Christopher Underhill

Tenderness is one of two tracks we didn't fully cut at Koop Studios. The two guitars were originally tracked at 6/8 Studios in the old Cable Building at Houston and Lafayette, in the late 90s with Perkin Barnes at the board I played the basic two-note-chord framework on my Taylor 512c, and my longtime friend David Loren Goldstein delivered a haunting, spontaneous melodic line on his Martin D35. We had also tracked vocals and an original bass line with my good friend Joe Zarate-Sanderlin. But, those were re-imagined during our Koop sessions as part of modernizing the track's sound. As a composer, this was perhaps the first song where I fit lyrics to a sound, rather than creating a sound to match my lyrics.