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...make sketches on my 4-track - very, very rough pictures of songs. Tunes, bits and pieces of things that I think of, that kind of thing. I'll have hundreds of songs on my tapes and then I take 20 or 30 of those into the big studio to record. Of those, the songs that fit together the best are the one that make it on the record. Basically I look for songs that I can thread together in some...
...Lonesome Me" features Lucinda Williams, what was that like working with her? I was beginning to record that song and I started to hear her voice come out of the speakers. I have been a fan of hers for a long, long time; she has just one of those voices that when you hear it you never forget it. It just seemed like it would work better with her, so we invited her to do the duet. She said yes and I was thrilled. I had never met her before...
Last year you made a record with Zooey Deschanel under the name She & Him. How did that project come about? I was doing music for a film that she was starring in called Go Getter. The director had an idea to put us in the studio together to record a Richard Thompson song. So we met in L.A. and got along really well and eventually she sent me her demos and I thought they were incredible, so I told her you know, "Let's make a record." She came up to Portland and it took about no more than...
What is the music scene like in Portland? A lot of people are moving here, artists are moving here because by and large it's the cheapest city. It's incredible. I've lived here since 2000 which is when I starting making my first record and was making music full time. There's a big music scene and of course we have all the coffee shops. I love it. I have no plans on leaving. We have pretty dreary weather in the wintertime which draws people indoors to make music...
This year’s Datamatch—the electronic compatibility program hosted by the Harvard Computer Society—saw record participation, with 1755 people filling out the survey...