The song's been around for a long time, but the recording is new. I can't say it's complete yet. I'd like to do a little more work on the lead guitar parts, maybe recut the vocal, maybe add some harmony. But I thought I'd go ahead and put it on the Song of the Month, because who's listening anyway? If anybody is listening, please email me so I know somebody cares. Or maybe you don't care, but I'd still like to know if anybody is visiting. I know some of these songs have been pretty big filewise and it's a risk to spend time downloading something that turns out to be crap. But this isn't crap, it's a good song. Quite the country swing thing. The story goes, there's a guitar picker who, like most guitar pickers, is in between gigs. His lady gets fed up with him not wanting to do anything else with his life and leaves him. That's probably not a good thing for the guitar picker, but what's really bad is she takes his guitar and amp. She figures she's entitled because she's the one who's job has been paying for his rig.
This was recorded in 1999/2000 on the Tascam 38. R5 for drums. I'm doing all the guitar. The ax is my old Stewart archtop. If you visit the link and check out John White's Stewart guitar site, you'll see my weirdly painted archtop. Since the pictures were taken I've forsaken the screwed-on magnetic pickup and had a Fishman peizo archtop bridge installed. Like most peizos, it's a bit soulless and frigid, but can be warmed up considerably with the Matchless amp. On stage it has a lot of character. On the recording it's quite dry-sounding (I say dry, not as absence of reverb, but just not having the moistness of low and low-mid overtones), but it fits as it's also quite twangy where it needs to be. I think I used a tube preamp to get the guitar directly into the Mackie board and then onto tape. Mixed to DAT, processed through DeckII to mp3.