Stories: Your coat is kind of a brownish color... (Patreon)

This one's for all you Browncoats out there.

A few years ago at one of my Firefly Drinking Songs shows, I made a slight change to Daniel Glasser's popular song "Close Your Eyes" aka "The Demon Lullaby". I gave it a Firefly twist. My audience loved it and made me promise to release a recording of the song.

I was hoping to save it for another Firefly album, or another Sci Fi album. But I also hadn't even recorded it.

I decided to set it as a milestone on Patreon to force my hand. That worked!

When I set that milestone, I planned to record just 4-songs. But I had an idea last year about doing a podcast that was sort of a "radio show" where I played many songs from the Firefly Drinking Songs series as a free introduction to my Firefly music. 

As I sat down to record, I impulsively decided to record this EP like that. Then I added on some extra songs... because I'm like that...

Behind the Scenes Listen

The first half of this recording features songs, I have not song on, and that I thought would be easy to lay down for an EP. You'll the Firefly theme song, "Good to Have Jayne On Your Side", "Reavers Lullaby", my new song "The Long Arm", and "Sail the Sky".

That was the original list of songs I was gonna put on this EP. Then I got carried away. I recorded a new version of "Browncoat Baby" which was only released as part of Patreon. Then I realized I hadn't recorded "Hero of Canton". I could add that.

Finally, I asked Rie Sheridan Rose to write some Firefly drinking song lyrics. I've barely touched them. So I decided to AT LEAST record one. 

That required writing a song. So for the next 20 minutes you can hear clips of my writing process. The whole recording probably took a full hour.  But with lots of cursing and repetition as I learned to the chords, it didn't make for good entertainment.

You will notice a lot of errors in the recordings. Most, I can fix. Some, I will have to redo. And since I already have songs completed, I think I'm gonna try and lay at least two more songs by Rie before I stop and finish mixing.

My hope is to use at least one of these songs, "The Long Arm", on a my Irish Adventures album, but with full production. It may be this recording with additional instrumentation, or it may not. No telling at present.

Any case, I hope you like, and thank you again for supporting my CD fundraising!