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On the Heels of His First Hit, George Birge Talks Making Time for a Follow-Up With ‘Cowboy Songs’


This week's Makin' Tracks features the successor to Birge's hit "Mind on You."

Songwriter/producer Lalo Guzman (Sammy Arriaga, Dylan Schneider) whipped out a track he’d created that he believed would be too far afield, but he liked it and figured it would at least give them a starting place to explore the sound’s direction. They worked on the master multiple times, with Andy Ellison providing steel at the beginning and Birge spending three hours on the vocal track, drinking tequila to set the barroom mood and focusing on specific inflections. Thus, early indications suggest that the 17-hour writing session and the months of agonizing over drums sounds may have given Birge what he most needed from “Cowboy Songs”: three more minutes of magic.

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