Nashville-based Emily Hines is releasing her debut album ‘These Days’ on August 1st via Keeled Scales. The first single is ‘My Own Way‘, of which she says, “This is the last song I wrote for the record. I wrote it on my porch in Nashville. I felt stuck in place and needed to sing myself out of it.”
Interestingly, she adds that, “This recording ended up playing an important role in shaping the sound of the album. At first, we weren’t planning to track any live drums on the record. We enjoyed playing with drum machines, and the cassette presented some challenges to recording live drums. But we got in an experimental mood one day and asked our friend John-Ruben Medina to play on it for us. We were so happy with how it sounded that it inspired us to record live drums on some of the other songs as well.”
And you know it would not be like us not to share that there was a raised eyebrow at this information – what a strange world it is, where using live drums played on a real, honest-to-goodness drum kit is seen as experimental. As someone once said: “Has the world gone mad, or is it me?”
