2. "Glad you like it, man" In response to Reply # 0
>"Modern Sounds in Old-Time Music" >https://greenwoodburns.bandcamp.com/releases > >Having watched my dude go from just picking while the hops >ferment, to tearing up mp2's, I can't tell you how happy I am >to see how far he's come.
lol @ the MP2s! I'm still using that same 4-track, I've just gotten better at converting the files to .wavs. Plus Jeff's been great about cleaning them up is needed, he's been a real easy guy to work with oon a lot of levels. I'll have to meet him sometime.
>The music on this is fantastic, both from an archival >perspective, personal to him, and truely embodying the modern >take.
I think we bit off a lot from that last perspective - it didn't start as a concept album, but once we assembled a decent body of work it was pretty clear there was a sonic theme to the various songs/sounds. Hope you got the nod in buck's artwork for it, too... I had the basic idea but he ran with it & knocked it out of the park.
Also curious about how you felt about Jeff's vocal tracks... he'd never (like, ever) sung before but I felt like he really got it together for the tracks we included.
>Congrats to my dude!
thanks man. Feedback's been good from our friends. To me the idea of an 'album' was an afterthought; I just like making music. We're already doing another round of tunes but I should probably make at least a half-hearted attempt at some promotion at some point. Jeff's talked about making some youtube vids and a Facebook page but I don't think that's happened yet. And Travis has given me some pretty good recommendations.
3. "listening now (via soundcloud)" In response to Reply # 0
As to be expected, so far so (really) good. Will come back to this a bit later. Congrats, lonesome - hope you've treated yourself to some choice beer for putting this together.
5. "always have a few on stash" In response to Reply # 3
to me this is kind of a minor thing, compared with the joy I get from just making songs, but it's cool on a lot of levels.
If you want to download, I'll get you a code for it if the main site gives you any trouble. The G&B soundcloud page has some other stuff on it as well if you're enjoying it THAT much.
6. "I actually brewed a sassafrass flavored hefeweizen a few years back" In response to Reply # 4
damn tasty
*strums the old banjer blasto*
artwork is OKP's own buckshot_defunct, who did us a real solid. If you didn't pick it up, it's a nod to the famous Tanner painting 'the banjo lesson' - trying to tie the project further into the tradition/modernity dichotomy that's sort of the underlying theme.
I was honestly just hoping the title wasn't too much hubris. *shrug*
8. "Just put up a new track, my first foray into drum programming" In response to Reply # 0
using a DR770 I picked up from Craigslist for the cheap. Plus using those awesome little Monotron doohickies for sound effects. Also ran the drum machine through the Monotron for some good time filtered synthy snares.
10. "my favorite one, too" In response to Reply # 9
>I'll be back with more thoughts when I played it more. >"Woodscrew" is a total jam, that's for sure...
That was also a watershed moment... he sent that to me as a solo banjo instrumental, and turned it into that in two or three days. That was the track that made me think 'hmm, we're onto something here, would be fun to keep doing this...'
I hope you'd also enjoy the tracks that didn't make the 'album' for copyright reasons; you can hear them at the top of the Soundcloud page.
YaredSound is a pretty great producer - I stumbled onto him when I was looking for tracks by a certain banjo player, and instead of the banjo player I found Jared's remix of one of his tracks. Right up my alley, and the rest of his stuff is great too, and he was kind enough to kill this one dead dead dead.
Not dissimilar to the project that OKP ajiav and I did a few years back, so if you liked that one (or even if you missed it) check this one out and let us know what you think...
15. "This is some good shit!" In response to Reply # 0
I've been into shit like this since I started listening to some of those Grisman/Garcia projects like Shady Grove and All Around This World (which I probably got to by first listening to Old and in the Way), and from there I started getting into Doc Watson and some other stuff in that vein. (I found the Smithsonian boxset Friends of Old Time Music to be a good jumpoff point if for no other reason than I love Maybelle Carter's "He's Solid Gone"...)
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