I got antsy not being creative during quarantine and thought maybe I’d try and add some other instrumentation to Wreaths version of Sundown. I had a lot of ideas…and my friends had a studio a half mile away which has since closed. I have been friendly aquatints of Dana (baritone sax for Morphine) for a few years and he was feeling cooped up too during quarantine and asked if anyone needed sax cuz he wanted to play and I jumped on that. I wanted to mix this more but have been sitting on it since the studio closed. Wreaths played this all live and only overdubbed the vocals at Big Blue North in Utica NY. It was mixed and engineered by Jeff Alderman. Dana did 3 sax and one keyboard track. I will come back and mix more but want people to hear it…thank you Dana and thank you Jeff

Wreaths - Sundown - feat. Dana Colley on sax

This song was a gift to my brother for his 40th birthday. I thought he needed a theme song. It tells a short story of him and I never really shared it before because it was pretty personal. His name is Chris but I started calling him Heetah when we were almost teenagers (we are 13 months apart) it was an over exaggerated impression of when my mom would yell “Christopher!!!” which morphed to Heetah-ha and settling on just Heetah. Soon all his friends called him that too. I had the idea and a chorus in mind when I asked Paul Ritchie to help me write and record it. The only day he could was the morning of my brothers birthday party so we were under pressure and I needed it done so I got Sam Bey to play the drums knowing those two guys knew how to work in a studio together like no other. I told Paul I wanted the riff to sound like “Anthem” by King Tuff…he nailed it, I had the chorus and wrote down some lyrics. They nailed to feel and fun of the theme song and I sang it…having never sung like that before in my life. But the clock was ticking and it had to get done. No room to be precious about anything. It came out better than I ever imagined. Thanks Paul & Sam

Here Comes Heetah

Make Me See…this was written by Ray Beck and I on May 1, 2020 with Ray mixing, recording and engineering at New Future Studio in Belmar NJ. I play drums and tambourine and came up with bassline, Ray did everything else and added an outro vocal. First day of May coming out of a wet spring in the beginning of pandemic/quarantine, still a little nervous to hang with people. It was raining and shitty, the wind was howling and then it started hailing. Ray and I were jamming on drums and guitar seeing if we could find a groove. We couldn’t. Then amazingly the storm passed and the sun came out and it turned into a beautiful day…summer was on the way. We lit a joint and I played music out of my car speakers with the windows down. Talked about wanting to make something to drive with your hand out the window. We went back in, improvised the groove and liked the vibe in play back. The bass and guitars were overdubbed within 10 minutes. Ray took it to his home studio, looped it and added some outro vocals. We plan on finishing it but I want people to hear it. (The picture was taken that day)

Make Me See - Ray & Col

This is a Wreaths song written by Jamison Lauer and played by the band. It was recorded in 2012 at Moonlight Mile in Hoboken, NJ by Mike Mobius. It was recorded live in the room. You can hear a amp die at the very end. Jeff Plate mixed it.

WREATHS - Teach the Devil to Sing

This is a cover. It’s dramatic. I dated the gal who wrote this, she recorded the original for her band’s album. When she was dumping me I thought “I’m gonna sing her own song back to her…but in a different genre!” I asked Jeff Plate to help me w the quickness and he delivered. I knew the relationship was over but this was pretty cool. I never sang on anything before this. Jeff plays all the instruments and sings backing vocs…the guitar solo at the end rips. Now it’s more a song about friendship. Thanks Jeff

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