Just pure entertainment Dave on all fronts. A vox with clarity and real feeling. A single guitar taking up all the space needed to shine like the vox. What more could one as for professor?? 
My comment was bad a while back trying to encourage you to make some songs of your own. Sorry about that. I blurt way too often. I just listen and think…the guys sings well…his playing is extraordinary…he needs to have an original. You did give me shot about that,. ha ha glad I wasn’t excommunicated. I would love to write a song and have you do everything some day. there I go again. ha ha
I thought the Bm in the first song sounded a little different? Just sayin. Enjoyed muchy old friend
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Hey Thanks Paul! Blurt away, you know I don’t take anything personally. 
Good catch on that B minor – the guitar is in double drop D tuning, and that Guild resonates like crazy, so sometimes there is a little bit of drone from the low D string for a second or two before I get around to muting it again. B minor shape in that tuning is such a gorgeous sound…
And I would be proud to record a song of yours dude!
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Fantastic playing and singing, Dave!
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I always appreciate your performances, Dave. You got a good sound happening. I especially like that your performances are never rushed and you keep very good time. Nothing more annoying than hearing a live performance constantly shifting speeds. A little bit of variance in timing won’t bother me but when it’s too obvious I find it usually sounds very amateur. You do a good job keeping a nice balance. Simple, smooth and sweet sounding stuff !
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Ooooo. This is pretty cool. Both of those videos
How long have you had that 12 string? It looks like a Guild… is that right?
Do you speak spanish at all? (Just curious).
Yep, it’s a Guild JF30-12, got it at the end of May. Had a thread here with pics etc…
No, not really. I did take three years in high school and have lived in areas with large Latino populations for a good portion of my life, but I never got fluent to the point where I could think in Spanish – always translating instead. But I can deliver lines in Spanish without much trouble once I’ve rehearsed a couple times. And Spanish is a lovely-sounding language in general, especially when sung. Thanks for listening guys!
Ah Cool. Thanks man. I’ve probably missed a lot having been on here less over the last year or so. Starting to find time for it again now that some things have ‘calmed down’ a little? lol.
I just started volunteering (yeah… me! not getting paid! wow) to work with a spanish worship team at a church. Man! Has it been an interesting experience. I’ll throw that in another thread, but that’s why I asked anyway. You sounded pretty dang confident with that chorus on the second song!
Hey everybody, sorry for not being around much. Been one of those years.
Last night while listening to some music, I was struck by how chillingly relevant are the lyrics to the John Fogerty/Creedence classic, Bad Moon Rising, to what is happening today. So I gave it a very different arrangement from the peppy, upbeat original’s that seems appropriate.
I know it is customary to express hope for a better year on New Year’s Eve. I wish I could oblige… but I do wish each of you peace, safety, and health as we bid Good Riddance to 2021.
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I had some trouble seeing the video.
Rene, just now seeing your comment – are you still having trouble? It may be something to do with being in different countries, if you’re not in the US… that does happen from time to time.
And in general: you can see lots more of these vids if you click on my name once you get to the YT page for any of the ones here. Also some hour-long livestreams if you’re a real glutton for punishment 
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Hi Dave,
Love the songs.
I am not familiar with the songs, but that is perfect, as they are so beautiful, and you covered it very well.
This is the kind of music, I love to listen.
Guitar and vocals, both well done, heavenly music.
Thanks for sharing.
Rene
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You’re way too kind! Thank you for listening 
Sorry I didn’t see the your comment sooner.
What internet browser were you using? Can you see it now?
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I got it.
Operator error.
Also replied to it, earlier.
Rene
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Hey friends, long time no be here. Hope everyone is safe and well.
Our fearless leader suggested I drop in with a link to what I’ve been up to musically. I’ve been continuing to do solo vids and back last October, started doing some live streaming. Recently I’ve been going every couple of weeks, and just did my 20th weekend before last with another on the books for this coming Sunday. I’ve found that it’s a whole lot easier for me to get a set of tunes together to perform, or do a one-take vid, than the time it takes to get a studio recording done. It has really raised my game chops-wise to be rehearsing regularly.
At the same time, pretty sure that the arthritis I have been expecting to hit me eventually has arrived, really feeling it in my left hand now after some months of steadily increasing discomfort. Will see the doc this coming week, but that’s another reason I’ve been doing vids while I still can, so when the inevitable happens and I can’t play any more, I’ll at least have a record of what I could once do
Rather than dump a ton of links here, I’ll just put up the link to my main channel, and I’d be delighted if anyone stopped by to check out what’s there. And everyone is more than welcome to come by during the streams. We typically get 12-15 folks in real time, and there is some fun conversation in the chat.
Sorry I haven’t been around, my day-to-day changed big time at the start of this year. Still very happy with what I get to do, and count my blessings daily.
Here’s my channel:
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So sorry to hear that.
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@Chordwainer I’m sorry to hear that. I have what my doctor says is osteoarthritis based on my complaints but I don’t have an official diagnosis. It has gotten gradually worse over the years. I have joint pain and stiffness (and headaches of all things) but I’m not on medication and I manage to do what I want to do for the most part.
Everyone is different and the disease progression varies from what I understand but I can say that diet and exercise can go a long way to making life (and guitar playing) work for me so far and I’ve had this for a number of years.
I try and develop exercises that address specific issues. Sometimes I have to just lay off for a while but never for very long. Staying very active is important but not easy of course. I’ve had to make changes in my playing but I can still do most of what I could before. Doing short directed practice routines every day is one thing that helps.
Good luck and let’s talk about this.
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Thanks guys. We’ll see what the doc says on Tuesday… I’ve been using some lidocaine cream, which helps with the pain for a while, and some days are of course better than others. The main thing I can’t do now is a partial barre with just the end of my index finger, for example doing an A chord by laying the finger across the D, G, and B strings. Hurts way too badly, and that is new, I had no trouble doing that on my last stream on Aug 13.
Of course your diagnosis may be different but for me that would be an arthritis flare up which happens occasionally. Wait and see what the doc says of course, if you have gout the following won’t work.
I would do just a little bit of easy flexibility exercises and pretend I’m a first year classical guitar student and do a few easy scales and hammer on pull offs once or twice a day. If you are only doing static chords like a lot of folk music requires that doesn’t give your joints enough motion to stay healthy.
I have to watch my diet also, too much sugar, carbs or high fat anything can trigger a flare up.
Just my experience here; see what your doc says.