February 2010
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Why Germany?
As most of you may know, I recorded my last three albums in Nashville and it did me a world of good. I learned so much from making music with players of the highest caliber imaginable, I derived so much pleasure and confidence from it, received quite a bit of media exposure and, most importantly, I think all three are very very strong records that I’m totally happy with. Why then did I decide to...
Feb 24th
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Feb 20th
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The new album
Hiya guys, about 80 percent of the new album are done and what we got right now sounds fantastic! We tracked 18 songs - that’s a heck of a lot. Now we’re going to have to figure out how to whittle them down or whether maybe to make this a double album kinda deal. If you’re late to the party, please read my earlier blog posts about our recording process. Y’all caught...
Feb 8th
From the studio #3
Hi folks, today was the last day of band tracking. We all feel like we got the makings of a great album on our hands. Yesterday was kind of a difficult day, we got four songs done but were unsure about one of them and not so happy with another one. We re-did the bluesy Comforting Thought today and recorded three others. The one we were unsure of yesterday, turned out to be really cool. ...
Feb 4th
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Studio day #2
Hiya guys, very shaky internet connection here so I’ll try to keep this brief. Yesterday was a fabulous day of recording. My longtime friend and musical partner Andi Obieglo came up from Würzburg to join us on some songs that I felt needed piano as part of the basic track. We started with Girl Of Many Secrets, a song with some pop appeal I had co-written with Swedish singer-songwriter Eva...
Feb 3rd
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From the studio #1
Hi folks, we started work on my 7th studio album of original material today. After cutting the last three albums in Nashville, TN, we’re doing this one at analoghaus in Karben near Frankfurt/Germany with engineer/co-producer Tom Ripphahn. The core band for these recordings is Felix Leitner on guitar, Christoph Reiss on bass and wonderful drummer Christoph Beck from Switzerland. I picked...
Feb 1st