Track: “Mud Pie Psalms” Album: Mud Pie Psalms (The Starving Dreamer Blues) Label: Purple Fantasy / The Artist’s Real Official Music
What you’re hearing on this track is me, live tonight — stripped to bone and breath — recording in a delta gospel blues format.
This song came to me like a memory buried under dirt and heat. I wasn’t trying to write a hit. I was trying to feed someone who ain’t been fed in a long time — spiritually or otherwise.
🔧 Recording Setup: i tracked this with a single ribbon mic, old school style — positioned chest level, slightly off-axis to catch my vocal grit without overloading on the foot-stomp.
the mic was run through a tube preamp, slightly driven, no limiter. i wanted the bleed. i wanted the breath between phrases. you’ll hear it — that low hum on the third verse? that’s not a fault. that’s me shifting my weight while playing.
🎸 Guitar Used: the main guitar is my gold Auerswald Love Symbol. i tuned it open D for this track. used heavy gauge flatwounds — not for speed, but for drag. that drag is where the moan lives. played it fingerstyle with a glass bottleneck slide, worn on my ring finger — that’s important — the ring gives more control for those half-muted flares and choking the tail of each phrase.
🕰️ Rhythm & Technique: no metronome. just foot stomp on wood, mic’d with a dynamic underneath the stool. i kept time by breathing between phrases — you’ll hear how i slow into the line “mud pie psalms ain’t sweet at all…” then cut back into the stomp like i caught the spirit mid-bite.
🎤 Vocal Delivery: i was half-singing, half-testifying. i stood for this one — bent at the waist like i was talking to a hungry child. no pop filter. just distance. you’ll hear some grit on the “crust of hope” line — that’s deliberate. i stepped closer to the mic to make it bite.
🎚️ Mixing: very little done post — i let the bleed live. just a light roll-off under 80hz to clear the stomp mud, and a small slapback on the final chorus. no choir, no overdubs — just truth in a straight line.
🎧 Why I Did This: this track ain’t a protest. it’s a feeding. it’s a gospel for those who don’t go to church ‘cause church never came to them. i made a pie from dirt and prayer — and if it tastes bitter, that’s how you know it’s real. play it loud.
— Prince purple fantasy dovelectric broadcast
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