Monday, June 4, 2012

Bonus Tracks of the Gods (An Occasional Series)

The Album We Never Made™ is done. Swear to Jeebus.

Seriously. The track listing is etched in stone, and the 19 selections your humble scribe has opted for -- a mix of studio, home demo and live performances -- have been painstakingly restored, edited, and refurbished from the best possible original sources by my genius pal Steve Schwartz. Who I'm taking to dinner on Thursday in lieu of payment.

In any case, here's something that didn't make the official cut, but still is pretty cool -- Gerry's "Sittin' Tight," from the sessions we did at WBAI-FM, engineered by super talented nice guy Edward Haber. Who had far more luck working with Richard Thompson on a couple of projects.

As soon as we finalize the cover art and get the rest of the production details taken care of -- which should be a couple of weeks tops -- we'll have an official release date to announce.

And here's the coolest part -- you'll be able to download the thing via iTunes and Amazon.

Ain't technology grand?

6 comments:

  1. That's great, Steve! For us dummies who *still* don't own a .mp3 player, will you be releasing this as a compact disc? BTW, I was just organizing my cds last night and ran across the Hounds cd. It's like Simels week around here!

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  2. The plan at the moment is to dupe 100 "official" CD copies. Which we'll give to anybody nuts enough to want one. Anybody else can download the thing from Amazon or iTunes.

    I figure that pretty much covers any possible demand.
    :-)

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  3. And obviously I'll put a CD aside for you.
    :-)

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  4. I will definitely want one, altho I do not consider myself nuts...

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  5. Hand claps. How cool.

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