With the holidays finally behind us, the guys at Long Island Recording found a time slot for me Friday, so my guitarist buddy Brian and I went down to Lexington for a session. Working on “I Can Sing A Country Song,” Brian added second and third harmonic acoustic guitar tracks to the primary hook, then […]
How to Keep Up With a Forty-Year-Old (If you’re Sixty)
The second half of October and the first half of November proved to be entirely too busy for this old man. Between a big weekend outing in mid-October, a newspaper deadline and delivery plus regular Monday practice, Tuesday dance class, Wednesday jam, Thursday TV shoots plus […]
Guitar Parts on Two Songs in Three-and-a-half Hours
It’s clear that all the things that our parents told us about getting older will turn out to be true, more or less, for all us Baby Boomers, particularly the one about how time passes so much faster the older you get; the days just slip away. Since I last wrote a bit here, […]
Murrell Thixton on banjo and Danny Jones on mandolin.
After all the base guitar tracks and scratch vocals had been done, it was time to begin adding the remaining instrumentation. Producer Michael T. and I had discussed which bass player I would use and I had said that my friend Steve R. would do just fine. On November 15, he and I rode […]
After a rather harrowing week last month involving seven inches of rain in two or three hours that resulted in a flooded basement and a compromised computer requiring a new motherboard, the opportunity to ride to Lexington and talk about how to proceed on the project was a tremendous relief. It was also fairly […]
There’s been a long stretch between postings, due mostly to the end-of-summer busy season - lots of things going on, mostly work-related. However, I managed to schedule a final trip on September 13 to record the basic guitar tracks and vocals for the last three songs for the project: “Love On A Dime,” “I […]
Rolled down to Lexington on Friday, August 11 to record a couple of more tunes. Michael T. was busy and handed his task off to Bryon and Steve. I discovered that the hum in my Taylor pickup was more than a bad battery; there’s something else. I played a Takamine they had in the studio […]
Michael T., LIR’s producer, got back to Lexington on June 12 and emailed me, requesting the next opportunity to record. We settled on June 16. I put “Railroad Man” and “Year Of The Comet” on the docket.
In between scheduling a recording, I got in a couple of jam/practices, which helped keep my fingers working. The […]