Real Soon Now

Oh, right: I’m prob’ly supposed to mention that the CD will available real soon now. Stay tuned for links to online and brick-and-mortar record stores. And news of the big, huge, over-the-top, I’m-staying-up-past-my-bedtime CD RELEASE PARTY coming up soon.

The CD is here!

 

I’ve just (finally) finished the big CD project. It’s called “Table 10,” which is the good table in the corner of the Windham Wine Gallery. That’s where the now-infamous “Hey, why don’t you play here sometime?” conversations started. Which snowballed into a real CD with real musicians (who are awesome) and a real cover (which is also awesome) and everything. Instead of whatever I might have thrown together with a couple of mics and a computer on my living room floor.

CD mastering at Mastersuite

We mastered the CD yesterday at Mastersuite. All except for one tune. Oh. My. God. I wasn’t prepared for how much more amazing the CD sounds after mastering. I can’t put my finger on it, but the mastering did something, a certain je ne sais quoi that pulled the whole thing together. I’m so impressed and so grateful that all these talented folks have spent time and effort on my CD. And it was really fun hearing my music in the mastering studio with the wonderfully tuned room and the wonderful speakers and everything.

Final mixes

I’ve heard final mixes of most of the tunes. They sound AWESOME! I don’t want to give too much away, but there’s a killer bottleneck slide solo, some terrific pedal steel, and a wonderful mandolin since last we spoke. And there are more guitars than I remember…