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Hi gang - returning after long break from the café though not from picking, writing & performing.

In my folkabilly punky outfit John D Revelator, I play a rather lovely blonde Eastman 604 as my...

If I never write another song, I'll rest easy that I wrote this I'm ecstatic with the job that Gerrybhoy has done on it - mine is far slower & more melancholy. Mandolin, an Eastman 604BD, comes in...

Oh it works Richard - it works mate - really nice - straight onto the ipod! I've only ever heard the RT version before. I'll need to learn how to play this one on my Eastman 604BD. RT is by far my...

https://soundcloud.com/english-johnny/action-man

https://soundcloud.com/english-johnny/the-ghosts-of-windmill-hill-50

Thanks CR!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF4IzQfXH4E
A song all about a deceased football (soccer to you lot ;-)) player played live. What do you reckon to the sound of it - I am very pleased with it &...

A waltz this time that came to me in dream - honest. Not sure this should really be in the folk section but not sure where else I'd put it. Please feel free to comment. Recording quality still not...

Hi Paul - thanks for your kind comments mate - I was defintely aiming the water & whisky & looking for a barrel songs at that kind of genre (though if I'm honest the recording qualityon lfab annoys...

Thanks John - I haven't deliberately become a blues singer it has just come out that way! The 20-30s feel is partly due to the fact that I am recording some/most it live thru a condenser mike &...

http://soundcloud.com/english-johnny/so-say-superman - Yamaha SA1100 guitar & eastman 604 bd

http://soundcloud.com/english-johnny/looking-for-a-barrel-acoustic - Ibanez v500 & cigar box tenor...

Mine's a blonde 604 oval hole & I'm in love with the sound & the playability - a worthy substitute for the vintage gibson I fell in love with but couldn't afford! The only issues I found with them...

On it's way from Lapland as we speak
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Played my first tenor guitar in guitar guitar, Edinburgh today. A Jimmy Moon. It sounded beautiful but at £1500 is way too rich for me. I am keen to know what others think of this guitar & where it...

In my land rover up in the hills of central scotlland. I work alone so, in the absence of anyone to annoy, I often strike up a tune or 2.

Sadly, since replacing my Ozark with £650 worth of...

http://soundcloud.com/english-johnny/farmers-arms-vs-god-speed-the

Taken the plunge & actually recorded some stuff & put it "out there" for other people to listen to/criticise/ignore/all of the...

Yep I went for an Eastman 604 & its a beautiful thing to play & beginning to dull the pain & memory of the 1919 Gibson A3 I bought & decided to return. Its been played everyday since August & is...

Have you seen what those gibsons go for over here fella? If I could get a teens Gibson like that for £625 I wouldn't be on here I'd be playing it! I recently bought & then sent back a 1919 A3...

Every bit of footage I've seen from the 60s & 70s shows Swarb with a (often suspiciously fat & fragrant looking!) cigarette on the go! Fairport's song "Angel Delight" also alludes to his love of...

Same here - I recently bought an Eastman 604 to replace an ozark acoustic electro which I though was ok at the time but I now realise was garbage.

I probably have managed 1-2 hours a day since...

I recently spent £1300 on an A3 (long story but it went back due to needing some work & I am still p.o. d at Hobgoblin over the issue) - it later sold for 1290 through "the bay".

I'd be amazed if...

Enough Geography maybe but Geology no -

The appalachians are an extension of the same rocks which were laid down across Southern Scotland, & Ireland about 500 million years ago (folks - they...

What are these mandos like. I am looking for a half decent camping mandolin ( I aint taking my new eastman 604 out in the damp more than I have to!) & these seem reasonably plentiful, look pretty,...

Anyone ever heard of them?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Antique-old-german-roundhole-A-style-Bluegrass-Mandolin-vintage-/300750734243?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item46062403a3

The item on sale here...

FWIW having tried the high end eastmans, one kentucky , a quite expensive ozark & 2 Breedloves (one quartz & another I forget the model name/number of), I would say the Breedloves knocked spots off...