‘Folk at home’ and the lost track…
Out by the bins. Smoking. Lightning strikes.
“What if I made a whole collection of covers of all the beautiful folk songs I’ve learned in the last decade”.
Forget.
Falling asleep one night. Work out a track list. Run downstairs. Write it down. Go back to bed.
A few weeks of recording bouzouki/guitar and vocals in the music room at home. The usual multi tracking in a semi-treated room through a USB condenser mic into a DAW. A few weeks agonizing over micro decisions that no one will likely ever notice later: Done. Well sort of…
The lost track
I did actually record a version of ‘Belfast Mill’ (Aragon Mill/Si Kahn) in the vague leanings of one of my longest time favourite folk groups: The Fureys & Dave Arthur. I simultaneously realised that covers cost money… I was confident enough in ‘Wild Cape Horn’… but didn’t feel like Belfast Mill would be worth the cost. I reckon I’ll stick it on band camp anyway. Seems a shame…
You can listen for yourself below.
Anyway all done now. Pleased with the results. Vocals super dry and flawed (sorry organic/bespoke in bullshit speak). Instruments sounding like well, instruments. Pretty pleased.
Halfway through this project I sort of lost faith a bit and my creative energies were drawn to something really quite different…
But that’s a whole different kettle of fish. Kettle of fish? Definitely a song title that.