EXTRA!!  EXTRA!!

Well, it was bound to happen eventually.  Breaking with recent tradition, I decided to record a song with a 'full band' sound.  Delve further into the controversial move (and hear the tasty results) after the jump!

Ladies, gentlemen, and smizmars, I give you "Every Good Soldier," the 5th song from my forthcoming EP (to be titled Heroes and Heathens, as we learned in last week's instalment of the CFord Digest)!  It's a sort of soul ballad.  As I was recording this down at Rukkus House Studios in late March, I had a general idea of the shape of the song - having performed it frequently at recent gigs and even on air during my last radio show - but I wasn't too sure of what to do about getting some more instrumentation involved.  I told the engineer that I'd love to do some claps or snaps to give it an off-the-floor feel.  "Dude," he retorted, "this song needs, like, 3 mournful black women from the 1950s singing gospel." 

While the gospel-eers were not in supply, we tried to let that feel and idea guide us.  This song is now yours to enjoy; I hope you treat it with the tenderness it deserves!

As of 11:59PM, PST, on Sunday April 7th, we have closed the polls.  Ladies and Gentlemen (I assume some of you qualify), I give you the winning title of the new CFord EP, soon to grace digital shelves the world over: