The next installment of my reel-to-reel conversions is another tune where my grandfather isn't singing, but is pickin' it up on the banjo.
It's a cover of "Heartbreak Mountain", which may be a traditional bluegrass tune done by many others, but I remember it done by Buck Owens. The version I listened to back in the day (and now for that matter) is from his album "Ruby" which has a lot of bluegrass tunes on it.
The cover is fairly faithful to the Buck Owens version, only it's in the key of A instead of Buck's original key of C. The singer forgets a couple lyrics on the third verse and laughs, but I think it adds to the jam sound of the tune.
I tried a little more intensive EQing on this one, and fiddled a little more with various digital doo-hickeries in the Garageband. I think the sound turned out really full sounding!
Check it out on the player to your right!
6 comments:
Great work on the conversions and the doo-hickeries! Do you think gram-pa and the Stubbs boys did these in one-take?
Thanks Bones! The recordings themselves are obviously one take as the reel-to-reel doesn't allow overdubs. On a few songs I can hear a faint recording before the "main" recording which may be a different take they didn't like as much or that broke down before the end of the song. But most seem like songs they have rehearsed a lot, then pushed record only when ready.
Amazing work! I see you're listening to John Prine too, which makes my heart a flutter! Please keep laying down more of these sweet tracks!
Thanks! I'm working on some pretty cool stuff to do with it!
Keith and I so appreciate your work in archiving these gems from Wendell his group. Listening brings back lots of wonderful memories.
Julie
....dood dood do lookin' out my back door." I seem to recall this song as well. Looks like all of those trips in the car being forced to listen to Dad's "music" are starting to pay off.
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