Eight months of work.....it's finally here. Yay. Celtic Crossover. Now comes the fun part. We get to play everything on the CD at church services, weddings, the local coffee houses, etc. ad infinitum. So much rehearsal, so much time spent recording, till it was just right. So much time arranging, thinking, pondering, wondering how the melody would work with guitar. Trying to find music, then having to transcribe it ,since a lot of it was unpublished, reinventing the guitar part .
Then when in two months of recording, having to go from room to room to find the right acoustics, good lighting, and quiet....always searching for the quiet. Then more thinking, weighing each part of the recording, overdubs, underdubs, re-recording to get the right sound..... The list was exhausting. But so worth it.
I have finally figured out that I like ...no LOVE.....this type of music. It speakds to me. It has a languid quality that can be quite mournful. It's perfect. All that struggling musician talk is quite true. It's great if you do find the right music. It's even better if the music finds you.......
The guitarist: Chris Coon, worship director at the local Baptist Church, plays guitar, mandolin, flute, penny whistle and a few hundred other instruments, and still sings and directs choir and theatre for the church, plus plays in the community with countless others.
The music: Lough Erin Shore, Gift of Falling, Mary Did You Know, Border Country, Rose of Bethlehem, A River Runs Through It, Stars and Midnight Blue, When Love was Born, Meeting of the Waters, The Patriot, God is With Us, May it Be......................yes, there are some Christmas pieces in the mix. The music kind of plays itself. Like I said, it's even better when the music finds you......
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