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Day Sixty Five (Year Two)

Had a great day off today!  Cracked open a lot of CDs that had been sitting, cleaned up the studio a bit, and took a stab at learning one of my favorite Counting Crows songs.

What did I crack open?

1) Okemah & The Melody of Riot by Son Volt.  It's the DualDisc version of it.  I really miss those things.  They never really caught on with (seemingly) anyone but me, but they had the record on one side, and usually a documentary or band commentary or something excellent on the DVD side.  This one had a half hour documentary on the making of the record.  It was interviews with Jay Farrar inter-cut with live performance footage and video of the band recording the album.  Those things are always so very cool for me.

The Dishwalla DualDisc I have (for Opaline), has amazingly cool band commentary, mostly from J.R. Richards, on the writing of the songs.  That, too, is amazing.

2) The Clapton/Marsalis.  I opened it up, and didn't have a chance to get too far into it, but what I heard sounded amazing.  I'm really wanting to watch the DVD first, or at least before I've listened to most of the CD.  Can't really say why I feel that way, I just do.

Got an email late tonight from work... apparently my copy of The Whole Love, the new Wilco record, is in.  Can't wait!  Now I'm debating going in right at 9 to pick it up, just so I can listen to it before I've got to go back in at 2 and close.
 
Got out the tab book for Recovering The Satellites tonight, and took a quick look at "Goodnight Elizabeth."  I've always wanted to learn that intro riff.  In the book I've got, which claims to be the guitar recorded version, it's a bit tricky, at least for me.  I watched them do it live on YouTube, and it looked like it was played differently, capoed at 2, and done with more open strings than the book version.  I'll have to mess around with it and see if I can come up with anything.  It'll be a good challenge, and it'll finish off that song for me, as I've known the chord progression that runs underneath everything for years now.

Oh, and I dropped J. a line about what he wants next.  Never heard back.  Didn't get into the studio today for anything other than organizing, so hopefully that'll happen tomorrow.

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