Man From Leith is going home

Well we've just finished mixing the final track on the album "Man from Leith".

I can't believe we've finished. It all sounds great.
It's been a pretty intense couple of weeks out here in Tennessee. A time I'll never forget. Some really special memories.

I can't wait to get this record out.

Just time to get my bags packed and run to the airport.

This man from leith is heading home!

Dean.

greetings from sunny California,Tennessee!

Greetings from sunny Tennessee.

Lovely day here.
We're now mixing the record.

13 songs to mix. Lij is currently mixing "Miss You California" which has some cool 12 string by Will Kimbrough and sweet pedal steel from Al Perkins. I feel rather lucky to have these guys playing on one of my songs.

Not long now until I head home to the land of grey skies. Looking forward to having a good pint of beer in The Diggers and watching a re-run of Hearts' 4-0 victory over the Hibees! Sorry to any Hibees. Don't mean to gloat. Just hate to think what the score might have been if we'd played with our supposed advantage at Murryfield!! Ha, only kidding. Enough football already.

Remember I'm playing a solo show in Peebles in the Scottish Borders next month. Check out the website.

That's all for now. Have to get back to "California!

Cheers.
Dean

getting there

Hi there.

Well we sure are getting there.

That's all the recording of the new album just finished. We start mixing tomorrow.

Managed to avoid all the tornadoes so far.

I'm over the moon with the recordings. Lij and Brian the engineers/producers have been great. This is an amazing little place.

I do look forward to heading home and not hearing any music for a few days though!

Heading back to Nashville now after another great, but long day in the studio.

Over and out.
Dean

ice storm

Hi again from stormy Tennessee.
Out here at the studio sitting in the control room listening to Kev and Thad Cockrell doing harmonies on one of my new songs - Adrift. Sounds great.

We've just had another Tornado out this way. Missed us so far! Had a big ice storm though. Hail stones the size of golf balls!!Scary.

I can't believe how well this recording is going. All the various musicians have been amazing and the studio is fab.

Gotta go now and do some more work.

Dean.

Hi from Twangtown

Hi there from stormy Tennessee. Tornadoes all around.

Out here in Nashville making my new record. All going fantastic. The band sounds great. Will Kimbrough on guitar, Kev McGuire and Robert Reynolds doing bass, Paul Deakin on drums and Jen Gunderman on keyboards and accordion. We finished cutting the final band tracks today. We've got 14 in the can and start the overdubs tomorrow. It's sounding quite different from My Town. Will Kimbrough has been amazing. The whole team have just blown me away. Al Perkins is coming out to the studio in a couple of days to play some pedal steel.
The studio is just outside Nashville in a little place called Murfreesboro and we're recording on vintage analog equipment with Elijah Shaw and Brian Carter at the desk.

Looking forward to getting it all finished in the next couple of weeks.
I'll keep you posted.
Cheers.
Dean