Session VII – Inspiration and Frustration

Well, I finally got to feeling a bit better and thought I would spend an hour or so doing some recording.  Well, as you know, an hour turns into 4 hours but to be honest, I REALLY enjoyed myself.  I watched the Dylan documentary “No Direction Home” earlier this week while home from a pulled tooth and I found myself completely moved and inspired.  The only problem with being inspired by Dylan is that when you play your own shit, it kinda depresses the fuck out of you that it’s NOT DYLAN!

Once I got passed that hump I started going through what I’ve already recorded to see basically what I’ve got to work with.  Well, as of now, I have one song completely ready to go and in the can.  I have solid guitar tracks for 5 songs and 2-3 more need to be done from scratch.  This is good progress as far as I’m concerned.  I feel like the first few sessions were me just getting used to what I’ve got to work with and having to get used to shit like playing w/ headphones on, playing to click track and shit like that.

As for the selection of songs, I’m REALLY happy with this selection of songs.  I’ve decided to keep it down to 8 songs in order to keep it from going on too long.  This is going to pretty much be another folk album but I’m really wanting to get more of that folk essence on this one that I did on the last one.  I’m really reaching back to my roots and I’m finding new old acts like The Clancey Brothers, Dave Van Ronk and some obscure Dylan have lots to offer in the means of production and performance ideas.

I’m still getting a feel for this collection of songs together so I’m still not quite sure what I’ll be calling it yet.  Like my last two albums, I really want the title to reflect the mood and (if there is one) concept of the feel of this album.  Gotta crawl before you walk though.  Still got some work to do.