Being able to drive again
was a godsend. I had originally
planned on driving out to LA from the Midwest so I’d have my own car for the
sessions, but it had met its end the preceding winter on a
downtown bridge over the Chicago River.
The car had been my grandfather’s, and he had passed just a few months
prior, so it felt like losing him all over again. Before it was towed away, I pried a plastic insignia from
the dashboard to have as a keepsake – of my grandfather’s car, the car I
learned to sing in, the car I drove to New York in, the car I kept all of my
possessions in for four months in Chicago before my best friend and I got our
first real apartment.
Michalis Koutsoupides - Violin / Viola
Recorded spring 2008, Lawrence, Kansas.
Mixed by Mike Giffin.
Mastered by Doug Van Sloun.
Remastered by Matt LaPoint.
Original Release Date: 31 July 2009 (Broken Horse // UK)
Image: The North Carolina (from Thalman family archives; restored by David Marquardt).
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