This iPhone4 recording of Wes Montgomery's "Four On Six" was taken from a rehearsal on February 25, 2012 in Craig Snyder's basement. This track is being released as a sample of what's to come on March 16, 2012 at Lovin' Cup Bistro & Brews in Rochester, NY.

Craig Snyder: Guitar
Steve Copeland: Keyboard
Joshua Heckathorn: Bass
Jason Burns: Drums

Four On Six

My iPhone 4 "bootleg" of the Hendrix classic "Little Wing" from the 3/16/12 gig at the Lovin' Cup. With Craig Snyder on guitar, Steve Copeland on electric piano and remote synth, Jason Burns on drums, and myself (Joshua Heckathorn) on fretless bass. Overall quality is bearable, with cymbals being the only major issue. I certainly expected worse quality than what I got!

LittleWing

Jason Stern: 12-string Acoustic Guitar, Composition
Joshua Heckathorn: Fretless Bass, Recording, Mixing, and Editing

Recorded in 2007 using a $20 Radioshack microphone into my old Dell Inspiron 3800 running Dyne:bolic Linux 2.x.x. The tail of the mic was propped inside of a Woodchuck cider bottle, while resting on the cross-brace of a stool. (This results - to the best of our knowledge - in the hi-pitched hum that is heard briefly toward the end of the song.) Mixing and production has been done in Ardour & Audacity (Linux), as well as in Protools (Mac), over an extended period of time. To create an artificial stereo field, the mono track was duplicated -- with one copy panned hard left and the other right. A vinyl simulator was then applied to each track with directly opposite settings. This was then mixed down with a third mono track, panned dead center. Further editing to increase volume, add reverb & delay, and remove hum & clipping were also applied.

Medicated Turkishman

1/1/13: Unrehearsed and improvised first take of my original composition "The Wrong Words To The Blues" - iPhone bootleg recording with artificial stereo field created using the FL Studio app. 

Joshua Heckathorn - Vocals, Fretless Bass
John "Coog" Mitchell - Vocal Commentary and Percussion, Guitar
Bill King - Lead Midi-Guitar
Goose - Harmonica



"Yea, I can sing the blues... If you'll just give me the words.
Yea, I can sing the blues... If you'll just give me the words.
And if you think you can do better... Well then, I'll give the words to you.

The skin burns on my fingers... Pains so much the eyes can't see.
Yea, the skin burns, it burns on my fingers... Pains so much the eyes can't see.
And if it weren't for my hearing... I wouldn't bother to speak.

Yea, I can sing the words... If you'll just give them to me.
You think I'm singing the wrong words? Well, you ain't reading!

You say I'm singing the wrong words to the blues.
You say I lost my feeling - can't carry a tune.
Well, I ain't got nothing to lose, nothing to hide, nothing to prove.
So I'll just sing the wrong words to the blues.

Go get me the original version... Something Handy would approve.
Please, go get me the original version... Something ol' W.C. Handy would approve.
Cause if you come back here with a cover... I'll make a blues song out of you.

You think I'm singing the wrong words to the blues?
Why don't you give it a try, let's see what you can do.
Cause there's only two rules in the rule-book: One, Four, Five - Maybe Two...
Then you just sing the wrong words to the blues."

J-Heck