Old Man River
Just pure silliness. I’m not sure if The Frogs or Ween are more to blame for inspiring this.
Just pure silliness. I’m not sure if The Frogs or Ween are more to blame for inspiring this.
Somehow I talked Kandace into singing this one, and I’m glad I did. She had a cold, and hated me for making her do the vocals, which were sung directly into the laptop microphone.
At the tail end of my band days I had recorded a demo of this track and always meant to come back to it. Under the “influence” I laid down some overwhelming noises, and had the good sense to come back and edit it the next day. The result is one of my more disciplined…
Thus begins an unlikely “concept album”… about a river tsunami. And what such album would be complete without a song about a girl?
Needed a track to develop the story on our concept album a bit. Doesn’t sound like I quite finished the lyrics, but it did the job. It doesn’t seem as though I wanted to let the track end.