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Just finished listening to Jim’s guitar part on “Feet Start Walking”, and it’s great. Right now suffering thru listening to Bill solo my bass & piano bits to get them all EQ’d nicely… sure sounds better when the rest of band is around it! Ah well, that’s the beauty of the studio – I can play just like me, and Bill can make me sound just like I do in my head (which is always better!).

Overall I’m loving what everyone has come out with on this. There’s been a lot of work done by everyone, and I hope it shows.

or, sounds, I guess…

We’ve had dozens of shows over the last few months, and that’s kept us out of the studio quite a lot, but I’m hoping we’re nearly wrapped up on this. 4 shows this weekend, including a very fun “Christmas in July” day to help raise money and awareness for the Central Virginia Food Bank. We got to play a whole evening of Christmas tunes, in the middle of summer. Ho ho ho! We also got to do this with our pals from Offering, so we had the benefit of Jeanine’s beautiful voice and a whole stage of very talented players – even strings & flute, so we were truly culture filled! These folks did a beautiful job on the music, and with organizing the whole thing. Chris had a relaxing 15 hour day of setting up & running the stage sound, so I know he was wiped out by the end of it! A big Tater thanks, though, for all his hard work. Mike came down from Stafford to help out for the evening, we even pressed Cole into service, and everyone’s help was needed and appreciated. The event was by all accounts a big success, and I think the Food Bank got lots of donations and exposure.

OK, back to work. I’ll try to post some of the results of the mix later this week

Some great stuff from everyone last night in the studio sessions. Brad put down a bass track on “Cat in the Window”, and Tater Pal Flyin’ Brian Sulser stopped by and played stand-up bass (being the stand-up kinda guy he is) on “That’s Me”, a re-working of a tune from our Recess CD a few years back. Mr Marrs proceeded to amaze and astound the masses on both nylon string and electric parts, adding, as always, new directions to the songs that I hadn’t even known existed! I think you’ll be really happy with the results. Hope to post something here soon, in some state of incompletion.

Tonight is our last Shenanigans show for the year, so if you’re free come on out and join us! If not, you can sit home and just watch this instead: