Hey Choco, I was going to make this comment about the syncopated banjo playing, whcih I really like and admire, since I know how tough it is to do, but I really couldn't.
Dear God, man, you have the voice of an angel. What the hell? I felt like on this you really let yourself sing. On some of your stuff I feel like you deadpan it, deliberately avoiding any conspicuous emotion, but you really sang this, and OMIGOD.
I hate to betray too much man-love here but you really do have the most extraordinary voice and sensibility and I do wish there was a way to enjoy it beyond the anonymity of BGM. posted by unSane at 8:12 PM on
December 21, 2012
Easily my favorite Christmas song and loved this version -- thanks. posted by MCMikeNamara at 10:02 PM on
December 21, 2012 [1 favorite]
Thanks.
I felt like on this you really let yourself sing.
More like made myself, over and over.
Different material/different approach I guess.
Usually I record a vocal in one or two takes because I find the more you sing it, the more you kill it; but in this case I re-recorded the vocals a bunch of times over the course of a few days because I couldn't get my voice to a tone or volume I liked at all. Finally one day I got to where I didn't absolutely hate how I was sounding, and I did a bunch of passes and comped the best/least bad. Lots of punch-ins and re-takes.
I really appreciate the compliment, unSane. I don't feel like I avoid emotion, though; I just work with what I have, voice-wise. Double-tracking and loading on the harmonies also does wonders for a thin voice, I've found. Smoke and mirrors. posted by chococat at 1:09 PM on
December 22, 2012
I just found this. How wonderful! posted by SLC Mom at 8:33 PM on
January 22
Wow, I would absolutely not have thought this would work. Awesome job! posted by greenish at 7:03 AM on
January 23
This is so very lovely, and I am sure there is a home for it on an awesome Christmas album by you, which I would totally pay twenty bucks for, and so would thousands of other people. posted by By The Grace of God at 4:26 AM on
January 25 [1 favorite]
Dear God, man, you have the voice of an angel. What the hell? I felt like on this you really let yourself sing. On some of your stuff I feel like you deadpan it, deliberately avoiding any conspicuous emotion, but you really sang this, and OMIGOD.
I hate to betray too much man-love here but you really do have the most extraordinary voice and sensibility and I do wish there was a way to enjoy it beyond the anonymity of BGM.
posted by unSane at 8:12 PM on December 21, 2012