Unreleased Songs

by Burt Taggart

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about

With the recent Big Cat activity, I've found myself digging through collections of demos left by the wayside. And although I've considered it before, now seems as good a time as any to make these "missing years" demos available.

In brief, these 15 songs were written & recorded in the years between the Big Cats almost breaking up in 1996 to reforming in 2001 [a year after Shannon's passing in May of 2000]. Some odd years in there for sure, but as they've come up on shuffle from time to time, I still hear some things that I enjoy. Hope you do as well.

A little more...

Two time frames are represented here. Songs 1-4 collect ideas from a year I spent in a dumpy apartment in downtown Brooklyn circa 1997. The Big Cats had dispersed and so I headed for the most wildly different scenario from LR that I could find. Living above a nail salon half a block down from the Fulton Street mall fit the bill. I haven't been back to that neighborhood since but for awhile it fulfilled a niche.

The second of these two sets [songs 5-15] were recorded while living in Fayetteville, Arkansas. First in a duplex on the eastern outskirts of town that backed up to a cow pasture and then later in a red house with a large basement halfway up Mount Sequoyah. This would have been around 2000-2001. When the Big Cats decided to reconvene I wrote "Fayetteville Blues" and my bandless, demo days came to a thankful end.

All the best,
BT

credits

released 08 February 2011
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"767" was recorded on a four-track owned by Jason Morphew. He also helped sing it with me.

"In The Jungle" has Catherine McRae on violin and Shannon Yarbrough & John Housley singing in the background.

"Every Other Word" was written with the help of Lisa Cobb, Kara Wise, and Lindsey Taggart.

M.C. Inman helped me sing "If It's True" and Josh Bentley added bass.

Also, "So Long" later became a song for Pants - and while I really like the version we did together - I'm also fond of this one.

Photograph: Richard Matson

Except for "767", all songs recorded on a Fostex DMT-8VL.

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