PATRICK OGLE: Now, you use your same stuff. A lot of times people would use their -- you know, your guitar but you add a thing. Anything else? Do you ever use a different guitar?

PATRICIA VONNE: We added? No. Well we added musicians.

PATRICK OGLE: You added musicians.

PATRICIA VONNE: At least our core band, Dony Wynn, Scott Garber, they use their own gear. We use definitely our Gibson and Rickenbacker sure. We added on Joe Reyes from San Antonio on -- I’m not sure exactly but he plays a Stratocaster, but we added on Rick Del Castillo, and he’s a phenomenal flamenco rock guitar player. Just incredible, his fingers go a million miles and he plays on all the Spanish songs.

PATRICK OGLE: Okay.

PATRICIA VONNE: Steven Medina Hufsteter from The Cruzados, my hero. He plays guitar on “Missing Women”, and Tito Larriva from The Cruzados, and Tito and Tarantula sing a song. But we added some extra vocals and instrumentation from other talented musicians.

PATRICK OGLE: Now, what do you record? Do you record digital? Do you record -- I -- Because I’ve talked to a lot of people, there’s seems to be some people who feel really strong that everything has to be on tape and when I hear their music and I’m like -- And do you record to digital or tape or do you care?

PATRICIA VONNE: It’s just as long as you get the results you want. I worked with Carl Thiel on “Guitars &Castanets” as a producer and on “Firebird”. He’s from Mexico, and he’s just a jam I found here in Austin and I found him through my brother, Robert. We were recording “Traeme Paz”, a song I wrote for the film “Once Upon a Time in Mexico”, and he was so fast and efficient and in no time we were done with the whole song, and I said, “Wow. Want to produce my next album?” [LAUGHING] And so I think I found my George Martin. I call him Jorge Martin because I don’t think I want to go to anyone else. But he does Pro Tools. He works with Pro Tools.

PATRICK OGLE: [OVERLAPPING]

PATRICIA VONNE: And that makes it easier. I mean my first album was on tape and it was so antiquated compared with this. It is just you lose time, you spend more money, and, you know, you want to give your best performance and they can do this. Sometimes, in fact, our live performances I feel are even more -- We capture the moment in a live performance rather than in studio, but man, if Pro Tools can get you there where you know you are live, why not? [LAUGHING]