A Day In The Studio

I took the day off from blogging yesterday, choosing instead to spend the entire day at Derryberry Audio, a recording studio in Westminster, Colorado, and it was a blast.  It was a day of great fun, and sometimes exhaustion, as a fantastic group of volunteer musicians came together to lay the foundation tracks for seven songs. 

It was my first time in the studio since my college band recorded a song for a James Madison University compilation album back in 1985.  Yesterday's recording session was much more intense.  Back in 1985 it only one song and it was lead guitar player John Romeo's music.  This time, it was seven of my own compositions.

A couple of years ago I started to write music, which has been a life-long dream but a dream that I had never really pursued...so I decided to change that, and got some rudimentary recording gear and started to put together some ideas.  Over the past two years I have written about 15 songs, and I worked with a bunch of local musicians from my church and the surrounding area to put together a low-budget plan to record seven of the songs, market them on iTunes, and donate all of the proceeds to charity.  We hope to have the songs finished and ready for sale by the end of the summer.

I am thrilled with the musicians who have donated their time and talents to the project so far...they are incredible.  I want to thank them personally here:

Electric Guitar: Mitchell Ashley
Acoustic and Electric Guitar: Gordon Clouse
Piano: Jeremiah Horner
Bass: Skye Perry
Drums: Rich Guess
Production and Engineering: Jeremiah Horner

Jeremiah did a fantastic job in the production role, it was a pleasure working with him.  Also, I want to especially thank our sponsor, Tim Draughon, for making this project possible, and also thank Mark Derryberry, owner of the studio where we recorded and enjoyed fantastic hospitality. 

I think everybody is having a great time with the project and we are looking forward to our next studio session.  I'll keep you posted on our progress!