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John Darnielle and the Lo-Fi Magic of All Hail West Texas<\/em>: How DIY Recording Became Art<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s a question for you: What would you say if I told you that all you need to record a classic album is to head to eBay and pay the \u201cbuy it now\u201d price of $59.95 to acquire one Panasonic RX-FT500? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, if you\u2019ve ever set an Indiegogo campaign with a goal of thousands of dollars to fund your project, this might sound very appealing! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You might also think it sounds crazy, but this very affordable piece of solid state technology is exactly what acclaimed songwriter John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats used to record his 2002 lo-fi masterpiece, All Hail West Texas<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recording into a tape deck, albeit a dual tape deck, was an incredibly outdated recording technique even by the standards of the early 2000s. Consider that this was recorded the very same year Pro Tools HD was released, a system capable of 96 simultaneous audio tracks. However, the press release for Pro Tools HD mentions nothing<\/em> of an AM\/FM radio: Advantage Darnielle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Audio quality be damned, years later All Hail West Texas <\/em>is a critical darling. The record was re-released in 2013 by the popular indie label, Merge Records, and it received a score of 9.0 and the accolade \u201cBest New Reissue<\/a> on Pitchfork. It is also the subject of a popular bi-weekly podcast, I Only Listen To The Mountain Goats<\/a><\/em>><\/a>, by Night Vale Presents. The podcast discusses artistry and West Texas<\/em> track by track, and each episode features new renditions of the songs from that album by artists such as Laura Jane Grace<\/a> of Against Me!, the Hold Steady\u2019s Craig Finn<\/a>, and more. For anyone who has ever tried to create, it\u2019s an incredibly motivating success story.
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Part of the genius of All Hail West Texas <\/em>is how relatable it is. Composed by a man with a day job, on the best resources he could grab hold of, it\u2019s an argument-ender to any blogger who told an artist their sound was too DIY. It\u2019s fire under the ass, because it shows that you don\u2019t need to be in a professional studio, or even have top-of-the-line equipment to put forth into the world a line as beautiful as \u201cwe were the one thing in the galaxy God didn\u2019t have his eyes on<\/a>.\u201d Darnielle\u2019s home recordings one day found the right pair of hands, and that means the same possibility is open for any songwriter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Darnielle has of course since moved beyond the days of boombox recording. And it’s not even a given that he’ll draw from that album in live performances. A recent tour stop in Maine relied mostly on newer material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Darnielle said about his boombox recording days in a recent interview with NPR<\/a>, \u201cWhen people talk about fidelity, I think they’re imagining that there’s some way of recording that will aspire to this condition of total clarity. I look at it more like food: You can’t say there’s a best food. Foods taste different, and some of them taste really good to you.\u201d Thus we all just have to work to find the right audience who eat up what we\u2019re selling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On episode 9 of I Only Listen To The Mountain Goats<\/em>, Darnielle and his co-host, Joseph Fink, discuss the track \u201cThe Mess Inside.\u201d Darnielle makes a case for the power of simplicity to the playing of the Modern Lovers frontman, Jonathan Richman<\/a>. He compliments Richman as a great guitarist and says, \u201cwhat you\u2019re doing worships at the altar of simplicity, but you yourself are not simple.\u201d The same should be said for All Hail West Texas<\/em>. At first all you might hear is the distortion and hum of a lo-fi basement recording, but if you listen closely you will hear thoughtful commentary on immigration<\/a>, mandatory minimum prison sentences<\/a>, and being a member of \u201cThe Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton<\/a>.\u201d It\u2019s a high water mark for depth, and Darnielle somehow found time to be catchy at the same time. Not bad for a release captured on a device that couldn\u2019t even play CDs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s got to be something to \u201cthe spirit of the Mountain Goats\u201d as guest Amanda Palmer described on an episode of I Only Listen<\/em>. Despite being a very popular artist in her own right, she opted to record her cover in a greenhouse, with a video camera balancing on a ladder. Just as there has to be a reason that Joseph and John recorded much of the podcast from a mattress in a basement. It\u2019s because good art doesn\u2019t have limitations of surroundings. If you have an SM58 and Garageband, you are light years ahead of what John Darnielle was working with when he wrote All Hail West Texas<\/em>. So don\u2019t consider your means to limit your art. The finer things in recording are nothing more than Belgian chocolates and Italian race cars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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