Arizona Harbors by Nancy Louise Freeman
Recorded direct to cassette tape in the living room of a single-wide at the Tempe Cascade mobile home park, Arizona Harbors aimed to capture in a handful of songs the slightly deranged atmosphere of mid-1980s Sonoran Desert life. Previously these recordings were available only to friends who received them as a Yule gift when they were first made.
At a basic level not a lot has changed, over the decades. Phoenix has grown into a proper city, perhaps: at a population of five million when you count its myriad suburbs, its rhythms are no longer dominated by the influx & outflow of snowbirds and the perambulations of retirees. Arizona is no longer the transient passing-through place of these early songs of mine. Or maybe it's just my perspective that has changed.
Originally taped using an RCA microphone I paid good money for and mastered using an analog mixer I borrowed from my buddy J.D.Fulkerson. A light shellac has been applied in Audacity to prevent ear splinters.
Tracklist
| 1. | Arizona Harbors | 2:46 |
| 2. | Radicule Polotiks | 3:12 |
| 3. | Be There | 2:56 |
| 4. | Anasazi of the Mind | 3:49 |
| 5. | Desert Rose | 2:26 |
| 6. | Cactustown | 4:51 |
