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**Bluesman** · 10-25-2011, 09:16 AM

I,ll take a look back like you say , and thanks again i know alittle about LAME but not much just enough to do those two tracks i put on R-nation. I do have an old boss multi track recorder with a hard drive but it's a bummer tryin to work it all out and i end with geag all over the show. Ok got to rush work calls see you and thanks again

**JosephB** · 10-25-2011, 05:13 PM

It's been a while. Here's kind of a strange, folky little thing I recorded a while back. My wife is singing with me. She has a nice voice, but she was pretty shy about recording, so her singing is kind of breathy and tentative. Drums are courtesy of a friend of a friend -- he did something pretty cool with it, reminiscent of Paul Simon's "50 Ways..." I play slide on the electric pretty often, but here it's on acoustic and it sounds a little off. Oh well. Enough excuses...

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**moderan** · 10-25-2011, 07:07 PM

The drums don't really work til you get to the chorus. I can understand what he's trying to do, and it works better in the second verse, but the timing sounds a little off. The acoustic sounds just a hair out of tune here and there. Might just be intonation issues.
Vox sound super, old-school folky. Did your wife play the bass?
Overall, that's a good track. The tune's very good, smooth changes.

**Bluesman** · 10-25-2011, 07:41 PM

I also thought the drums were out at the start but i could see what he was doing and it did work later in the song. Other than that i thought it was excellent the vocals were very much in time and your wife sounds like Lisa Hanigan ( a popular irish singer with a beautiful voice go check her out on youtube, i think i spelt her name right ? ) to me. Just the drum issue aside and you have an album track thats really nice . Congrats.

Originally Posted by JosephB

It's been a while. Here's kind of a strange, folky little thing I recorded a while back. My wife is singing with me. She has a nice voice, but she was pretty shy about recording, so her singing is kind of breathy and tentative. Drums are courtesy of a friend of a friend -- he did something pretty cool with it, reminiscent of Paul Simon's "50 Ways..." I play slide on the electric pretty often, but here it's on acoustic and it sounds a little off. Oh well. Enough excuses...

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**JosephB** · 10-25-2011, 10:12 PM

Hey, thanks for listening and commenting, guys. I agree the drums sound better when the chorus kicks in. I'll cut the guy some slack -- he pretty much played cold, we only had time to run through it a couple of times. Finding drummers has been an ongoing problem. People I know who are really good already have gigs, so I usually end up playing with guys who are kind of rusty -- people who played in high school and college and on my kit, which doesn't help. My brother has recorded some with me, he's quite good, but he moved to Nashville a while ago.

Moderan, no, my wife's not playing bass. That was kind of a failed experiment, not because she didn't have the aptitude, she's just so busy. It's been hard to get her to find time to sing too. She doesn't have a lot of patience for recording either. One or two takes and she's done. My efforts to play live here and there have mostly failed for the same reasons. Oh well.

Bluesman, I like that Lisa Hannigan a lot. That's a nice compliment. And her music is right up my wife's ally, so I know she'll appreciate the suggestion. I have a few more songs with my wife singing that haven't been mixed yet, where her voice is stronger. One she sings solo and sounds really good -- to the point that it kind of surprised me! She's mostly been a church singer, so this is new to her.

Good to hear some encouraging comments -- so I'll mix some more stuff and post it when I get a chance.

**moderan** · 10-25-2011, 10:57 PM

Yeah, I totally appreciate the drummer issue-it's why I just make my own beats. My wife doesn't sing well, doesn't have any desire to, or play the bass. She'd like to learn the piano, she says, but has never ever sat down to my keyboard and tried. Ah well. I can't knit.
This is a nice little area of the site-I'm glad we've revived it some. Was good to see/hear some newer posters too.
By all means, post the new stuff

I'll have some new things too, pretty soon. Got a couple of projects to finish first. I've a few versions of the backtrack for the video for Baron's new novel, another set for another WF writer's video...my lungs are just about healed enough to try some light singing too, and I'd like to put a finish on a couple of my tunes and try to get them to the next level commercially.
Good stuff, Joe. And the offer's still open if you need to put a shine on anything.