Shane Speal's Snake Oil Band - recording an album for C. B. Gitty Records
Day four of recording
Equinox Music and Arts, Dallastown PA
Prison Chants and the Blues
Song worked on today: Big Leg Woman/Swing the Hammer (written by Shane Speal)
Instruments:
Well, we brought back the damn "click track" for just one more song. I needed to use it to get the railroad stomper tracks nice and in sync. This song is a mixture of blues imagery, prison chants and Old English nursery rhymes. What's it about? It's always about the boogie.
We multitracked a bunch of railroad foot stompers first to sound like a chain gang. I then went back and recorded vocals, guitar and my foot stomper live on top of the railroad stomp. Once that was done, I did all the chain gang singing at the end.
Here's an un-mixed glimpse of what's to come...
Shane
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Comment
Great percussive hammers!!! More Hammers, more hammers , More Hammers! :-)
I really like Shane's blog with the unfiltered view of a very entertaining, full energy & unorthodox musician trying to "color within the lines" to make these recordings. Thanks Shane for sharing.
Jim
great stuff .. kinda cool to see the inner workings ;-)
i'm almost expecting that guy to say " needs more cowbell " ;-)
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