...in other words, time to air some more rare recordings from the days of youth. (It's Sunday, which means I didn't hit the post button then.)
I think this here, "Kudzu", is one of the first times I played with Aaron Kenner with "tape" rolling. It's an early song, he wrote it in college I think. I always had a weakness for Dm bluegrass type songs. On the later occasions that we played this live -- such as at Coupe de Ville's, a notorious University of Virginia watering hole for 20-21-year-olds -- with marginally fewer bad notes and better singing, "Kudzu" was a treble assault. For some reason, I liked to add overdrive if not distortion to the organ sound.
Also, I just wanted to point out that Aaron wrote the songs that we played -- if there's a "-Rikken" as the songwriting credit, it probably means I suggested a hook, wrote a third verse or collaborated slightly on a refrain. In any case, there was always a tightness there, we would just start playing a new song and it felt like well-broken leather.
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