NEW 2012 ALBUM - 'PIECES'
Produced by Charlie McGovern
2. Chuck Berry's Red Guitar
3. Pissin' In The River
4. Ain't Got That Much To Say
5. Pieces
6. Jerry
7. Rockin Jones
8. Dark Side Of The Road
9. Right Back Where We Started From
10. On Down The Line
11. Plenty
12. Pissed In The River (reprise)
Recorded on an 8 track tape machine
in Cosby, Missouri (population 143)
2012
All songs written by Tracy Huffman
(Lanky Bones Music, BMI)
Produced by Charlie McGovern
Charlie McGovern – recording, mixing, art design, bass on,“Chuck Berry”,
“Jealous Boy”, “Pissin’ In The River”, “Ain’t Got Much To Say”
& “On Down The Line”
Colby Walter - Rhodes and acoustic piano, backing vocals
bass on, “Right Back Where We Started”, “Jerry” & “Pieces”
Jerry Forney - pedal steel guitar
Chris Moore - drums on: “Jealous Boy”, “Pissin’ In The River”
& “On Down The Line”
Wilbur May – drums on “Chuck Berry” & “Ain’t Got Much To Say”, mixing
Steve Fuller – drums on, “Pieces”, backing vocal on, “Pissin’ In The River”
Casey Huffman - drums on, “Right Back Where We Started”
thanks Beth
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Also, available by Tracy Huffman , produced by Charlie McGovern
-EVER NOTICE A CROW
-2006
1. The Crow
2. California (click to listen)
3. Great Unknown (click to listen)
4. Waiting On That Train
5. Bottom Of A Well
6. It's Alright
7. Glad
8. Drugs (click to listen)
9. Somebody's Buried There
10. We've Got To Go
11. Let's Call It A Day
"CALIFORNIA"
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“HE HAD A BAD BACK!”, then he walked out of the room. This was Tracy Huffman’s father
responding to a young Tracy saying, “Well, Hank Williams was on drugs!” Tracy wasn’t on drugs
but most of the groups he listened to growing up were.
Mike Stinson’s father insists that Hank Jr. is much better that Hank Sr. even though Mike’s father is
more from the Hank Sr. generation and is far from the Country Outlaw period. I gained respect for
Mike’s dad after hearing that story, who else has enough balls to say something so crazy? Then
again he was probably just pushing Mike’s buttons.
Tracy pointed out that we were all the babies in our families and I agreed pointing out that we were
the ones getting tied up and left to escape playing “Houdini” or the ones having to cough up a buck
for no reason except the older brother wanted to buy a Dr Pepper and some Pork Rinds. Does
anybody remember playing 52 Card Pick-Up?
In between these bits of conversation is when we cut the record. It was always Tracy, Mike and I
laughing at something. Tracy’s words can be funny and heartbreaking at the same time, which to
me is what life is. We cut the album over 4 separate 2-hour sessions. It was more important for us
to have the conversation than to think about the recording.
Glen Sherba and Colleen Kennedy came by and played on the record. Tracy is a Missouri boy and
even though he has those hot Chuck Berry licks in his pocket he ended up just laying back and
letting Glen take all the hot licks. And Glen did. Colleen blew her riffs on the harmonica.
There’ no layered guitars, Tracy is in the left speaker Glen is in the right. At one point during “The
Crow” I quit playing notes and picked up a beer can and ran it across the bass strings to make
barnyard noises. Tracy didn’t flinch.
Tracy wanted to show us this song, “It’s Alright”. I had a tamborine laying on the floor and as Tracy
was showing us the song, Mike stepped on the tamborine and clapped his hands. Tracy was
singing into one of the drum kits microphones. That ended up being the recording on the record.
That was the first time Mike and I ever heard the song.
There’s not much math on this record. I’m pretty good with math but when people start talking
about numbers when playing music it makes me go limp. “4, 5, 1, Do, Rey, Me, Fa, So, La, Ti,
etc…” this is a countdown to going soft.
Kip Boardman added some class to this whole mess by singing and playing beautiful piano.
“Sumptum like that”, that was Tracy’s statement after every take. The band didn’t know the songs
and Tracy didn’t want to play them more than twice or so. So that was it. Here it is, “Ever Notice A
Crow” the new album by Tracy Huffman.
-Charlie McGovern
North Hollywood, June 2006