An instrumental revamp of 'The Long Winter' by one of my favorite bands from Pittsburgh, the Affordable Floors.
As a musician, you release your children in the wild and you never know what effects it has. If you are popular enough, you might get a letter or email, but for most of us that don't sell millions of copies, it's blind faith that somewhere out there - some folks are hearing the music on Pandora or Spotify or whatnot and maybe - just maybe - they dig it. Perhaps they came to shows, bought a CD, took it home and it changed their lives...
I have every album the Affordable Floors (the first, actually originally on cassette!) released on my mp3 players/ipods/etc. (despite the fact that they voted against us in the DVE local bands show at Graffiti - but that's another story) Their music over the years has provided me with literally countless hours of inspiration and occasionally insight. People don't say nice things often enough, so I wanted to take the opportunity to say thanks. It made a real difference.
Finally, I really love the hooks on their first record 'the Sounding' - the remake of 'the Long Winter' on the not-officially-released record company version was quite different and, while catchy in it's own right, for me it was just less memorable. This version combines my favorite bits from both with a nod at the end to my favorite Mike Keneally CD... because!
So, any guitarists / vocalists want to finish this up and release it? Cause, I do.
