Cool Hand Uke CDs
Some works can be digitally downloaded at CD Baby by clicking the button. All CDs can be purchased by sending a check, money order or cash to Dan Scanlan, Box 73, Nevada City CA 95959 USA, or by clicking on the PayPal Buy Now button. All CDs (except digital) are $15, postage included. Each CD has been written, composed, recorded, edited, mastered, duplicated and package designed by Dan Scanlan (iUke in the Fall was duplicated and packaged by CD Baby).
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Historic performance by four Madeiran folk musicians and three American ukulele players. Every other song is from each country. Live performance in Funchal, Madeira radio studio in 1998 shortly before a performance in Lisbon, Portugal at the World Expo. Aloha Oe, Balinho, Mourisca, Stars and Stripes Forever, and more on Braginha, Rajão and Ukulele.
A series of political rants and original tunes that speak to the political and social problems of our era and the United States. Voice and ukulele. Cover drawing by Kitty Meekins. Original tunes: Open Up That Watergate, Smart Bombs, I Saw Judi Bari, Privatize, I’m A Politician and more.
A performance on the Rajão, one of the two instruments on which the ukulele is based. All original tunes. The Rajão is where the ukulele got its tuning, using four of its DGCEA tuning. Vocals and Rajão. Tunes include Square, Strait Level and Plumb; Peace is the Wind Polca, Raga Rag da Rajão, and more.
All original tunes. Vocals and ukulele. Cover art by Emmeline Craig. Songs include Utah Phillips’ Hymn Song, Pat Sauer’s Go Softly Down, Stephen Fosters’ Don’t Bet on the Shanghai, and several of my originals—Playin’ At the Yuba, Saunter and Dawdle, Notion, Fool In My Way and more.
All original tunes, this CD was assembled for the first of five cross country tours. The only CD of the collection professionally duplicated. Vocals, ukulele, a tiny bit of lap steel. Cover art by Bob Crabb. Songs , all original, include Writing of the Great Divide, Liquid Times, Good to Have You Here, Worst Case Scenario, Raga Rag, and more.
Recorded in a VW microbus at the pyramid in Pyramid Lake, Nevada, on the Paiute reservation. All original, vocals, ukulele, guitar. Photo by Dan. Songs include Giant Silent Redwood (sung to and with Julia Butterfly Hill in 100 feet up in her tree Luna). Ed and Mike’s Car Shop, How Easy Now, Lawndale, Child With a Dove, and more.
Just the ukulele and the voice, some old standards, some originals. Simple mono recording. Cover art by Dan. Raga Rag,JaDa, Washington Wonder, Sit right Down and Write Myself a Letter, Ain’t She Sweet?, Sweet Georgia Brown, and more.
All original songs on topics having to do with Nevada City, California from the early ’80s to present day. Vocals and ukulele. Cover by Dan. Ukulele and voice. Songs include Playin’ at the Yuba, Hometown Meltdown, Loiter, Children of the Last of the Middle Class, SPD, Goldenseal and Curry, Good to Have You Here, Has Anybody Here Seen the river? And more.
All original songs performed on 1926 Wendall Hall Professional model banjo-uke made by Ludwig. Vocals and banjo-ukulele. Cover photo by Valerie Lowe. Songs include Then Jode Now John, Playin’ At The Yuba, Chemtrails, It’s a Shame It’s a Crime, Lucky Me, Going Home, Sweet Peach, 10,000 Ukuleles and more.