Bruce Roper
Bruce Roper
capture hard nights quite
It's hard to capture what we do live on any CD. In concerts, we play it off the cuff as much as we can. Some nights it doesn't work, but most of the time, it's quite entertaining.
collection dumb front opposed playing porch songs
It was the front porch approach. For most of the songs, we were all playing all the time, as opposed to layering the sound. It's a collection of dumb little songs we make up when we should be doing something else with our lives.
dry energy folk gone guitars love music people singing sitting somewhat songs worse wrote
(Turbo-charged folk) comes from the energy that we create. Unfortunately, folk music can be boring. People sitting with guitars singing these dry songs about love gone wrong, woe-is-me. It's somewhat self-indulgent. Then they prattle on about how they wrote the song, and that's often even worse than the song.