User:Southcoasting/Hiawatha Telephone Company

Hiawatha Telephone Company's 'Harry Smith was my Father' is a collection of one-take demos recorded in a single five hour session at Peppercorn Studios in Brighton (UK) in January 2009. All the songs were written by Jon between 2002 and 2008. Jon sings and plays a Kay nylon string guitar (a quarter of a century old) with no over dubs. It's a collection of low-fi alt-folk tunes, partly in the spirit of the old bluesmen of the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music and partly in the spirit of early 1980s twee indie-pop.