A little Sunday morning for your Saturday night: an outtake of "Bath of Souls". A country-rock hymn that has different sets of lyrics and versions. This is one of them.
I don't know if there's a shrine at Messina, but it would look like a Roman bath and good people would wade into the pool and be rejuvenated.
Musically, this song should be tighter than this, but not much. It should rock out, building inexorably. Here the 12-string is so dominant and on the same track as the voice, so fewer possibilities.
Technically, I'm still concerned by the fact that while Garage Band has a great interface and is a joy to use, the audio compression is not so good and by the time everything is mixed down and turned into a compressed file, it's pretty soupy.
I actually used the program for work yesterday, recording my wife reading Estonian and English sentences for a UK tour company. It did a great job (as did she). Easy to produce a professional recording even with a crappy USB headset. So I don't know why music sounds so muddy with good mikes. Though luckily it is not a song that lends itself well to hi-fi anyway -- spirituals never do, do they.
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Still going for the live in the studio sound I hear... You should just trot it out live in the club. The acoustic stage at Õllesummer. And get some Estonian gospel backup singers.
Sounds like you are singing an ode to pitcher Mike Mussina, not the shrine at Messina.
As Mac Davis once said to Dave Matthews, I look forward to hearing when it's finished. Sounds like the band is in soundcheck. Except the backup choir comes in clear. I hope their union covers engagements like this one.
People know that only because Dave Matthews repeated that line in public -- when the song was finished. Mac Davis didn't say that in a comment on nancies.org or whatever the DMB site is.
"The club"? Which one?
"luckily it is not a song that lends itself well to hi-fi anyway -- spirituals never do, do they."
I don't know about that. You could dress Aretha or Lauren up in shimmering keyboard pads and it would be OK.
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