In the studio with.....

Hey folks - welcome to Blogger! I thought as a little intro, I'd fill you in on what's been going on the last couple of months at Hit City.... Finished up projects for the three finalist bands from the 2008 "Teen Arts And Music Fest" event, three fabulous young rock and roll bands that the world will be hearing from: Elastic Waste Band, Razorback Llama and Knightfall......Rick Garrett (of the folk duo Patchwork) blew me away with his hammered dulcimer chops as we worked on an almost-done album of traditional tunes on that hauntingly gorgeous instrument.....John Barney - neighborhood pal, horseman, blacksmith, and all-around-gentleman - started work on an album w/ his band, the Passengers. (His Dylan-inspired body of songs, is, of course, right up my alley).... What else? I composed original music and created sound design for the Phoenix Theatre: December's "On Thin Ice: A Very Phoenix Xmas 3" featured mine and David's existential holiday torch song, "That Time Of The Year" as the big cast finale, and January's production of Aditi Brennan Kopi's Pulitzer-nominated "Love/Person"....Richard Sullivan continued rehearsing his new, kick-ass band, and did some demo work that's going to lead to a really great album later this year......Paul Lauck continues making progress on his sophomore effort, a lovely collection of new songs, and Scott Sanders has written a fabulous batch of new songs, and has started tracking w/ band The Reacharounds.....And on the horizon, Cara Jean Wahlers is coming in soon to record some of her lovely material (with Grover on cello and Martha on violin), and Stella and Jane (Bobby Clark and Suzette Weakley w/ guitar mastermind Jeff Foster) came into to work on the Bill Wilson tribute project I'm producing w/ house concert impressario Cyndi Wagner - who got her dear friend, Struggler frontman Jack Clark, to play some mean harp on "Pay Day Giveaway". More on this groovy project later.....