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I'm a fan of Relic's (Alec's) bluegrass tunes, especially the way he blends traditional bluegrass with his own garage rock kind of style. So i asked him if he'd like to do a collab and he humored me. This is one of my favorite bluegrass tunes, everybody and their 4th cousin removed has done a version but i thought it would be cool to do a glam rock version. Again, Alec humored me. But half way through arranging a glam rock version i realized that what i really wanted was something else. When i was a kid the only music i was allowed to listen to or sing was religious (or country/folk, since at the time most of that was benign). I loved music more than I hated church so i sang in choir and all that. Our church was a little blue collar church and very few people could actually play, but they were enthusiastic, and usually somebody would bang a few chords on the piano and somebody else would play some bad scales on a trumpet or something and we'd get through it. So we'd be singing along but what i was hearing was something totally different, i was rearranging it in my head, adding counter melodies and different instruments and whatever. And so my concept with this tune was to create a traditional framework and then gradually morph it into what i was hearing back then as I sang those old songs. Don't know if i managed to explain that very well. Anyway I think it works. Hope you enjoy it.
Not going to go into what each of us did, we both did a bunch of stuff and Eric (Lennon) contributed the piano, great stuff dude thanks!
Not going to go into what each of us did, we both did a bunch of stuff and Eric (Lennon) contributed the piano, great stuff dude thanks!
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And we don't get to hear enough of it here. The banjo is particularly nice. Good clear recording of the guitar. I like the moving bass lines in the rhythm guitar feature section.