I found an alternate version of my song, “Magnify” from my debut record, “CodyWho” (2001) which I recorded in seven months with my close friend and producer Caleb. During the process of writing and recording music, we would often burn a copy of each day’s work and any progress we had made that day. This version was recorded on 8/26/01, and represents one of many, many different versions of the songs I’ve written and recorded. If you compare it to the final, album version you’ll notice the lead vocal track is mixed further “out front”. Also, the backup/harmony vocal is mixed in tight, and closely follows melody line. It’s obviously a very rough mix, but a cool find nonetheless. Listening to songs like this one is almost always a painful experience for me given this strange detour my life has taken in the last three years. However, tonight as I am listening and sobbing my heart is thankful, grief stricken, and sad, but not bitter.

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