Finger Style Guitar from Bruce Keener

While I hadn’t planned on posting anything on Good Friday, I got to thinking that an Easter tune or two (like Were You There and Amazing Grace) might be a good thing to post. Then, I figured I’d go ahead and record a few other tunes while I was at it. Here they are:

• Amazing Grace, no doubt one of the most beautiful songs ever written. It’s hard to listen to it (or play it) without being thankful for all we have.
• Walking With Vickie, a tune I wrote and am dedicating to my late wife, Vickie. It reminds me of her and I walking around at flea markets and shops and on mountain sides, and generally being happy and delighted with the world. This will no doubt remain one of my favorite tunes.
• Putzin Around, another Keener original. I hope you enjoy it.
• Were You There, a classic song.
• Don’t Know What To Call It, a short tune I made up.
• The Coca Cola Tune. Many years ago, a Coca Cola commercial made this song popular for a while. I’ve always called it the “Coca Cola Tune,” but I think it’s real name is “I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing.”

I hope you enjoy.

I thought I’d go ahead and record a few more tunes today and make them available to you:

• This is a tune I pieced together today as I was sitting around. It is a simple tune, so someone may have already invented it. So, if you know its real name, let me know and I’ll change its name accordingly. For now, I’m just calling it Peaceful.
• What’d I Say, a guitar version of the Ray Charles classic.
• Reed It, A collection of Jerry-Reed-type licks that I threw together and named after him.

I love Jerry Reed’s recording of Papa’s Knee, to the point that it inspired me to do my own recording of it.

It’s been a while since I have played very much, but I pulled out my Limited Edition Alvarez flat-top guitar, got a $25 Logitech USB microphone for recording into my iMac, fired up GarageBand on the iMac, and set it for no special effects.

Here’s the recording:

Papa’s Knee

I hope you enjoy!

I have been playing guitar off and on for over forty years, and thought it to be about time I shared some of it. So, this site makes several of my setting-around-at-home recordings available to you. These were originally made available on my Keener Living website, but I decided that the recordings needed a blog of their own.

All are done in a Jerry Reed, Chet Atkins style, which is the guitar style I most enjoy.

I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoy playing them.