The making of this last album was somewhat of a dream. All the cogs seemed to fall into the right place. In a fortuitous twist of fate we met a gentleman musician a couple weeks prior to recording. We chatted about music and told him about the album we were about to embark on. We still don't quite understand this level of generosity but the man said he would like to help and offered up his own recording equipment with the only caveat that he wanted to see the gear used to make good music.
So with this gear and a great band we set up in a friend's studio two blocks from our home in the foothills of Sierra Madre. Our goal was to track live and capture great takes of a band playing together in a room. We shirked a lot of the modern convention in music-making and used the computer like a tape machine. Billy said it best "if we were photographers, we are setting up to take a photo of a bullet train passing by... we better get the shot."
We ate a lot of great food and drank a lot of whiskey and we recorded a collection of songs that, if nothing else, will serve to bottle a beautiful moment and become our debut album as a duet - Love Songs From Montecito.
