1. St. Johns Bridge - I was inspired by two weeks spent demo-ing part of a house on the other side of the St. Johns Bridge in North Portland, listening to ships pass through the convergence of the Willamette and the Columbia.
2. Amazing Grace / Swing Low Sweet Chariot - This one sounds best over headphones. It's also the least "Western" of the bunch, but we all stray from the straight and narrow on occasion.
3. The Delta-Mendota Canal - The moodiest of the bunch and really more of an introduction to the next track.
4. Oklahoma Buckboard Springs - I recorded this one the first night I made it up and a cleaner cut will come just as soon as I re-string my 12-string. As is, it's a bit painful.
Oh, and lastly an impromptu video made by my friend Steven (of Band Practice / Party fame) and I out on the San Jose State campus. This is from well over 6 months ago and before I knew how to finger-pick, so that's my caveat emptor. The song's called Earthquake Blues and it's an elaborate exaggeration of my earliest memory, the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake; how Californian, huh?
I'll post more at this facebook page as I get around to writing and recording more.
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The 1st and 4th were my absolute favorites. Oh yes, the 1st definently reminded me of those cold, wet days in Portland. Did you record the fog horn (if that's what it is?). My crazy idea is that it is your french horn. Crazy,
ReplyDeleteThanks Carly! No french horn, but rather trombone, alto horn and then a bit of trumpet. I was going for the sound of ships horns echoing from the river, akin to something I heard several times the week I spent remodeling a house in North Portland. Over the course of the song the two "horns" travel from left two right and right to left respectively, simulating to passing ships.
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