专辑简介

"Chip Mergott is one of my favorite songwriters." Bonnie Raitt

Twenty years ago, when Chip was living alone on a farm, tending a flock of sheep and recovering from a drinking problem, he wrote this album. Then life intervened, he got married, had a son, wrote more songs and recorded more albums, but "I Love to Tell the Story" stayed in his mind- and heart. Ultimately he decided that recording it on an old 4 track cassette recorder (like Springsteen did with his classic "Nebraska") would make it sound like an old record, and mirror the image he had in his mind of an old black and white photograph. "There's no place to hide on a cassette recorder- the songs and performances are either there or they're not." Yes, there's some tape hiss and a few anomalies of analog recording but according to Chip "This is the album I've long dreamed of making." If you're looking for a pristine digital recording this might not be for you.