After four and a half days of mixing eighteen tunes Eric Uglum and I are basically finished excepting minor tweaks that come up in the next few days.
I’ve known Eric Uglum since the early 1980s when we played a couple of years in a local band together. After that we played for several years in a regional band called Weary Hearts, and then later, briefly, in another band called New Wine. We spent many hours driving across the deserts, through mountains, along the coast, playing festivals and venues from California through British Columbia and on up the Alaska Highway to the Yukon, to Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, and Nashville, usually in his white Volkswagen Scirocco. I remember one drive across the desert when his clutch cable popped out of its sheath. We limped to a convenience store and ate several popsicles, and then Eric duct-taped the sticks to the clutch cable and our trip was back underway. As far as I know it never needed replacing.
Eric has a really solid grasp on what is important in music and what is extraneous, which is incredibly helpful in mixing. He has mixed Sierra Hull’s first record, Secrets, Sean Watkins’ first solo cd, three cds of my own, and many others.
We’ll finish up in the next few days with any tweaks via email and call it done. After that the record goes to Brad Blackwood at Euphonic Masters for mastering.
Gordy Nichols, Rob Ickes, Butch Baldassari, engineer, Ron Block, Stuart Duncan, Eric Uglum, and Mike Bub making Butch's first record in the mid-1980s.
I’ve known Eric Uglum since the early 1980s when we played a couple of years in a local band together. After that we played for several years in a regional band called Weary Hearts, and then later, briefly, in another band called New Wine. We spent many hours driving across the deserts, through mountains, along the coast, playing festivals and venues from California through British Columbia and on up the Alaska Highway to the Yukon, to Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, and Nashville, usually in his white Volkswagen Scirocco. I remember one drive across the desert when his clutch cable popped out of its sheath. We limped to a convenience store and ate several popsicles, and then Eric duct-taped the sticks to the clutch cable and our trip was back underway. As far as I know it never needed replacing.
Eric has a really solid grasp on what is important in music and what is extraneous, which is incredibly helpful in mixing. He has mixed Sierra Hull’s first record, Secrets, Sean Watkins’ first solo cd, three cds of my own, and many others.
We’ll finish up in the next few days with any tweaks via email and call it done. After that the record goes to Brad Blackwood at Euphonic Masters for mastering.
Gordy Nichols, Rob Ickes, Butch Baldassari, engineer, Ron Block, Stuart Duncan, Eric Uglum, and Mike Bub making Butch's first record in the mid-1980s.