versions a few years ago and discovered they’d grown far, far apart. Mike himself says “I learned this partly from Guy Carawan, partly from Bess Hawes, and partly from myself.”

Cornish Ghosts (Harley) – a song about Penwith, the part of Cornwall I presently live in. Audio version and words.

Drunk last night (Harley) – a sort of blues. Captured to audio and mastered:

An older, slower version (but the voice was in better shape!):

The Fancy Passes (Housman-Harley) – my setting of a Housman poem from A  Shropshire Lad and sung unaccompanied for Trad2Mad. Here’s quite a different and expanded take (audio only): ‘When I was’

Farewell to Severn Shore (Housman-Harley) – setting of another poem from A Shropshire Lad – and here’s an audio version.

‘Gabriel’s Hounds’ is a song by the late Mike Raven: the video is another Trad2Mad entry.

Handsome Molly (Traditional, arranged and adapted Harley)  – Words and audio version here.

Handsome Molly II (traditional, arranged and adapted Harley)

Hannah (Upcountry) [Harley]: ‘banjo’ version.

Hannah (acoustic guitar version) [Harley]: transferred better to video than the electric/banjo version.

Her Own Way Down (Harley) – a very early song. But here’s a recent-ish audio version with bouzouki and keys.

How To Say Goodbye (Harley) – backstory and better audio version How to say goodbye [demo]

Indulgence review – looking at a CD by Atlantic Union.

The Jailer (Harley) – song about emotional abuse. Audio version.

Let me lie easy (Harley)–  backstory and better audio version Let me lie easy

Letting Go (Harley) Words and an audio version here:

The Miles Between (the City and the Heart) [Harley]- Lyric and better audio version here.

Moonflow III (Harley) – studio recording of an instrumental with photographs

New Ends & Sad Beginnings (Harley) – backstory and better audio version New Ends and Sad Beginnings 

One Step Away (From The Blues) [Harley] – lyric and version recorded in the 1980s are on SoundCloud here.

One Step Away (Harley) / Letting Go (Harley) – two songs I often do together. Here’s a Studio recording of ‘One Step Away’ from the 1980s.  And here’s a recent audio version of ‘Letting Go.’

Over the Hill (Butterfly) [Harley] – a slightly eccentric blues arrangement.

Painting the Desert (Harley) – slide instrumental with photographs of the Painted Desert.

The Pilgrim (Yeats-Harley) – a setting of the poem by W.B. Yeats

Rain (Harley) – still not reached a version I’m totally happy with, but here are some audio versions. Rain (Harley) [demo]: A very, very early song. 1970. And a very minimal sketch for a more ambitious version. Or this one. Or this: Electric Rain [demo]  Or this… Rain II

Rain (Harley) – unaccompanied Trad2Mad version.

A Rainy Day Blues (Harley) – audio version and backstory Rainy Day Blues [demo]

The Road to Frenchman’s Creek (Harley) – one of my few (so far) Cornwall-themed songs.

Same Old Same Old (Harley) –

Scratch One Lover (Harley) – lyrics/backstory/audio versions Scratch One Lover 

Seesaw (Harley) [No satisfactory audio version yet, not that I’m satisfied with the video, either.]

Silk and Steel (Harley) – Lyric and a prehistoric studio audio recording here

Silk and Steel (Harley) A video especially recorded for Global Jamming St. Ives in support of Collective Aid, an organisation working with displaced people in Calais, Dunkirk and in the Balkans. Please follow the link to their Just-Giving page, if you care to.

Snowbird (Harley) – another lapse into something blues-ish.

Soldier (you come, you go) [Harley]. Response to a challenge to present a song in 60 seconds or less. Or another Trad2Mad entry.   Words and more info here. 

Song of Chivalry (Harley) – live audio version from Coast FM interview here.

Stagolee (trad.) – an old blues-y song. This version was learned from John the Fish.

Stranger in Uniform (Harley) – lyric and audio version here.

Tears of Morning (Housman-Harley) – backstory and audio version etc: Tears of Morning [demo]

Tears of Morning (Housman-Harley) / Seafret (Harley) – two songs that seem to go together thematically.

Ten percent blues (Harley) Original 1980s studio (audio) recording: 10% Blues

Thanks for nothing, Ephraim Clutterbox (Harley) – a very old song that I don’t often sing, and it shows…

This end of the 1960s (Harley) – I think I actually wrote it in the 70s…

Thomas Anderson – a Jacobite Tragedy (Harley, based on an article by Ron Nurse): uses a podcast focusing on the historical background as a soundtrack, culminating in a studio recording of the song. Here’s a live version of the song.

Vestapol (Traditional arranged and adapted Harley) – distantly related to a 19th century parlour piece by Henry Worrall, but much altered as it passed through the hands of a multitude of blues/ragtime guitarists. And again by me.

View from the Top (MacLeod-Harley) – another collaboration with Don MacLeod.

What do I do? (Harley) A strangely theatrical song, written around the time I was working on some music for a revue directed by Margaret Ford, though this song has nothing to do with the revue. More about the revue here: Nice (If You Can Get It) – Revue

When I was in love with you (Housman-Harley) – my setting of a poem by Housman. Done for Trad2Mad as ‘The Fancy Passes’ (see above).

The Wild Swans at Coole (Yeats-Harley) audio version and words: The Wild Swans at Coole [demo]

This Guitar Just Plays the Blues (Harley) better audio version and link to an older arrangement: This guitar just plays the blues 2019 [demo]

Two Is a Silence (Harley) – and an audio version with added bouzoukis: Two Is A Silence [demo]

Vestapol (trad.) / Highway Fever (Harley)  – a blues-y instrumental plus one of my songs.

Wearing out my shoes (Harley) – much younger/more fluent audio version: Wearing out my shoes 

Wrekin [The Marches Line] (Harley) – copious info and a better audio recording: Wrekin (The Welsh Marches Line) – demo

Wrekin [The Marches Line] (Harley) – a version using Nashville tuning instead of regular tuning.

Young Hunting (words traditional arr. Harley: tune by David Harley)

And here’s one of my most bizarre collaborations ever: as body double – well, picking hand double – for Gareth Owen’s alter ego Virg Clenthills, in a video for his song ‘Marie‘.

There’s also a video from Andreas Marx of me playing lead on a version of ‘Mustang Sally ‘ with Peter Kruse and some other security people letting their hair down in Sydney. Not my best guitar work ever, TBH, but the sound isn’t great anyway. Actually, Peter is rather a good blues singer and harmonica player, and there are plenty of decent musicians – and some magicians! – working in the IT security industry, for some reason.

David Harley