another seasonal song

[Oren]

Tom Eberhardt, blues jammer extraordinaire,...et moi

Bottle slide, harmonica and vocal through a tube amp...

No click track, no synthesis, no rehearsal.

One of four tunes recorded during this session - a Christmas song?

(at the end of this thread)

Oren.

[kara]

Great blues jam, i'm glad to see you have time for playing music again 

Keep it comming 

k

[Fred S]

 

[Laguna Rising]

Very dense feel and real bluesy thing
I like it !!!

Cheers

[kara]

Comments....
+ That was a damn clear recording you did
+ It sounds more as a song then a jam now.
- I don't like the extreme panning. Could be me of course, because I never like extreme panning 

k

[Oren]

Kara,

Yes, about the panning .
The instruments are so similar tonally that the only way to give them their own space in the mix was to pan things drastically. Each time I tried to narrow the stereo field, things became jumbled and indistict.
Extreme panning has a legitimate pedigree in folk recordings, to the point where some producers now use it as an "effect" to give a song that down-home feel. I employed it in sheer desperation ....

Thanks for your comments!

Oren.

[elwoodblues1969]

Mmmmm...yeah! This is as good as it gets-a stone groove!

Shockingly raw & the sound quality is tip top shelf. If I was running this file through my Adam A7's,I would have jumped out of my seat,as it really feels like you are all in my room playing live...really outstanding all around.

With regard to the panning thing,well,I'm guessing that Kara was listening to the song through headphones and if that's the case,then I too,would find the panning bothersome via headphones,but then I almost never use headphones.
The only use I have for headphones,is to lay down a vocal track,but apart from that,I cannot stand headphones.

Through speakers,this song is beautiful & flawless & I would not change a thing about it,as it's immaculate perfection.

This definately qualifies as a winter song,but I don't associate X-Mas with this song,but that could easily be changed by adding something simple,like some jingly percussion sounds & maybe a church bell or something.
Even some winter storm sound effects would make it very Christmas-like.

Thanks for sharing that wonderful piece.

Thom

[Oren]

Thanks, Thom!

The song deserves one last tweek to:
         1. narrow the stereo field slightly
         2. re-introduce some of the warmth to the slide guitar
         3. allow more of the bass frequencies back into the mix.
                                I'll get right on that!

As far as the theme goes, Thom, that's as "Christmas" as I get . Sound effects, like a howling wind or a crackling fire, however, would be neat....

I've made the final adjustments - kinda funky

Oren.

[Fred S]

The panning/mix sounds fine to me. The harmonica represents well. Slide sounds good. But my favorite...the endless rambling Not that chrismassie though

[Oren]

Thanks for listening, Fred.

I always enjoy hearing from the players who work with "big audio" - a tube powered keyboard run through one of the big Leslies, for instance . The visceral experience of shaping that sound and relying upon manual dexterity and your own personal sense of rhythm and dynamics "in the moment"....harrowing. It's one thing to hear the music in real-time as you're making it, it's quite another to feel it.

My intention is to take this very idiosynchratic performance and try and make it accessible to an "average" listener, while maintaining that gritty ambience.

Oren.

[kara]

This sound very good Oren, way better the the fisrt version.
Good job you did 

k

[Oren]

Kara,

I just have to re-effect the vocals so it sounds like we're singing in the same room as the rest of the instruments.

(oh, Tom doesn't actually sing, but he talks a mean blues lyric - lives out in the western communities on the southern tip of this island in a village named Sooke, on a tiny farm)

[folderol]

This sound very good Oren, way better the the fisrt version.
Good job you did 

k

+1 

[offthewall]

 
Like the cool 'Yule Fool', but the 'Courthouse' is just my sort of thang!  Takes me back to when I cut my blues teeth on jams just like this one.


 
James

[Oren]

Yeah, James!

I'm proud of that one. Band-in a-Box provides that snappy acoustic guitar work, and the bass and drums.

Here's the final version of "Another Yule Fool"

Thanks for listening ,

Oren.