LISTEN to this....

You may have heard about our "demo" CD? The show it came from? The art and the changes it went though? Well, now on our MySpace page you can hear 10 of the twelve song samples.

Check it out!

http://www.myspace.com/thewaltermittys

Call it "Spring Cleaning"...

Last night at Band Camp, we ran through the eight-song Fire Drill Sonia created from our master list of songs we have performed. As we attempt to ready ourselves for a more active pursuit of live performances, this seemed like a good way to keep our backlog well-rehearsed. And it proved to be just that—some songs have not "been played in awhile!" Most humbling.

Then we tried to divide and assign a process for "those other songs." The songs that are in-progress in one stage or another. The "almost there" songs. And the "still-early-in-the-process" songs.

Maybe a little too much "business" in proportion to music for a night in the rehearsal space but I think we have the pieces in place. And to borrow a song title to sum it all up: We Can Work It Out!

"Time it moves so fast..."

Maybe later for that song (an old original titled "Remember What To Say").

It was like Spring Cleaning at Band Camp, last night. Time to take stock of all the songs we started and didn't quite finish before we moved on to the next.

Sonia recorded them into our mast set list while I scrawled them onto our swipe-board.

Two takes each. We moved from "Evangeline" to "All Over Now." And because Jim had the accordion on, it made sense to hit our bayou-version of "Last Hard Bible."

And we closed the night with "Tom Thumb's Blues" (and very nice piano part on that).

That was just a small dent in our effort to "finish up them songs." I can see some busy—but productive—rehearsal nights ahead.

~slatts

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