Walking the Cow

This is a Daniel Johnson song. If you don't know who Daniel Johnson is then I highly recommend you check out the documentary, The Devil and Daniel Johnston but in a nutshell he's a singer-songwriter from Austin, TX who suffers from bi-polar disorder. He's pretty lo-fi and his music is only semi-well known because alternative rock stars like Kurt Cobain and Eddie Vedder have promoted and covered it.

So, as you've probably already guessed, I've covered the Eddie Vedder version. Daniel's version is much more... spastic. Eddie turns it into a really sad, but beautiful, song. I've always been amazed by Eddie's ability to translate a song like this from Daniel Johnston's version to his version. There are a few other covers Pearl Jam does that are like this. You listen to the original and you're like - "how did they hear this?" Not that I dislike Daniel Johnston's version...

At any rate, this one was pretty simple - used my Strat with Garageband's ultra clean settings then it was just a matter of recording the vocal. I still need a better mic but I think this one came out pretty good.



[Update: Apparently the blogamp thing doesn't show up in google reader - so most of my recording posts don't make much sense unless you actually visit the blog]