About Painting the Country Wild

I recorded this song in one take. I played the guitar and sang at the same
time, which was an interesting configurations of microphones and guitar
and my mouth. Especially since I didn't know the words/song that well
so I was glancing at my computer screen for the lyrics.

The story of the song is basically this: at school I randomly started 
writing some lyrics, and came up with some ideas about a couple people
who have tons of energy and do strange things and run around a desert.
Climbing cacti.  I just had fun coming up with strange images.

Then I forgot about the words.

Then when I was trying to come up with lyrics for a different song, I came
back to these lyrics, and finished them.  Then I decided they didn't fit.
So I scrapped them. But I had been fiddling around with guitar all summer
and had come up with a couple cool things that fit together a bit.

So I slapped the words with these couple guitar things, recorded it in the
multi-track mode, which wound up sounding terrible since the timing was 
off in several places, so I did it all at once.

The song desperately needs polishing and practicing and editing, so think
of this recording as a first draft.  You'll get the idea, even if the flow
is a little off.

I dedicate this song to all of my crazy friends who live by the mantra of
"epic".