I’ve been in the recording business for about 25 years now. I first started in Chapel Hill, North Carolina working at TGS studios. TGS was in the basement of a custom built modern log home. This was no ordinary basement. Steve Gronback, the owner, had a foundation built with 12 foot walls. This was a recording venue for some of North Carolina’s best musicians including the Red Clay Ramblers, Mike Cross, and Don Dixon (producer of REM’s first album “Murmur”) just to name a few. Steve had some of the best retro equipment I have ever worked with. Old Neumann tube mic’s, dbx 160’s, la2a’s, Neve modules and more.

After moving to Nashville, Tennessee, I opened my first real studio called West End Recorders. I recorded tons of demos that were pitched to country music stars. While there I signed a publishing deal with Jerry Capehart who wrote the Eddie Cochran Rock ‘n’ Roll classic “Summertime Blues”. It has been recorded by everyone from the Who to Alan Jackson. He also wrote “Come On Every Body” another big hit for Eddie Cochran. While in Los Angeles, he discovered Glen Campbell and also penned Glen’s first hit “Turn Around Look At Me”. Additionally he did crazy things like play a cardboard box on a huge Rockabilly hit “Twenty Flight Rock” and recorded Walter Brennon speaking the title song Jerry wrote for the classic western Dutch Mans Gold. Sadly Jerry passed away in 1998.

Returning to North Carolina I opened Schoolhouse Recorders. It was housed in a really cool old school house built in the 1940’s. It had 14 foot ceilings, oak floors and old timey pendant lights. We renovated the principal’s office and the library that was adjacent to it. I put a big 4x8 foot window between them , built an isolation booth and so forth. While there I had a song that I co-wrote with Tony Bowman get picked up by the Disney Channel as incidental music on an episode of Even Stevens. It is called “My Old Summertime” and I’m happy to say that it’s in syndication and still making money.

In 2006 I downsized and put an addition on an old farm house in Polkton, North Carolina. It became Frog Holla Studio. It was a production studio that I used to record my original compositions and to record some of my close friends. I had it built with a 12 foot ceiling, custom-made acoustic panels and hardwood floors. I gotta tell ya, the room sounded great! My first project was a song called “South Of The Border.” It was released in March 2009. My second project was my latest CD Hombres that was released on Gone Dog Records in June 2011.

Fast forward...I have relocated to Rochester Minnesota where I have just opened The CamelBack Studio. Off I go on another excellent adventure!
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