so in defiance of my coming exams, i found myself staying home saturday afternoon and setting up a recording space in my bathroom. i'd been toying with the idea of using the bathroom to record any guitar-based songs lindsey would want to put on her album, but i'd never actually tested the room to see what it sounded like. so, i decided to take an hour or three and see what a song or two of mine sounded like in there, sung from different parts of the room, sung with the mics shifted around, with the shower curtain open or closed, etc.
by 8pm i had recorded 14 songs.
so, i thought it would be fitting to post them online as a soundcloud session before i disappear into the abyss for three weeks. there aren't any new songs here (i'm mostly working on poems right now, and usually those flesh out into songs eventually, but none have yet), but there are a lot of new covers. here's the whole setlist:
1. Angel From Montgomery (John Prine cover)
2. Damn Sam (I Love a Woman That Rains) (Ryan Adams cover)
3. Dusty Roads
4. The Melody
5. Albuquerque (Neil Young cover)
6. Bob Dylan's 49th Beard (Jeff Tweedy cover)
7. Palace
8. Ripple (Grateful Dead cover)
9. Forget the Flowers (Wilco cover)
10. Hey Sue
11. Sample in a Jar (Phish cover)
12. Box Full of Letters (Wilco cover)
13. Better to Be Loved > Jam > Millie > Shelter From the Storm (Bob Dylan) > Millie
14. Via Chicago (Wilco cover)
and here's the soundcloud widget:
Mint Medley Session by lazyblazers
Just wanted to say I enjoyed these and liked that you took your own route on the John Prine cover.
ReplyDeletehey, thanks! i'm not really sure why i posted them since they were all one take and done in my bathroom for fun, but i guess if at least one person got some enjoyment out of them than it wasn't a bad idea :) i was really happy with the way "via chicago" turned out and wanted to do more of the songs in that vein (i like the sound of overdrive crashing into tile walls), but i didn't have any more time than the five hours it took to do what i did do. maybe in the next few weeks i'll go back and overdub some more electric guitars into some of the songs. that reminds me...i went back and added vocals and the second electric guitar to that version of "you are my face" that moe and you recorded too...i'll have to upload that once i get sounding like i want.
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