robingrey.com » happy man http://www.robingrey.com the music, words and thoughts of an east-london folk singer Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 youtube collaboration? http://www.robingrey.com/2010/04/youtube-collaboration/ http://www.robingrey.com/2010/04/youtube-collaboration/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:06:17 +0000 admin http://www.robingrey.com/?p=1085 …this made me smile…

]]> http://www.robingrey.com/2010/04/youtube-collaboration/feed/ 0 r.i.p. sparklehorse’s mark linkous http://www.robingrey.com/2010/03/r-i-p-sparklehorses-mark-linkous/ http://www.robingrey.com/2010/03/r-i-p-sparklehorses-mark-linkous/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:03:14 +0000 admin http://www.robingrey.com/?p=984 Continue reading →]]> It is with sadness that I learnt of the death of Mark Linkous today – some of the music he recorded as ‘Sparklehorse’ provided much inspiration for me.

Below is a cover of one of his songs ‘Happy Man’ I recorded a few years ago with Iain Macleod on banjo. Aplogise for the slight american twang in my delivery, I was still finding my voice back then!

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]]> http://www.robingrey.com/2010/03/r-i-p-sparklehorses-mark-linkous/feed/ 0 happy man http://www.robingrey.com/2008/08/happy-man/ http://www.robingrey.com/2008/08/happy-man/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:54:17 +0000 admin http://www.robingrey.com/?p=63 Iain and I recently came up with a guitar and banjo arrangement of ‘Happy Man’ by Sparklehorse and recorded it just for fun.

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