A couple months ago, I got the opportunity to begin working on a project with Penn Weickhardt. Penn is a local Tucson singer/songwriter with an eloquent voice that complements the heartfelt music and lyrics he writes. Penn’s longtime friend and producer Scott Dailey resides in New Jersey and has been flying out to Tucson every…
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Tales of the Road
Tales of the Road is a life journey though different countries and relationships along the way. Since some of the songs took place in foreign countries, Lori wanted to infuse the ethnic flavor of each country musically into the song. I was able to accomplish this with violin, keyboards and percussion played in a traditional…
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John Young: The Amazing Voice
Every once in a while an artist comes along that has major talent. John Young is one of those artist. When I first started working with John he showed me some of his earlier work and told me his story. His story included being a vocalist for Bob Hope, Dean Martin, Jim Nabors, Florence Henderson,…
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Charya Robinson: Runner up of Lucky Break
Charyah Robinson made it to the finals of Lucky Break, a CBS TV Talent Show that I was a featured judge on. After the show was over, Charyah came into the studio to update is vocal demo. Charyah has a powerful voice, so I spent time helping Charyah with dynamics instead of using technology to…
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La Misa Mexicana Recorded on Site – El Mariachi Tapatio
El Misa Mexicana is an album of songs that El Mariachi Tapatio normally performs during mass at church. They wanted to have the recording of this album feel just the same as if a person was at mass experiencing the music. To accomplish this, we decided to actually record the band live at the church…
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Patrick Stump session
Singer-songwriter, composer, producer and music critic Patrick Stump stopped by Allusion Studios to overdub vocals for a promo of his new single "This City". Best known as the composer, lead singer and multi-instrumentalist for the band Fall Out Boy, Patrick is currently on tour to promote his debut solo album Soul Punk, which is set…
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