Without a Trace
After several postponed studio dates, we finally got one we could keep on Saturday, Feb. 9. Under the expert guidance of our producer, Ryan Williams of JimmyEther.com, Shelle and I recorded seven songs in a fairly relaxed one-day session. We just stood in front of microphones and performed much like we would on stage, except the equipment was better and we could always back up and try again when we made a mistake!
Many of the songs we recorded were new, including "Without a Trace." Shelle had never sung it with me and I'd not performed it until the night before at an ad hoc Java Monkey show where I filled in for a friend. I wrote the song some weeks ago while I was noodling around on the guitar with the TV on. I needed some words to proof-out the melody, and there was a crime show on called "Without a Trace"; that title happened to fit the syllable count just right. One thing led to another, and pretty soon I had what I thought was a decent little song.
That song turned out to be one of the pleasant surprises of the recording session. We were about to give it up after a couple of mediocre takes, but Ryan said, "I really have a feeling about this. If you're willing to give it one more take, I think you guys are going to nail it." Well, you can be the judge of whether we "nailed" it. But in this quick session mix, I feel the seeds of a better song than the one I dashed off distractedly while watching TV.
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