Blue Sun Meadow is a 30-minute musical journey of experimental ambient, drone, and field recordings documenting memories from the past and a particular summer day in 2023 when my wife and I took a small train on a countryside excursion through the hill country of Central Texas. They had a loudspeaker at the front playing Johnny Cash the entire way, and the heat and humidity of the day was cooled by the open coach breeze. Many of the field recordings on the album were taken from that day (couldn't use the Johnny Cash, unfortunately!), others from old home cassettes from my wife's childhood.
I played a telecaster and acoustic guitar with mallets, drum machine on several tracks, and a few keys here and there.
Credits
Performed and Produced by John Wilkins
Mastered by James Plotkin
Photography and cover art collage by John Wilkins