A Modest Country Proposal
By roboctopus on February 5, 2012 7:39 pm
I started out the week working on an Gameboy + guitar track, then halfway through the week it just wasn't working out, so I decided to do a country-tinged ballad and wrote some half-assed lyrics about meth. So...yeah.
I'm not much of a singer. You've been warned.
I had a lot of fun with this though. I like abrupt transitions, and I think they work in this song. I tried to make each section of the song unique in some way. To save time, rhythm guitar, tambourine, and main vocals were recorded in one take (tapping my foot on the tambo to keep time.) It's all a bit sloppy, but I guess that's okay.
I don't know much about mastering, so forgive me if the sound is bad...
For the gear lovers:
All guitar parts are on my '65 Harmony Bobkat
Organ sound is a Roland Juno 60
Bass is a Fender Jaguar bass
Banjo is a pretty terrible, super cheap Rogue 6-string banjo
Kick drum is from a Zoom SampleTrak
Audio works licensed by author under:
CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)
