Cinderella Lifestyle || Do You? (Original by an Original)

Whenever I see another CinderellaLifestyle video it get's me excited to see what LaurieLeeC has got in store for us. Her life is exposed and there's a crazy aspect, a sane aspect, and an incredibly creative aspect. In this world of prolific McDonald's style of cookie cutter franchises we see so much of the same old stuff. LLC uses her life long store of skills with her simple amplified baritone ukulele and makes powerhouse videos on a regular basis. Never afraid to show a cracked window or a dusty old spider web she puts it all out. Thanks Laurie for another treat.

Do you?

Do you remember?
when we were young?
There wasn't anything we couldn't do,
we couldn't get done
We were standing on the edge of life..
how could we know about the heartache and strife?

Life is beautiful
sometimes life is cruel
Today you're Super man
Tomorrow you're a fool

He Was'nt her first love
he won't be her last
He left a trail of wreakage
in her heart, her heart
She called in the clean up crew
it was a line of lovers
He never even knew he played a part

Life is wonderful
sometimes it is a trial
One day you're standing tall
the next day you're in a pile

(crazy break)
do you ever?
wonder bout the one that got away
the river of life it courses
twists and turns from day to day
she can still see clearly his fresh face
in the moonlight
and thinks of what might have been if she'd
said yes that moonlit night?

this life left her with a reputation
no amount of time could ever shake
she came to realize she'd live her actions
she would live by her mistakes

Life is beautiful
sometimes life is cruel
today you're Super man
tomorrow you're a fool
Rhyme or Reason
Reason and Rhyme
Well never have the answers
hard as we try
hard as we try
oh no never ever gonna
have the answers
no no no
hard as we try,
etc..do-do doot do etc
;-)

Buke and Gass in NY

Sentimentalist Mag 10-1-10

"Buke and Gass, the charming duo of Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez, who supported Efterklang on the entire tour, were captivating. The band’s name comes from their instruments – a baritone ukulele (Buke) and a homemade guitar-bass hybrid (Gass)"

GrumpyCoyoteTunes || Code Monkey on Baritone Ukulele

I just recently met Grumpy Coyote at the Ukulele Underground takeover of Michael DaSilva's studio. He's another UCB (Unbelievably Creative Bohemian) at the cutting edge of ukulele playing an song writing. The links below are worth watching too. Kristin Shirts won a contest and performs with Jonathon Coulton on stage with her soprano ukulele.

boozelele version on fluke

Jonathon Coulton & Kristin Shirts (uke) perform Code Monkey

Tunes aplenty at jonathancoulton.com

ukulelecowboysociety || Don't Think Twice

fatblues || Vega Baritone Ukulele

Some videos are just too short. Fatblues does some nice work on this Vega baritone ukulele but I want to hear some more of the good ol' blues.

LESSON || Glen Rose || Blues Ukulele with Jazz Chords

Glen Rose has prepared another quick lesson on the Baritone Ukulele tuned GCEA (Low G) but all of the instruction is good for the DGBE tuned instrument. (Except the C13 would be a G13, the F9 would be a C9, etc...)

http://www.jazzyukulele.com/

Ledward Ka'apana || Borrows Maddog's Uke

Here's another one of my diversions that could easily be posted over on Humble Uker Ramblings but I have shared Ledward there before and I am mesmerized by his skill. Ledward is a joy to listen to. E Ku'u Morning Dew is one of may Hawaiian favorites and my father, Stanley W. used to play Blue, Blue, My World is Blue on the Hammond Organ. 14:22 of Ledward's mastery is a treat. The borrowed uke belongs to Bob Rainey who is my friend over at the Ukulele Club of Santa Cruz. Hearing the volume on this one makes me want to get an amp hook up on Bari.

"YT comments... Before a concert at Don Quixote's in Felton California, Bob (Maddog) Rainey showed Led his new carbon fiber Blackbird 'ukulele. Led was favorably impressed with the sound and decided to play it during the concert. I joined three individual song clips together to show how much Led enjoyed playing it. I tried focusing on the headstock at the end of each song, not trying to show the Blackbird logo, but to show the white cat's head that Maddog added to his 'ukulele, in honor of his cat "Bratwurst". Ya gotta love Maddog!!"

Ledward's music reminds me of Prairie Home Companion's Garrison Keillor's story telling about Lake Wobegone. Garrison would tell a nice little story and get you completely off track and then "poof" some how you're right back were you started.