Chords for Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Dawn Landes

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_ _ _ [G] Okay, so we're here with Dawn Landis who's out touring right now to support her new record Bluebird _
And Dawn, thanks for coming by
_ I was curious about how you got started playing the guitar and you know, you grew up in Kentucky.
Is that right?
Mm-hmm.
And what was the what was the thing that kind of got you first going on music?
_ Hmm.
Oh, I was always singing songs and making up songs
I took [C] piano lessons as a kid and I remember I was singing in a band in high school _
And I really wanted to learn how to play the guitar, but I didn't want to suck
I didn't want all my guy friends and to know that I was terrible
So I started secretly taking lessons and I didn't tell anyone that I was playing for about a [N] year
And then suddenly I was like, oh, yeah, check this out _
_ _ _ But Danny Flanagan taught me guitar lessons in Louisville and he's a great songwriter from from Kentucky and
That was just really fun and I bought a guitar from an ex-boyfriend for a dollar
_ Yeah, cuz he wanted to give it to me
I need to pay for this here.
Here's a dollar but I paid for it
You play a Blue Ridge and and what what about those guitars appeals to you?
I love these guitars
I bought this
there's a guy Rick Kelly who has a shop Carmine guitars in New York and I've bought a few guitars from his his shop and
_ Blue Ridge is a very affordable guitar and it looks great and it stays in tune and it's I love the inlays
Yeah, I don't I really like these guitars anything.
They're really good
This song is called bluebird
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_ _ _ _ Don't know _
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Oh
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_ [E] _ _ I shouldn't [E] go but it makes [D] me feel so good. _ _ _ _
_ Tali, _ _ _ _ _ cover me in a veil. _ _ _
You sing to [G] me, dee, dee, dee, [E] oh, I feel [D] so understood. _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ Falling so _ deep to a _ _ warm summer's [D] sleep.
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Calling _ _ around, _ _ _ losing _ _ track of _ time.
_ No [F] direction _
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[D] _ _ time. _ _ _
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, _ _ _ _ _ _ oh, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ oh, _ oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, _
Stay [E] _ here, [G] know you're near.
I [Em] just want [D] to be with you. _ _ _ _
_ Don't know _ _ _ what _ to do. _ _ _
Your song is sweet, I forget my [G] feet while you let me dance with you.
[G] Oh, _ oh, _ _ _ oh, _ [E] _
[D] oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, _ [A] oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
oh,
On a warm _ [D] summer night, _ _ _ [A] fly _ _ back to me. _ _
I'll forget _ _ _ every _ _ _ need.
[F] Just a tangle _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ in [D] the _ _ _ _ breeze.
But all of my _ _ memories. _
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[E] And I [G] close my eyes, [B] and I feel you [D] looking, oh, [G] _ _ yeah.
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You eventually, started doing [D] lots of studio work and you were a studio engineer for people
like filth class.
Yeah, yeah.
What, what got you into that _ part of the business?
I was really, well I mean everybody who writes songs wants to record them I think and so
I was experimenting with four tracks and everything in high school and then I, when I moved to
New York to go to college I wanted to do a demo and you know just having to rely on other
people and not knowing the vocabulary to talk to them about sounds and everything was really
frustrating for me [N] so I just decided to learn as much about it as I could and then I just
got obsessed with recording.
You know it's an obsession to just layer sounds and I've
always loved production and like dissecting a song and figuring out what's in it and so
it just seemed really natural and I just kind of, I got an internship at Philip Glass' studio
and that kind of started me and then I just worked in studios for, I've been working,
I own my own studio with some other people now and just a lifelong obsession I think.
Is there a secret or a way that one should record an acoustic guitar?
Gary Maurer was a mentor, is a mentor of mine and _ whenever I do a session I like to have
a small diaphragm condenser, something like this, like a Schepps is my absolute favorite
or a PM860 is one of my favorite mics, the Gafell, _ but the trick is you put it on the
12th fret, you usually put it like [D] around here and you angle it, not too close to it
but aim for the 12th fret and kind of angle it a little bit like this.
That's my favorite
sound and then if you want like a bigger sound you put like a larger diaphragm condenser
further back so you get like the roomy sound.
That's my favorite way of recording an acoustic guitar. _ _ _ _ _
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