Archive for July 25th, 2010

Never Before Heard Music from My Old Days

By Sleeves, 25 July, 2010, 1 Comment

Old Music, Part 1

I wanted to put some music at the end of the The Unreliable News video, and I had just stumbled on a folder of old songs, so I put one in, kind of at random (Noonday Sun, which is the first song below). A couple people have asked about this older music and I thought I’d post some of it.

These songs were done probably around 2003 on my digital 8 track. All of them were recorded just behind the glass of the upper window of the pictured green house (in Rumney, NH). I don’t think they’ve ever been heard by human ears. Which, in my mind, makes them the audio equivalent of copper ingots from the Franklin Mint.

Noonday Sun

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UFO to Me

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Roof Breaks

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My Job My Heart

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Who is Sherwin Sleeves?

My name is Sean Hurley and I am Sherwin Sleeves ombudsman, gopher, handyman, internet person, musical assistant, and all around amanuensis. Sherwin lives just up the road from me in the next town over and I visit him once or twice a week to pick up songs or stories or whatever he has to give me. He's an older man of about 79. He lives in a small cabin on top of Marked Mountain, in Lemon, New Hampshire. I believe he spent much of his time working for a traveling theater. He is not married and apparently has no other family. A frequent question: Does he really do all that walking? Yes! He does do a lot of walking. Even with the cane and a slightly bad leg, he walks more than anyone I know and he doesn’t seem to bother with any difference between night or day. He’ll set off at midnight for a 10 mile journey to nowhere. From what I’ve learned, he doesn’t seem to have the least idea where he’s heading to when he goes out – he just puts on his hat and walks out the door and is suddenly gone. Please feel free to contact him at sherwinsleeves(at)yahoo(dot)com.