While in Detroit visiting friends, Dave stopped in to Jack White's Third Man Records location for a pressing plant tour, a little shopping, and a chance to cross something off his bucket list.
Both Third Man Record locations (Nashville & Detroit) each possess a vintage 1947 Voice-O-Graph booth that allows customers to perform inside a tiny recording studio while a recording of the performance is cut directly onto a 6" disc in real time. Each performer has only 2:20, and the finished record is dispensed at the end of the session like a selection from a candy machine.
Most of Dave's songs run well over 2:20, so he had to pick something short and sweet, and with no opportunity for rehearsal. His selection: "One Way Ticket", a song co-written with Planet Roy's Gary Fitch way back in 1998, but never officially released. Despite the confined quarters, the clocked pressure, the rudimentary guitar work, and a flubbed lyric or two... it turned out to be a fun experiment in music.
Track 1 lets you hear the end result of the nostalgic and magical Voice-O-Graph machine while track 2 gives you a fly-on-the-wall perspective as you hear the entire process start-to-finish (minus the booth playback) as captured on Dave's iPhone.
credits
released July 13, 2019
Dave Rayburn - Guitar & Vocal
Written by Gary Fitch & Dave Rayburn
Published by Good Line Music
Recorded live at Third Man Records (Cass Corridor), Detroit, Michigan on June 9, 2019
Produced by Dave Rayburn
Special thanks to Gary Fitch, Laura Moore, Michael Moore, and Jack White
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