This song was the
Pick of the Week on 2014.08.31.
Here's the story:
On this rainy day in Vermont, I'm remembering this old song from my band Everything But Anchovies. Tim wrote the words in late 1987 when most of the band was house sitting for my folks when they were on sabbatical in Thailand.
I don't remember much at all about how the song came to be, but I have some memories of working through the different parts together. I remember feeling really proud of the confusion of musical styles that blended together: some cool jazzy chords in a blues progression with a reggae feel.
This recording is from the Full Moon Studio session of late April 1988 that ended up on the Brown Carpet & Full Moon album. We recorded a stereo mix of four mics on drums, bass, and electric guitar live to two tracks, then overdubbed acoustic guitar to a third track, and finally vocals to a fourth track.
Thanks for listening!
-Andy
Rain Woman Falling
Rain woman falling
Tears flow by my feet
Pick me up and see my eye
See your current flowing by
Rain woman falling
Locomotive walking
Seeing without sound
Move your way on down the track
Wonder if you're coming back
Locomotive walking
Long distance thinking
Every time of day
See you in a thousand places
Many moods and many faces
Long distance thinking
Tim Odell -- late October 1987
©1988 by Everything But Anchovies
The first 13 tunes are the Brown Carpet Studios session, recorded during a break between semesters in Dec 1986 - Jan 1987. The Full Moon Studios session were the remaining 3 tunes, with some classic EBA recorded in their basement rehearsal space.
Both sessions were recorded with the guitar, bass, and drums recorded live and vocals, acoustic guitar, and lead guitar overdubbed. Andy engineered and produced the recordings with a TEAC 4-track reel-to-reel recorder and a rented mixing board.
Everything But Anchovies
Members:
Jon Morse - drums
Tim Odell - bass, vocals
Andy Wyatt - vocals, guitars
Years of Activity:
1978-1995
Overview:
Started as Voyager in 1979. Briefly included Pete Downes as rhythm guitarist. Changed name to The Raid in 1981, and to Everything But Anchovies in 1986. Played about 85 gigs around Ithaca, NY and a few nearby towns between 1980-1989. Most were at The Nines (16), second-most at Oliver's (11), third-most at the Hidden Valley 4H camp (11), and fourth-most at T.J. Tuesday's (8). After the last gig, a live TV broadcast in November 1989, we didn't play again until 1991, when we got together for a reunion jam at Andy's new house (see Spreading More Jam). We did likewise at Jon's new house in 1993 for the first Voyager reunion, then in 1995 we started getting together for EBA improv sessions. This evolved into Killer Whirlpool by 1996.