Americana Highways Gets The Details About Captain’s Audio Project

In a recent interview with Americana Highways, veteran Portland Oregon scene member James Cook discusses the instrumentation that adorns Waiting For The Moon, his debut solo album under the moniker of Captain’s Audio Project. “I basically just sat down with a mic for vocals, and one on my guitar, and I played what I considered some of my better songs. Once that was finished, I thought, ‘It sounds good, but I played tenor guitar.’ It’s kind of a high-pitched instrument, so I really felt like the songs needed bass. So I brought my upright bass in, and I played on the tracks, to give it a little more bottom-end. The accordion player is also a keyboard player, who plays Hammond Organ, and other things, so I thought, ‘We really want to add some depth to this, maybe, so let’s put keyboards on some of the songs.’ We ended up putting keyboard on most, if not all of the songs. After that, it was sounding so good, that we thought, ‘Let’s bring our friend Paul in to put some pedal steel guitar on the songs that are Country sounding. We’ll finish it off by having him bring in his horn section and put horns on a couple of tunes.’ After all that, it ended up being quite a bit more of a project than I expected!”

Read the full interview here, and get the album started on your airwaves.