I'd been thinking it was about time I did another "solo guitar with vocals" tune, so I sat down and improvised for about three minutes on my 7-string guitar. That's when it occurred to me to start building up a track by looping lots of little bits from the improv, and everything snowballed from there.
credits
from 5240 Volume III: Summer,
track released September 28, 2009
Written and performed by Shawn Farley.
Extra vocals and stomping by Kevin Chesley and Jason Dugre.
Recorded in my Ballard apartment on my Macbook Pro.
Song 39 of 52 songs in the "5240" project.
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