[blue water girl]

Brent just heard it himself for the first time yesterday morning - he seemed really pleased with the results. My favorite(so far since I really have only heard the first four or five) is the first song on the cd called "Good Time" - I thought Brent did some really cool and different stuff on that one while still capturing that signature sound Alan expects Brent to put on the recordings. Lots of work went into the making of that cd. The masters were all recorded last July. Brent had so many other projects going on he had to come in about ten more times in the following months to overdub by himself to get all of his parts done. It was a massive project - 17 songs are on the album. In addition to all his good tele playing he plays some really fine flattop too.

One of the songs, "Sissy's Song" was written by Alan about his family's beloved young nanny, who passed away tragically last year in a car crash. Alan had Brent come in last year (seems like it was March 2007) to do that one song so that it could be played at her funeral. It was later decided to be put on this album. It's Brent all by himself on that song with Alan doing the vocals of course. The accident happened one day and that night Brent was called and the next day after his sessions about 10pm he went to a studio where just the three of them - he and Alan and an engineer did the song while Alan was really raw and in shock over the accident. His three daughters were very bonded with her. Listening to it made me sad - it was recorded so that it could be played at her funeral the following day, a memorial from Alan and his family.