The Stoney Lonesome Sound- Classical Guitar at its center, with percussion, and (in the mind but maybe for real sometime soon!) piano, bass, additional acoustic strings, horn section, and chorus/additional vocalists. Why not? It is fun to imagine, but for the meantime, this is a sound built around the six worn strings of the classical guitar, but more instruments are happily welcome around the campfire.
It is also a sound that can be sung in the fields while going about farm activities. Most of the songs are not farm specific, but they certainly have been farm tested. If it can't be sung while harvesting, it's not quite there yet, in sync with the Stoney Lonesome Sound.
So my original thought with the album titled Stoney Lonesome Sound was to see whether Stoney Lonesome.blogspot was available, since it is a simpler entry. And then I thought, maybe the album should just be called Stoney Lonesome. But after commencing multiple blogs on Torch Bearer #3, I have realized that Stoney Lonesome Sound can also have more than one blog- specifically two. Why two? I'm not sure, again, it just feels right. That's why we run a sixty member Community Supported Agriculture program on our farm. It feels right at this time. I like to go by the feel.
My brother Thomas has often emphasized throughout the years the significance of numbers, and that has impacted me. One blog for Babylon Outpost, three for Torch Bearer #3, two for Stoney Lonesome Sound, one for Cat Ion Music, that adds up to seven, a good number.
Seven, that's alot of blogs- maybe so, maybe not. My blogs are very sparse, without alot of addons, or too much thought on template layout. Just content as it arrives, blogging when inspired. My blogging will concentrate on the album being made when the process begins, very very soon, so it's not like I'm constantly updating seven blogs. Together they form a blog collective centered on my creation of music. After the proto-albums are made (first run-throughs of the songs, simple recordings, few tracks, no perfection sought here, just solid versions of the songs), I may add to the blogs on each album as I listen to them, and as this whole music adventure goes where it goes.
I think its an exciting concept, that albums do not have to be cut once and packaged forever- why can't they be works in progress, with different versions, different arrangements, diversity! I like approaching the same songs in different ways. The official album is something I find confining.
Family, friends, and folks who enjoy the music can wander through the blogs for more insights into my approach to creating and sharing music. I want the experience to be fun and meaningful, and something that catches people by surprise when they decide to look up the blog address inside an album cover.
In Strength,
Farmer Pablo
