As many friends and acquaintances know, I have been mucking around with a baritone ukulele for a few years now. I have also been taking an interest in the early music element of the instrument which is, to all intents and purposes, a Tudor guitar.
So I have recently been trying to combine some of the material I like for basic chordal strumming of songs I remember and like from my youth, with some of the techniques I’m starting to acquire to play early music.
Here are a couple of early efforts: Germ Free Adolescents and My Perfect Cousin, in the style of broadside ballads.
Here is Germ Free Adolescents in its original form by X-Ray Spex in 1978:
Whereas, here is my humble effort, unplugged:
My Perfect Cousin was released by The Undertones in 1980:
Whereas here is my more plaintive, unplugged version of the song:
Work in progress, admittedly, but I feel there is something there – for me, even if not for anyone else.