The genesis and background for this recording grew out of Odean's May 24, 2006 recording (CIMP 353). Odean is an early riser and, like a handful of other artists whom we have recorded, likes to go outside and play in the fields, so to speak. Listening to his a cappella improvisations amidst the birds ‘n' bugs that May morning, I found an emotional directness in Odean's playing that touched me and felt the aural evidence, if all went well, could translate into a meaningful CD experience. Odean immediately took to the idea of recording solo outside, and Marc, after his outdoors recording experience years earlier with Joe McPhee and David Prentice (which resulted in the remarkable and unique Inside Out [CIMP 120], felt it could be engineered successfully. |