Cheryl Crowe's Strong Enough, not that into the lyrics but a great song.  This is also a fancy-pants Pro Tools recording but here it is "live," for better or worse.

Strong Enough

Going to California

From our Tuesday night rehearsals circa 2011/2012...the first song in our set.

Still the One

Pro Tools Strong Enough

Pro Tools Angel

This song is how I happened into singing in a band or anyplace.  Someone was looking for people to sing so he could learn how to record and mix and whatever else you do on Pro Tools so I volunteered.  I loved it and later that year we recorded the second one and eventually the third and worked up a set as a three piece band. For my part this was recorded in two sessions a couple of hours each, which is just a fraction of the time spent laying the guitar tracks, the timing and then the tweaking and mixing.

Pro Tools Closer To Fine

This is from January of 2014.  It is with a community band called the Sunshine Band made mostly up of retired people who like music.  We played at an evening dinner at the church where we practiced.  I had sung it once before this with the pianist and was pretty happy it came out okay.  The exquisite Francis Faronda on piano.  Taped by his wife's laptop, Garage Band, I think.



What A Wonderful World

Led Zep's "Battle of Evermore," which was in our live set but we never got a good recording of it.  I'm no Robert Plant but it was fun.  (Instruments, arrangement, engineered by TJ Thompson.)

Pro Tools Battle Of Evermore

Rockin' music, arrangement, recording by TJ Thompson.  It took about one-tenth of the time to do the vocals than it took to do the rest.

Pro Tools Uninvited

We recorded our first original! TJ Thompson did the composing, arranging, playing of guitar, banjo, harmonica, and all else musical. Plus, he did the mixing and the engineering. My contributions were simple. I wrote the lyrics and sang them.

Susan Stroemel