Artist: Monday Night Recorders with Jack Logan
Title: Nature's Assembly Line
Released: February 2005
Label: Orange Twin
Notes:
From the liner notes: The Monday Night Recording Club was an idea we had to bring playing and recording music back to the basics. We just wanted to have fun again while challenging ourselves at the same time. It was very much a clubhouse feel. Our idea was to drink beer and write 3 new songs every Monday night. We'd record the basic idea in my tiny music room. Then we'd move in to me slightly bigger living room where we'd add overdubs until Jack was finished writing lyrics. After putting down the main vocal and backups, we'd mix down the results and erase the original tracks. That way, there would be no going back, no second guessing.
We started out using my 4-track but in March, when a lady ran into my '95 Escort in front of Pizza Hut, I used $600 of the insurance money to buy an 8-track. The sessions lasted throughout the entire year of 2003, producing 94 songs. The first session in January consisted of only 3 of us, but by the middle of the year, as many as 12 people were showing up. We would make anyone who showed up play on a track. It was a really good time for all of us and I hope that comes through on these 15 tracks we've chosen. A big thanks must go to Andrew and Laura for wanting to release this stuff. Enjoy!
Kevin Lane/Athens, GA.
From Orange Twin: Nature's Assembly Line, a collection of 15 new songs by Jack Logan and The Monday Night Recorders, is Logan's first album in over 5 years. The album was recorded in Athens, Georgia over the course of 2003 by Logan and a revolving cast of some of the best musicians in town including Kevin Lane (The Possiblities), Rob Veal (Dashboard Saviors), Patterson Hood (Drive-By Truckers), William Tonks and John Neff (Barbara Cue), Aaron Phillips (Liquor Cabinet) and more. Calling themselves the Monday Night Recorders, the group got together every Monday night at various houses with the goal of writing and recording 3 new songs. Each night after the songs were mixed down, the original tracks were erased. At the end of the year, 94 songs were completed, which the band whittled down to the 15 songs that comprise Nature's Assembly Line. The songs run the gamut from quiet acoustic to cacophonous rockers to middle-eastern flavored psychedelic meanderings.
Tracks (
Click song title to hear it in RealAudio):| 1. | Recognize You | |
| 2. | |
Dad's Suitcase |
| 3. | Don't remember Where It Is | |
| 4. | Come Away | |
| 5. | |
Out Of Place |
| 6. | Feels Better In Here | |
| 7. | The Race is Running | |
| 8. | |
Cauliflower Ears |
| 9. | Brothers Grimm and the Cowboy Band | |
| 10. | River of Sweat | |
| 11. | Little Fool | |
| 12. | |
Associate |
| 13. | Broken Machines | |
| 14. | Diggin' In | |
| 15. | Spotty Glassware | |
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