Recorded this at Naked City Audio in Vegas.

It’s funny what happens to songs when you bring them out of your head, and then again when you bring them out of your house and into a studio with other folks to put their fingerprints on.

I listen to this and my first instinct is to consider the mix and what elements I’d cut or add. But with the amount of music I’ve made this year, it feels a lot more fulfilling to consider this a snapshot of the friends in the studio, the engineers I met at Naked City Audio, and the energy in the room. When thinking about it from that angle it feels silly to be protective of a song; a song that can be re-recorded as many times as I’d like; a song that, at its core, maybe isn’t that good to begin with.

“Barebones” started as one of those self-assignments when, after some indeterminate amount of time, you get a little restless and frustrated internally and start thinking “well shit, if I’m gonna think of myself as a songwriter, I should probably write a couple fuckin songs once in a while” - it came together quickly at my kitchen table in Page while listening to the neighbor kids call out for their dog Tuesday.

*note: this is a mix that will eventually be replaced with a master from NCA.