A few years ago I found myself stuck in a hotel room in Yuma, Arizona.
It was 100+ degrees outside and my wife was out doing some lawyer thing at the border so was sitting inside with the air conditioning trying to pass the time.
At this time in my musical journey, I'm deep into my Tom Petty phase and all I had in my hotel room was my guitar, the Traveling Wilburys documentary playing on Youtube and a whole bunch of Rolling Rock.
So I write this song.
Back then, I was in a band called The Long Wait and we released this song on our debut album, “The Long Wait” back in October 2016.
And then...we promptly broke up.
Unfortunately, I never got a chance to really promote our album, share my thoughts about the music or talk about the production process in general so recently I went back into the archives and dug up the multi-tracks to the song to mix for my Insiders.
In the last couple of months I've been remixing this song again and it's sounding better than ever. I thought the original version was good, but I was surprised how much better the new version sounds.
Maybe it had something to do with mixing it in front of a "live studio audience" where I had to have a reason for every mix move.
I tell you this because I recorded a video for every part of the mixing process, from rough levels to finished master, and will be launching it as a brand new course
called "Step By Step Mixing: Folk Rock" in the next few weeks.
Today, I wanted to give you a sneak peek at the cover art I just got back from my designer.
Check it out!
