In the spirit of Vol. I, we return with our latest installment…….. Vol. II!
Nothing is more important to us than bringing music to you, our fans and listeners. This is where we celebrate our biggest influences by recording their tunes. For this session, one of those big influences - Danny Barnes - stopped by to produce it, mix it, and pick and sing one of his songs with us on it.
The Story:
It has been a bit of a blurry flurry since our last Woodshed release back in 2014. In addition to everything else, there have been sound checks, gigs, drives, flights, gas station bananas, and even a few fights. Additionally, we have been busy recording music in different studios, hotel rooms, and houses, with new and previously acquainted engineers, producers, and pickers. Continually searching for sounds, excavating. We wanted to find a place to record around Austin (we do live here, after all!). Bruce Robison’s analog studio, “The Bunker”, out near Lockhart, TX, was Dom’s suggestion, as he records there with Bruce and digs the tones. All of us wished to spend some time turning a few pages deeper into the catalogue of the great John Hartford. As we had been doing a bit of gigs with Danny Barnes around that time, getting in the studio with him was hovering, as well. And thenithappened. On an Autumn day in 2016, we all drove out to the studio, in separate cars, listening to the same radio station with the news that Guy Clark had just passed away. We sat down in the kitchen and reminisced, then Danny and Bruce set up the microphones and got behind the mixing board; pressed record, and we played.
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credits
released December 23, 2017
Recorded Live & on Reels at The Bunker in Lockhart, TX
Tony Kamel - Guitar & Vocals
Dom Fisher - Bass & Vocals
Trevor Smith - Banjo & Vocals
Billy Bright - Mandolin & Mandola
Danny Barnes - Banjo & Vocals on “Life In the Country”
Produced by Danny Barnes
Recorded and Mixed by Bruce Robison and Danny Barnes
Anyone wondering about Wood & Wire’s sound need not look any further than the four-piece band’s name, which honors the purity of acoustic instruments and the gorgeous music a skilled artist can coax out of just simple wood and wire.
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