The whole song has a mid-’90s Sixpence None the Richer vibe, and there’s part of me that wonders if I lifted some of it from their This Beautiful Mess album.  It’s possible; I haven’t listened to it in years (I only ever had it on tape), but it’s the kind of music that sticks with you, buried in your subconscious and then coming out years later.

As far as the recording of the song, I only had my Peavy Predator and Ibanez Artwood.  Both the acoustic rhythm and the lead guitar were recorded with the Ibanez, and the electric rhythm with the Predator.  One of the things that I tried on this song was a simpler electric rhythm part.  As someone who has played a lot of solo acoustic guitar without any other backup, I have a tendency to over do the rhythm when playing electric guitar.  It comes, I think, from my percussive style of play.  So, in this song I consciously kept the electric rhythm simple, strumming only once or twice per chord and letting it ring out.  I think it does a good job (usually) of letting the lead stand out.  The lead, by the way, is based on a normal A-minor scale, and all of it is played on the A and D strings, which gives a nice, smooth slide effect.

The bass part was created by playing it on the acoustic guitar and pitch-shifting it down, while the drums were created with a program called Leaf Drums (which I haven’t used in years).  Leaf Drums is very helpful in laying down a quick, basic backing track, but I was never happy with the sound, which is too easily lost and doesn’t have enough depth or punch.  I always planned on re-recording this song with live drums and a real bass, and hopefully I’ll get to that this summer.