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mister cardinal (harold & wayne)

By jwh on July 5, 2026 6:59 pm

Michael Harold Doty // acoustic guitar, harmony vocal
jwh // acoustic guitar, bass, vocal, mix

my dear friend Michael and i sometimes make music as harold & wayne. i wrote this song for Michael shortly after his Mom passed on a few years back. we were finally able to record it this past week when i was over house-sitting at my folks' place.

it felt appropriate to record outside on their little back deck area, so i set up a few mics and we tracked our guitar & vocal tracks live together. a cardinal even showed up to join in while we were recording - magic!
a bossy bluejay had to throw in his 2 cents too smile

i later added bass, doubled my original acoustic part and pulled the mix together. hope you enjoy listening. i really love playing & singing with Doty.


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XO,
jwh

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You should always mix on the 4th of July... or have emily set off fireworks for fun come mix time, cause this sounds bananas good.

Beautiful! Nice collab jwh, I'll have to keep an eye out for more Harold & Wayne gems like this one!

beautiful song! love the outdoor setting in the mix.  The bass and guitar sound excellent and love the vocal harmonies from both of you.  heart

Definitely a beautiful song with wonderful vocal harmonies and a great sound world.  Love the bird noises.

This is so gentle and warm, and the space is incredible. Feels like a memory I lost long ago heart

Beautiful sparse song. Voice and guitar leave no place to hide! Very delicate and organic, full of humanity. I love the usage of bird foley!

oh man the bird is amazing
beautiful tribute - condolences to Michael and his family

Whoa your voices are wonderfully matched... that cardinal is definitely someone's mom, the way she really wanted to sing along with y'all! thanks for sharing this intimate piece.

Beautiful song! Love the birdsongs in the background too. Really fits so well!

The birds and background noise, the soothing voice(s).
Thank you for inviting us to your private, intimate unplugged session.

So warm, and the background noise just makes it so intimate.

This is great. Love the field recording with birds, wind and beautiful performance.

Very delicate and touching.

Relaxing guitar gang at it again.
- Spider

absolutely lovely. great tune and performance. you're like Snow White, the birds just keep showing up

That was beautifully intricate. Just lovely

Oh yeah the outside atmosphere is just magic it's like the air just acts like the mix glue

Vocals are perfect and the harmonies are proper hairs stand up goodness.

Just really wonderful stuff

lyrics are just really direct and communicate perfectly without resorting to being florid.

Ah nothing better than playing music with old friends, great track and love the nature captured as well

Ok this time I love the lyrics. Love your real in the moment bird sounds. It’s a beautiful snapshot of a moment in time and space here. A picture without light.

I’d love to have this song to sample. Do you have the wav I can download? If you have any concerns, just know my track for this week is a good representation of how I use samples of vocals with guitar lol.

epic, I love it now too when you get together, please more!

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