All the guitar parts to several songs are done. Finished. Re-recorded and perfected. There's a lot of work left to turn this into a finished CD, more singing and mixing. But the foundation is one I'm happy with now. That's what was eating at me with the earlier versions of things, there were just too many little nuances that I didn't like. After obsessing about this and working it to death, we not have a solid base to build up from. The songs that survived are:
Cold Falling Rain
Deeper and Deeper
Man in the Mirror
Sackcloth and Ashes
Stranger Blues
Worrying Stone
Water Rising Blues
Ball and Chain
One foot in front
I know you'll as about the breakdown of the guitars used here, so the official count is:
Regular Guitar? 1, but in an open tuning.
National? 1
Electric Lap Steel? 1
Lap Steel (Acoustic)? 6
Not one guitar in standard tuning anywhere to be found. Not from lack of material, mind you, those songs just have been left behind for a bit while things settle in. The survivors all hang together well. Not to worry, you'll hear all of them in Dundee.
All in all it's been an interesting process thus far, focusing on this with this kind of intensity. Three weeks to get a few guitar parts together seems like a whole lot of effort. But the reality is that I needed to get inside the songs and push them around a bit. Hit back. Songs are bullys, they like to force you in a direction that may not be right. I needed to push back, put some in time-out and reward the cooperative ones.
Phew. It'll be worth it in the end, I'm sure.
