I know I’ve been posting a lot of studio pics lately, but it’s because…well, I love it. Many of the world’s great analog studios are threatened by the march of time, but here in Memphis we are lucky to have some of the most significant recoding spaces in the world still in operation and making records every day. @samphillipsrecording is the studio Sam opened in 1960 after he sold Sun. They cut “Wooly Bully” by Sam the Sham there. The Yardbirds cut their version of “Train Kept A-Rolin’” at Phillips. It’s where John Prine made his “Pink Cadillac” album, with Knox, Jerry, and Sam producing. And I was fortunate to get to make a record of my own there a decade ago with the late Roland Janes, a special experience I will always treasure. So I’m especially honored to be playing some guitar on the sessions for the upcoming Jerry Phillips original project, and I can’t wait for everyone to hear the killer rock and roll tunes he’s been writing. They’ve made a lot of exciting changes at Phillips recently, and I’m really happy it worked out for @electraphonic to be behind the desk - which is now the Spectra Sonic console that was originally at Stax Studio B, which can be heard on Isaac Hayes’ “Black Moses” album, to name just one. It is newly-refurbished and sounds fabulous. And there’s nothing like tracking live with reverb in your headphones from an actual echo chamber down the hall. Like the song says, “ain’t nothing like the real thing baby.” It’s also especially cool to get to work with the homies on all this, @dannybanksdrummer and the multi-talented @thewilsonmc, who brought along his camera last week for our session with @commonwealther, and got these nice shots. But more on that in a later post…stay tuned… #memphis #memphismusic #memphisstudios #recordingstudios #studios #analogrecording #analogstudios #spectrasonic #stax #staxrecords #samphillips #samphillipsrecording #sunrecords #samthesham #theyardbirds #yardbirds #johnprine #jerryphillips #isaachayes #blackmoses #rolandjanes #thescottmiller (at Sam Phillips Recording) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cltsb6VARge/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
