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The Lost Art

01. By Your Side 02. Lovelight 03. Inside My Room 04. Follow You Around 05. It's OK 06. You Don't Belong To Me 07. I Don't Know 08. Sand Castle 09. When You're Lonely 10. Pretty Baby

Written, Arranged, Produced and Performed by Joe Nacco Drums by Paul Salamone Engineered by Josh Herzog at Cat Trax Studio Mixed by Josh Herzog and Joe Nacco Mastered by Larry DeVivo at Silvertone Mastering

***Click on the song to listen and to see the lyrics and song/production notes***




Album running time:
43 mins. and 10 secs.

Weblink notes:
Clicking on each song opens a window that will begin playing the song. Written in that window are the song notes, production notes and lyrics. Below are the album notes. Theres alot of info here, hopefully you'll find 43:10 to sit, listen and read how this all came about and then really appreciate what we've done with this. I wanted everyone to see how it all happened from my perspective. Thanks!

Album notes:
During the summer of 2004 I decided to begin working on a new album. In the past I had always dictated the songs I wrote for a purpose. While in the band HEAD, I always tried to write rock n' roll songs that people would enjoy in a bar setting cause that's where we spent most of our time. Any ballads and slower tempo stuff I wrote just never got performed. For The Bored Syndrome I was trying to write songs I could play anywhere, coffee houses & bars, wherever. This time, the agenda was to ignore how the songs would get performed and just put together great songs. We had just dismantled the Joe Nacco Band and decided we were going to make the greatest studio album we could with no intentions of ever performing the songs. That way we could make an album we would finally be happy with. The art would live and die in the studio, if it had to.

I began putting together the tracklist for the album. I was able to write 6 new songs I was very happy with. I already had "Lovelight", "Sand Castle" & a song called "Slow Down" (which eventually got dropped) that I had written not too long ago for whatever the next album was to become. Plus there were 2 songs I wrote in 2001, "Inside my room" and "Pretty Baby," that I had always wanted to record in confines of a real studio. I came up with an acoustic version of the album for everyone in the Joe Nacco Camp to listen to and for me to start working on arrangements and production ideas.

October 2004, we ditched the 4-track recorder and "Paul's Basement/My Bedroom Studios" (where we've always recorded) and went to Cat Trax Studio where we could do whatever we wanted. They have a digital program with 128 tracks and endless editing capabilities. We decided we were going all out. I then began arranging and gathering my production ideas for each individual song. Each individual song's production notes are included in the links above that access the song.

We worked for 7 months, recording, listening, re-recording, and fixing exactly what needed to be fixed. We worked on Fridays mostly and for only a couple hours, which was the real reason it took so long. But this gave me time during the week to listen to the songs and figure out whatever adjustments needed to be made until things were perfect or as close to perfect as we could get.

In mid to late April 2005, we finished in the studio and handed the project off to Larry DeVivo for the mastering. We ended up working with Larry for one day and then he finished what he needed to in another day and the album was finished.

We are currently dealing with aspects of manufacturing the disc. It will be released shortly, and while we can, we've given our close friends and fans this link to access the work. ENJOY!!