OK, the audio for “Water Finds Level” is done, mastered by Patrick Hunt it turns out. There are 9 tracks & I’m working on the art work now.

I was listening to a lot of Gurf Morlix, Buddy Miller, & James McMurtry when I wrote these songs in August & September. Patrick & I had only intended to do 4 or 5 acoustic songs, but it kind of snowballed. Half way through the recording, I wrote a half dozen even better songs & we even had time to bring in some guest musicians. Greg MacNair, Maggie Clements & Jeff Thompson all play with local band & friends Barefoot Jones. They each came by for a couple hours & it gave us a little more depth & variety to have the help. Another help was the keyboard factor. We used a keyboard on almost every single song, including a Rhodes, an Apollo baby grand, a Lowrey Teenie Genie & a more traditional Yamaha synthesizer. They were each tuned differently so we had to decide which we were using before we put down the guitar so we could tune accordingly. I’ll put a few up soon on MySpace & the whole album on Last.Fm
Best,
-Joe

We’re looking for a good title for this next record. We don’t have final mixes yet but I think the tracks will include

In The Red
Just A House
Let You Down
Lord Have Mercy
Sweet Love Song
Sad At Me
Why’s She Cry
Son of Cain
The Bed I Made

Maybe the record should be called “Those Three Words” or “Three More Words” since I see that all the song titles have three words in them, except one.

Patrick did good work. We thought we’d do 4 or 5 songs acoustically but it snowballed & we ended up calling up in BGVs, violins, & even drums for a couple tunes.

Best,
-Joe