Category: The Ghost Doot
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He didn’t get it from the wind
This is one of the last tunes I wrote for the album and in some ways it’s my favorite, in that it doesn’t really imitate a specific stye or other type of song, exactly, though the other day I wondered if maybe it was a bit influenced by mid-70s Floyd stuff like “Wish Your Were…
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Palette nearly full
At this point we may have recorded all of the instrumental parts. I mean, we reserve the right to add a trombone here or a french horn there, maybe a synth part, etc., but for now we have got all the instruments recorded according to the current plan. Next month we’ll work on backing and…
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Connecting dots
We got a lot of work done on the record in July. After the steel sessions covered in the previous post, we came back a week later to get Joe Kyle Jr.‘s upright bass onto three tracks and for me to add ukulele fills to another. As I noted in one social media post, “Picking…
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Picking up steam
A little while back we all agreed things felt like they were starting to drag a bit, and since then we’ve been making rapid progress toward completing the recording of all the parts for all the songs on this record. This month has been another ambitious one. Just a week or so ago we went…