Wannabilly Part 1: Don’t Run Me Over
July 24th, 2006
Back at KU, while warming up for a worship event for a church group in KC, we started playing some of the songs country-style just for fun (unfortunately many worship songs lend themselves very well to Country music). That spurred on a challenge to write and record a mock Country album in 24 hours.
Matt and Kevin and I did just that. We reserved a weekend and wrote most of the songs on Saturday. Then finished writing and recorded all of them on Sunday. The ironic part is that it took over a year (I think) to actually mix and master the album. Matt can confirm that. Some songs are more Country than others, and there is at least one song we felt was actually good.
We originally want to call ourselves “Country for a Day”, but I believe it was Jason who gave us the name “Wannabilly”.
So I’ll be posting selected tracks once a week. So sit back and enjoy.
Our first selection will be our train song, I believe we titled it “Don’t Run Me Over”. It’s a Sprechgesang (hat tip to Jessica, I hope I’m using that right) about a bank robbery gone bad. Enjoy.
July 25th, 2006 at 1:59 am
Fuzzy Memories.
To this day I can’t believe that some of these songs turned out decent. That day was a freaking blast. And, um, I think it was all done in one day.
But we were wannabe hillbillies. I think that’s the saddest form.
July 25th, 2006 at 11:27 am
I’m pretty sure we broke it up in to two days. But I know for sure that did not exceed 24 hours of actual work time.
We’ve got to do a reunion album sometime!
July 25th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
eh, one day, two days, whatever…the point is, back in college we had WAY TOO MUCH FREAKIN’ TIME ON OUR HANDS!
Or at least some of us did;)