I finally finished the new recording of Tribute tonight. This is the third recording ready to go for the upcoming album “Love the People, Hate the Culture”. It’s still much the same song as in the previous recording from 2005, but it’s been much improved with a full band and a counter-melody between verses.
I’ve kept the old recording up as well so you can compare them if you wish. The old recording and the lyrics are available in the previous post here.
I recorded a new song this weekend; it’s definitely the fastest full mix I think I’ve ever put together. Things just seemed to work, which is rare. Anyway, I’m proud of it. I like the melodies. I left out the drums on purpose, because I wanted it to feel a bit more “raw” than usual. Feel free to download it and let me know what you think!
If you’re like me, you slave over your music collection on a regular basis making sure every song is properly tagged, free of any audible flaws, and overall as perfect as possible. Okay, well, you’re probably not like me. But still, having your music skip because you used a crappy ripping application or hiccup between songs because of a non-gapless codec is exceedingly annoying. Here we’ll go through five commonly-made mistakes by music enthusiasts when managing their music collection.
I wrote this song for my Dad and sang it live during a celebration of his ministry back in 2004. It took quite a bit of practice to get the whole picking and singing thing down at the same time. It brings my Dad to tears, which is mighty hard to do. ;) It’s also one of my favorites.
UPDATE: This recording is an outdated version. A new, full-band recording of this song is available here.
I wrote this song back in 2005, my senior year of college. It’s a sad song about suicide that tied in with a presentation that a group of fellow students and I put together. Our presentation was the best there ever was (I thought so anyway), but we didn’t get all that great of a grade. We must have made the professors cry too much or something. Anyways, it’s a tear jerker, but it remains what I consider to be one of the best songs I’ve written.
I will be adding some of my older recordings here as well. Amber (my wife) and I recorded this shortly before we were married in 2005. She played the violins and sang the female vocals. I was still rather uneducated from an audio recording perspective when I laid it down, but somehow this recording turned out better than I would have expected. Must have been the violins.
I wrote the song with another friend of mine from college named Catherine Crawford, who helped with the lyrics. She’d probably murder me if she found out I recorded it with somebody else. ;)
I finished the recording for this song a few weeks ago; it literally took months. It’s hard to find the time required to get something like this done, especially with a baby boy. ;)
I’m quite proud of the final result, though. This is, by far, the closest I’ve ever come to a professional recording. I learned so much this time around I can only hope I remember it all. Look for some more to come soon!
