Hello all. Click here to link to my latest contribution to Chicago Public Radio’s Re:sound. I’d recommend listening to the whole show, since it rips as always, but… my song starts at roughly 52:30, should you be short on time, like so many of the kids today.
Goodbye, Sweet June
In Uncategorized on June 30, 2010 at 9:55 pmYes, June, you hath come and gone, without a single new post on 52 Teeth. The depths of my shame are unfathomable. I can only offer the following, middling excuse: I’ve been engaged in the joyous labor of preparing for the second episode of Shame That Tune, and for my second appearance on Chicago Public Radio’s Re:sound. Both are going down this weekend. For details, see the 52 Teeth “Shows and Events” page.
I’ve also been playing a fair amount of tennis, each bout of which necessitates a substantial emotional-recovery period. Ditto for watching Cubs games. And that about gets things up to speed. I’ll post my new Re:sound song by the end of the weekend. (I lose a finger if I post it before the show runs.)
Deliverance Day
In Bryan Adams, Re:sound on May 31, 2010 at 10:54 pmLike Bryan Adams, I’m asking you to “please forgive me” in my delinquency this week. With the holiday weekend, I completely forgot that Monday morning had come and gone without a new post. I hope my negligence didn’t spoil your Memorial Day. With or without a new song, veggie dogs still taste weird, right?
I’m posting “Deliverance Day“, my first full-length song for Re:sound on Chicago Public Radio. (The episode aired this past weekend.) Because my job was to write a song that summarized the content of the show, the lyrics will not make a corn-pickin’ lick of sense unless you listen to the show itself. Which I’d recommend, because it’s a great show. But I hope you’ll be able to enjoy it either way. (Incidentally, there’s also a profile of yours truly that starts around the 40-minute mark.)
The show collected a bunch of “Chicago Sound Drops,” i.e., short audio pieces about the city submitted by different (mostly local) producers. I thought the “Sound Drops” sounded like a long-lost doo-wop group, so the genre kind of chose itself.
For the first time, I attempted to mic my upright piano — I dangled an SM57 behind it and just let ‘er rip. There are probably more sophisticated ways of skinning a cat, but it was fun, relatively quick, and I didn’t break anything. A good day at the office by my standard.