Days Go By is Finally Here!
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 - 07:38 PM
Well, Days Go By, Call it Karma’s first full-length album, is finally here! I’ll be sending out copies to CDBaby.com tomorrow, so they should be available within a week, and on iTunes shortly thereafter.
Of course, if you come see us play, you can pick one up at the show!
Beer updates
Monday, April 16, 2007 - 03:39 PM
Well, the whole reason I changed this site into a “blog” was to be able to talk about my home brewing experiences. Now I notice that I really haven’t done that, and I’m on my second batch since I changed over the site!
So, here are the updates:
Two weeks ago I bottled my Vanilla Porter. This beer was inspired by the Breckenridge Vanilla Porter I wrote about in a previous post. I sampled some over the weekend (I know, two weeks in the bottle is still pretty young for a beer, but I find with porters and stouts that they seem to have matured enough by that point. Anyways, I like to sample here and there to see how they’re coming along) and it tastes pretty damn good! I think it may be my best batch yet (it’s a close draw between this and the Oatmeal Stout I did back in December). It doesn’t taste like the Breckenridge one, but I really wasn’t trying to duplicate that. Basically, I took a standard porter recipe and added some licorice root and vanilla beans to the boil.
I also brewed my 10th batch this past weekend. I wanted to brew, but didn’t have anything in mind, so Carrie and I went to the home brew supply store on Saturday (after lunch at Goose Island - I had the Fulton Wood Bitter, which has a really nice hop flavor to it without being overly bitter like some very-hoppy beers) and looked at the kits they had in stock. It was a draw between the Scotch Ale and the Brown Ale. We ended up going with the brown. Nothing special, I know - just an off-the-shelf kit (except I used a 1028 London Wyeast pack instead of the dry yeast that it came with) - I just wanted to brew something.
Tracklist for Days Go By
Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 04:59 PM
We went to the mastering studio yesterday to finish up the final little bits of production on what is now officially titled Days Go By. Since it’s now set in stone (well, etched into a CD master, anyways), I can now provide the track listing for Call it Karma’s first full-length CD:
1. Days Go By
2. You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
3. Caramel
4. American Dream
5. Naughty Dog
6. Confession
7. Jack
8. Secret
9. Summer Weiss
10. Friend of the Devil
11. Goddamn Map
12. Peter
13. Promise
It’s being sent off for duplication this week, and we should have CDs available for the show on the 27th, which is now a CD release party as well as a Bon Voyage to Erin!
Almost Done
Monday, April 09, 2007 - 11:54 AM
Well, after several nights of overdubs, and many notes to the engineer for revisions to the mixes (our engineer, Corey, must be so sick of us by now), we’re finally in the home stretch. All of the mixes are final, the song order is set, and we head to the mastering studio this week for that final “spit and polish”. We’ve even got the cover art almost complete. Once we send everything off for duplication, we should have our first full-length CD ready in just a matter of weeks!
It’s really good, by the way. Everyone in the band is really happy with the way it turned out. I know I am. We got a lot done in a very little time, and what we have is good. It could have easily been garbage given the number of songs we did in just a couple of days. Likewise, it could have easily been just a few songs, not an entire album’s worth, that we ended up with.
Initially we’ll be doing a limited run of only 100 copies. We’ll then be trying to shop it to independent labels. (If the initial run sells out before we can get it picked up, we’ll likely get more made to distribute ourselves.) Keep checking the Call It Karma web site for more details when the album finally becomes available.