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Originally Posted by speakercoil  WOAH... Just noticed this was in NC... I am from near by! Well, not now, but I grew up in Pinehurst/Southern Pines... Any chance you hear of a musician by the name of Nathan Davis? He was my mentor when I was a kid. My first big project was recording his debut album "Out of My Skin". Just curious as he is pretty popular around those parts... Sadly he passed away in 2006. |
Actually, I had not heard of him (I've only been in the state since 2000), but I checked out the liner notes at CDBaby and found this tidbit:
After he returned to the Carolinas in 2000, Nathan Davis began a long, arduous search for the right musicians to back him up on songs he had written about his own life. Davis released his first live album, The Holly Show, in the summer of 2000. Immediately following his first album's release, Davis began working with a 17-year-old fan and self-taught producer named Grant Walker to produce his first studio album, Out Of My Skin, released in 2002.
And as my blog makes amply clear, my vision for the studio is to serve as a direct connection between the intention of the artist and the experience of the fan, up to and including the concept that sometimes the best possible producers will be the most passionate fans and that the best possible productions will be the collaborative results of artists and fans discovering each other and working together.
Thus, the fact that you've already done this is great encouragement to this vision!
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Man North Carolina REALLY needs this. Most of the tracking rooms in the area are pretty lame to be honest. The few that are set up well are owned by overpossesive engineers with bad ears who think their hot shit. I heard some stuff come out of these places that sounded worse than what I achieved as a teenager with one TLM 103 in my mom's house. It's pretty sad... So this is MUCH needed for the area!!!!!!!!! Now I am twice as excited to see this progress.
-Grant
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I'm not sure I want to slag too many of my neighbors, but I do believe that the whole world needs this--everywhere. To me, this kind of process is what makes music live, as opposed to the current
reductio ad absurdum that defines the music industry today. Thankfully, North Carolina is a great place to live, and blessed with both real musical talent and a growing creative class of fans who hunger and thirst for something real.
Thanks for writing!