Please Plant This Song

friday, and i'm feeling much better and so is emily, so i think we're past all this sicko stuff. good.

well, i managed to stay working, and this song is a great one. 'Please Plant This Song' is a short little ditty written for/around/because of Richard Brautigan. He was a poet/novelist who spent a lot of time around the west coast, the bay area and oregon, and i love this guy.. he's dead now, but he's got a good body of work behind him, and i've been reading a lot of it lately. the guy rocks.

so i had this progression on guitar, but i didn't know what to do with it.. and i was sick, so i was lazy and sad. i started recording it anyway and all i could think of was the 'chorus' bit.. titles of brautigan books. i layered on an electric guitar (fingerpicked! yikes!) and a few drum machines and got some more fragmented lyrics.. then i did the real drums, which i'm pretty proud of.. and finished the lyrics. i decided to put the mandolin on there 'cause i need to practice it, and i think it worked out pretty well. then emily came home from work and we both thought accordion would be nice (or piano, but it's outta tune).. so she did a take, and i did a take. we ended up using both, but her's is the louder, busier one.. mine is in the background, just comping chords.

i think thats it. for some reason, i like the little solos. maybe i've been leaning on the guitar too much. maybe the mandolin isn't entirely awful.