Reveal Audio Studio News as of August 14, 2010

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Ben Mironer Ben drove in from Spartanburg to record vocals to five songs that we've been working on long distance via Skype. In addition to his music, Ben is an actor and talent model. And he's got this thing for Lucy...
Nicole Hood Nicole is a vocal performance major at Okalhoma City University. The focus there is on theater. She brought in three songs to sing that will be a part of her grandmother's 100-year birthday celebration later this year.
Chip and Peg Carbone Chip and Peg are studying songwriting with Kalie Mosher. They've written a song called Ruby to pitch to a film production company doing a documentary about the "paramour" laws that existed before the civil rights movement in the 60's.
Preston Camp, Jr. Preston recorded another new song for the next album. It's called, My Dog Loves Beer. Hope PETA doesn't find out! He had some good news to share, too. For the week of August 7, his song Cowgirls Are Cool was ranked #17 in airplay in Georgia by the Roots Music Report. Congratulations!
Mark Sandiford Mark brought in the latest Rocksteady project for me to master. It's an 8-song disc called Supernatural. In addition to the great reggae and rock grooves, the group digs into some Czech/Slavik rhythms.
Claude Diamond Claude and Pollye came over to record Beyond The End Of The Road, a new song to be included on his next release. We're getting close to completing things!
Mike McCarroll If you're not too busy at the end of August, get out to the Lowell Opry House in Carrollton Georgia for the CD release of Mike's album, Honky Tonk Dreams. The show is Saturday, August 28 and it starts at 7pm.
Bob Bakert Project The new CD by Bob Bakert (R) is turning out to be a very collaborative effort. Some of Atlanta's top musicians are making guest appearances. Here Bob leads a rehearsal run of his song Spanish Rain. On the sofa next to him is drummer Mark Letalien from the group Insonia.
Bob Bakert Project Cont'd The other part of that rehearsal shot is Pete Orenstein (L) on piano and Curtis Jones (R) on bass. Curtis doubled on some unbelievably hot flamenco guitar on the song Spanish Rain, and on mandolin on Partner, Lover for Life.
Bob Bakert Project Cont'd And adding her wonderful vocals to the project is recording artist Ashley Harris whose song Unfinished Woman, btw, is currently at #13 on the Indie World Country charts. Congratulations, Ashley!
Bob Bakert Project Cont'd Page Waldrop added some sweet pedal steel guitar to Partner, Lover for Life.
Jeff Silver Jeff brought in friend and drummer Doug Sako to play live drums on his song, My Imaginary Life. Doug is originally from NYC where he played with some of the top jazz and blues artists of our time. Now in Atlanta, he is a member of the Liz Lee Band.
Chuck Delchamps Chuck wrote a new song, Gulf Of Mexico, about the BP oil spill as part of a songwriting contest sponsored by USA Today. We timed it out exactly to the YouTube video that was provided. Cross your fingers!
Louis Brown We reworked a couple of oldies from Louis' back catalog - Traces Of Him and So Many Men, So Little Time. The very talented Jennfer Ferrensang the vocals.
Kara Bawsel Kara (C) came in the studio with her vocal coach, Nichelle Young (L) and friend Amanda (R). She sang as Nichelle provided piano accompaniment on Killing Me Softly and I Turn To You.
Russ Stanziale Russ recorded his newest song, Secret Smile. It's classic Russ. Quirky, humorous, and at the same time insightful.
Rick Diamond We spent some time with a couple of Rick's songs that were almost but not quite there... It's nice to have the technological ability to tweak the music until the vision is realized.
Ron Gouge Ron (R) asked Chris Calhoun to come in and sing on his songs On My Mind Again and You've Gotta Be A Gambler. We also got started on a new song, Georgia Peach. It was nice to finally meet Chris' wife at the session, too!