After a beautiful ( rainy) weekend in Washington D.C. , we spent Monday driving down the East Coast. We had a great lunch before hitting 95 South with my mom and younger sister Mariah. Scott certainly got a full dose of Rollins girls. We went through Maryland, Washington D.C. Virginia, and North Carolina ( All firsts for Scootch.) We arrived at the Ballantyne aloft hotel & caught up on some sleeps. We have seperate beds and a very spacious accomidating room (thanks to Jessica Rollins & Trisha Dobson).
We had originally planned on starting to record on Monday, but had to change plans because our Producer Justin Huey's band " Steel Train" got asked to be the musical guest on Lopez Tonight monday, which meant he had to fly to LA & Back that day. (WHAT A TROOPER) you can get a taste of that here:
Impressed? Yup. They are wonderful. Now you all can stop saying " Why did you fly to NC to record when you live in Los Angeles" ... cus he's great.
Tuesday March eighth.
We arrived at the Bear Cave studios in Charlotte / Matthews and were greated by Justin & Emily. Emily is Justin's girlfriend and creative partner as well. They have a great Duo group called Seahorses! and Emily is also in the band Fun. This is one of my favoritte songs by them. ( Jack, the lead singer from Steel Train is also in Fun. )
Moving right along, we started around 3:00 after Justin got back to the East coast around 11 am. Crazy. We started by tracking the acoustic guitar/vocals for 11/12 songs. ** Scratch Tracking is essentialy a one take rough version of each song to use as the frame work and establish the BPM. ( Beats per minute.) that all of the instruments will follow us a temp guideline. **
This was fairly easy since Scott & sing together so often, and since we had caught up on sleep & it was the middle of the day we were pretty warmed up, etc. We "trimmed the fat" on a lot of songs and organized song structure, etc.
We wrapped up the evening with mimosas provided by the gorgeous Emily Moore. Then back to the Aloft. Perfect.
** I'll add photos lata ! **
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