Tag: Evan Hinshaw

Down The Line

Shane Young and Evan Hinshaw playing guitars around a single microphone.

Change will inevitably present itself in many ways throughout our life. It will not always be a change that we welcome, but it will happen either way. We mustn’t allow ourselves to remain idle during these challenges. We must remain steadfast in our purpose despite the weight that may lay upon us. Beethoven wrote his 9th Symphony when he was almost completely deaf, yet it is regarded by many as his greatest work and one of the supreme achievements in the history of western music. Let this, along with other great success stories, be an example of finding hope in grim circumstances. Next time adversity blocks our path, we will simply pick up our things and move along.

Lyrics:

Gonna ride this train to nowhere
Gonna leave this town behind
I can hear those bells a ringing
Till it all gets left behind

Lately I’ve been feeling the winds of change
Wondering what tomorrow will bring my way
And I know I’ll face it on my own
Cause no one here can change things
When all is said and done

So I’ll ride this train to nowhere, Gonna leave this town behind
I can hear those bells a ringing, Till it all gets left behind

I feel something coming over me
The road ahead seems empty and I’m losing steam
And you know you need some peace of mind
Every time you leave a piece
Of yourself behind

So I’ll ride this train to nowhere, Gonna leave this trouble behind
I can hear those bells a ringing, And I know Ive lost my mind

Theres a garden growing in my soul
A flower dies, another blooms and so it goes

So I’ll ride this train to somewhere, Gonna face this crazy life
I can hear those bells a ringing, So I’ll head on down the line
Yes I’ll head on down the line

Recorded and Produced by: Evan Hinshaw, Shane Young
Written by: Shane Young, Evan Hinshaw

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This Strange Love

Picture a lonely woman walking out of a restaurant. She has just been stood up. On her sooner than expected walk home she pulls a young man from the street just before he is hit by a car. She embraces him with blind compassion and tells him to be careful. 20 years later he is a renowned doctor and local figure. An older woman visits his ER one night after being hit by a car. He saves her life, only to realize that many years ago, she had already saved his. They once again embrace. Around every corner, there is an opportunity to love someone and we never know when that love may return to us. We are all connected in this great ebb and flow for reasons we may not understand, but when we give, sometimes we find a piece of the puzzle.

Lyrics:

Time, you know our time is gonna leave us
Time is something that we cannot hold
Someday we’re gonna find the mystery
When we walk, that lonesome road

The feeling of a moment or a memory
Both as true as how they came to be
Still it seems we find ourselves forgetting
Who we are, and what that means

But this strange love, it has it’s reasons
For the time that we share
This strange love, it never leaves us
And we know its always there

Heart and soul, a river to an ocean
One is life, the other how we live
With every turn we’re bound to face the mystery
That who we are, is what we give

But this strange love, it has it’s reasons
For the time that we share
This strange love, it never leaves us
And we know its always there

Recorded and Produced by: Evan Hinshaw, Shane Young
Written by: Shane Young, Evan Hinshaw

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Old English

Everyone is a captain of their own ship. At some point, even the best Captains can get lost. Everything from the current to the crew can influence our direction, but in the end, we must find our own way home.

Will you ever find the freedom that you’ve been aching for?

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The Project

The Project is a new song from Evan Hinshaw’s solo musical experiment Sly Like Fox.

It is the first song in the Sly Like Fox project to feature Evan’s home-made dulcimer at which he calls the Flintwood CSD.

Flintwood CSD

Evan originally designed the dulcimer to work as a fun lead instrument in Catchlight. You can find hand-held strum dulcimers for sale but they are mostly built with a diatonic fret layout which makes it easy to play scales in a song but forces you to tune the instrument to whatever key the song is in.

Diatonic Scale Merlin Dulcimer by Seagull
Diatonic Scale vs Chromatic Scale

The Flintwood C.S.D. (Chromatic Strum Dulcimer) has a complete chromatic fret layout which allows the instrument to stay in a form of standard tuning. It feels a little like playing the bass guitar but has a sound that is much like a mandolin.

Evan has developed a few prototypes in which he has future plans for building and selling CSDs and other small specialized folk instruments under the product name of Flintwood.

“When I play the CSD in Catchlight, I usually play it with a familiar folk mandolin strum style, but with this Sly Like Fox song, I wanted to think outside of the box and play the CSD in a progressive pick style to showcase the instrument in a different way.” -Evan Hinshaw

Evan calls this song, “The Project” because it reminds him of a parent and child working on a project together. He said he visualizes something like a woodworking project or some sort of craft project. The string section is the parent that has slower and patient guidance to it. The dulcimer is the child with a playful, bouncier tone to it. There are moments when the dulcimer pauses and the strings continue on as if the child is waiting for instruction from the parent.

You can find and purchase this song at: Sly Like Fox at BandCamp

You can also visit his Youtube Channel of other great content.

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