So I decided to make a record…
OK, so the title is slightly misleading. I made an album of western, country & surf music, which will never be pressed into a vinyl record and will most likely exist only as a series of 1’s and 0’s on a handful of hard drives and on the mystical, magical cloud that is bandcamp.com. Over the past six months I've been feverishly writing, arranging, recording and finally mixing & mastering a short LP of tunes all by myself in my free time. Why? Good question - one that I asked myself often during the process. Although the bands I've been a part of have usually been some combination of shoegaze, ambient, punk, emo or ska, I consider myself a fan of almost all types of music. In particular, the rustic sentimental part of me that takes pride in having lived in Texas and now Nevada has a particular fondness for western music and what I would consider real country music (or what Nashville music lovers would refer to as outlaw/Texas country and ...