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billroperThe "Crosstime Bus" album is missing the boat for OVFF for a variety of excellent reasons. And, as I've said, I've been working on this album for 15 years (I think), so the fact that it's delayed doesn't mean as much as it might if it were a new, hot, and urgent project.
I did, of course, get an album out this year with my good buddy, Clif: "Liftoff to Landing". But that is the very *first* album I've ever recorded. Heck, all of the material on the "Crosstime Bus" album is 20 years old. It would be nice to do something new.
(And, yes, there is some newer material on the "Live in Germany (mostly...)" album. It doesn't *nearly* begin to exhaust what's available to record.)
I do, of course, have the "Amy & Me" digital tracks from concerts where Amy McNally was good enough to accompany me that I posted on Bandcamp. But that's 16 tracks and I suspect I can't actually squeeze that onto a 72 minute CD.
I have one more concert that I haven't mixed down yet, which is the Capricon 2020 concert that I did with Amy, just before the pandemic. But I had had an unrelated cold shortly before the convention and my voice was not in the best of shape for the concert. I went back to listen to it anyway.
And then I realized that both my guitar and Amy's fiddle had been recorded direct to digital, not through a microphone. This meant that there is no vocal bleed on those tracks. And *that* means that I can replace the vocals.
There were eight tracks in that concert. Eliminating "Running Down the Stars", since I already have a cut of it, that's another seven tracks which, together with the 16 tracks that I already have, makes enough material to press this as a 2-CD double album.
I've now replaced the vocals on four of the seven tracks. I have three tracks to go, followed by remixes on the entire assembly.
I can do this.
I think. :)
So here's the proposed track list (in no particular order), three of which are duplicated on "Live in Germany", one on the yet unreleased "Crosstime Bus":
Make a Joyful Noise, Canvas, Coal, End of the Line, Inconstant Moon, Counting to Infinity, Weekend Away, Crystal Dance, Electric Skies, Going There With You, Halloween, Happily Ever After, Last Ship Outbound,
Lunatic Moon, Starry Weather, Time After Time, Counting Up, Everything Ends, Oz, Postcards From the Stars, Running Down the Stars, Shining, Wise Guys
Let's see if this is something that anyone wants to listen to...
I did, of course, get an album out this year with my good buddy, Clif: "Liftoff to Landing". But that is the very *first* album I've ever recorded. Heck, all of the material on the "Crosstime Bus" album is 20 years old. It would be nice to do something new.
(And, yes, there is some newer material on the "Live in Germany (mostly...)" album. It doesn't *nearly* begin to exhaust what's available to record.)
I do, of course, have the "Amy & Me" digital tracks from concerts where Amy McNally was good enough to accompany me that I posted on Bandcamp. But that's 16 tracks and I suspect I can't actually squeeze that onto a 72 minute CD.
I have one more concert that I haven't mixed down yet, which is the Capricon 2020 concert that I did with Amy, just before the pandemic. But I had had an unrelated cold shortly before the convention and my voice was not in the best of shape for the concert. I went back to listen to it anyway.
And then I realized that both my guitar and Amy's fiddle had been recorded direct to digital, not through a microphone. This meant that there is no vocal bleed on those tracks. And *that* means that I can replace the vocals.
There were eight tracks in that concert. Eliminating "Running Down the Stars", since I already have a cut of it, that's another seven tracks which, together with the 16 tracks that I already have, makes enough material to press this as a 2-CD double album.
I've now replaced the vocals on four of the seven tracks. I have three tracks to go, followed by remixes on the entire assembly.
I can do this.
I think. :)
So here's the proposed track list (in no particular order), three of which are duplicated on "Live in Germany", one on the yet unreleased "Crosstime Bus":
Make a Joyful Noise, Canvas, Coal, End of the Line, Inconstant Moon, Counting to Infinity, Weekend Away, Crystal Dance, Electric Skies, Going There With You, Halloween, Happily Ever After, Last Ship Outbound,
Lunatic Moon, Starry Weather, Time After Time, Counting Up, Everything Ends, Oz, Postcards From the Stars, Running Down the Stars, Shining, Wise Guys
Let's see if this is something that anyone wants to listen to...