Heading for Tomorrow

Yes.  Title cliche.
Font.  Trebuchet.

Not only is it the best looking for the available default blog fonts, it's also a medieval weapon which makes it far superior to all other fonts.  Now to the point.

photo from original album cover shoot

So tomorrow we (Jesse and I) embark upon the exciting adventure of attempting to record "Cowboys of Porridge".  This isn't really being announced so if you've happened upon this blog on 12/23/12 consider yourself... in a small group of people with not much to do.  We're going to attempt to record a 12 song album (approximately 40 minutes) in two weeks.

For those of you reading this that are really into "In Liquid" you might be disappointed.  We are taking the Tom Petty route with this album which is "If a song is hard to play, it's not there yet".  That being said it's also going to be a departure in terms of tonal quality and mood.  Jesse is going to be limited to three guitar tracks per song, 1 electric, 2 acoustic.  I'm going to be playing mostly fretless bass with a little fretted 5 string on the "heavier" of the songs.  We'll also be adding fiddle and mandolin to the regiment as well as a little strumstick which is essentially a dulcimer.

Now the big question, why Cowboys of Porridge?  Well, the name came about at Jesse's house when I was moving something and... like so many things, I have no idea what he really said but what I heard was "Cowboys of Porridge".  He giggled and decided it was funny and since most of what I was writing at the time sounded like country music, I decided to use that as the moniker if we were did anything with it.

Why the music?  Because it's simple, it's fun and we like it.  Also, it was an excuse to get more musicians in without making In Liquid not a three-piece.  Oddly, CoP was originally a three piece.  The plan was for Jesse to do all the vocals and electric guitar, I was going to do acoustic and backing vocals and Don Slater (now a member of Battlecross) was going to do bass.  We had alter egos' and we did a silly photo session (pictures of which will be dispersed intermittently).  The bands album line up was shaping up as follows:

Jesse Rauser: Guitars, Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals
Dustin Duffy: Bass, Mandolin, Strumstick, Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals
Frederick Mason Lemiux: Violin, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Cory Fontenot: Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals

With special guest Tim Smith on Harmonica and General Badassery.

We'll see how all that pans out.

 Tune in tomorrow and remember to eat your oats!

photo courtesy of Michael J. Oxbigg and Francis Gaylord Balsworth