Скачать или смотреть Morning Dew feat. Mike Cvetanovich, Stuart Gunter & Brian Gregory (Dead-a-Day 9/2/20)

Back after a long hiatus! This song was a challenge to complete, for a bunch of reasons. For one, it's an important one in the Dead catalog, and I really wanted to get it right. For another, it's a ten-minute epic — easily the meatiest chunk we've bitten off all summer. I also found it difficult to maintain the pressure to complete the work, having let up on the every-day schedule. The perfectionist tendencies reared their heads again, and it was also much easier to step away and do something else (like get a good night's sleep!) I really just churned through it, little by little.

Most importantly, though, it's a heavy song, with its post-apocalyptic setting and relentless sense of loss and grief. Not an easy song to take on this summer. But I knew I couldn't pass it up, so here it is. Many thanks to my collaborators, Stuart, Brian, and Mike — for the work, and for waiting so long for the final product!

I finally got the Wurlitzer's sustain pedal working! That was another thing that took a while. You can find it in one of the little boxes here, innards exposed and drawing mightily.

Oh, and thanks to my neighbors, for putting up with all those ascending runs. (I probably could've turned the amp down for the practice part.) I knew what I wanted to play, but I don't have a lot of experience actually doing it. :)

The next couple should be in the offing rather sooner than this one. Thanks for listening.