A song called Cold Coffee

Here is a song called Cold Coffee I wrote several years ago.

http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=7554320&q=hi&newref=1
Originally, there was a guitar / vocal demo posted that I paid a studio to put together for me but I really want my own versions posted (in case you had been to my soundclick page).

After close to 47 years of living in NJ, my family is pulling up stakes and moving to the mid-west so, before we move, I am trying to finish off a couple of projects (that seem to sit unfinished) with friends and local musicians and this is one of them.

I tried getting this recorded on a couple of different occasions over the last 3 years resulting in a vocal track and an acoustic guitar part for the verse and a rough acoustic guitar take for the chorus.  Over the last couple of weeks I took the bits and pieces that I had, arranged them and had another friend add the electric guitars.  The song had /has some timing issues because the acoustic guitar was originally recorded against a 1^st generation live drum track (live drums played to a click) and the electric was played to a 2^nd generation drum track (live drums played to live drums).  The only edit (I harvested the end crash from a previous take) on the drum track was the final cymbal crash … I yelled “woo hoo” at the end before the cymbals died out which really didn’t fit in with the context of the song.

Being the drummer I have no moral qualms about hacking up guitar, bass or vocal tracks but my drum track has to remain unadulterated so, the drumming sounds simple … but, it was actually a real challenge getting the drum take that is on here.  Also, I spent a bit of time arrange the tambourine part and it is also a single take (I was inspired Luis Conte who I saw as part of the James Taylor band at Carnegie Hall not that long ago) plus I am really happy with the tone of the tambourine.

Well in any event this is a work in progress.  The only thing I did to pseudo-pre-master was put Sonar’s Boost11 on its default gain setting (I think 2.5 dB) on it so it probably isn’t as loud as you may be used to …

Yes a nice 60's vibe to this.
Drums need to be lower in the mix and the bass needs to come up.

Much better Dave! The solo IMHO needs to be equal in volume to the lead vocals. THis is a great song. I'm kinda partial due to my love of coffee! Great playing!

Really like the guitar solos on this!

She can sing alright and I can certainly hear a lot of 60's influences embedded in here.

Nicely done!

great song, certainly has a 60s vibe, i love the little details like the ?mandolin in the left side. vocals can still come up a bit, and drums are fine now. solo could also be bumped a touch, but this is like 99% perfect! great change-up at the end of the solo. nice bass work too!