Let the show begin

Thursday we start our pre-production at the studio!
Its going to be very fun.
we're taking all our songs we have so far, and working them out for three days, all day.
At the end of the weekend, we'll have a little surprise for you all on the blog ;)

Tonight we practiced and went over a couple tunes. Rockin.

Just two nights ago, I saw a really good documentary on the Carter family. Most of us know the carter family through their daughter June Carter, later to be Mrs. Johnny Cash, played faithfully by the wonderful Reese Witherspoon in Walk the Line. Apparently Sara carter (wife of the member A.P.Carter) left him for one of his cousins! behind his back! but they continued to be in the band together for years!Their manager didn't think that public knowledge of the separation was good for their image (this was the 1930's now).She even dedicated a song live on the air to her lover while A.P. was there! What a harpy if you ask me.

It tortured him till the day he died. He was deeply in love with his wife.
Why do you musicians have to be such sad folks?!'

Although he used to drive from house to house in random parts of the country , learning songs from the people that lived there. Mostly in backwater towns, where there was allot of folk music still preserved in memory. He took it and made it more modern, or decided new arrangements.

Maybelle Carter, the third member, also invented a whole new guitar technique called Scratch playing.

Those three people have had more influence on American Music today that anyone else I can think of.

I should be a history teacher shouldn't I?

-alex