we celebrate four years of volume three

horsemouth awakes with a slight headache and a blocked nose. (a little later the coffee appears to be doing good work and he'll get some paracetamol in). 

later howard is coming round. horsemouth suspects he does not remember that it is the fourth anniversary of the release of volume three (horsemouth only remembered when he checked his diary).  horsemouth thinks he will try to get some photos taken of them posing with the CD release of it on the steps.

horsemouth is giving volume three a re-listen starting with funeral music and moving on through sliabh na-mban and on to her hair like some glittering gold (which is sounding surprisingly decent). 

horsemouth always regrets recording her hair... on the laramie  rather than on the woodstock guitar. the woodstock's action (the height of the strings) had lifted making it a better guitar to record slide guitar pieces on (and practically useless for anything else) because you get less 'clunks' of the slide against the guitar neck. conversely the few bars in the song where he is fretting horsemouth would have had to use another guitar. horsemouth used the woodstock on funeral music. satan (your kingdom must come down) was recorded on howard's hohner with the buzzy 1st string (when it had the buzzy 1st string before it was set up again). 

other than that it is a long time ago and horsemouth does not remember. 

here horsemouth is showing you the CD design from volume three incorporating famous french werewolf the beast of gevaudin  as re-drawn by howard.

at some point musicians of bremen  will get round to putting out a sequel to volume three. to make this possible horsemouth will have to write some more material. the progress MoB are making can be heard on soundcloud. of the ten songs horsemouth and howard recorded in this campaign  only three are originals (no name resonate, murder ballad and jai guru). he thinks all of them work (but that they require work).  

volume three works because horsemouth had a lot of this material saved up from his solo work as horsemouthfolk prior to recording it. it follows horsemouth's interests - the blues, irish music, early music, french piano music, african music, american primitive guitar, drone/ indian music. volume four is much more of a pop album. horsemouth does good work on a number of pieces but only really pagodas  is him. 

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it's a beautiful morning outside. later (probably) howard.