Roger McGuinn Interview
Sorry for the gap in posts--I just spent a couple weeks taking a much needed break and feel great for having done it. I spent a while in Glacier National Park and the only piece of electronics that I came into contact with for those days (other than my car) was my camera. There wasn't a WiFi or cell signal to be had in any case. Glorious unreachability.
But the world moves on! One of the first things I saw in my overloaded inbox when I came in this morning was a link to this great article on PopMatters.com with Roger McGuinn. The interview is fun, with lots of questions about Roger's Folk Den project where he's posting a new folk song to the web each month in an effort to keep traditional songs from dying out. He covers subjects from his new box set, which artists from today he thinks will stand the test of time, his early influences, and how technology has changed music production. It was this section that made it cross my inbox, and you can tell which part was my favorite. Says Roger:
I don't have to go to the big studio anymore. I can fire up a laptop and get the same quality recording that you used to only get in the studio...my favorite one is Adobe Audition, and it's got so many plug-ins that it's just like a million-dollar studio in a box. It's just amazing.
I had the good fortune to spend some time with Roger a few years ago when he was on tour starting some of these Folk Den recordings. He prefers to drive everywhere rather than fly and he came through Phoenix and stopped by the Syntrillium offices there. We spent the afternoon talking his project, our software, and he graced us with a little banjo performance right there in our conference room which I'll never forget.
Anyway, I'd recommend it as an interesting interview (even beyond the Audition plug). Check it out here!