Friday September 21 2007
Went to East Nashville to Eric Fritch’s studio. Recorded a song with Greta Gaines called “Say Grace.” The drummer was Steve Bowman, the original drummer of the Counting Crows (and subsequently kind of a hero of mine) and Millard Powers on bass (currently with C.C. and also a hero) so there were no weak links in the chain. The song was cool and I thought it came out well. We tried to do the slice and dice thing and make a loop on the MPC but it was a big time-waster, so we just played the song live. Eric’s studio is really nice and home-y, in a barn. At one point, Eric’s son Oliver came in and started tearing the foam padding out of one of my flight cases. I said “chh..ch…” and wagged my finger. He had this look like “No one ever lets me have any fun destructively!” It’s weird when all of a sudden you realize now you’re the grumpy old bastard that you hated as kid! We worked a good long 8 hour day, then I went home and read a bit, then crashed.