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And then there are the demos. We toured all of 1984, finishing with a New Year's Eve show in Atlanta. That gave us about three weeks to prepare for our trip to England, so we repaired to Jim Hawkins' studio in Athens. It's the usual story: you have a body of songs that basically last through your first two albums. Then comes the pressure of writing record number three. We had written "Driver 8" and "Old Man Kensey" on the road, but aside from that, the cupboard was empty. We spent a few weeks running through all the fragments and half-finished songs from soundchecks. The last day of rehearsal, I think with Joe Boyd in attendance, Jim Hawkins recorded what we had come up with. We spent about four hours recording all the new songs live, with minimal overdubs. I hadn't listened to this stuff since we recorded it, and I'm kind of stunned at how good it is. My memory of the rehearsals is us scrambling to finish songs. The songs on both Murmur and Reckoning had been performed for months if not years by the time they were committed to tape. I remember feeling dangerously unprepared when we flew to London, but on the evidence of this recording we must have known what we were doing.
-Peter Buck
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