![]() “I’ve moved into using several different tunings on several different guitars. “I’ve been playing guitar for 25 years now, so I think my technique has improved,” he says. The collection showcases a sophisticated sense of songwriting - both lyrically and musically. Biram switches between various electric and acoustic guitars from track to track, mixing different rhythms, tempos, amp tones, and guitar sounds along the way. If Bad Ingredients is sort of a best-of-Biram roundup - culled partly from old demos, song sketches, and unfinished tracks - it flows with surprising cohesiveness. ![]() Now, I have extra songs to share and give away if I like.” “I got on a roll before I said, ‘Oh shit, my label isn’t going let me put out 23 songs at one time.’ It’s kind of a nice problem to have. “I’ve never really gone for a big theme or a concept on any albums,” Biram says. He whittled it down to a solid 13 before working with engineer Jerry Tubb of Terra Nova Mastering (Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Dwight Yoakam) to put the final polish on the set. By the time he compiled his strongest demo material, the song list reached 23 in total. He began his career as a one-man band in the late ’90s.īiram recorded six fresh tracks for the new disc at his home studio before tinkering with older tracks. In his early days as a musician, he played in a numerous punk groups, bluegrass ensembles, and garage bands. “On the recordings, I don’t use many extra percussion sounds, so that frees me up.”īiram grew up in the Black Land Prairie region of Texas before settling in Austin. “I’m still totally solo on stage,” he confirms. Playing on mostly antiquated six-strings, amps, and wired-up stompboxes, Biram’s been rockin’ hard on his own punkish blend of traditional blues, old-school country, and zydeco for more than a decade. I want to perform the songs myself and have them come across that way.” “I don’t like to have too many gadgets going on. “I don’t get into all that loop junk, you know? Everything I do, I do with my own limbs and mouth,” Biram laughs. Any solo guitar-slinger can tap his foot on something noisy while strumming and singing and call himself a one-man band, but it takes a certain level of zeal and dexterity to really pull it off.
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