"More emphasis on the to-ooh-oo's"

So this is a few weeks after the last promised update. A quick update on that... Monday morning rolled around and Kory sent me a message roughly stating "I'm sick. No way I can do vocals today. Maybe dobro." we decided no big deal, we'd get together Friday.  Friday rolled around and there was no word from Kory.  There went out one chance to record his leads before trip went out of town.

Then a few days later I woke up to this text message.

Score!

Kory remained elusive the next couple weeks. Our next contact came surprisingly enough while I was at work. Kory apologized, his schedule had gotten all crazy but he'd be available to record during the week but his weekends were all booked up. Cool. I got in touch with him yesterday to lay down a date. He's good for Monday and Tuesday... As I work an unexpected double Tuesday we'll have to see what we can cram in on Monday.   But that's the future...

With Trip and Jesse in town for the next few weekends we decided to try and get something done.  Trip did a gig last night so we confirmed him being free today to help us out.  Jesse and I headed to MacFarland's and had lunch then headed across the bridge to lay down tracks.  Amusingly enough we showed up and the window to the front room was open; his son, Xander, was playing a new wii game.  It's the wii version of "Wipeout."  I may sneak out at some point during this and go play that with him.  It looks awesome.

Currently, I'm at trips house watching Jesse "the phlegm master" Rauser lay down his leads for the album.  He just finished Dead Man's Curve and is quibbling over lines where he doesn't like the way he sang it.  Ah, recording with Jesse.  It can always be better.  I guess I'd rather him be happy with his performance but I usually can't tell a difference between his second and thirty second take.  There will be a video and picture of what goes on in the studio when you're not the one actually recording.  Lots of waiting quietly.  That will be up once I get home since I don't know how to add those from my iPhone currently. Not that it matters to you, the reader, since the likelihood of you reading this before ice done that is slim.

Continued update on progress after I get home

I'm sure Jesse will be upset with me that this not only exists but is on the internet

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As it turns out, the rest of the session at Trip's was somewhat unproductive on the Cowboys of Porridge front.  Jesse did his leads for Billy the Kid, which Trip found hilarious.  Apparently, Lincoln was a county at war (and also a president) was just the funniest thing he'd heard all day.  We tried laying down Mowin' the Shoulder which would have put Jesse essentially done, but the mix we had at Trips for that song had vocals on it.  Not sure exactly what happened there but since we didn't have a mix for Jesse to sing on and we didn't have Kory to sing on anything, we moved onto finishing up In Liquid mixes.  Jesse and Trip made some adjustments to Mission: Bedsore and we basically ended our day there.

Trip said he could be available Monday morning if we could get Kory over there so... That's the current game plan.  Now that I'm home I've made mixes that are ready to go back over to Trips for the final four that need vocals.  Jesse left me his beta58 mic and I got my MP20 figured out to record without line noise so backing vocals can be done at my house at a leisurely pace.  CoP is looking like it's going to be out before the In Liquid album (which has been essentially done recording for almost 2 years now).

For any green thumbers out there, it's a little past planting time, hope you've sowed your oats.  Mine are already sprouting.