Kevin Barry's guitar parts marked the end of the scheduled recording sessions.  A few decades back that would have meant the process was near its end, since "mixing" an album was mostly about making sure all the parts could be…

On July 6 we convened at 4:00 pm at Wellspring with Kevin Barry, a legendary guitarist who has worked with a truly amazing group of national artists.  Kevin also happens to be one of the nicest people you could meet…

With the deadline for the CD drawing closer--Trespass Music, who is distributing it, needs a first set of CDs by August 1--it was time to start figuring out what was left to do. On the drive over, I made the…

On June 26, my oldest daughter (and first family musical collaborator), Emma, joined me in the studio.  Emma was only home for a few days between returning from a semester abroad and heading south to Durham, NC for a summer…

With almost all of my parts recorded, it was time to bring in two more of the impressive players Eric Kilburn had enlisted to help fill in the missing pieces. 

First up was Mike Connors, an amazing drummer…

One of my favorite things about my last CD, "Time Won't Let Us Stay," was that my daughters Emma and Grace appeared on a number of tracks, adding their lovely harmonies (and in Emma's case a verse of…

With most, although not all, of my parts done, we're ready to start bringing in the rest of the guests who will be helping out with the CD.  First up, the amazing jazz woodwind player Billy Novick, well known…

After a bunch of easy and efficient studio days, it was probably only fair that one would go a little less as expected.  I planned to get to the studio by 2:30 pm (coming into work at 5:30 in the…

With all the guitar parts and most of the bass parts done, I devoted my third full studio day to recording vocals.  I'm sure I'm not alone in finding vocal recording the most nerve-wracking part of the process.  Capturing a…

On May 30, Eric called to say that the wonderful local celtic fiddle player, Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki would be in the studio the next evening and available to play on a few tracks after he finished working with another local group…

I made it back into the studio on May 24 and the focus this time was on getting my bass parts down, although we did a little guitar and also several vocal tracks.  Eric's bass collection is just as impressive…

After an emergency root canal for Eric sabotaged our intended start date, I finally got into the studio for a full-day session on May 11, 2017.  The day was devoted to recording reference guitar/vocal tracks for all 12 songs, which…