how the instrumentation of “The Fall” came about.

Originally this song contained Acoustic Guitar and Violin. Abby and I sang the duet and at the end of the song we both sang “rounds” for a number of measures through to the end of the song.

Then, the first time I worked with Rachel, we played the Fall …just me and her. She started playing along with the same Cello part that you hear in the beginning of the recording. It pretty much changed the direction that I had thought the song was going… and yet, still added to the same emotional content that was already present.

When Jimmy and Abby heard what we had, the task was to change what we had been doing by getting out of the way and trying to enhance the new tone (Cello) of the song…which we did!