2019
Sean Korakas was the guy Spectrum sent out to replace one of our
cable TV boxes. He saw my studio and it sparked a conversation about music.
Turns out I ended up recording him and playing on two of his original songs. He was pretty excited about it. On the first song, I taught him a harmony part which he sang over his melody. He'd not done that before, and I think that thrilled him. I was challenged at creating tracks because I hadn't picked up a guitar in over five years because of my cancer. I bought and learned how to create a virtual pedal steel part, since Sean sings country. He has the perfect voice for it too.
He was going for an album (I even created a cover using copyright-
free artwork), but had an accident at work. This set us back from our schedule and we lost momentum. I found out that my mac wasn't really powerful enough to handle the load of creating songs with many tracks. It kinda surprised me because I had done other projects of the same size, but with his second song especially, I had a latency problem I couldn't remedy. I finally had to record guitar parts and then move them in time so they were right. This turned out to be a nightmare, so I told Sean
I was sorry, but we'd have to abandon the project.
I was listening tonight to my iPod with headphones, a couple of years after we recorded, and I was surprised at how good the tracks sounded to me. Sean's genre is country and I had never actually recorded anything like that. So, I've just sent Sean a message asking his permission to post the songs here. He's agreed and so here they are.
From the EP, The Long Way Home
The Long Way Home Water Under The Bridge
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