{"id":1895,"date":"2012-04-20T08:09:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T15:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2012-04-20T08:09:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T15:09:09","slug":"never-when-i-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/20\/never-when-i-started\/","title":{"rendered":"never when i started"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh guys seriously I did not think Cracksman Betty<\/i> could sound this good. Not what’s online now; the re-engineered\/re-mastered version that’s in progress. It’s always going to be a bit of a jumble as an album, having been originally just a place to put all my trad-o’-the-week<\/strike>\/fortnight<\/strike>\/month songs, but it’s so much better<\/em> a jumble than I ever thought it would or even could be.<\/p>\n

And I don’t mean just individually as songs, I mean as an album<\/em>. It’s actually starting to hang together as a work. I don’t know what to call it – Alternate History Folk, maybe? But that’s awfully long. Regardless, it has a form<\/em> now. It is shadowy and rough, but it is a beast<\/em>, of genus undetermined.<\/p>\n

I’m even thinking of asking Kickstarter if it wants to pay for mastering. No lie.<\/p>\n

Did I mention there’s a new track? I don’t think I mentioned there’s a new track. There is! “Song for a Blockade Runner\/High Barbaree.” I’m really excited about it.<\/p>\n

Of all the reset-in-Cascadia traditional folk, this is the most changed from its original; it makes “Columbia” sound unedited. “High Barbaree” is about taking down pirates; “Song for a Blockade Runner” is the other side of that story, in 1973, during the Cascadian War for Independence, a goddamn hardscrabble pirate and smuggler anthem<\/em>. It’s new music, too – not so much a traditional-song rendition as a long-lost fraternal twin, come in from the cold Salish sea.<\/p>\n

12 tracks on the CD, if I print one. 13 tracks online, with “S-100 Bus,” which has to be online only for licensing reasons. Eleven songs, plus two “radio edit” versions as bonus tracks.<\/p>\n

None of this is going live quite yet – I’m still twiddling bits and I want to redub another line of vocals. But – it’s coming. Soon<\/em>. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

PS: Anna’s fantasy novel Kickstarter just hit 45%<\/a> and she’s dropped an excerpt from “Blood of the Land,”<\/a> another Warder universe story, as a teaser. She’s really hoping to hit 50% this weekend. Check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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