Dippin’ Sauce Indie Country

Consider this your indie country starter pack. Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist Jarrad K explored bands and musicians who, while influenced by American Country music, don’t fit neatly into the ‘country’ genre—artists like Wilco, Andrew Bird, Elliott Smith, Bright Eyes, Bon Iver, and more. The resulting one-shots and loops are exciting and alive, sometimes even slightly off-kilter. They include the textures he reaches for when digging through samples to evoke feelings of melancholy, hopefulness, tension, and release. To achieve this, he took a hybrid approach to recording the drums with ribbon and dynamic mics so they’d retain a punch while feeling warm and cozy. To further capture that authentic, dynamic sound, he recorded onto cassette tape using a Yamaha MT8X and printed some drums through the Tascam 38 tape machine.