Ten Song Conversation
Well, I’ve had this blog for a little while and I’ve never mentioned my CD. I recorded this on my own back in 2000 and have made only a little effort in getting it into people’s hands. Shame on me. So I’m gonna make it available for purchase here on my blog for a ridiculously low price of $5 plus $3 for shipping. How about supporting your virtually local musician? Here’s a little background.
Back in 2000 I had several songs that I was working on that I wanted to get recorded. Due to budget restraints and the desire to learn to record I decided to produce it on my own. I wanted to try and capture what was in my head with what was available to me. Thankfully a buddy of mine had a home studio centered around a Roland 1680, which were great little machines back in the day for home studios. I didn’t have really fancy mics or other equipment. He did have some nice guitars which I used and put to good use on the album.
I played all the acoustic, electric and bass guitars, as well as singing. I had my buddy Dave Holland provide the drums and percussion. Elizabeth Jones and Allen Levi sang backup on a few songs for me and did a great job. Elizabeth and I sang together in an acoustic trio called In Need of Eve, which also did a homemade CD that I’ll make available soon.
Most of these songs were done in the studio using all acoustic instruments, no loops or synths. A few were done live in a little home concert that I put on and recorded. This CD is organic and raw. I think there were some really nice moments captured and I still feel like these songs can speak to folks. Below you’ll find some snippets of a few of the songs to give you an idea of the feel.
Over on the right you’ll see a link where you can purchase the CD using paypal. If you have any questions feel free to post a comment or contact me via email. I hope you enjoy it!
There used to be links to songs you could listen to here, but Quicktime keeps crashing various browsers. So…. I’ll try to figure out another way for people to preview the music.
