Shortly after I recorded the songs on Bum Gravy I bought a raw acoustic album that also featured a phone ringing during one of the songs. Not really an uncommon thing for home recordists back then…having a phone ring during a take. I was a bit discouraged by the coincidence but figured I would never release that track anyway.

So now that I have released it I’m curious what that other record was. I have no idea what happened to my copy. I think I bought it at the end of 2003 but I don’t know that it was new at that time.

The CD came in a cardboard sleeve. I believe recycled with a distinctive pulp… ?

Whatever, it was matte brown (not colored, that was the material) and had a black fly on it. I believe there were dashes indicating the trail the fly had walked but I could be wrong. It’s raw acoustic stuff. That’s all I remember.

Anyone know what this is? Let me know on Twitter or something.

I remember liking it.

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I recorded most of this in 2003. The idea behind Water, Waiting for Winter, The New Dawn, It’s Part of My Bean, and Steam was that I had five minutes to write guitar parts for a song, then I’d record them, making arrangement decisions on the fly. Then I had another minute or two to figure out some notes for the second guitar or whatever I was playing. Nothing was edited (obviously). An “instrument” stops when the phone rings and you can hear how stoned I am holding my breath, trying to sound normal to a boss I had only met several days earlier. I recorded BBlue DIamond around the same time in another room in the same apartment. I left the sliding door open for both guitar parts (I just played the same thing twice) and I remember being very happy with how the sounds of airliners and trucks and such lined up. the end of it all2 is from 2002 and another location.

Features a nut box, a coffee mug, and an Ensoniq TS-10. I used PARIS for most tracks.

The title comes from Monk but also means these songs are just gravy from me bum.

Rolling out to streaming services.

Amazon Music

Apple Music

Spotify

YouTube

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