It has been a while since my last update... It's been a while since we achieved anything worth noting. I'm not sure today counts as an exception.
I headed out to Trip's house today to do my last set of lead vocals. I sang the leads for the verses to WH Bonnie today. Which is funny because the movie that popped up on shuffle last night in my DVD spindle was "Young Guns". Ah, Lou Diamond Phillips, where hast thou gone?
Anyway, I arrived about 9:15am with donuts as Trip was setting up the mic. As we were about to get started Trip got a phone call from a one Charlie Frye about various things including Floating Popes situations. That suited me just fine. I had donuts to eat.
After the call we tracked the vocal. For once, Trip liked most of my phrasing and we didn't change much. I left out the occasional "he" and "the" so I wouldn't have to mush mouth things and Trip critiqued me more on delivery than pitch for once. Apparently practicing singing the song you're going to be singing does help. Maybe I should do that. The only thing we drastically changed was how I sing the last verse which was fine because I really didn't like my delivery on the last verse anyway. Squared it off, as Trip says, to allow for easier application of backing vocals. All in all actual recording of my parts took about 30 minutes including listening to parts over and over to make sure Trip was happy with my deliveries.
After I was done, we listened to a new Lauren Turner Overdrive (Like Bachman only with more boobs... and talent) tune. It is great. He was having some problems with a guitar line for the chorus so I threw out some ideas and he went to tracking them. Are they gonna make the final cut? Probably not, Trip always changes his mind, but it's nice to be listened to. I digress...
Kory is scheduled to come over to the house on Monday to record some Dobro parts. Maybe do some backing vocals if he's feeling squirrely. Maybe write some new stuff. We shall see. Trip is on tour with Stolen Babies from April 8th-28th, filling in for their bass player so we are on stand still until then. But by the time he gets back Jesse should have mostly the basic sound of the album fleshed out and recording vocals will be all that's left to be done. A dual CD release for In Liquid and Cowboys of Porridge mid-summer is looking more likely. If mid-summer looks likely, I'll put my money on August. Hey, maybe 2014.
For the farmers out there, it is planting season
