A hook ish idea.  Created using a time consuming, high work ethic method.  Percussion is 2 live takes using an m-audio trigger finger drum pad. No programming.  All instruments are bass or vocals run through guitar pedals etc...

ShopofOlives - I'm Not (Teaser)

I needed to try out some new gear, so I re-recorded my cover of Green Grass by Tom Waits.  This time I was able to use my new Martin D-15 guitar and figured out how to perform the acoustic part more like his original recording.  No pick is the secret. It's the sound of palm muted fingernails. Yippie.

Green Grass - Round 2

This is old school Poor Folks stuff from their first record "We Make Fire".  One live take, everyone playing at once.  Recorded in 2008, but I screwed up the mixing back then.  Here is the "remixed" version.

Seize The Day - Poor Folks, Live Well

I had a chance to try out my Revox 2-track 1/4 inch reel to reel with James McLaughlin one day.  We recorded live directly to the revox.  It was in horrible shape.  It warbles and flanges along with the other noises, but it sounds so old and interesting.
This is very raw.  No effects or processing were applied.  It's a moment frozen in time, and my tape machine broke before I could even do a proper transfer.  

Lightning Bones - James McLaughlin

I remixed this in 2011. It's an old Poor folks song which we recorded live in 2008 I believe.  Everything including vocals (Vox recorded with an SM57 or 57A I can't remember) were tracked live (that means at the same time), with a couple lead overdubs afterwards. No tricks.  No production.  No fancy false stereo. It's weird, I know.  You're supposed to isolate every instrument and record them separately or it doesn't sound good.  You know, like those guys in the youtube videos say.  Some day I'll learn.

Moving On - Poor Folks Live Well

A song written and performed by James McLaughlin.  

Nets - James McLaughlin

Another song from James McLaughlin recorded live in my living room before he moved to Austin.

Tech stuff:

Vocals recorded through Coles 4038 into Mercury M76 preamp, into Distressor.  Guitar had an Audio-Technica 4081 into a ClassicAPI VP25 preamp.  Very little was done in mixing, as compression and any tweaking seems to ruin his songs.  Some reverb (Eventide Stereo Room) and a dash of Echoboy.

Birches - James McLaughlin

A rough draft of a cover I'm working on.  The song is called Somebody's Baby, by Jon Foreman.

Somebody's Baby DRAFT

I love to record, mix, produce and create music.  Thanks for listening!


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