Day 15: Friday, April 3rd

As promised in the previous blog, I took Friday the 3rd off to take advantage of Casey's spring break to get some vocal work done.  We completed vocals on "The Hunter Surrenders" and "Pigeon Feeder" (and added a super sweet bassy Fender Rhodes part on "Hunter"), and did most of the vocals for "The Mall of America."  We decided to double the vocals on the verses on that one, though, and we haven't gotten around to finishing the second vocal track due to my being attacked by the worst canker sore in the world - on my tongue - which rendered me near-mute for several days.  Awesome.

Day 16: Sunday, April 11th

Cello!  This was a pretty quick one.  Ki came over, and I pretty much left her and Casey to their own devices as she busted out her parts (as written by the generous and talented Mr. James Nixon) on "Seaplanes" and "The Mall of America" in an hour or so.

And that's where we stand now.  I anticipate that we will finish the doubled vocal on "The Mall of America" this weekend, and then we will be DONE WITH TRACKING.  Yay.  Then, after mixing and mastering, all the other gears of Releasing a Record go into motion, and hopefully this thing is in your hands before the leaves start fallin' from the trees.

Stay tuned for a final recording diary, and then maybe some mixing and mastering diaries if I'm feeling like they're worth diarizing about.