Adoption

this was lifted from a jam last week-the riff was something we had been fooling with for a while and last week Harry brought these lyrics in.
His father died recently and although i`ve known him forever and met his father,who was physically the exact opposite of Harry,i presumed he was a throwback to earlier family.
Turns out he was adopted at birth,found out when he was a young man and told no-one up till now.
This was the third take,recorded live and the mix (and the playing)is all over the place and was never intended for public consumption, but i`m on holidays at the beach with just the lappy and it`s raining and i`m bored ****less and thought i`d throw it up purely for his take on adoption.
Hopefully,someone here will identify with his song and appreciate his insight.
cheers


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Hi Lynn,
thanks for your encouraging comment.
I was a bit reluctant to post this because of the beautiful chyrstalline productions you and others here achieve,especially when i saw the ugly square waveform on soundcloud!
fortunately no-one commented on the overplaying-this is the fun band with the bassplayer on drums,drummer on bass and keysman on guitar.
cheers

thanks Freddy-still smiling from Slow Moe blues and particularly loved the vocal harmonies!
as for rawness-i just finished 2 cd`s for local blues outfit Salty Dog and their label knocked them back as they were "too raw" and needed remixing and mastering-(by them at a ridiculous cost,of course)but the band loved the sound and are releasing them independantly and pocketing the change.
as a young man i was a pop/soft rock fan until i heard the blues (someone gave me a Leadbelly album)and from then on i seemed to draw a line between music that was performed rather than "made".
eg:listen carefully to the start and finish of "Oh Suzanna" from Americana and you`ll hear a record being made rather than constructed.
i`m no snob though and if it moves me i don`t care how it was constructed-take the first few bars of "I Gotsa Get Paid" by ZZ Top-that sent a shiver down my spine and still does but then so does "Great Gig in the Sky" or bagpipes or italian opera!
cheers

Given the background that you gave us and that it was a live take, made this very exciting to listen to.  Love the direct energy of it, great beat and solid guitars.  While not my #1 fave genre, it kept me interested and live or not I thought the mix came across very well, so something was in place technically and working well!   Hope you enjoy that beach in spite of the rain - and thanks for sharing this - well done!   - John