With regard to doing a totally solo recording, I may give it a shot at some point, but to be honest, when I write a song I usually hear a lot of sonic possibilities in my head that I'd like to incorporate into the production. When you add in my producer, Matt Cartsonis, the orchestration process really takes shape. We did do one cut on my Christmas CD that's just me and the guitar - "Santa Claus Got Stuck In Our Chimney." Today I played for three hours at the mall totally solo. It worked fine, altho on some stuff I did miss vocal harmonies and extra instrumentation. But I was pleasantly surprised that it went over quite well. The ticket is great material and playing and singing at the top of my ability.
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