Hey Man, Look What I've Done

So it's done.

I finished my 2nd CD,
"An Ark in the Basement" yesterday,
and have posted it on my website.
http://glennbowen.biz/cdlyrics2PTa.htm
(these are complete tracks of the 10 songs)

Here's a couple track's that I happen to like:

http://glennbowen.biz/cdlyrics2PT_JohnDoe.htm

http://glennbowen.biz/cdlyrics2PT_rainfallsdown.htm

I decided to do a second CD about a year
ago, and I just finished it up, and with
trepidation, I put it on CD player and I
listened, and I thought "yeh, I like this,
this is good." Check it out.

I wasn't making any progress, so I decided
over the Christmas/New Year holidays,
to devote myself to recording all the tracks
on a home studio unit I own (a Boss-900CD).

So I'm sitting in my Basement room, playing
my harmonica on a mouth rack, and singing,
while at the same time playing a Bodhran
(an Irish Goatskin Drum). I decided to keep
playing the same song over and over again
until I got a track I liked, but I didn't do any
editing or cutting and pasting - this is
performance music, so it's not perfect, but
it is very good -there's an energy that comes
off a performance that isn't captured in a
studio, and I think these tracks capture
that energy.

I'm done, I'm done, I'm done.
Boy I'm glad I'm done.

I've got quite a backlog of really good songs,
that I'm hoping to record on this portable
studio, now that I know how to use it - I'll
post them on my website, but I think I'm
done making CD's, so this will be my last
post unless something big comes up.

I'm going to be playing the Fargo Winter
Fest with Little Bobby and the Storm,
Feb. 10th - I'm told they were specifically
looking for a harmonica band, which is
good to hear (as a harmonica player).
I'm excited about going back to play
in Fargo.

Bobby Houle says he got the initial gig
through a contact with a local Twin Cities
musician Big Walter Smith, so indirectly,
I owe Big Walter Smith a debt of gratitude.
Now, Big Walter wouldn't know me from
Adam, but I have met him, and I think he
is one of the great local performers. I actually
saw Big Walter Smith perform once on the
tarmac of a Minneapolis St Paul Airport
runway! How many blues player can say that?
They have a CD "Big Storm Coming" -which I
thoroughly enjoy - very energetic blues with
horns. It's good stuff (if you still have money
after buying "An Ark in the Basement").

Anyways, I started this blog to describe the
making of "An Ark in the Basement". Now,
I'm sending off the CD's to CDBaby tomorrow.
They should be on sale in a week or so, and
I'll have something to bring up to Fargo, to
try and promote my harp playing when I'm
up there in a couple weeks.

I guess that means I'm done. so I'll sign
off with my final words on the CD
(warning - this is a very odd recording):
http://glennbowen.biz/cdlyrics2PT_ark.htm

"He's building an Ark in the basement,
waiting for the waters to rise.
I used to think he was crazy,
but I came to realize,
if you build an Ark in your basement,
even if the waters don't come,
you point to that boat in your basement
and say:

"Hey man, look what I've done"

Later,
Glenn "Catfish Bones" Bowen
http://glennbowen.biz/
952-797-3543