No-Fi by Frank Uncommon

Looked through countless notebooks of short stories, songs, poems, free association ramblings that I've written in over the past 20 years, and re-worked them to record this album, which was recorded off of my phone on free recording software. The quality of songs is lower than lo-fi, hence the title of the album.

Some of the songs ("Life Sentence", "Pile-Up in Puyallup" ) were taken from a single line, or sentence from something I wrote a decade ago, and made into a song. Other songs ( "Painting Crows", "Bach", and "I Had A Friend..") already had compositions for many years, but I have never recorded.

The songs range from being about substance abuse, the need to escape to another place, love, betrayal, or just non-sense. Most of the songs are less than 2 minutes long, and not sung very well (which was done on purpose) to exemplify the source of the material, and how it was recorded. I really tried to make it sound like I was playing into a tape recorder.

Was born and raised in San Frangelico (that's what us Italians call San Francisco). I got into playing guitar last year, when my parents allowed me to watch PG-13 movies (I'm 56 years old).

I would tell anybody an' ebberbody about San Frangelico, 'where I grew my bridges, but nobody would paid a got dang attention. But now dat I play this 6 strang thang ov'r here. Sung sam songs