Gypsy Von Shasta

meanderings from a vintage shasta camper

Category: Music that I love

Help, I’m Alive

I can’t get over this acoustic version of the Metric song…. I think I’m in love with her.

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This is a Gypsy Guitar and I need it.

Singer/Songwriter Night in SoPi - The Train Song by RnB (Rob and Betsy)

Memorial Day sees me in Southern Pines with Sarah, Dan and family for Dylan’s first birthday. On the porch, talking music with Rob we decide to start a band and call it RnB. By Sunday evening we’ve recorded our first original song!! (by recorded, I mean we setup the video camera and posted it on [...]

Music that I love: Regina Spektor

A brand spanking new cd should arrive in my mailbox approx June 23. Here’s a preview or you can do like I did and  buy the album on Pre Realease from Amazon.
Regina Spektor - FAR - Laughing With
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Regina Spektor - FAR - Blue Lips
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If I die in Raleigh at least I will die free

Wandered East this weekend. Spent some time with a dear friend from high school whom I recently reconnected with, after years. We stomped around some neighborhood pockets visiting antique furniture shops, sandwich joints and pubs. I didn’t get to see enough to know if Raleigh is the city for me or not, but I sure [...]

Jessica Lea Mayfield and Asheville

I wandered up to Asheville this past Friday night to see a pretty little woman sing heartbreakingly beautiful songs that had become the soundtrack to my emotional state of late.
I met up with friend Lynx, a spritely young gentleman that I met through a Pirate I once shared things with.
Conversation was quick and limitless with [...]

Should I just say it out loud?

I’m trying to make this song relevant to the message here, but you can try to figure it out for yourself - or just listen to a pretty song.
Beth Orton - Comfort of Strangers
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When I’m in the woods I’m gonna sing this

I might be kinda happy that I’m sad, and this is the soundtrack!
Avett Brothers - Souls Like the Wheels
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In the Beginning

Life before dreams of the Shasta was wanting and this was the soundtrack!
Black Back - The Energy Song
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