Sometimes songs arrive unexpectedly. When I sat down last week to record a song that I had written the night before I grabbed my acoustic, plugged the Blue Mikey into my iPhone, and started fooling around with it to get the best sound. As I’ve said before, the Mikey can be pretty sensitive, but when you get it placed right and set right it sounds fantastic. In this case, I had the phone and Mikey sitting on a kitchen chair and I was adjusting the tilt angle when the Mikey pulled slightly out and became disconnected from the phone. When I pushed it back in, it was reset to the highest sensitivity (Mikey comes with a three-way sensitivity switch) and I could hear everything in the kitchen in super-crazy detail. Usually I would just pull the Mikey out again and reset it back to the right sensitivity, but for some reason I started fooling around with the sounds that I was getting in the kitchen. I started playing a muted, soft little riff on the guitar and humming along. At some point I realized that I had a fun little song going, so in the true spirit of this project, I decided to shelve the other song for the time being and capture this new song. I threw together some lyrics… hastily, and this is what you hear.

Tomorrow is my son’s third birthday. I honestly can’t believe it. He’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me. That night I was thinking about the fact that it was almost his birthday and then I heard him yelling about not wanted to go to sleep or something. Well that was enough fodder to get me a couple of lines, and the rest is history I guess.

You can really hear me having fun with the mic and the room on this one. The bass drum sound is my foot on the floor, the rest of it is me and the guitar. There are two takes, slightly panned left and right. The recording was done on the iPhone using MultiTrack as usual.  

This is the first track of the second half of the year. I hope you like it.