Well this is it the first track for this new blog/podcast or whatever it is, maybe I could call it a blogcast. Too much? Anyway, this is a track most of you who know me will already know pretty well. It’s called “Truth” and it’s quite an old tune. I first wrote it years back when I was in music college in Liverpool, almost 10 years now… damn is it that long? Hard to believe. It’s got a kind of swing feel to it and I think it’s probably influenced a lot by Van Morrison who was a big hero of mine at the time. He still is to some degree but it was a big phase I was into then.

This version was actually recorded in France a little under 2 years ago now while I was staying there. I set up a kind of temporary studio in the basement of our house and this old tune just somehow came out again. This is the best version I’ve done I would say, I wrote the bridge section at the time I recorded this and I think overall it came out well. I had some fun messing about with the lead guitar but tried not to go overboard. The bass is possibly a little loud in this mix so if you’ve got any kind of bass boost on your stereo you probably wanna turn that off before listening. I love the bass and it’s probably my main instrument now, the one I’m best at I think anyway, so you can always tell one of my mixes if the bass is drowning out everything else hehe

Hope you like it, I thought it was a good place to start this little musical journey so please feel free to let me know what you think in the comments, unless you’re a spammer I HAVE PLENTY OF VIAGRA ALREADY THANK YOU!!! … ERR… NOT THAT I NEED IT OBVIOUSLY… move along nothing to see here.

Take care all and have a good New Year. I hope to post at least one new track every week, the back catalog will keep me going a while and hopefully it will spur me on to finish recording all these new songs I have. We’ll see

Catch you later,

Dan

 

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Hi folks, welcome to my new music blog. I’ve been a musician since I was young and I play a few different instruments, some well, some not so well. Anyway, I’ve been recording stuff in my home studio for years and record production is a big passion of mine. I thought I’d share new tracks with you all through this blog, you can subscribe to the RSS feed and anytime I post a new track or an update you can get it delivered, cool hey? I’m going to try and build up an album through the blog and document how I get on as I record each track. I’m a pretty busy guy and I do many other things such as writing, podcasting, programming… err… drinking tea and loads of other important stuff. So I’ll try and update this with new tracks at least every two weeks but we’ll see how it goes. I’ve got plenty of back catalog stuff to work through anyway.

I’ve been in many bands over the years but not done much on my own, I like to have someone else to hide behind normally but it’s probably time I came out of the shadows and…

where are you going? Oh ok I’ll stay in the shadows and just direct the music in your direction then, better? Good I hope you like the tracks and please feel free to leave some comments, “more cowbell!!” that kind of thing

See you on the flip side,

Dan