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Wide Awake and I’m Dead Tired: How Five Punk-Rock Lifers Are Making One Last Stand in Hamilton By Andrew Baulcomb It’s nearly 8 p.m. on a warm evening in June, and the sun is still floating lazily above Gage Park in the city’s east end, refusing to dip below the horizon on one of the … Read more
The Baltimore House 43 King William Street This event was a long time in the making and I couldn’t wait to complete the journey with Ghosts of Memphis. The journey, that is, of making their debut album, The Devil and the Details. If you’ve been following, I was with Trevor Howard the very first day … Read more
Hamilton Music Awards McIntyre Performing Arts Centre 135 Fennell Avenue West This will definitely go down as one of my highlights of the year – the Hamilton Music Awards! I was so pumped to check out the show, especially with the amount of music-related friends I’ve made and featured over the course of the blog. … Read more
Boxcar Sound Recording Studio 468 Cumberland Avenue Back to Boxcar for me for another Ghosts of Memphis session. Trevor Howard and Gerry Finn are in the home stretch now – the album is almost complete! It was just Trevor and producer Matt Montour in studio finishing up a few more bits of recording. First up … Read more
Boxcar Sound Recording Studio 468 Cumberland Avenue Get caught up on my chronicle of the Ghosts of Memphis sessions at Boxcar! Emotions ran high at Boxcar Sound as I checked back in on the process of the new Ghosts of Memphis album. They’re nearing the end of the recording and it was just Matt Montour … Read more
Boxcar Sound Recording Studio 468 Cumberland Avenue I’m back with another Boxcar adventure! Read my previous installments of the Ghosts of Memphis chronicle. The banjo is a tricky instrument; that’s the lesson of the day. I learned this through yet another visit to Boxcar Sound Recording Studio for Part Five of our chronicle of the … Read more
Boxcar Sound Recording Studio 468 Cumberland Avenue Have you been following my Boxcar sessions? Get caught up on my chronicle of the new Ghosts of Memphis album in past entries. It had been a couple of months since I last dropped by Boxcar Sound Recording Studio to check in on the progress of the new … Read more
Boxcar Sound Recording Studio 468 Cumberland Avenue To continue our chronicle of the making of a record at Boxcar Sound Recording Studio, I got to visit the studio for a third time to sit in on another recording session for the new Ghosts of Memphis album (comprised of musicians Trevor Howard and Gerry Finn). For … Read more
Gage Park 1000 Main Street East Boxcar Sound Recording Studio 468 Cumberland Avenue Avishka and I were excited to be invited back to Boxcar Sound Recording Studio for day 3 of the making of the new Ghost of Memphis record. First we took a little detour. Having arrived early, we had some time and decided … Read more
Boxcar Sound Recording Studio 468 Cumberland Avenue Since we’re on tour, and sometimes fancy ourselves to be rock stars, it seems only fitting that we should visit a recording studio. Avishka and I were thrilled to get the opportunity to drop into Boxcar Sound Recording Studio to get a tour by co-owner and producer Matt … Read more