Originally Posted By: olemon
Real nice vocals and a very enjoyable song with a full professional sound.

Yeah, Mavericks or Dwight Yoakam-ish with that Bakersfield-type sound, but unique too.



(In the intro at 00:11 or 00:12 there is a sour note, either from the bass or one of the guitars I think.)

p.s. I may have to latch on to your minimalist approach. I have a new one that is a verse/chorus/instrumental/chorus. Maybe it's finished....



Thanks... I listened carefully to the place you mentioned. I could hear a bit of an abnormality on the computer speakers, but, going back to the wave in the DAW and then even with the cans from the lappy playing the mp3.... It was so much harder to hear. Which is why I didn't hear this in the song to start with. But I did track it down. It's coming from the accordion. That instrument is slightly out of tune with itself which is classic squeezebox/ accordion sound anyway which is why everyone loves the accordion followed closely by the bagpipes and the banjo in no particular order.

( poor attempt at humor )

I believe that's what you're hearing. I first thought it was an mp3 encoding algorithm thing, as I've run into that before in the past. But when I went to the DAW and the sound was clear.... it had to be something else.

So....all that to say, try listening on some good cans and see what you hear.

Thanks for listening and catching that little blurb. Good ears!!

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