Harry the Guitar Player

David Doucette - Smokey Studios
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Harry plays for French fries and onion rings at the Crybaby Bar. He once travelled the world in private jets and played his guitar to sold-out stadiums. It's the Crybaby Bar now for the Tuesday Open Mic and the Thursday Wing Night before retiring to his army cot at the Tarantula Arms. Harry has a plan though, a come-back. He is about to record a new song, one that he held back on (he didn't write it), a song that says it all, ‘The Cannonball’.

  1. MAR 13

    19. Slimy Rock and Roll Star

    The question Harrys asks is: “Are people fundamentally alone? Do they feel eternally lonely?” It would answer much. Harry needs to write a song so he thinks back to his first love Anna Baker, a girl at school who like Harry read books. Her brother Alfred joins The Half-Snapped Elastic Band, Harry’s band at 15 years of age.

    18 min
  2. 18. The Graveyard Workers

    FEB 27

    18. The Graveyard Workers

    Jollimore comes off stage and sits with Harry at the Crybaby Bar. The bartender Calvin Swig watches the two, as they talk about old times. Jollimore tells Harry he will need his guitar back. Harry hasn't got it.

    10 min

  3. JAN 17

    17. A Crybaby Visitor

    A Crybaby Visitor - A guitar player is in the audience and even though Harry has put the guitar out of tune, the guitar player gets up and dazzles the crowd - d dazzles the crowd.

    13 min
  4. 16. Love and the Guitar

    JAN 17

    16. Love and the Guitar

    Harry knew love. He was married to trapeze artist Trixi Almeida. They thrice circled a garbage can fire in Toronto and an all-consuming love arrived, with meaning and purpose. But, with a mustard seed of disunity came drought that brought the locusts and the acorn lunches.

    14 min

  5. 11/30/2025

    15. Cinderella and Dracula

    Dracula asks Cinderella to dance. Harry watches the swiftness of cupid's arrow. Camus' absurdity is absurd when love pierces the heart. All is meaning, all is purpose, all is plans for a resurrected life - there before you.

    12 min

  6. 10/22/2025

    14. Sing Me A Song

    Harry has a new gig, a couple of jazz numbers to open for a film premiere in Steel City, Smokey Studios is paying him 50 bucks to open the jazz documentary, ‘The Piano Tuner.’ Harry has to dress as John Voigt in Midnight Cowboy, Harry once partied with John in Malibu.

    23 min

  7. 09/02/2025

    13. Catch the Bus

    Harry is reaching the patrons of the Crybaby Bar with his own music. There is immediate attention, photographs and offers to record. Harry is jubilant and cautious but is also letting people in.

    17 min

  8. 08/05/2025

    12. The Muse

    What is the relationship, the true relationship, between artist and muse? Harry realizes that he has always had a muse, after Lemonade enters his door at the Tarantula Arms. Harry is on stage at the Crybaby Bar where he promises never to sing a covering ever again. He will sing his own tunes come hell or high water. And he will start with, 'There's a Sadness Going Around.' But there on stage, haunted as if by demons that have come to remind him of some contract he signed, his mind goes to the faithful night at Jollimore's, the trailer with the blue wings down at the tides, the delta of Slow River.

    20 min
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Harry plays for French fries and onion rings at the Crybaby Bar. He once travelled the world in private jets and played his guitar to sold-out stadiums. It's the Crybaby Bar now for the Tuesday Open Mic and the Thursday Wing Night before retiring to his army cot at the Tarantula Arms. Harry has a plan though, a come-back. He is about to record a new song, one that he held back on (he didn't write it), a song that says it all, ‘The Cannonball’.

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  • Creator
    David Doucette - Smokey Studios
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    19
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    David Doucette © 2025
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    Harry the Guitar Player