The story of the record.

My sister died two weeks after my dad. I lost 13 other people in my life in the next two years. And I finally start running music again. The album that came out of it ended up being called “The City of Woe”. The album was recorded between December 27, 2019 and 10th January 2020. This was before the world changed.

The album is recorded at tiny telephone studios in the Mission district San Francisco San Francisco, with my dear friend John Vanderslice behind the mixing console. What was going to be eight songs ended up being 11.

on the site, I’ll tell the story of that music, and the music that came before and since.

Since I am recording engineer, I’ll probably talk about the gear and instruments too.

it’s worth noting the entire album was recorded live 2 2 inch tape, almost every song was done in only one or two takes for the basic tracks, and I think I redid the vocals twice. Thanks for listening.