Mixes option

Recording Friday was interesting.  I didn't get started as early as I wanted, because when I got there the people who were in charge of the space weren't there and I had to round up a librarian who had a master key, and then her master key wouldn't fit the door, but we rounded up a couple of other librarians and trooped (is a group of librarians a thesaurus?) back up to the top floor and eventually someone had the keys to get me in.
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So, TL;DR the upshot is that recording went pretty well yesterday and when I have the mixing done, probably in a day or two, are people interested in listening to the mixes and letting me know if they like the reverb and eq and so on?

Today is Alice Day. Also, about Bandcamp?

I sang this one at the last Atlanta Housefilk but only now got around to typing the lyrics into the computer.

This is for a friend who is stuck working a horrible schedule for a horrible employer who is trying to break the union by, for example, insisting that everyone work twelve hours a day every day (like, seven days a week) and that they not remove their safety gear (gloves, welding mask) to eat lunch.  I think the plan is that if they can make everybody quit they can hire people who have no rights (illegal immigrants, probably) and treat them even worse.  The mind boggles at what "even worse" would be--though one imagines it involves no safety regulations, and no pay to speak of.

How they can even get away with treating people this way I have no idea.   And it pisses me off.

I should warn people that this song makes use of the F-word in one place (where I think it is entirely consistent with the point of view character and the situation) and for that reason might not be appropriate for some listeners or listening places.  For this reason I will hide it behind a cut.

( Lyrics and mp3 here )

Also my bandcamp page has album-quality (I think) versions of this song, as well as Art Feeds Life.  They can be downloaded or streamed for free (big files for good sound quality but you have the choice of various mp3 incarnations as well if bandwidth is a problem.)  If you would like to give them a listen and let me know what you think of the reverb and eq and so on, I would be interested to hear from you.