Banjo Lament

monday morning. i spent yesterday helping jana move, and then eating dinner at tony's.. not a lot of musical productivity. it's disheartening, almost. but we gotta keep moving. i work every day but sunday, so if you don't write a bunch of songs on sunday you gotta cram songs into every morning and evening.

and speaking of sadness, here's a real winner: 'Banjo Lament'. it's a good sad rainy sunday evening sort of thing, with a nod towards wilco and the beatles. it's a little bit on the short side, also - apparently i write longer songs, with big solos and outros and stuff. i gotta start trimming the fat a little. anyways - banjo lament is mostly banjo and harmonica, in a further effort to learn how to play those guys. ha! i triple-tracked the vocals, all bouncing around each other, and put some through some filters and distortion stuff.. give everyone some space. there's also a second banjo track that has been pitch-shifted way up, two or four octaves i think... it sounds really squirrely, but it's low in the mix.. you hear it most at the beginning and end.

last night at tony's i got this odd little yamaha electronic keyboard.. it's a little cheesy, but it's got some variables you can play with, and as soon as we got home we tried it out on a song, 'tippy tommy', and that song is now just about done.