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Today Cliff Eberhardt (www.cliffeberhardt.com) and I are beginning a duet CD together.  We’re going to work day and night for the next five days and see what we can come up with as a follow up to the All Wood and Stones (www.allwoodandstones.com) project I recorded with my pal, John Batdorf (www.johnbatdorfmusic.com). 

For those of you unfamiliar with All Wood and Stones, it is an acoustic treatment, and reinvention of eleven of our favorite Rolling Stones songs done sort of like Crosby Stills & Nash, or Rubber Soul era Beatles.

What we tried to do was do them completely differently than the Stones had done them, focusing on the two voices and the two acoustic guitars.    And every instrument on the CD was an acoustic one.  No synths.

So what I thought I would do is keep a journal of the recording process and share it with you on a day to day basis.

For instance, today we are going to compare our list of tunes we are interested in auditioning for the recording, after which we are going to sit facing each other and play the songs and see which ones resonate for us as artists.  

Because Cliff lives in Massachusetts and I live in California, we are going to do the arrangements of what each one of us will do and  then we will lay down his parts while he’s here.   I will put mine part down after he’s gone.

We’re going it this way to take the most advantage of the little time we have together to work on the CD.

So more tomorrow on how the first day went.