We finished recording, and yesterday afternoon we began the mixing process at Bil's home studio. Mixing doesn't really involve the band beyond listening back to a track once in a while and making adjustments - the bulk of the work is done by the engineer. So, we have a lot of time to hang around and we're making it into a relaxing day of reading and taking care of business to get this CD released. We've decided to do a presale sometime in the next weeks for those of you who'd like to reserve your copy.
We're going to be making the 14 hour drive back to Austin tonight - it seems like driving through the night helps make the trip go by quicker. We've had an interesting experience staying here in Nashville this past week. Being the young, poor band that we are, Connor, Marshall and myself have been staying in a hotel off of I-65, which we have managed to get lost on the way to every single night we've been here. It is also directly adjacent to a very dangerous looking nightclub. The kind of place where you get patted down and walk through a metal detector to enter! I'm even pretty sure I heard a gunshot or two last night. We don't really mind this kind of thing to be honest - we like to think of it as life experience! (Don't tell our parents that!)
So gunshots and the ever-confusing highway system aside, we've had a positive experience here in Nashville these 8 days. We're all very much pleased with the way the tracks sound, and we can't wait for everyone out there to hear it. The record includes a nice mix of styles - a little country, swing, gypsy, R&B, New Orleans groove, and there's even something for all you folky's out there. It's Americana music, by anyone’s standards.
On a side note, this past Friday we left the studio early to go and see an incredible band by the name of The Infamous Stringdusters perform here at the Station Inn. They're a bluegrass group based out of Nashville who have been making big waves recently all over the country. We highly recommend them - you can check them out at http://www.infamousstringdusters.com/if you're interested. Their banjo player, Chris Pandolfi, and dobro man Andy Hall came and played on our record. Their new CD, "Fork in the Road", is in heavy rotation in the Belleville van on long road trips.
Here are some pictures of the last day or so at Bil's. Enjoy
-Jonathan
2 comments:
Um, is that a shawl, a picnic blanket or a cape that Marshall is wearing?
it's Frank Zappa's mexican pancho, from South of the Border, SC
Post a Comment