Songs from on tour progressing nicely thankyou for asking
No one did, but it felt right to say.
I am listening to the final mix of Push me Away, courtesy of a champion effort from engineer maestro Robert Rebeck of Chuck Chapman Recording and Mastering in Lenexa, KS, and I am feeling entirely smug about it.
Yep. Smug. Smugly smuggins to be precise. Still, I wish I could sing like DC Bellamy. Or Jo for that matter.
Sadly I can't share it with you until we get it mastered. The boys are super fussy and already I stretch their tolerances for Kamikaze Bat Guano Behaviour.
Hurry up Mr Lynch.
On Sunday we recorded Rock River and I am listening to the Desk Mix. To quote Honest Abe, those that like this sort of thing will find it the sort of thing they like.
Our good friend D-Dawg ( I can call him that now, it's both pretentiously cool and partially anonymising) phoned me whilst we were traveling between Indiana and Kansas, navigating traffic, watching cornfield lightning.
I mentioned that we seemed to be writing a lot of songs whilst on tour. Push me away at the airport. Rock river at..err..the rock river. Others beside.
Even over the phone I could feel D-Dawg nodding. He explained that was just like in the old days, when travelling bluesmen would write about what they saw.
'Are you telling me you're feeling inspired?' he said, with his easy Carolinian drawl holding a gently reproving mirth.
I've been reading various voices in the music intelligentsia, talking about the demise of the album, the music business Up Down, Sideways, yadda yadda.
We just released an album in May. there's no screaming market demand to release more material. We should wait. We should be patient. We should.
We should make what we can, when we can, and release it when we feel like it. There ya go. I'm not sure of the logic and I reserve the right to deny my previous statements and claim my newly appointed Intern accidentally tweeted that junk shot. Yeah baby.
Where was I?
Oh yeah. I like these two new songs. I think we'll release as soon as I can get'em ready and then we'll press on with the rest of the stuff we wrote whilst we were away.
