Just one song this week. I had five ready to try out and figured I'd get at least two but actually just ran out of time. So only one got recorded. It's one of my favorite Bob Dylan songs, "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine."
A few things about the song and this recording:
- There are some extraneous noises on the recording. You can hear the radiators whistling in the background throughout, and towards the end you can hear Mugsy tapping around on the floor. Guess it's time to get his nails cut.
- I'm not entirely happy with my performance. I will likely take another stab at it at some point.
- About the song: I have a whole interpretation worked up and it's a really meaningful song to me but I don't want to impose that on you necessarily. Do note, though, that in the 2nd verse, St. Augustine tells him, "know you're not alone," and in the next verse, when he awakes, he feels "so alone and terrified."
- I tried a slightly different miking setup. The previous songs have all been done with one vocal mic and one close mic on the guitar. For this one, I set the vocal mic a couple feet away, and then had a room mic on the floor on a chair a couple more feet away. Both mics picked up a mix of guitar and vocals; I added reverb only to the room mic and left the vocal mic dry.
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