work has started in earnest on the debut album!  recently mz and i recorded some scratch tracks to give us a blueprint for the record.  these are as stripped-down as they can get: just me and the guitar and 3mics… and they’ll all be re-recorded before we’re finished, but i thought they sounded better than what i’ve got up here now.  so here goes, an acoustic preview:

hello peoples, i’ve been neglectful of the blog posts lately as my life’s been completely reorganized via the move to the new domicile… fortunately, the move turned up some recordings of live shows that are rough but respectable and its high time i posted a couple.  these two come from a show at latitudes cafe in milford (i’ll be jammin’ there tomorrow if you’re interested).

the first is a tune called “shake it off” and features three members of The Broke Jones’: nathan ward on kit, mark on djembe, and john b rockhouse on the fiddle.  i go a little crazy vocally and its a bit of a rough mix, but i like the energy captured.  the tune is about that beautiful girl who knows it and can’t quite get over herself.  hope ya dig…

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Shake It Off LIVE @ Latitudes 6/12/08

the second, from the same show, is a stripped-down acoustic version of “the long way home” a song i initially wrote in high school and played with my old band: More Than Organic (more on this later).  its about fixing a relationship close to breaking apart and is one of my more favorite tunes that i’ve written.

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The Long Way Home LIVE @ Latitudes 6/12/08

both songs are also posted on the music page.  thanks for checkin’ it out, plenty more to come…