studio|day 8 :::: or, oh wow, this is the last day?! |
Technically day 8 in the studio was almost a week ago, but the last few days in Nashville and adjusting back to normal life at home have kept me quite busy! This post will more or less cover the last ...
Posted by Joel Rakes on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:29:00 PST |
studio|day 7 :::: or, a night session and tornado watch" |
Mike and I both had commitments to take care of this morning and afternoon so we decided to hunker down in the studio tonight instead of the usual daytime schedule. The weather was bizarre today... it...
Posted by Joel Rakes on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:09:00 PST |
studio|day 6 :::: or, hooray, i can sing! |
Monday. Mondays are never fun. Especially a Monday like today when you wake up and it's pouring down rain outside. It was a bit hard to get going today after having the weekend off - I was quite tired...
Posted by Joel Rakes on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:35:00 PST |
studio|day 5 :::: or, hmm... this sounds... like a real song?" |
So we're already past the halfway point here as far as tracking goes. We'll probably do two or three more days of tracking next week and then we're done... pretty hard to believe! For day 5 we were ba...
Posted by Joel Rakes on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:32:00 PST |
studio|day 4 :::: or, bass and drums are magical |
Today was the day that I've been really looking forward to since we started this whole recording process back on Monday. We headed over to Paul Eckberg's (played drums for a slew of people including: ...
Posted by Joel Rakes on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:29:00 PST |
studio|day 3 :::: or, "joel is tired of singing |
I can't believe we're already onto day 3 here... originally Mike and I wanted to record bass and drums on day 3, but due to scheduling reasons it didn't work out. As far as the process and schedule of...
Posted by Joel Rakes on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:22:00 PST |
studio|day 2 :::: or, the creation of irish techno jig music |
When I woke up the morning I was excited. Typically, when I record stuff back home it's a one afternoon type stint. It was awesome realizing that I still have a week or so of this process left, and th...
Posted by Joel Rakes on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:02:00 PST |
studio|day 1 :::: or, hey, lets make an album |
So I met with my producer, Mike back in August when I was in Nashville for a visit and it took nearly 5 months to get all of the dates, times, and places hammered out to make this album. But it's happ...
Posted by Joel Rakes on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:32:00 PST |
joel + nashville + studio = new album coming soon |
In a hour I'm leaving. I'm going to be spending the next 2 and a half weeks or so in Nashville. These few weeks are bound to be adventure filled with very fun and very long days. Oh, in case you didn'...
Posted by Joel Rakes on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:23:00 PST |
top 20 albums of 2007 |
It's that time of year... here's what i think the top 20 albums (... both LP & EP) of 2007 were... (comment with your own if you care to do so!) 20. Jon Mclaughlin - Indiana19. Inlets - Vesti...
Posted by Joel Rakes on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:21:00 PST |
