This is where the magic has been happening. Or at least where we've been recording. There are apparently 11 stringed instruments in this picture. I know this because around 3:00pm today Jesse was sitting on the bed while I was mixing something and he said "There are 11 stringed instruments in this room right now. We should take a picture of that." Little did he know I had already snapped one at 9:00am this morning. Should have grabbed the other three instruments in the house.
2 Acoustics, 1 Mandolin, 1 Strumstick, 1 Fretless Bass, 3 Electric Basses, 3 Electric Guitars
I didn't feel like today was very productive but when Jesse commented that he was happy with today's progress I realized I may just be ready to be done with this. We fixed a guitar part Jesse wasn't happy with on Mowin' the Shoulder, tweaked Ropin' the Wind, fixed the drum loop for Two Bowls of Porridge and recorded all of Tears on the Pavement as well as changed the ending to a Freebird style jam that is going to fade out. I told Jesse to play until he screws up and we'll just make the song fade out right before that.
We were going to work on Riding in a Boxcar today but I'm thinking of saving it for the intro to the next Cowboys of Porridge album. I'm not sure. It's a silly 1 minute long ditty that I wrote for a solo show I did back in 2006. The lyrics were originally about my friend Rybear and his band and have subsequently been changed several times. If we save it for the next album we still have 10 songs for this one and already have an intro for that one... plus I can add train sound effects to it if we wait!
Jesse playing Riding in a Boxcar while I take a hot cocoa break
The crux to that is it's the last confidence booster we have to record. Not that the last two are hard otherwise being Two Bowls of Porridge and Two Friends of Mine (yeah, I know). Two Bowls will be played on fretless theorhetically which is going to be difficult since it's one of the more noodley bass parts. Two Friends I still have to program a drum loop for. Most likely taking tomorrow off. We are playing an acoustic gig at our "managers" house for New Years. He's asked us every year to do it but since I've been working anywhere between 10 and 18 hour shifts for New Years the last few years we haven't been able to.
But we shall see. Maybe I'll lay down all my Porridge tracks tomorrow before we play the show and Jesse can record his at his leisure. My main goal for the New Year is to have a nonsexual encounter with Kory Fontenot in my garage and get (drums) laid!
The hour approaches and the oats will be ready for harvesting!
Photo courtesy of Richard Jakman and Francis Gaylord Balsworth
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