Robben Ford Discussion

[kirk95]

Here is a sneak peek track from a new blues CD that apparently I’m all over (9 out of the 15 tracks). It also more importantly (and to my surprise) features a legendary blues vocalist.

Go here and download SNEAK PEEK.
http://www.dhenderson.com/index2.htm

Gear overview:
On this sneak peek track I am playing my Fender CS Nocaster Relic through a Two Rock Opal. There are no effects at all on this guitar track. The signal chain was Octava 319 condenser mic 6 inches in front of a 1x12 Celesion G12H30 cab.

But you have to hear the story of this forthcoming CD!

How many times have you been asked to play on a friend’s CD for nothing? A million times right? So I was doing just that. This guy I occasionally play with locally asks me to come down and put a few tracks on this new CD he is working on. He’s telling me he has hooked up with this famous blues legend vocalist who is going to sing on the CD. So I go down to his pretty extensive home (garage) studio. He has these very very rough tracks of drum machine (boom chick), one track of acoustic guitar and very weak (he’s singing) scratch vocals. The guy proceeds to work the living h*ll out of me. In about 5 hours of session time (2 sessions) I tracked rhythm, fills and lead parts on Telecaster, acoustic guitar, slide guitar, and lap steel on 9 tracks. Basically, the process was like this:

1>He plays me the track.
2>I would play once through the track.
3>I would do a take the second time through.
4>If I didn’t nail the first take we’d do it one more time

So 4 weeks later I am doing another gig with this guy and he is just glowing about this CD and how he loved my guitar tracks and how great it turned out. So a couple of days later he drags me down to his studio and starts playing me the tracks.

It ends up he spent two weeks over the holidays tracking bass, drums, percussion and these very exotic African stringed instruments (he builds these himself) and had the legendary blues vocalist Frankie Lee do all the vocals. Frankie just tears it up. We’re talking the real deal here! http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDCASS80401071217122444&sql=Baq3tk6ax9krd

I was totally blown away! Because I had done all my tracks so fast, I had forgotten just about everything that I played.

Anyway, here’s one of the tracks. The CD is a very blues roots flavor with African overtones and instruments. This sneak peek track is one of the more rocking tracks.

Here’s the real kicker, this may end up as Frankie Lee’s next release….

Anyway, check it out and tell me what ya think?
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[PierreL]

Nice story Dave. As soon as my home PC is back to life ( video card dead ), I will definitely give it a listen .