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Buttercup's Lament climbs the charts of Amazon.com

Several of my songs are climbing the charts on Amazon.com. Most notably, is "Buttercup's Lament."

Interestingly, I wrote that song, sheesh, I guess it was the Winter of 2000. I had just gotten a Tascam 4-track for Christmas. I was visiting family in El Paso, locked up in a room recording music. I didn't have any effects at the time... except a flanger from years and years ago when I played guitar. I used it to fake some reverb.

The original version did really well on MP3.com, but when I decided to remix and master, there were a few things I wanted to fix. So I rerecorded the vocals, but I couldn't get the autoharp to sound as cool, so I recorded to that original autoharp track.

The song was an early attempt of mine to write a traditional folk song song. I was trying to think of a good name. I think about that time, I "Tolkien" was totally rocking so I decided to continue the movie-naming theme, even though the song's story is slightly different from the book and movie of The Princess Bride. But the song was about a woman who lost her love to the ocean, so it seemed fitting. Consequently, the Princess Bride addition has kinda stuck.

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