Starts simple. Get's thick quick:
H. Harvey Gold, founding father of Tin Huey and Half Cleveland gets an opportunity to start working with Producer (Chi-Pig's 'Miami')/Engineer (Hotel California, Songs in the Key of Life) Bruce Hensal... all of this based on prods and pushes from Deborah Smith (Chi-Pig, Half Cleveland, Everyone's Favorite Attorney).
August of 2006, Goldschool Studios in Bath, Ohio powers up, courtesy of Roxanne Buchanan and Audio Technica, and various loan outs from Hueys Michael Aylward and Chris Butler, as Bruce flies in from Orlando with a recorder and a little this and a little that to add to Harvey's and the borrowed gear stash.
Three songs are recorded, Harvey's 'Lazy Boy' a tune that's become an anchor of live Half Cleveland shows, a West Akron Appalachian ditty, 'Allegheny Lode,' and The Beatles' 'I've Just Seen a Face' as a live performance recording by the core group of Harvey, Debbie Smith on bass, and Bob Ethington on drums. Dan Auerbach gave us a killer track as part of a guitar army duet with Harvey on 'Lazy Boy' and a Zoot Horn Rollo loping entry on 'Allegheny Lode,' the legendary Chris Hillman gracing us with mandolin on the latter.
In April of 2007, the studio was reconstituted and two more songs have been recorded by Harvey in the Hall: Harvey's 'Carry Me' and 'In a Very Good Place.'
Overdubs, Protools work and SSL Post Production is taking place at the Audio Recording Technology Institute in Orlando, giving us an excuse to grab sunshine, mini golf and Taco Bell while doing important work.
An exception to these line ups is the song above, 'Lemon Beasley.' While part of the Harvey in the Hall project should we ever release it all on a CD, it is officially recorded by 'Mr. Ray Violet,' a conflagration, in this case, of Tin Huey's Michael Aylward on all guitars, harmonica, and lead vocals, Harvey Gold on bass, digital sounds and back up vocals, and David Stephenson on drums. Engineered at David's studio, mixed by Michael and John Mondl, written by Michael and Harvey.
We're starting out by posting tunes here, as they come, will ultimately make them downloadable, will play some of them at Half Cleveland gigs (www.tinhuey.com), and then... we'll see.
