lifeblood: songs: backgrounds: sparrow's boogie

2019-05-20: amy ray on the road with a connect savannah:

there are so many interesting things about this record - "sparrow's boogie" has some really interesting timing things, and there are slight tempo shifts throughout. were you using a click track, or were you tracking it all live so you could push tempo and things like that?

it was all live. the only thing that wasn't live was the strings and horns. they played live as a section to tape, but the songs had already been recorded. and then all the guest vocals were done kind of remotely. but some songs we used a click track on and some we didn't. we ditched it sometimes because it messed up the feel of the song, you know?

jim brock, the drummer, it was always his decision. we knew that we would shift around a bit in certain songs. it had to be a comfortable shift where it wouldn't be distracting, but sometimes the click track would be hard to move around with.

for us as a band, the way we play, sometimes click just wasn't working and sometimes it kept us completely in line.