The June 2-5 Nashville Sessions

My buddy from the band Montgomery Gentry, and formerly Ricochet, named Eddie Kilgallon set up the sessions at an awesome studio in Nashville called County Q.

EVERYBODY has recorded there....Rascal Flatts, Mongomery Gentry, Oh...I'm not even going to start...so many famous people have recorded number one records there. I can sure see why after spending a week there. The vibe there is just awesome. So homey, so friendly, so warm. Real PROS. We were going to try the impossible....cut 5 singles in 3 hours with the band...then get all the vocal tracks down for all five songs done the same day! Usually...it takes weeks to do what we were going to try. But, I did a lot of practicing and working out arrangements prior to the sessions...sent all my songs in recorded form to Eddie a few weeks prior...and he charted, arranged, and set up and thought out each song so thoroughly that when the other musicians came in....everyone knew exactly what they were going to do!

The June 2-5 Nashville Sessions
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This first picture is Eddie K looking over his charts that he worked out for each song. There are copies for everyone.This shot shows the session musicians looking over the charts. I'm on the other side of the shot singing a bit of each melody.This shot shows the session musicians looking over the charts. I'm on the other side of the shot singing a bit of each melody.This is HOUSTON! Our Central Command! He's our engineer...getting ready for lift off!This is my old friend, Tommy Crain. Tommy got in last, and was going over the charts. Tommy played electric guitars for the session. Tommy was Charlie Daniels' lead guitar player for 15 years. He co wrote The Devil Went Down To Georgia with Charlie.Here's two ole Southern Rockin' dogs. Tommy and me.This is the main musicians room, where the drum set is set up. Those windowed doors are where each musician will go in to record his part od the song. We are all in separate rooms as we record, and communicate via headsets. Sometimes a player will stay in this room with the drums to really crank that rythym, if that's the way he works.Next, our ace drummer!Tommy playing the same guitars he played on all Charlie Daniels' records.We're all go to go! Let's get to rockin'!In this picture, what you're seeing is me on that small monitor, doing the final vocals for all the songs. This happened later in the day, after the other musicians had left, and only Eddie and I were still there. You see, the vocals you cut during the band sessions are used for placement and practice. You go back in later with the finished band tracks and start working on the vocals and all the harmonies.Eddie working on the harmonies to one of our songs. When you hear the tune, Hoppy, The Ranger and Roy, you'll hear Eddie doing more than a harmony with me. I asked Eddie to sing it along with me as a duet. It came out incredible.This shot was probably taken by Eddie, or my pal Sean Hunter who was hanging out at the studio that day.I'm in the Vocal Room singing until about 7:30 that night. This is Craig who engineered the vocals with Eddie K.Taking a break, we all eat sub sandwiches from down the street. Country Music is very glamorous.This final picture was also from that Wednesday. This is out at Old Hickory, Tenn. with my friend, the amazingly talented Kirsti Manna. Wednesday, Kirsti and I started writing new songs together. She has written such huge hits as Big and Rich' "We Like It Loud", and that amazing song by Blake Shelton...."Austin". We wrote a beauty together that day. Can't wait for you to hear it! It'll probably be on tha album I'll finish this fall....and hopefully...on some big star's album before that!

I also had the chance to write with Jason Grainger and Mila Mason. We wrote two songs on Tuesday! Can't wait for you to hear those , too! What an amazing, amazing week.

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