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Folk legends, Judy Collins and Jonas Fjeld have released their new collaborative album, “Winter Stories” featuring NC’s own Chatham County Line. Collins, Fjeld, and the band hunkered down in the church this past February to record the appropriately-themed winter album.
“The album was made, in fact, in winter time, in a place that has winter time, specifically February in Chatham County Line’s home town of Asheville. Sessions were held in Echo Mountain, a studio housed in a converted old church. The essential elements of the project were worked out last year first with a rehearsal when all parties were in Raleigh, and then in two shows in Alamosa, Colorado, at an outdoor stage reached by a two-hour mountain train ride.”
Listen to “Winter Stories” below!
Moses Sumney has released his first single from the long-anticipated follow-up to his breakthrough album, “Aromanticism”. The single, “Virile” is one of a handful of songs recorded in part here at Echo Mountain in our API room. Sumney brought in drummer Ian Chang (Son Lux) and producer/engineer Ben Baptie (Moses Sumney, Cage the Elephant, The Arcs, Rex Orange County, etc) to work on the record. The double album, “græ” is set to be released in February 2020. Check out the video for “Virile” below; directed by Moses Sumney himself.
WNC’s very own Songs From The Road Band have released their new album, “Waiting on a Ride”. Charles Humphrey (bass, formerly of Steep Canyon Rangers) and bandmates, Mark Schimick (mandolin/vocals), Sam Wharton (guitar/vocals), and James Schlender (fiddle/vocals) knocked this record out in our API room a few months back. “Waiting on a Ride” was engineered and mixed by our chief engineer, Julian Dreyer. Give it a listen below and then pickup your copy here: https://bit.ly/2MZx77i
Produced by our very own Assistant Studio Manager, Autumn Greenfield, the Casey Kristofferson Band’s debut LP is now available for streaming and purchase. It’s been great having this band in the studio over the past few months. Basics for the record were tracked in our API Room, while overdubs and mixing were all done in our B Room. Check out “Dirty Feet” for yourself and purchase your copy here.
Charleston favorites, Susto, have just released their new album, “Ever Since I Lost My Mind”. The band made their way up the mountain last summer to spend a week in the Church, recording their newest work. You can grab your vinyl copy here.
“...Ever Since I Lost My Mind, SUSTO’s debut release for Rounder Records, opens its own chapter for the group with the involvement of Ian Fitchuk, who worked on Kacey Musgraves’ Grammy Award-winning Golden Hour as a producer, helping to craft a more fleshed-out sound than its two predecessors. “I wanted to chase down a higher fidelity record this time,” Osborne acknowledges. And after recording the other two in a storage facility in Charleston, Echo Mountain in Asheville, N.C., provided the right venue to do that.”
Listen to “Ever Since I Lost My Mind” below, and don’t miss Susto’s music video for their single, “Homeboy”.
We put together a Spotify playlist of songs recorded here at Echo Mountain. Make sure to follow us to keep up to date on music that’s coming out of the studio!
Town Mountain recorded their latest LP, “New Freedom Blues” in the church here at Echo Mountain. For this newest effort, they’ve expanded their sound to include drummer Miles Miller (of Sturgill Simpson). Give it a listen below and pick up your copy here!
“There is a fair chance that if Town Mountain keeps with this “sonic evolution,” it will hang on to its longtime fans and bring in a lot of new ones. This bluegrass-plus album is a rollicking ride of banjo, fiddle, and guitar that takes you in many satisfying directions without eschewing the band’s and the genre’s roots.”
Amy Ray and her band were in the church early this year recording her new record, ‘Holler’. ‘Holler’ was recorded to 2” 24-track tape here at Echo Mountain, and it really sounds incredible. Featuring guest appearances from Derek Trucks, Vince Gill, The Wood Brothers, Brandi Carlile, Phil Cook, Justin Vernon, and Rutha Mae Harris.
The band and I recorded Holler live to analog tape at Echo Mountain Studio in Asheville, NC, over a 10-day period in January 2018. The album is inspired by traditional country, southern rock, mountain music, gospel and bluegrass. It fits in the Americana genre. The songs are all my own compositions and tell stories of late nights, love, addiction, immigration, despair, honkytonks, growing up in the south, touring for decades, being born in the midst of the civil rights movement, and the constant struggle to find balance in the life of a left-wing Southerner who loves Jesus, my homeland and its peoples. There is a tip of the hat to the great Jim Ford 1969 release, Harlan County. With songs inspired by, the film Winters Bone; and the Appalachian poet Byron Herbert Reece; as well as the great writer, Toni Cade Bambara. Following my first 2014 country record, which was my 5th solo studio release, this record is a natural progression from the stillness of a Goodnight Tender to the friction, freedom and restlessness of a Holler, with the addition of strings and horns to bring the swagger.
—Amy Ray
August 2018
Give ‘Holler’ a listen and then order your copy on vinyl! Also, check out some beautiful footage taken during the sessions below.
Monster Truck’s new LP, “True Rockers” is here! These guys have made their way down from Canada to make records at Echo Mountain three times now. We always love having them here. Stream “True Rockers” below and pick up your copy at Mascot Records’ store.
Also, check out their music video for their latest single, “Evolution”.
…and some behind-the-scenes photos from Monster Truck’s time here at Echo.
The new album from steel pan drum virtuoso, Jonathan Scales is now available through Ropeadope Records. Along with the rest of the Jonathan Scales Fourchestra (bassist E’Lon Jordan-Dunlap and drummer Maison Guidry), special guest appearances are made by Béla Fleck, Victor Wooten, Jeff Coffin, Otell Burbridge, MonoNeon, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Shaun Martin, and Weedie Braimah. “PILLAR” was engineered here in our API room by River Whyless bassist, Daniel Shearin.
“Jonathan is a very talented and motivated musician who is forging new trails for the steel pans...It was my pleasure to play with him on this very challenging and musical piece”
Stream the album and check out some behind-the-scenes photos and video below. Make sure to order your copy from their Bandcamp store!
We did it! The Neve 8068 in The Church has been successfully recapped. All of the modules have also been through a sonic bath; a process using chemicals and vibrations to gently break old dirt and grime away from the components. Check out some of these pictures and videos from the process.
