Posted on 01/27/2012 9:55:03 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
This is a vanity that is expressly not intended to sell anything, but just get opinions and associated demographics, whether the opinions are kudoses or catcalls. As long as you stay on topic you will not be considered a troll even if you positively loathe the music and tell me it's the most execrable thing since Satan. I want to know who it appeals to and who it doesn't.
I would like to get some folks' reactions to the following song demos, which are free to download and pass around and keep as long as the trailer plugging the album is kept. It would be helpful to me in this to know your sex, approximate age, where you hail from, and anything else about you you're willing to tell. If you don't want to answer on the thread but are willing to freepmail me, please feel free to use that route.
Rednecks Built America
Truck Drivin' Man
Illinois Cowboy
Oh, The Smoke
Fluorescent Blue Moon
Hillbilly Music
Catfish
I'm Not Your Horse
New Year's Day
The Little Boy
Thank you everybody in advance.
PM on the way.
How was this produced and recorded? How long did the process take?
It would be nice to hear a little bit about what you were attempting to do with some of the songs. Maybe it’s because I’m a painter but I usually start by reading some sort of interview or artist statement in which they outline some specific goal. I refer back to that after viewing the work to see if they met their own goals in the way described.
I’m not a master musician but it sounds as if you drawn a lot of influence from other styles and genres of music. Was this intentional? Happy Accident?
This was produced and recorded in a garage on a multi-channel console and set of digital tape decks with effects. Most of the percussion came from drum machines. Different songs were recorded at different times — this occupied about two months but we weren’t at it anywhere close to full time. The final touch was mastering by compression in Audacity software, making the tracks hotter. It involved several electric guitars, a Dean bass, a Roland electronic piano, and a Roland Sound Canvas (that’s how we got the violin). Voice was not mine but was done on a Neumann microphone.
The concept of the album really didn’t gel until we were almost done. Everything fit at least vaguely under the rubric of “redneck” activities (”The Little Boy” might be stretching it, but I scripted a country-style script for a video we hope to make). The album itself can be seen on Digstation, CDbaby, and iTunes among other places, but I’m not trying to plug it here. I’m just trying to get an idea of who would like it the best. We haven’t had a huge amount of luck selling the 1500 copies we had pressed and would like to gain insight for a better focus.
Oh, and I partly or completely wrote the lyrics for most of the songs. A couple of them I also created the music for. This was actually an experimental work on my part — my pea brained idea of how I might create some credible sounding country songs. After hearing what played on the radio, I thought to myself gee, I think I could pen something at least as good, and would like to try it. On the way to realizing these songs with my buddy, I discovered that it actually isn’t all that hard to write decent songs. Getting the public’s following is a whole ‘nother matter and it takes an artist and visibility for the artist.
Its very exciting that you were able to do all this in a garage setting. =) The technology that is coming within reach of highly creative people that simply lacked easy access to some of the tools for high quality production should bring lots of new and exciting work.
I’ll continue listening and send you a private message in a few days. Hope I can help.
LOL! Thanks
I really liked this song a LOT, right off the bat. The intro set up a mood and a feel to the story line. I liked the alarm clock, but the kiss sound took away from the mood a bit. The main singer's bass fit the song perfectly, and I really loved it when the tenor would come in. I want to listen to it again.
Want to continue, but time for bed. More tomorrow.
A great band, because I say they were!
Actually, the punkitude didn’t come across that well in the sound track, but maybe things were more genteel back in their day, what about three decades ago? Some stuff about dog droppings is about the punkiest thing I could notice.
I had a lot of good times with that band.
I was introduced to the beat farmers by a friend that invited Jerry Raney along to go dirt biking.
What a great bunch of misfits!
Yup that’s a disco decade hairdo. (I miss the decade as well as miss having enough hair to do that.)
hawYee or waheeY instead of Yeehaw?
Yes, that’s the gang.
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