writing tunes at the Holiday Motel
Here’s a few of the tunes from this year’s Steel Bridge Songfest. These are rough mixes but they’ll be touched up eventually. Giant, oversized thanks to pAt macdonald, melaniejane, Christie Weber, Anna Sacks, Steve Hamilton and the Holiday Motel and the whole crew for putting us up for the week and being so hospitable and accommodating our crazy hours and hair-brained antics.
“Nothing Comes Naturally”
Wrote this real late the night after the fest with Dustin Welch, who is playing Dobro.
“Rattlin’ the Cage”
Wrote this rocking little 5/4 ditty the first day of the Construction Zone with Christine Flores-Cozza and Loren Wollerman. The band is Greg Roteik (bass), Adam Cargin (drums), me (gtr, vox, keys), Dustin Welch (banjo), Victor DeLorenzo (junk percussion) and Delaney Davidson did some slide trombone. We recorded the drums, guitar, bass and vocals live! … which I love! Band stuff has almost always been layered one piece at a time for me and it was a good feeling to be able to do it all live. It’s not perfect but it’s got some teeth and it’s one unedited take of the rhythm section and main vocal. Loren recorded some horn parts as well, which will be on the final version.
“Evidence”
I had this one completed coming in but still felt like it was missing something, a name… Dustin aptly titled it “Evidence” and we went in and recorded it in the wee hours as things were winding down. This is a demo Shawn and I threw together in July.
The recording engineers at Steel Bridge are real champs. We would be up with Steve recording at 7am and somehow he’d be ready to rock at 11am the next day.
