Hiya, kids!

This week I'm featuring one of the strangest songs I've recorded. Cannonball started out as a recording of two guitars piddling around and trying to figure out which would follow the other. I never would have been able to play that gloriously sloppy if I had thought that it would actually get used on an album. Years later, I discovered this recording and wrote some words to it with James Mercurio. We added a bit more on at the end of the recording... 'round 'bout the time that you hear drums come in. We didn't have a way to hook up two sets of headphones, so I just leaned in close to Jim's so I'd know when to come in with the guitar. High tech, eh?

The other three songs available for download this week are off my first album. I wanted to put the sound of a rotary phone dialing in the song Trick-Knot. I remembered that we had several when I was a kid, so I went looking in the closets for them. Sure enough, there was a whole box of old phones in there that my parents had tucked away. I guess this is where I inherited the gene that doesn't allow you to throw anything out. Comes in handy, though.

-Dylan