Friday, February 6, 2009

I feel like I should be wearing denim for this.

This was absolutely the silliest recording session of my entire life. I wanted to do a classic country duet like they used to back in the days when country had more heart than dollar signs, so I had the always wonderful Genevieve Schatz from the band Company of Thieves join me. The day first started feeling funny when half way through listening to the song Jon turns to me and says, "I feel like I should be wearing denim for this". Coincidently, I had on a denim shirt that day and Chris had one in his closet, so needless to say within only a couple minutes we were all wearing denim and the mood was set for the rest of the day. We continued to build a classic shuffle-country bounce rhythm over the melody and sooner than later Jon pulled his hair and exclaimed, "Ah, I just can't handle how fun this song is!".

We wanted the song to have a dive bar kind of feel to it, so we moved the session into the kitchen where there would be more access to various pots, pans, tables and..oven doors? Anything we could use for backround noise that would make this song even more fun than it already was. Gen and I took a shot of Whiskey (Well, she plugged her nose and only finished part of it, but it's okay, her heart was in it) and we recruited Ben to help us make funny sounds. Then just like that, we were tracking vocals right there in the kitchen while Jon and Ben hopped around like Teletubbies making every possible sound they could think of, using every possible thing they could find without breaking their house. I couldn't have asked for a better distraction.

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