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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Interview with George Harper 5 Part Series<br /></strong>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">PART IV</h3>
<h3><strong>Rushin’ Around ***</strong></h3>
<p><strong>Think (Th):</strong> And that was the… I believe you said before, that was the 4th time you’d been to the Longford Festival?</p>
<p>George Harper (GH): Yeah, and I’ve been there four years, not in a  row. I first went six years ago and skipped a couple of years and I had  that… I was working on that record and I get it to Kathy Casey and Chris  Keenan over there, they run that festival. And – y’know – it turns out  that they really liked it and they like me and I like them and we’re  friends. And they started hiring me to come over there and play and –  y’know – I’m just so very grateful for the opportunity. And they just  told me last week when I was playing the festival that they didn’t think  thatthey would ever have a festival without me again. So…</p>
<p><strong>Th: </strong>That’s a nice thing to hear.</p>
<p><strong>GH:</strong> Yeah, yeah. It’s a very nice thing to hear, you know?</p>
<p><strong>Th:</strong> Great. So the first official record that you released is I’ll Be  Back, correct? And then No Smokin’ in Here was just released. Is that  correct?</p>
<p><strong>GH:</strong> Yeah, and it’s not official yet, but I’ll probably have a record  release thing when I get back to Nashville. But they really... to be  perfectly honest, man, we went down to the wire on this thing. We went  in and recorded this thing live in the studio. We tracked a couple of  things, the harmony vocals and a couple of the lead parts. But pretty  much it’s about 80% live in the studio and we did that because we were  on such a time schedule. Tim Carter of Tree-O Records, which I’m signed  under. They’re my record label. It’s a small record label there in  Nashville owned by the Carters and Brian Budzinski up in Boston. But we  went in knowing that we had this time schedule because the Carters are  very busy entertainers. And Timmy was in for just a very few days and I  said, “Man, I’d really wanna get this record done before I go to  Ireland.” So, we had one day.<br /><br /><strong>Th:</strong> One day?<br /><strong><br />GH:</strong> We had one  day and so we did all those… I said, “Man, you know I’ve got a lot of  songs I wanna put on there.” And he said, “Man, we don’t have<br />but one  day.” He said, “And so all you really need is six songs because if  you’re gonna pitch yourself, that’s what you need.” They call it an EP.<br /><strong><br />Th:</strong> Right.<br /><br /><strong>GH:</strong> And so we rehearsed for about an hour one day and three days later we  were in the studio and it just went like clockwork. And we were so happy  that we were done by six in the evening. We went in at eleven and we  were done at six.<br /><strong><br />Th:</strong> Wow!<br /><br /><strong>GH:</strong> Yeah, and then we had one day that we mixed it, sent it to the printers and I got it about a week before I came here.<br /><br /><strong>Th:</strong> OK.<br /><br /><strong>GH:</strong> Across the big pond.<br /><br /><strong>Th:</strong> Right, right, right. Tight, tight schedule!<br /><br /><strong>GH:</strong> It was tight, man. And I got T-shirts printed up, and they were so  cool. But I went and picked them up at midnight the night before I got  on the plane to come over, yeah. So – y’know – just running around  trying to get things done, Nathan from <a href="http://ximendinghotel.com/">Hotel</a>.</p>
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