the first song is all recorded except for the bass. the production notes are starting to solidify ( Read more... )

or maybe it's a matter of getting so used to something that it alters your attention somehow, to the point that you become a little bit numb to it, and the smaller details get lost in the sauce. I'm noticing that when I'm producing a piece of music, I generally have to do it in stages, at least if there's more than just a few very distinct, very ( Read more... )

Man O man, what a good time. Claire's pretty much given the lowdown, but just to testify and signify, Doc Watson put on a fucking awesome show. Wow. I mean. He broke out a bunch of old faves and some surprises from the vault that just about stunned me right off my chair to be able to sit there and hear him play. What a guy. I, too, would go and see ( Read more... )

I finally got a copy of that Frigg album I've been curious about for so long. And, I mean, objectively, it's good. But it's also pretty straight Nordic fare. The whole reason I was particularly interested in hearing the rekkid was for the use of traditional American folk instruments in traditional Scandinavian folk music. Dobro, guitar, and (I ( Read more... )

I tell you what. It doesn't much matter if you're mad or stressed out or bone tired in a funk or anything else. If you leave the city and point the vehicle east toward the river, if you drive it down the backroads through the beat little towns with quaint names with the sun going down over yr left shoulder and loud music on the stereo and you're ( Read more... )

I'm finally starting to branch away from all those mix n' mash ups I've been playing obsessively since the weekend. That's good. I was becoming a little alarmed. It's weird, in general, how two songs that on their own I don't like or even actively dislike suddenly become entertaining and catchy when combined. It's less surprising, though, that I'd ( Read more... )

Great quote from the weekend from uncle Lyle: "Well, I reckon this is the first time that somebody's brought moonshine ONTO the mountain, 'steada off it."

Another one was, "I had a German fellow come 'n visit me one time and he asked to try some. He said he liked it, but he didn't ask for any more of it though."

in between hands of hold 'em and stud, we played a few rounds of 21 just for grins. we even bet on that sillyass game. that prompted jokes and goofing on one another's gambling problems. It was suggested that we should call 1-800-GAMBLER to get help. so I did. I told the person that answered that I had a gambling problem. I sd, I have an ace and a ( Read more... )

This past weekend found me gallivanting through the mountains, first to a family reunion (my mother's mother's mother's people) and then all through the woods and backroads and up the mountains and down into the hollers to visit three old family cemeteries, the totally fallen down remnants of the old country store that my great-grandparents ran for ( Read more... )

I'm staying up entirely too late these days.