An' not a moment too soon. Turns out Delia Jo was the canary in the proverbial mine. 'Parently thar's a bug goin' around Function Junction, an' we's all got it now. We was all blowin' our noses last night as Clem recorded the final bass track and we put our album together. I wish I could say it was sentimentality, but it hain't - it's microbes, pure'n simple-like. If we'd had to sing beyond this here point, it wouldn'a been possible nohow. The last step, of course, is to send it off to R... (930 more chars)
Howdy y'all...well, there's good news an' there's frightenin' news. The good news is that with more'n 4 days left to record the album, we got everythin' done except...
Our track with our guest artist, Delia Jo Cleanin' up some sound files Burnin' a CD an' sendin' it off
The frightenin' news is I done got a voicemail in from Delia Jo as
we was preparin' to lay down the master of "I Won't Tell You"...through
the miracle o' modern technology, the Mountain Weirdo VOIP system done
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...well, no, it hain't...but it hain't the worst o' times neither...just feels that way to some of the Weirdos right about now. Fencepost hain't a-feelin' so hot. It's been a bad week fer the poor boy. First he got heckled by some dagblasted varmint kid at the Ladies' Guild Bazaar we done played on Wednesday night, then he went home, had one too many "hard sarsaparillas," tripped a might near the border of his property, fell into his neighbor's livestock pen, and got his hand stepped on by a... (1526 more chars)
...that us Weirdos hain't of a might resilient stock. A small but depressin' disaster hit last night. Don't rightly know what got into ol' Bessie, but she done took out two nights' worth of recordin' work in one fell swoop. Suddenly the sound had the approximate quality of somethin' I done hit with the tourin' truck a few years back. Anyway, tonight we got done with our show, I dropped my new lady-friend off at her apartment in the city, an' then all us Weirdos had a little talk...given the... (908 more chars)
The big news fer this evenin' is as follows: First, we're much obliged to our producer. Last night wasn't exactly what you'd call Beau's best night; cain't rightly say if he was feelin' a might pressured or if it was just an unmotivated night fer him. Either way, we done got all his drum tracks down an' they're a-soundin' wonderful...thanks in great part to our fine producer gal's understandin' of Beau's psychology. No matter what his circumstances, they key to his motivation is that he's a... (1162 more chars)
It's a funny thing about bein' a Mountain Weirdo. Seems like y'have
problems sometimes that city folk couldn't hardly dream of...an' if
they did, they'd prolly go to the doctor first thing in the mornin' an'
git some kind o' medication fer it. I won't trouble y'all with the
strange a-goin's on that done plagued the band the past couple days.
I'll jest go right on into our agenda fer today. We got to record the
followin' songs...
Job's Lament I Won't Tell You Meh Mountain Weir... (1497 more chars)
He done his spoken word piece tonight. So, next on the agenda... Job's Lament - rehearse an' record (as yet undecided) piece featurin' Beau's drummin' - decide what in tarnation we're a-puttin in this place on the album Mountain Weirdo Woman - rehearse an' record Mountain Weirdo Theme - discuss details of the new arrangement an' record Our producer tells me we're doin' a fine job a-keepin' on schedule. An' she taught me to put a smile in this here blog: :) Regards -Arnie "Polecat"... (12 more chars)
I can see why the gal who interviewed me tonight is doin' 'er work...has a way o' makin' a man feel at home, even though he's talkin' into a microphone fer the listenin' pleasure o' who knows how many folks. The show's a-gonna be airin' this Thursday night...they hain't on satellite or internet yet so fer the time bein' it's only folks in the valley north of Function Junction County who'll be able to tune in, but the rest of y'all are gonna have yer chance to hear it too...I done struck a deal... (346 more chars)
Things is underway, my good friends. I done checked in with the radio man...sure 'nuff, we done been pre-empted by some guy with funny hair an' some kinda hardware stickin' out his lips. But never fear, we done some fast work reorganizin' our schedule, an I'll be on a diff'rent show that's a-gonna be recorded this week. We done planned a day off an' the boys didn' feel too enthused so I said I'd be our representative, an' they could still have their time away. So a real purdy, sweet gal wha... (931 more chars)
Thar hain't much to say tonight, but progress is a'comin' along. I wrote a tune late last night an' the band wants to record it, which is a durn satisfyin' feelin', havin' yer art accepted just like that...I sang a few bars an' the fellers said they cain't hardly wait to make it come to life. I'm tol' we need one other new song; our producer says it should just be a nice number with a good beat to even out the flow o' the album. I reckon I can do that. I reckon' we're goin' to take a good, ... (321 more chars)
Today we've been gettin' all kinds of progress together...one of the other fellers in the band contributed a spoken word piece for our consideration, an' we also spent some time workin' with a guest artist on a new song. Our producer done told me that postin' what yer plannin' so far tends to help, so here's what we got right now... Our radio interview - hain't been conducted yet but we're plannin' to talk with a gentleman from the local station soon. Next step: call 'im up and make right ... (808 more chars)
I reckon this has been one of the gullderned most demoralizin' days ever visited upon the Mountain Weirdo Singers. After spendin' more money than I done spent on my first pickup truck tryin' to upgrade to the current standard in recordin' software, we still cain't run the dadgum program. A call done been made to somebody who should be able to help us...young whippersnapper what specializes in this here type of problem. If that wasn't the huntin' dog's fleas, we was tryin' to update y'all a f... (788 more chars)
The Mountain Weirdo Singers of Function Junction County are much obliged to the folk of RPM Challenge. We been kickin' this here idear around like jackrabbits, an' we finally done decided to get a'movin' and make some recordin's this February. I'm consultin' with our sound technician to see whether we still have to fire up ol' 6-track Bessie or whether we can use the dangblasted computer this time. We'll keep y'all informed. Meanwhile, best of luck to all the fine folk what join in on this ... (34 more chars)
