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Daft Wanglers Revisited

As Mark (oh, excuse me) Willi has been churning out Dangler hit after Dangler hit I thought it might be proper to let you know that I am still working on mastering the Barty / Daft Wangler / Cunning Finagler … Continue reading

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Weeding Smile Files Pt. II

As I explained here, I’ve been working on freeing up disk space and mixing down some songs — so I’m gonna be offering an occasional mp3 here and there… With that in mind — you should know that these are … Continue reading

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Weeding Smile Files

This here laptop (mine, not yours) is rapidly losing disk space as a direct result of being used as a mobile studio for bandnight some months back… I’ve been weeding out the archives — chopping bits and pieces here and … Continue reading

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Reading

Finished Faulkner’s The Reivers last night. Slow going at first, followed by quite a bit of action in the latter middle – closing out with a foot dragging summation… Still – it was interesting the way Faulkner wrote it so … Continue reading

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Head Pounding

Put me in a cramped room, surrounded by friends, amplifiers, drums, odd ambient lighting, add beer – and suddenly I think I can sing and play the sax really well. The digital recordings disprove that. Lotta choppy notes. Of course … Continue reading

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Lethargy

I am sitting inside my domicile during a much needed day off. Needless to say – it is raining outside. I pine for the sunshine. Why is it so imperative that I have this time to relax? I think a … Continue reading

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Enraged

And just like that…poof! No more mix down. Gone. Just lost – after four hours of love and tenderness – blammo — the session is lost forever. Lesson learned: backups. Multiple Folders. Never ever lose the digital medium. Put it … Continue reading

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Turkey Turkey Turkey

Tuesday nights here in the ATL the boys get together over at Michael Row’s airport hangar/garage and rock out. We’ve been jammin for ten weeks now — and Coleman’s Radio Shack P-140 has been archiving it all on cassette. Well – today – on a day off – sorta – I managed to figure out how to transfer cassetes to my computer – and in turn turn out MP3′s…So here is a little teaser Continue reading

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Damn Yankees

I just saw Kaki King on Conan…I’m in love. In the tradition of Michael Hedges and Leo Kottke. I’m in love.

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