It’s funny how you can go round and round about the simplest things, and at the end of it all realize that you didn’t really need to make it all THAT much “better”….<\/p>\n
I’ve been trying for the perfect combination of things on my song “Ain’t Nobody”, having great players play on it, trying to replace parts etc etc….and I found that what I was looking for was not perfect, not awesome, but just lonely. That and just letting it be what it was when I wrote it – simple, clean, uncluttered, warts and all. There’s some things that aren’t perfect, but when I went back and made them perfect, they weren’t anymore. Being that I’m a great believer in “musical” as opposed to “right”, I put them back the way they were and found I was much happier.<\/p>\n
In the end I played a little slide guitar, and edited down some friend’s parts to get to something that I really feel does it right…..keeping Stuart Mathis’ <\/a>big open baritone guitar chords on the verses (you can check out Stuart’s new CD that I played a bunch of bass on), and Cary Park<\/a>‘s mandolin parts that sorta noodle in and out (Cary is doing his new CD as well, and was in Boy Howdy).<\/p>\n I’m pretty pleased with it, and although it could probably use a really great mix engineer to come in and really put the “magic dust” on it, it’s very satisfying to me now….<\/p>\n So what do you think? I hope you’ll take a listen and then read further down the page for some help you could give me. Here’s the original – <\/p>\n[audio:AintNobodyDemo.mp3]\n And here’s the final version – <\/p>\n[audio:AintNobodyFinal128k.mp3]\n I’d love to hear your thoughts….<\/p>\n