Last year, Lukyn Skywyrd won the 2010 Milwaukee Country Rock Battle of the Bands at Kelly's Bleachers II. As a part of our prize package, we won 10 free hours at Trax 52 recording studio in Mequon. For the past weekend, we've been busy laying down three brand new tracks to unleash on our demanding fans. Its been nine long years since the original album, and I'll say this, its about damn time!
We started late
on Thursday with Randall Gunter, our sound engineer, dialing up the proper microphone placement and levels
on the drums and bass. We also recorded the rhythm guitars and keys but weren't sure if we were going to use those tracks. That night we laid down the bed tracks to our three new songs: "Memphis", "Old Number Seven", and "Dreamin's Over (Love Remains)." The bed tracks on each were done in less than three takes, with "Memphis" done in one take!
On Friday, Jason and Keith added a couple of rhythm overdubbs and completed guitar solos. Bill
overdubbed a spot or two and Tony rerecorded his keys and organ parts. After all the instruments were recorded, Tony and Keith added final lead vocal tracks to which Bill and Tony sang backup vocals. As an incredible side note, the microphone that was used to record the vocals is the actual mike that Elvis used during his Sun Studio sessions. Not the same type, but the actual microphone! Songs like "That's Alright, Mama" and "Mystery Train" were captured through that mike!! Its still hard to wrap my head around that fact.
Saturday morning arrived and we welcomed our guest vocalist and fellow brother of the road, Eric McDonald from Standard Eagle, to round out our backup vocal section. Jason and Keith completed some acoustic work and began to mixdown.
Finally on Monday, Tony, Keith and Randall returned to complete
mixing the songs. After a long night of repeated listening, you can't believe how many times you get to listen to these tunes, we thought we had a
completed mix. After listening to it at home, we realized we didn't. Extra work is needed and a final session is scheduled for early next week. We are so close but we don't want to release quite yet! Just a little more time....
As far as the live show update, we'll be heading over to Mustang Shelly's
on Saturday April 2nd. This was a great show last time and we hope to see everyone return! We were asked to return to Jerzee's in East Troy and April is our chance. The band returns to Jerzee's on Saturday April 16th and Willie's Dugout, one of our favs, on Saturday April 23rd.
Help the band celebrate its 20th year by coming out
and rockin' to all of your Southern rock hits! Keep checking out www.NorthernBredSouthernRock.com for all your Lukyn Skywyrd information!! See you at the show!!
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