instrumental and meditative

[gurdonark]

My wife put Josh Alan's "Famous and Poor" CD on tonight. I'm pleasantly absorbed in acoustic guitar play--very agreeable. I love it for all the reasons I love Penguin Cafe Orchestra, but it's much more roots-music oriented. It's
literally the best thing I've heard since the Scott_M Experience, and it's almost as good as Scott_M. I wrote that fellow who does the Mountain Goats an e mail, because I read that he records to a boombox. Now that's living, really living, but I wondered how you mike living.
My own recording project ambitions are modest, what with being talentless and all, but
it would be fun to bang an autoharp or
create ambient sound from electric football fields without having to multi-track or figure out Cakewalk, the only software I've ever used that makes my recordings sound worse than my .wav recorder....I live in a world in which people make nice music, and that world's good by me.

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[nacowafer.livejournal.com]

Please share if you hear anything back from John Darnielle! It's cool that you wrote to him...did you get "All Hail West Texas?"

heading to the CD sites...

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I haven't gotten All Hail West Texas yet, because I don't yet have time, a credit card, and my internet connection all handy at once....but it is on my short list for imminent order.