Some Average Mojo

So from very mellow “The Barn” to this 😄🤷‍♂️

We’ve done a complete rework of this 10 year old song. It’s often described as “swamp blues” a la Tony Joe White. His style was characterized by southern US swampy imagery, minimalist instrumentation, simple chord structures and lots of fuzzy guitar.

And, yes, there is a lot of distortion, tube sims, saturated tape sims, overdrive, vintage compression sims and a hot mix. Goes with the style!

For this effort we added a piano, a new bass and changed the drums including adding a snare track.

And for the first time in our long recording career Janice doubled her lead vocal. So this is 2026 Janice singing with 2016 Janice. 😀 Why? Well, to try and add to the gritty thing. The doubling was fun and it required no alignment work.

Peter’s guitar (solos and rhythm) and his harmonica (yes, he played harp!) are unchanged but sitting differently in the mix.

An obscure sub-genre but it was fun and if you choose to listen we appreciate your time. As always big thanks to Peter for the guitar/harp and to Pg Music.

Oh, BTW, a "gris gris" is a good luck amulet.
The lyrics are on SC.

Janice: vocals, arrangement and mix
Bud: lyric, arrangement, mix, mastering and the Janice no AI photo
Peter: guitar and harmonica

Vocals: Izotope Nectar (tweaked for each track)

Bass: RealTrack 572 Electric, Blues > Izotope De-click > Waves Bass Rider > Neutron 3 > Logic Pro EQ (Many generations)

Drums: RealDrumsBluesRock > Waves CLA Drums

Snare: RealDrumsBluesRock (from the kit) > Waves Magma BB T > Ozone Impact > Neutron 3 > Logic Pro Chromaverb

Piano: RealTrack 2881 Acoustic, Rhythm Blues > Ozone Impact > Neutron 3 > Logic Pro ChromaGlow > Logic Pro Chromaverb

Mastering: Logic Pro EQ > Ozone Stabilizer, Imager & Limiter > Izotope Tonal Balance > Logic Pro Loudness Meter

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