Trailer Park Madonna

My friend Chris showed up the other day with a terrific two chord song he wrote, so we sat down and blasted it out. He's such a great lyricist with a great rusty voice reminiscent of John Prine. Not the kind of thing I normally do but we had a lot of fun and I love this track. Americana I guess.

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posted by sweet mister (3 comments total)

We did it in a pretty bass-ackwards kind of way... just recorded it live with Chris singing and me playing the resonator, then after he left I tempo mapped it and dropped in the drums and the rest of the instrumentation. I'm sort of amazed it worked.

We had no idea there was going to be a double time section... that happened way after we recorded the basic tracks.

There's another song we recorded which needs a bit of work but I'll post it eventually.

I met Chris running this Songwriter's Circle. I've been amazed how many good songwriters there are out there.
posted by sweet mister at 7:01 PM on February 8, 2014

This is great! You're right, the delivery is awesome. The resonator sounds ace too.
posted by greenish at 8:50 AM on February 11, 2014

I truly enjoyed your witty song. Chris has some John Prine in him and a bit of Townes V.Z. as well. Cheers!
posted by abakua at 9:49 PM on March 7, 2014