Sample a track from last solo project to be completed at the old Buck Owens Studios
Posted by drblt at 5/25/2008 6:15 AM 
Categories: Buck Owens Studios, Dr. BLT, Pig Studio, Fat Tracks, The Farwell Session, Buck Owens Recording Studios
Categories: Buck Owens Studios, Dr. BLT, Pig Studio, Fat Tracks, The Farwell Session, Buck Owens Recording Studios
 The significance of The Buck Owens Studios Farewell Session, lies not in the fact that it was the last solo project to be completed at the old Buck Owens Studios (which became Fat Tracks, and then Pig Studio). Moreover, it matters not that I was the solo artist who recorded the last solo project, recorded in its entirety and engineered by Nick Forcillo on April 2, 2008. It was initially announced that the studio would close its doors on April 1, 2008. That date was extended to April 30 to accommodate projects like the Farewell Session, and a project by Iron Outlaws that had started even earlier. By the way, L. L. Bernardes did an excellent documentary on some of the last work done at the studio. The Last Band Documentary I don't blame him for leaving my project out. Unlike the other artists that recorded there in the studio's dying days, the management of the place afforded me the singular luxury of a "no TV cameras allowed" policy, apparently in an effort to protect my privacy, to preserve the artistic integrity of the recording, and to prevent the session from becoming a media circus. Also, I'm sure they were aware of my marked disdain for fame  The significance of The Farewell Session, if, in fact, there is significance, and what makes it stand out among other final projects to be completed there, is that the songs are about recording art, by much more influential artists than me who recorded before me, and who made history in this building, located on North Chester Avenue in Bakersfield, California. The parade is long, beginning with Buck Owens himself, who took what was the Old River Theater, and made it into his own studio, one that would serve the likes of Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, and Dwight Yoakam. Jim Shaw sat behind the engineers desk in those days and engineered some of the studio's great country hits, with the Buckaroos backing some of the finest tracks to be produced at the old place. The studio evolved, and changed hands. As Fat Tracks, under the direction of Rick Davis, Jonathon Davis's dad, it took in artists like Korn, who created some of the early Korn tracks there. It eventually became Pig Studio, as Nick Forcillo took over the soundboard, adding increasingly modern software and equipment to the mix. Nick Forcillo engineered The Farewell Session. He wasn't the easiest chap to warm up to, but he did a fine job and mixed this entire EP (with deft skill, I might add) without the 3 hours that were reserved for the recording and the mixing. The Farewell Session EP will be officially be released on CD at a CD release party at Russo's Books at the Marketplace on Ming Avenue in Bakersfield on June 7, 2008, beginning at 7 pm. Hank Ray will back me up as a lead guitarist and will open the show with a few of his own originals as we perform songs from the EP, songs I've written and recorded in the past, and songs from the forthcoming CDs, From Buck Owens Blvd. to Merle Haggard Drive and Altar'd Hymns, both full-length CD, both scheduled for release within the next few months. The song that you're sampling from the Farewell Session below is already available at my website as the first single to be released from the EP. It's called: The Last Man Standing Dr BLT words and music by Dr. BLT copyright 2008 Nu Bako Sound Recordings Download | Duration: 00:01:10 |
Very historic.
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