Martin Gilmore - Trade Songs: American West (2024)

These songs are for trade. I will accept anything in trade for this record (as long as it’s not illegal, offensive, or gross). This includes stinky cheese, maple trees, airplane tickets, squeaky crickets, cassette tapes, fermented grapes, guitar strings, other things, notebooks, coat hooks, chess rooks, tapes of Garth Brooks, hand drawn maps, baseball caps, sheepskin chaps, freestyle raps, photographs, drive shafts, autographs, watercraft, hugs, bugs, tapes of Flatt & Scruggs, dollars & dimes, lemons or limes, bells, gongs or chimes, molybdenum mines, books about Celts, animal pelts, fresh patty melts, and anything else.

Years ago, Justin Hoffenberg and I made a record in his basement that we traded for things at festivals. This record is a continuation of that endeavor.

Thanks to Eric Wiggs, Justin Hoffenberg, The University of Denver Enrichment Program, Swallow Hill Music, Justin Cawiesel, Steve Fullmer, Tim & Deb Nolting, Jenny Inzerillo, Valarie Smith, High Plains Public Radio, Fort Laramie National Historic Site, Scottsbluff National Monument, David Glasser, Noha Eid, Brooke Svitak, John Lomax, and N.H. “Jack” Thorp.