Louie ran the three days like a Motown session, based on his time with the Wrecking Crew and other artists in the ‘60s & ‘70s. Tip #2: If you want your album to feel retro, approach the recording process as they did from the time period you’re aiming for. We selected two local musicians to fill out the band and cut 10 songs in about three days at the Recording Oasis Studio on the Gold Coast, one of the top studios in the area at the time. Louie emailed back “Your songs have potential. He had produced records for artists like Seals & Croft, and played guitar on world famous records by Jackson 5, The Monkees, Lionel Ritchie and many, many more. In 2013, I wrote an email to Louie Shelton, who had moved to the Gold Coast (Australia) from Los Angeles (USA) in the ‘80s and brought with him decades of music-making. Tip #1: Hire the right people, with the right experience, for the job. The project would eventually span 10 years, and be completed during the worldwide Covid pandemic. or even how I would know if I’d been successful when it was over. I knew I wanted to make an old-school retro album, just like my idols did in the ‘70s, but I didn’t know what that meant. When I set out to record Worried Minds, my debut album, I had no idea what I was doing.
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