I wrote Swan Creek about the years when I lived in the Toledo, Ohio area. The town I lived in was just west of Toledo in Fulton County. A town called Swanton, near the banks of the historic Swan Creek, just west of Holland. Before you get to Delta. We moved there from Ada, Ohio which was in Hardin County. I worked initially for a company called American Telecasting Inc. About a year after I started at ATI, they were bought by Sprint. My office in Toledo was on Westwood Ave. I drove there usually down Old State Line Rd., crossing the Ohio Turnpike as I drove there from my small town.
Toledo evidently is one of the cloudiest places in the U.S. It did seem overcast more than other places I had been, but not enough to cause me to think any less of the area. I spent many meal times at the local restaurants that are the lifeblood of the area, especially Tony Packo's Cafe and Al Smith's Restaurant.
When things started winding down, it just all seemed to happen so fast. I was the last one from the company still at Westwood. Finally I moved back to Central Ohio and went back to work at a former employer when my job like the rest, was eliminated at Sprint.The friends and associates I made at ATI just seemed to disburse in every conceivable direction. What was once a group of people that spent nearly every day together became only a memory.
I was going to record this song in this manner in a few days, this was just the first take of the test I was doing to determine recording levels, etc. I had planned to dress a little better. After seeing it, I ended up using it to create the video. I don't think it's perfect, but what is? I was able to use a Shure SM-27 condenser mike for the recording as opposed to the built in microphone in my digital camcorder. The clarity of the recording made it well worth any trouble I had interfacing the two. Trouble I did have.
Swan Creek will be on my newest album called "Volume", in a much more highly produced form. It should be released by Summer 2013.
15 сен 2024
