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Post by TKennedy on Apr 20, 2016 0:03:39 GMT -5
I'll be getting this one. Did you do it in a studio or yourself?
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Post by mccoyblues on Apr 20, 2016 8:54:00 GMT -5
You know how record labels are. It's almost impossible to get them to spring for anything. Oh wait a minute, I am the record label. As I was saying, it's almost impossible to get a record label to spring for anything. Once sales hit a hundred thousand copies I'll throw a party. Yours will be the first name on the invitation list. How's that for incentive? A CD release party is a great idea. Where else do you get to play for free, entertain all your friends and followers who don't pay to get it and then give away your product when it's over! Oh, and by the way, can you sign my copy?
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Post by lar on Apr 20, 2016 8:55:58 GMT -5
I'll be getting this one. Did you do it in a studio or yourself? I recorded the album on my Tascam DP-24 24-track digital recording console. It's a very handy machine. All of it was recorded in my basement den. I was the producer, engineer, and sole performer. Despite some of the obvious drawbacks, one of the pluses was that I didn't have to worry about trying to work to anyone else's schedule.
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Post by mccoyblues on Apr 20, 2016 8:56:11 GMT -5
On a serious note, I'm a sucker for liner notes. Where was this recorded and who did you have play on this CD, or are all the instruments you?
I guess those questions got answered for me.
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Post by lar on Apr 20, 2016 17:35:06 GMT -5
On a serious note, I'm a sucker for liner notes. Where was this recorded and who did you have play on this CD, or are all the instruments you? I guess those questions got answered for me. I played all of the instruments and sang all of the parts. Apparently, Emmylou Harris had something better to do. These are the instruments that appear on the various recordings: Martin HD-28 Epiphone Sheraton II Pro through a Boss ME-80 multi-effects pedal Gretsch Electromatic baritone electric guitar through a Fender Pro Junior amp Ashbory bass through a Hartke Bass Attack VXL Tone Shaper pre amp Luna Tattoo tenor ukulele Michael Kelly Legacy Dragonfly Mandolin Roland E-09 keyboard I used a Shure SM-58 mic for the vocals.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 22, 2016 14:07:38 GMT -5
One doesn't have to spend a whole lot of time on the American plains to understand what a welcome sight a cottonwood tree can be. A cottonwood means shade, it means there is water nearby, it means there are birds, it means there is comfort. Cottonwoods is exactly that. Planted on the prairie, far from the noise that we often run into on the radio these days, a listening experience that makes you want to stay.
Cottonwoods is one Midwest man and seven instruments; a collection of 12 songs mixing traditional and original, several of the latter written with his former music partner, Cyndy Kohl. All of them Americana, all of them a pleasure in both music and lyric all of them a far cry from the music we so often hear today. It's the shade from a tree on a hot prairie day.
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