I went back to Mark Greenberg’s to record last night — in case I forgot to mention it before, we’re doing the basic tracks in his studio Mayfair, and we’ll finish it up and do the mixing towards the end of June at North Branch.  Anyway… last night was just me and him plus Rian Murphy being the producer bossman.  We re-listened to the tracks we’d done on Monday; Mark had added a lot of miscellaneous parts on keyboard, accordion, organ etc.  It all sounded really nice.  Some of the keyboard parts seemed like they might butt up against some harmony vocals I was planning to do, so I went ahead and laid down some scratch harmonies so any future noodlers will know where not to tread.  Then Mark did some drumming on a few songs.  Then I did more guitar stuff.  A LOT of it!!  I guess this record will have more of my own guitar work than any other one has — I mean I always play guitar, but I don’t usually record multiple tracks with multiple guitars like I’m doing now.  Should be interesting, they definitely got me to do some stuff I’d never tried before and certainly hadn’t practiced.  Almost approaching dare-I-say lead guitar type stuff.  Noooo… not really, but still, I’m not used to playing all front-and-center like that.  Eeeek!!

I think the next recording dates are June 6th thru 8th, with Lindsay Anderson (from L’Altra) on keyboards and backups, and Josh Abrams on upright, and maybe another guitarist to do some fancy stuff.  We’re trying to get ahold of somebody I had in mind for that, but if it doesn’t work out, I can think of a couple other people too.