PHIL PARR
musician, studio engineer, blind handyman
Phil, Thru the Years
I don’t remember what we originally called this collection but it has been renamed. Most of this album was done in 1989 over at my old house on a Fostex eight-track tape recorder. I did the rhythm stuff on the first six tracks and then moved all of that to tracks 7 and 8. This left me six tracks for leads and vocals. This day and time that sounds impossible but that is what I had so I did it. At that time I had no compressors or peak limiters so everything had to be very carefully mixed. Fortunately the room and my monitor were pretty good and it all came out well. I think it is the best stuff I have ever done but, that’s just my opinion.
After we got recordable CD’s we went back and put all the stuff I did on little 45 records many years ago back in Houston on them and renamed all of it, Phil, Thru the Years. We also added a couple of Christmas songs at the end with the Harris sisters Jovina and Juanita singing with me. Give a listen and let me know what you think. Here are samples of all the songs.
Bring it on Down to My House Honey
- Won’t You Ride in My Little Red Wagon
- Laying Beside You in the Early Morning Light
- I’ll Never be Free
- Sad Songs are Selling This Year
- Measure of a Man
- List of the People You Love
- Linda and the Cowboy
- I’m Going to Let You Hurt Me One More Time
- I Know a Heartache When I See One
- May You Never Be Alone Like Me
- Momma
- Excuse Me While I Cry
- Slipping Around
- A Fooler, a Faker, a Breaker of Hearts
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- Three’s a Crowd
- Mine Are Not Careless Hands
- The Right to Slip Around
- Part of a :Lonely Thing Called Me
- Small World
