Folks have been asking us when we’ll have a CD for sale. We’re presently in the process of setting up some recording dates that should result in a release relatively soon.

I’m not crazy about the way most acoustic records sound. They’re too thin and bright, and they don’t have a lot of punch in the low and mid range. The brightness is exacerbated by close mic’ing techniques and the use of digital recording media. This is why, to my ears, bluegrass records recorded forty or fifty years ago generally sound much, much better than bluegrass records recorded recently.

To try to counter this, we’re going to try an experiment in musical neo-luddism. We’re going to record live, to two-track analog tape, in an empty room in Scott’s house. We’re in the process of lining up an engineer for the project, and we’re pretty confident that we’ll be able to work with an outstanding engineer who Scott and I have admired for years. More on that later.

When we’re done, we’ll take the analog tapes and convert them into the zeroes and ones that the kids are all crazy about.

If everything goes well, we should have a release ready to roll in the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas.