Archive for May, 2006

Recording Session - May 23

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

I scooted down to Lexington on Tuesday, May 23 for a quick session before Michael T. goes out of town for a while. We had decided that we needed to lay down more than one tune per session or it would take a couple of years to get this project done.

Michael T. had been listening […]

A Free Gig

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

Bassist Michael P. had arranged for us to play outside the Alameda restaurant on May 19 as part of a promotional event called “Bardstown Bound,” referring to a street. The two of us schlepped a scraped-together PA over on Friday and set it up. About the time we got that done, Brian White, a guitarist […]

Laying down the first tracks

Monday, May 15th, 2006

The first “actual” recording session was Thursday, May 11, 2006. Michael T. had charted “Once-In-While Love,” using the Nashville Numbers system, based on the version I had sent earlier, although my first run-through revealed a couple of differences in how I played it. The tune had changed slightly since the earlier recording; playing the song […]

Preparing for the first session

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

I made another trip to Lexington to talk with Wil Freebody and Michael Thomas and flesh out the operational details of the upcoming venture. Wil wound up spending his morning with a potential student and his parents, so I talked with Michael Thomas, gave him a CD of seventeen songs I had recorded some four […]

Recording “Somebody’s Walking On My Grave”

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

After we had been playing “Somebody’s Walking On My Grave” for several months and found that the other musicians who had begun to come around liked the song, I decided I needed to document the song - record it. As it happened, the owner of the Lexington School of Recording Arts / Long Island Recording […]