If The Rest Was Dead

Part of our Prison Songs project - see www.citiesandmemory.com/prisonsongs for full details.

Reimagined version of Whoa Buck by Jeff Dungfelder.

"After completing my first memory version of this field recording in a dark lo-fi noise vein loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe, I asked myself what it might be like if these words existed in a deep beat driven after hours underground world. I wanted to take them completely out of the blues/prison context and view them as a part of a late night groove headspace. At the moment I was inspired by reading a quote by Pablo Picasso: “Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." So I guess I ended up destroying my own memory version and reimagining “If The Rest Was Dead.” You could say I took the sonic view to get there."