Today’s post is more reposty goodness for the holiday season. Enjoy

Here’s another song from the Kennett Brothers’ long out of print and now ridiculously pricey Xmas CD, Santa is Real. This time, it’s the Kennett’s performance of the Marty Robbins tune, ‘One of You in Every Size‘. The lineup as best I remember:

1. Edward Burch: Acoustic guitar and lead vocal
2. Andrew Leach: Electric guitar, steel guitar, and backing vocals
3. Kenneth Rainey: Bass, drums, and backing vocals

Like the other songs on the record, this was built up from scratch tracks. I laid the drum track down, and we built up from there with scratch acoustic guitar and vocal tracks. Ed cut his teeth recording with Jay Bennett, so his general approach is evident here. There is a lot of double-tracking, particularly with the acoustic guitars and backing vocals. Everything was cut sequentially, with each person laying his tracks individually.

This was recorded in the spare bedroom of my house in Chicago. Nearly everything was recorded with an Rode NT1, save for the bass track and maybe Andy’s guitar tracks. We probably used a SM 57 on those. Everything went through a very simple Alesis board and into a PC running Cool Edit Pro.

The modulations after each verse are in the original, except that I think we put an additional modulation in there to get the solo section into a guitar friendly key (A).

For another track from the CD, click here.