Thurs - Friday

Howdy all

Thursday we moved to our engineer Bil's studio located west of Nashville. He built it into the bottom of his house, which was originally a Moose Lodge set up in the hills. It's set on a large piece property, with trails to hike and even a 150 foot firetower to climb, if you dare. It's a very peaceful place, and a lot of great records have been done here. I'll include some photos of it in this post.

We started off this morning laying down some percussion parts - I put down some tambourine, guiro, and shaker parts on a few tunes. Just adding a little spice to the pot, if you will. We're quickly nearing the completion of this record, and seeing it all come to life has been a great experience. We play these songs so much live, and to hear them recorded in such a professional way is really something special.

For those of you who have been wondering, here is a track list for the CD. This may change in order but these are the songs we have recorded:

1.Somebody Like You
2.Wanderin'
3.Caroline
4.Wonder Why
5.Ease My Mind
6.Take It For Granted
7.Houston Town
8.Good Day
9.Been Here Before
10.Warm Summer's Evening
11.Tell Her For Me When I'm Gone
12.Too Far To Fall

"Somebody Like You" is a song we added at the last minute, and it rounds the CD out to 12 tracks. It's a song of Rob's that we hadn't ever played live, and have rehearsed only once or twice. Kind of an uplifting gospel style of tune. The story is this - at the end of the session on Wednesday, the very last hour we had at that studio, we decided we wanted one more song on the record. So we scrambled, rehearsed it once or twice, and then recorded it. It took us a few takes, but eventually we got a version that felt good. It's a groove and feel we haven't done too much of, and it's a nice change of pace for us. So look forward to that one!

The rest of today will go to singing harmony vocals and some more guitar parts. I'm all finished with drums and percussion, so I'll be writing here and taking photos, and maybe I'll even go for a hike. The life of a drummer!


Here are some photos from where we are now.


-Jonathan