Bread Knife Bill

howdy y'all -
 
Here's this week's Kicksville release, Bread Knife Bill: https://kicksville.bandcamp.com/track/bread-knife-bill
 
The "official" promo blurb kinda says it all.... "Recipe for tasty musical weirdness: Take a 6/8 rhythm from Ghana, and drop one beat. Thicken the 5/8 reduction with a liberal helping of fretless bass noodles. Mix in a hybrid bluegrass/Malian guitar part and a gypsy-ish violin. Sprinkle with some piano bits. Cover with a spoken word piece about the worst house guest you can imagine, and let it marinate in its own juices. Yum yum!"
 
Hope y'all enjoy this one....I know it's one of my favorites in this batch o' tunes
 
cheers

Thanks, Mesh! Glad you enjoyed it

Wow very nice tone here. Like those strings. I think a singer will make this song
really good.

Quirky as Mr Quirk in Quirktown - love it

Wow - thanks a lot, everyone! I really appreciate you guys taking the time to listen. And yeah, Gitpima, I think we've *all* known someone like Bill
 
Mesh & Wookiee: one of the most awesomest things about our mastering engineer is he always listens for things that can be fixed in the mix and advises me accordingly. This mix was a little rushed, and there were a couple of minor things I would have fixed in the mix that I just couldn't get to in time, so he tweaked the master. I was already planning on fixing them and quietly replacing the track on Bandcamp, so I asked him if he thought I should bring the drums up while I was at it. So, there you go - the new version with the fixes I needed to do plus the drums bumped a wee bit will be up on Monday afternoon.

If anyone ever wants to work with a Grammy-level mastering guy, I can not recommend Jay Frigoletto highly enough. He loves working with indie folks, so he keeps his rates very reasonable. He's a really nice guy to work with, AND he's an awesome keyboard player (he's played on a bunch of our songs, including this one). He's also an acoustic engineer, so he's an incredible source for information about acoustic treatment, studio design, etc.
 
Thanks again, y'all! More to come....

Thanks, Lynn!
 
BTW, I can't believe nobody noticed (or at least commented on) the "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" quotes

Oh yeah, I like this one.  
 
Even though it's in 5/8, and for all the weirdness in the instrumentation combination...  it grooves.  Musically, and perhaps mostly because of the violin, it reminds me a little of old Dixie Dregs.   Well done.
 

Thanks a lot, y'all! Just catching up with a bunch of things, so haven't had a chance to respond to your comments.
 
David - I haven't had anybody ask for more drum wankery in a long time, but you made our drummer's day! We'll let him out of the cage when we play this one live for sure
 
Steve - yeah, the groove is definitely there despite the odd time. When I play this tune, I'm not counting 1-2-3-4-5, just following the agbaja pattern minus a beat, so that definitely keeps it flowing. And wow....the Dregs comments is awesome. Thank you!
 
Rick - heh....well, it always seems like there are extraneous chemicals involved with people as nasty as Bill And thanks for noticing the cover art - we're really lucky to have such a large pool of talented visual artists to work with. If you're curious, swing by the art page on our website or head over to our Flickr page here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kicksville/
 
Thanks again, y'all! Cheers....