Thursday, April 25, 2013

New Recording - He Came



Thanks for all of the questions and interest in our new recording. Now we just need about 100,000 people to be interested enough to buy it. That would solve a whole bunch of problems! Lol

Pictures from our recording.

This is our first studio record in a few years so it was exciting to get back in the studio. It was also frightening because it reminds us how inadequate we are when it comes to these things. Thankfully folks that are really, really good at these things are willing to surround us and help us all they can.

Ben Isaacs has been so gracious to help us through the years. We can not say enough good things about Ben. He is so talented yet he generously lends those talents, mixed with genuine kindness to so many in the music industry. He is incredibly busy with the Isaacs touring schedule, his family time and playing on and producing records for many others.

He is really too busy to do all of the things he does for us and we are very thankful he takes time to do it. We could not do this without Ben. He uses his amazing ability to help us sound as good as we can and that is a miracle in itself.

We were also working with Mark Capps this week. Magic Mark (er) is a Grammy award winning engineer. He mixed our Havin Church' Live in California CD and was working hard engineering this one. He and Ben work together a lot and they are a great team.

The new CD has a Christmas theme. I would not call it a traditional Christmas CD although it does have a couple of traditional songs. We hope to communicate the great truth that Jesus came into the world to save sinners. In fact, the working title is He Came - The Gospel of Christmas.

If all goes as planned it will have eight songs and a Christmas sermon. Two of the songs are instrumental carols and I think they turned out great. Kelly Jo worked very hard on the piano. This is the first studio record she has played on for us. She felt so incapable but she did terrific.

Ben Isaacs played the bass and Greg Ritchie played the drums and other percussion. There is a possibility we might add a little more instrumentation but I do not think we will. I want to keep it as simple as we can. I think is sounds just fine as it is and once Ben and Mark work their magic it may be fit for public consumption.

We are planning on taking pre-orders as we did with Havin' Church. I will try to let you know more about that in the coming days. That was a huge help to us last time.

We arrived home very late last night or maybe I should say early this morning. We visited with my parents, my sister and one of my brothers for a while today and ate a late lunch at Acapulco in Lebanon. I guess you did not see that one coming, did you ?



We are planning to attend our home church tonight. I am really looking forward to that!

God bless you all.

Davy

Pictures While Recording

Another long day, another late night but lots of pictures. I hope you enjoy the pictures from our days in the studio. Some of the pictures have descriptions or names.

Davy







Kelly Jo, Ben Isaacs and Greg Ritchie working hard.


















Charlotte Ritchie and her children







Ben and Odie



Mark Capps and Odie



Greg and Odie






Kelly Jo getting in the Christmas spirit dressed like Mary. Actually she is just cold!



Odie and Tim Dillman



Gotta go to Jack's at least one time!





Odie and Cameron. Cameron is one of Ben's daughters.

















Steve Chandler and Ben. Steve was the engineer on our first three CDs  at Hilltop in 2001, 2003 and 2006. He is a super guy.









The very high dollar mic that I sang into for the recording. It made me sound exactly like me. That is NOT a good thing.





We stayed too late at night. I asked them to stand against the wall so I could snap a picture and this is what I got.



John the owner of Hilltop, Mark Capps, Ben Isaacs, Kelly Jo, Odie, Cameron







Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Tuesday April 23, 2013

Tuesday was a long, long day. Kelly Jo and Odie were out of the BoggsMobile before 7:00. I had scheduled some work on the bus at Prevost here in the Nashville area and they came over to where we were parked and asked me to pull in right on time. They ended up replacing the Air Dryer. The air system has been a constant fight but I think we are making progress.


We also put in our second long day in the studio Tuesday. We have lots of pictures to post from the last two days in the studio and I hope to be able to do that tomorrow. We should finish up here in Nashville sometime tomorrow evening and head North toward Ohio.

It is late and we are whipped. Good night.

Davy


This is Hilltop Studio in the picture below.