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The Ballad of Rick Perry (The Man From Paint Creek)

Posted on Tuesday, June 21st, 2011 by Nutcracker Buck

 

This was one of the late leftovers from the nutcracker project, updated a bit for the irresistible jogging coyote story.  I don’t remember why I didn’t use it originally.  Probably because it’s an awful song.  Also, I seem to recall making some efforts toward recording it and having more trouble than usual.  For one thing, the tempo is insanely fast, and if you’re going to use a click track, as I figured I needed to do on this one or otherwise it would be impossible to overdub anything, you need to figure out what the tempo is.  I don’t have much of a knack for that.  This was recorded at 234 BPM (beats per minute).   I don’t know whether I did it right.  My metronome goes only to 240.

I decided to give the song another shot when Perry started getting all this presidential attention; I figured the song would be obsolete pretty soon, so better to pay tribute to his gubernatorial career now.  Also, I’ve been slow at work.  I’ll probably get slower after this.