Music by Doug Mitchell

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This is the music I recorded in the 14 months after I retired from my day gig. All arrangements, performances, programming, and recording by DM. All tunes were recorded at Red Owl Studio using Pro Tools.


MP3s and high-resolution files available here for download. Original tunes, plus "Shenandoah", are available on Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, and Amazon.


All songs written by DM unless specified otherwise.


See below for key to instruments. All instruments not listed here are programmed.


Number 6

July 2017. EX-SS, Jazz Bass. This was the first thing I wrote after I retired.


Way Off Bass

July-August 2018. Guitars are all Strat, except for the solo at the end which is a Guild.


The Eleventh Fridge

October 2017. EX-SS; Strat on the solo at the end; Fender Jazz.


Birds of Prey

June 2018. ES-175 on opening rhythm; Strat on the solo; EX-SS on the coda; Jazz Bass.


Beats Me

December 2017. Jazz Bass; no guitar.


Twilight Room

February-March 2018. EX-SS.


Points West

November 2017. EX-SS, Jazz Bass.


The Take

May-June 2017. Strat, EX-SS at the end, Jazz Bass.

The first part of the guitar solo is lifted verbatim from Louis Armstrong's trumpet solo in his incredible 1928 version of St. James Infirmary.


Commencement

August 2018. EX-SS.


Shenandoah (Traditional)

June 2018. Unedited solo guitar performance on EX-SS.


Caravan (written by Juan Tizol, Duke Ellington)

August 2017, remixed September 2018. Both guitars are EX-SS.


The Departed (Howard Shore)

February 2017, remixed September 2018. First guitar is Ovation; second acoustic guitar is Taylor; electric is ES-175; Jazz Bass.


Solitude (Ellington)

January 2018. Rhythm guitar on left channel is ES-175. Lead guitar on right channel is EX-SS.



Key to instruments:

EX-SS2013 D’Angelico EX-SS Semi-hollowbody electric
Strat1989 American Standard Stratocaster
Jazz Bass2011 Fender Jazz Bass
ES-1751979 Gibson ES175-D
Guild1974 Guild S-100
TaylorTaylor 3/4 size acoustic

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