Fredpink’s new album “And The River Flows” was recorded at Bear Creek, and Lake Union recording studios in Woodinville, and Seattle Washington
We utilized Bear Creek Studio, and whiz-dude engineer, Taylor Carroll, for live recording the rhythm and horn sections, and some vocal harmonies in the studio’s big rooms. Lake Union Recording with the album’s co-producer/engineer, David Loy, covered most of the instrumental overdubs, strings, acoustic guitar, final vocals and the final mixes. Most of the songs recorded at Bear Creek had “scratch vocal” tracks - vocal tracks not intended for the final mix, but nevertheless sung live, and recorded, to let the rhythm section know where they are in a given song, as well as highlight areas of intensity and dynamics. Occasionally there is an exception. In this case, on “Daze of Oakland” both David and Taylor felt that Gordy delivered his scratch vocal with excitement and with just the right amount of anger on “Imagine That.” Gordy wrote those songs, and on “Daze” he also wrote the main horn hook that repeats throughout the song. Saxophonist Cliff Colon wrote the horn arrangement, and we brought in two more “A-listers”, Rich Cole on tenor and baritone saxes, and Andy Olmdahl on trumpet. Normally, vocals are sung from an isolation booth, but the day of the “Daze Of Oakland” session we opted to have Gordy sing in the control room, just behind the engineer at the console. Gordy had never heard the song with horns, and in his own words he was “SUPER STOKED!!!!”. So that explained the excitement in his scratch vocal on Daze Of Oakland. “Imagine That”…..that’s an entirely different story.

Above is Producer-Engineer-Keyboardist extraordinaire David Loy mixing at Lake Union Recording.

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The video below is Rod cook working with producers/engineers David Loy, and Taylor Carroll, on the slide guitar solo for “Every Waking Minute” at Bear Creek Studio.   Click on the song in the music player (left) to hear the final incorporated inyto the song.  

Brandon Vance at lake Union recording studio tracking the solo for the title cut “And the River Flows”  Click on the song title in the music player (left) to hear the solo in the song.  Brandon also plays on “Song For Sean” and "Ishliwea"