Speak Through Me
Hi, I also posted this at Ardour's forum but I don't know how much cross-traffic there is so I usually post here as well..
Several years ago I saw the Tedeschi Trucks Band for the first time and was impressed not so much by the technical chops of slide guitarist Derek Trucks but how the microtonal qualities of his incredible slide playing were not at all like your garden variety slide Blues, but some sort of otherworldly channeling of Blues, Country, Jazz and Eastern Indian music all at once. It seemed to me this wasn't a person reeling through a list of hot licks in their head but a person that had music flowing through them completely out of their own head and present in the moment.. I'm sure Mr. Trucks is like anyone and has good nights and bad nights but the night I saw them he was incandescent. Ever since that night I had a song title revolving in my head called "Speak Through Me" and I'd couch doodle with my acoustic guitar and some repeating ideas would keep bubbling up but not like the more linear song ideas that usually happen. My son was home for a few days so we went out to the Studio and jammed and showed him some of the disjointed ideas and he followed along on drums and then it sat on the hard drive for a couple of years until I recently revisited it and decided to finish it, it's not really a song as much as an musical letter to the ideal of letting things flow and see if the music will play you. I'm not going say I fully achieved that or that it is on any level anything like what what Derek Trucks is capable of but for me the reaching alone was a worthwhile exercise.
Finished in Ardour 8.2.5, Connor on drums and me on everything else, guitars are a Baritone Telecaster and a custom Baritone acoustic both made by a luthier friend of mine. All guitars were tracked through a Strymon Iridium.
