Podcast: Your Love Is Near

Okay, this has nothing to do with the overall subject of this blog.  I noticed this blog supports podcasts, so I uploaded an mp3 from my hard drive.  Don't worry, I don't sing on this one .

Mp3.com used to allow anyone to upload their own music.  You could even have the songs burned to a CD, which you could sell on your page.  They also offered a service where you could pay to have your material copyrighted, so I had the CD copyrighted as a collection of songs.


CD Cover for Daddy Gad &
the Drop D Dabblers,
But I Don't Even LIKE Coffee!

Play track, "Your Love is Near" ©2001 Joseph R. Ellis

Played: 150 | Download | Duration: 00:01:52

 
About Daddy Gad
The name "Daddy Gad & the Drop D Dabblers" was something I thought up on the fly when mp3.com asked me for the name of the "group."  Daddy Gad comes from the popular alternative guitar tuning , DADGAD.  Drop D is also a form of tuning (drop the low 'E' string to 'D').  The whole coffee / coffee shop thing is kind of an inside joke.  Everyone always commented that my songs sounded like something you'd hear in a coffee shop.  That was why my mp3.com page was called "Daddy Gad's Christian Coffee Shop".  Never mind the fact that I can't stand to drink the stuff (hence the title).

Technical Info
These songs were all recorded on a plain old Win98 computer using $20 Nady SP-9 microphones (purchased on sale for $10).  Audio was fed into a regular sound card using a Behringer MX 602A mixer.  Recordings were made using CoolEdit 2000 (now owned by Adobe and repackaged as Adobe Audition).  The only instrument used was a cheap Martin (now there's an oxymoron) model DXME, multi-tracked for rhythm & lead parts in most cases.  Some CoolEdit chorus effects were added in "post production" on some of the guitar tracks (but not on this song).

Posted by Joe at 12/21/2007 7:45 PM
Categories: acoustic guitar, instrumental

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