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01. The Ballad of John Green 02. The Soldier Song 03. Whiskey in the Jar |
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Probe One Music POM-05, released December 2009 All three of these songs were recorded during the sessions that made up the Stormclouds album, although of the songs on this single only The Soldier Song appears on that album in this guise. The Ballad of John Green is also on the album of course, but this single version is a different mix. The basics of these songs were all tracked in 2008 at Forge Studios in Reservoir, and finished off and mixed in our own studio over the next year or so. This is the first Zeptepi release to feature Hayley Anderson on violin. It's also the first time we used banjo - CC Thornley plays on The Soldier Song (although at this point he had not yet joined the band) and Mark Lanigan plays on the other two tracks. There's also some organ on track 1 by Peter Donnelly, but it's very low in the mix on this version. The Ballad of John Green is a theme that may be familiar to some... the lyric was basically a contemporary reworking of the old English folk song The Ballad of John Barleycorn. Both The Soldier Song and Whiskey in the Jar were a bloody nightmare to mix! Somehow pitch of the bass parts managed to drop by 20% of a full tone, just enough to make everything sound a bit weird but not quite enough to make it blindingly obvious what had happened. After many hours cursing and attempting to retune the recorded parts, I gave up and just got Frank to do them again. To this day I still have no idea how it happened. We only pressed 200 copies of this single, all of which are now sold, but it's still available on iTunes. Phil |
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