McFee was on top of his guitar game throughout this album, as you can tell. SC: Well, the recordings all pretty much went the same. One of the songs that’s called “The Girl From Oz,” which has a real unusual guitar sound to it. Some of the other songs are really interesting, too. But that’s our interpretation of what it would be a young guy coming out of that neck of the woods. So when we would sit and talk with him about it, we’d draw inspiration from conversations that we would have with him and his personality - more abstract cues and clues. And the bayou is in his backyard, as well. And the song itself was inspired by one of Southern Pacific’s guitar technicians. And it’s something I know a little bit about. It definitely has that swampy feel, which was the intention, which was to try and cop that bayou groove. Talking about some of the individual songs, definitely the one that sounds most like Creedence would be “Bayou Rebel.” Can you talk about that song and how it came about? It’s got a real swampy feel to it.
It was not something that we thought, “Well, someday we can worry about that down the road.” Right now, we’re just trying to write the best songs and get the best performances out of each other.
And then Keith and I were living in Los Angeles, so we would commute back and forth.ĭid Jackdawg ever play live or was it just totally shelved after you couldn’t find a record deal? We did this out of town up at McFee’s studio in Solvang, Calif. And we’d do that every week, three or four days a week. Then we’d go out and start to work on musical ideas and put them together and see where we could. But yeah, we would sit around and start with an idea, a title, and then we’d work that for a while. Most of the songs were written the three of us together. With the writing process for this album, it sounds like it was a real collaborative effort. And otherwise, there has been no additional recording. The album was remixed just a couple of months ago. The album that’s being released now, is this the album in its original form or do you have other songs that are in the vaults, too? So it was really about us writing and recording our own material, doing it without somebody standing over our shoulders, just to see how much we could get out of each other. In other words, any ideas that anybody had we would give them a try and try to keep the best ones. The approach we took was that nothing was off limits. And we’re excited about that.Īt the time you were recording the album, what were your feelings about it? So now, jump ahead a decade, the music is finally going to see the light of day. It was a great time, a lot of fun and a great experience. And then we decided to move on from there. But the situation was that, it didn’t look like it was going to go anywhere soon. we were doing the work in the studio we weren’t quite sure what was happening on the other side of the glass. Was it basically just not being able to secure a record deal that let these tapes almost disappear? And so 19, 20 years later, I guess, now the tapes are mixed and being released on Sonic Past Music. So we just put it on the shelves and went on to do other stuff. We ultimately recorded 16 songs - 14 originals - and one thing led to another and the music industry had changed by the time we were ready to present our demos, and we found ourselves unable to secure a major-label deal at the time. So that’s sort of how the project got rolling along. And we weren’t really quite sure what was going to go on, where it was going, but we knew that writing and recording every week it was getting better and better, coming easier for us, and we were still having a good time. So in about ’89, we started writing together, recording together and just hanging out and having some fun tried to get the best out of each other.
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