I recorded tons of original multi-track compositions on the first Tascam four-track Portastudio, I believe it was $500 in 1985 money. The current digital “portastudios” are crazy good, but lack that groovy analog sound!
It would be For Meerschaums Only, by the late Steven Books, which is no more. Watch City’s Deluxe Crumb Cut, which fortunately is available, is my answer.
Welcome from Western Massachusetts. My wife’s family were from the U.P. We visited a few years ago, Eagle Harbour, Calumet, Houghton. And … we order pasties sent to us from “Pasty Central.”